The AVEVA PI System is incredible at storing Event Frames for downtime tracking and process events. But visualizing and analyzing them? That usually meant exporting your data to external BI tools. Not anymore. Introducing the Event Analytics Tools inside Vision Library+—bringing powerful, Power BI-style dashboards natively to PI Vision.
The "Data Export Grind" vs. "Native Event Dashboards"
In the past, building a downtime or event dashboard required complex integrators, SQL databases, and external reporting tools. Today, you can build them directly where your real-time data lives.
The External BI Route
The Problem: Natively, PI Vision offers almost no way to calculate, aggregate, or visualize Event Frames. Companies are forced to deploy PI Integrators or custom scripts to push event data into SQL databases, just so they can view it in Power BI or Tableau.
The Consequence: You create data silos, introduce latency, and multiply your IT maintenance overhead. Plus, your operational dashboards are completely separated from your real-time process trends.
Vision Library+ Event Analytics
The Solution: A suite of custom Event Analytics symbols right inside PI Vision. Build interactive dashboards using charts, pivot tables, and KPIs mapped directly to your Event Frames.
The Upgrade: Zero data duplication. Real-time updates. You get the rich, interactive slicing and dicing of modern BI tools without ever leaving your PI Vision environment.
Power BI Capabilities, Natively in PI Vision
The Vision Library+ Event Analytics Tools give you everything you need to summarize, filter, and drill down into your process events and downtime data.
1. Interactive Visualizations
Understand your downtime at a glance.
- Event Analytics Chart: Visualize event durations, counts, or downtime reasons across configurable bar and column charts.
- Event Analytics Pie: Quickly spot the largest contributors to your process delays with interactive pie charts.
- Drill-Down Ready: Click on segments to instantly reveal the underlying Event Frames.
2. Advanced Data Grids
Aggregate millions of events instantly.
- Event Analytics Pivot Table: Just like Excel or Power BI, group your Event Frames by asset, reason code, or shift.
- Custom Calculations: Automatically calculate total downtime, average event duration, or total occurrences.
- Exportable: Found the data you need? Export directly to CSV from within the PI Vision display.
3. Dynamic Slicers & KPIs
Make your dashboards genuinely interactive.
- Event Filter: Works exactly like a Power BI Slicer. Let users filter the entire dashboard by shift, event type, or specific assets on the fly.
- Event Analytics KPI: Display top-level metrics clearly—like "Total Downtime Hours" or "OEE Impact"—updating dynamically based on the current slicer selections.
Why Operations Teams Choose Vision Library+
Turn raw event data into actionable continuous improvement insights, without adding IT complexity.
Downtime Root Cause Analysis
Easily identify the leading causes of production stops. Aggregate event frames by reason code and visualize them in Pareto-style charts to prioritize your maintenance and reliability efforts seamlessly.
Self-Serve Exploration
No more asking IT to run reports. With the built-in Event Filter, plant managers and engineers can click to slice dashboard data by machine, time range, or production batch instantly.
Keep Architecture Simple
Why pay for extra database storage, SQL integrations, and third-party visualization licenses? Vision Library+ keeps everything secure and contained entirely within your existing AVEVA PI System infrastructure