Process Solutions Product Information Note Uniformance Process History Database (PHD) Uniformance PHD enables you to make sense of all the data in your plant to help you make the right decision and optimize process performance. Honeywell s Uniformance Process History Database (PHD) collects, stores and replays historical and continuous plant process data, increasing data security and improving process performance. PHD helps engineers and plant managers make better and faster decisions with superior data management. Uniformance PHD Provides Rich History Uniformance PHD makes timely data visible at the production level and enterprise-wide by collecting, storing and replaying historical and continuous plant process data. PHD s timely data empowers plant staff to better align, plan, execute and make the right decisions. The PHD infrastructure supports the integration of existing control systems and applications across multiple plants and sites. Its seamless data interfaces, data collection fail-over and automatic history recovery ensure maintenance of vast amounts of data in long-term history to enable user access and application integration. be expanded to handle thousands of users and millions of tags. Secure: PHD provides support for commonly required firewall configurations and protects historical records from unauthorized access. Also, helps to keep traffic off the process network by avoiding load on the control system. Robust: PHD provides data collection and history recovery features to ensure availability of complete data records, even after data collection interruptions. Open: PHD has interfaces to collect data from numerous Honeywell and third-party systems. Every PHD server includes an OPC server license, providing open integration to third-party applications. In addition to collecting and consolidating potentially massive amounts of process data, PHD provides the rich historian features needed to transform data into knowledge. PHD s calculated tags allow users to apply engineering and business knowledge to current and historical data, while built-in engineering unit conversions help users view data in a format that makes sense to them. Process data may be combined with business data to provide a view of the entire operation. PHD can, move data from operational to business/analytical level enabling better decisions. Uniformance PHD Benefits Benefits of Uniformance PHD include: Scalable: PHD s distributed architecture ensures that data may be collected from disparate data sources into a single consistent database. A PHD database may start out small and Distributed Scalable Architecture Uniformance PHD s unique shadowing architecture provides distributed data collection and consolidation with a single configuration for the entire network of PHD servers. PHD can start out as a single server connected to a single DCS and later
Uniformance PHD 2 be expanded to collect data from numerous data providers, consolidating them into a centralized data store. Data collection may occur at one or many physical locations, which may be widely geographically distributed. PHD collectors may be set up on offshore platforms, pipelines, shipping terminals and plant units. Each PHD collector is a full PHD history server so operators and other process users may access the local collector without having to cross network boundaries. Data may be consolidated into a single history database known as a shadow server. After a shadow server is established, collectors may be added as data collection needs expand. PHD stores configuration of the tags (data points) in a single configuration database, so even though data may exist on many servers, it need only be configured once. Support personnel can be notified when an error condition is detected, and can be optionally notified when the situation has been corrected. Additionally, Uniformance System Monitor provides graphical and report-style methods of examining the entire system status at any time, on a per node or summary basis. Automatic One-Time Configuration While PHD may be used with a variety of Honeywell and thirdparty systems, when Uniformance PHD integrates with Honeywell s Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), the result is a solution that requires less administration and gives greater data integrity than is possible with any other plant historian. By leveraging PHD s Tag Synchronization capability, a new PHD system can be installed, have its tags automatically built and be collecting data all in the same day. Tag synchronization automatically builds the PHD database from the Experion server s information, removing the need for costly, error-prone manual configuration. As points are changed or added to the Experion system, they are automatically updated in PHD as well, reducing administration and maintaining the integrity of the database. Consolidated Event Journal Beginning with R310, PHD provides history for both events and process data. Users have the historical data and tools to view process alarms, events, and process changes alongside charts and graphics to better understand trends, and troubleshoot conditions leading to process anomalies. Consolidated Event Journal (CEJ) collects events and alarms from TPS, Experion, OPC A&E Servers, and CEJ Peer Servers. Data collected by CEJ is available to reports and Uniformance Process Studio. If the CEJ Server fails during event collection, the system recovers history data based on the last successful date and time, ensuring that the CEJ holds a consistent record of historical events. Automatic Uniformance PHD Monitoring Uniformance System Monitor (USM) automates many of the repetitive tasks commonly performed by a Uniformance PHD system administrator to evaluate the health of the system and to take appropriate actions. It ensures that right actions are taken to bring the PHD system back to a desirable operating state. Integrated PHD/Experion data collection links ensure that operator history data and advanced history data is consistent, while creating minimal data collection load. With a seamless migration to Uniformance Release 321, users can avoid the risks of obsolescence and adopt the latest Windows and SQL Server platforms. The advantages of PHD Experion integration are: Ability to collect a high volume for data without loading the controllers Protection from data loss in the event of a network outage or server downtime, the missing history is backfilled from Experion Ability to view PHD data directly from the Experion trend using the PHD point server When PHD is expanded to the enterprise level, Tag Synchronization also may be used to maintain consistency between regional PHD process historians and the enterprise PHD server at a corporate IT center. As with Experion, PHD peer Tag Synchronization builds the enterprise database, and maintains its consistency with the site databases.
Uniformance PHD 3 Secure Meeting the external regulatory demands placed upon process industries can be costly and time-consuming. Uniformance PHD helps meet regulatory expectations by allowing the uninterrupted collection of all critical data and securing data from unauthorized tampering. PHD s shadow architecture ensures that the process control network can be secured through a firewall. Each PHD server is a fully functioning system so Level 3 applications can utilize the PHD collectors for their data, while general plant data users can collect data from the Level 4 shadow server. No users need connect through a firewall. Additionally, communication between PHD servers is through customer-configurable ports, allowing customers to lock down unsafe ports in the firewall. PHD is the leader in OPC standards adoption. PHD was the first historian to provide an OPC Historical Data Access server and the first to provide an OPC HDA Client. In addition to OPC, PHD provides Microsoft OLEDB support, making data available to Windows-based desktop applications in a table format using SQL commands. Starting with PHD 210, a.net development interface is available to build modern applications leveraging PHD s extensive history. User-Friendly Desktop Tools Uniformance PHD provides productivity tools that retrieve, display, analyze and report process data. Uniformance Process Studio users can view process data as trends, graphical displays and tables, and organize information to ensure productivity. PHD also provides the means to secure historical data from unauthorized user access to read and write, or edit data values. Security may be set for all tags, groups of tags or be narrowed down to individual tags. Additionally, enabling Data Auditing ensures that changes to historical data and tag configuration are recorded. Unequaled Robustness A core feature of PHD s shadowing architecture is the ability to recover history from lower level historians. If the Level 4 shadow server is down, when it is restarted it will automatically fill in the missing time period using data from the Level 3 collector server. Additionally, if the original data source has an accessible historian, a PHD collector can automatically fill in the missing time period using that history. When history collection is critical, it may be desirable to install two PHD collector servers to ensure that critical data collection occurs, even if a single computer fails. PHD s robust data collection provides dual data collectors with timely automated failover between collectors. Beginning with PHD release 300, users have the option to install their PHD shadow server on a Windows cluster, resulting in a high availability solution that protects against server outages. Open Standards Lower Lifecycle Support Open standard connectivity is available for servers and clients that support OPC Historical Data Access (HDA) and OPC Data Access (DA), allowing PHD to interface with all modern control and application platforms. A companion add-in for Microsoft Office Excel delivers flexible data analysis and visualization. Integration with well-known Office components ensures that even a novice user can become productive quickly. Migration Migration to Uniformance R321 is seamless and easy with following advantages: "One-hop" migration from the R21x series Minimum disruption and no loss of data Does not need server upgrade hardware changes or even data reformatting when running on 64-bit servers
Uniformance PHD 4 Uniformance PHD R321 Specifications Parameter Concurrently connected users Number of tags in history Retention of historical data online Number of concurrent real-time data interfaces (contact a Honeywell representative for available real-time data interfaces) Operating system OPC standards supported PHD configuration database Network transport Specification 10,000 (contact a Honeywell representative for licensing policies) Millions Unlimited 65,535 Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Collection from Windows 32-bit using Remote RDI OPC DA (Data Access) 1.1, 2.04, 3.0 OPC HDA (Historical Data Access) 1.1, 1.2 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard or Enterprise TCP/IP LCN support Experion support APP node APP Release 401 or later running Windows 2003 Experion Tag Synchronization, PHD/Experion Link Experion and PlantScape interface Consolidated Event Journal (CEJ) interfaces Experion R310 and newer All Experion releases prior to R400, PlantScape R500 Experion, TPS, OPC A&E
Uniformance PHD 5 Industry-Leading MES Solutions Uniformance PHD provides the data foundation needed to enable business excellence. Honeywell is an industry leader in integrated Manufacturing Execution Systems that improve plant profitability by enabling plant staff to work more effectively and make better decisions. Uniformance Support Services This product comes with worldwide, premium support services through our Benefits Guardianship Program (BGP). BGP is designed to help our customers improve and extend the usage of their applications and the benefits they deliver, ultimately maintaining and safeguarding their advanced applications. Calculation and Visualization applications help engineers combine process knowledge and plant data to analyze plant efficiency and identify trends. Advanced Planning and Scheduling tools help planners and schedulers come up with optimal and feasible plans for a unit, plant or group of plants. Blending and Movement Automation helps plan, control and track manufacturing performance for offsites, control optimum in-line blending and control material movements. Performance Management tools provide a common view of information with graphical tools, performance metrics and calculations. Production Management tools track, determine and report production, material use and inventory. Honeywell provides a complete portfolio of service offerings to extend the life of your plant and provide a cost-effective path forward to the latest application technology. Honeywell services include: Software installation services On-site engineering services Migration services Scope expansion services Assessment services Performance baseline and tuning services Customized training For More Information Learn more about how Honeywell s Uniformance PHD, visit our website www.honeywellprocess.com/software or contact your Honeywell account manager. Honeywell Process Solutions Honeywell 1250 West Sam Houston Parkway South Houston, TX 77042 Uniformance and Experion are registered trademarks of Honeywell International Inc. Honeywell House, Arlington Business Park Bracknell, Berkshire, England RG12 1EB UK Shanghai City Centre, 100 Zunyi Road Shanghai, China 200051 www.honeywellprocess.com PN-04-004-ENG March 2015 2015 Honeywell International Inc.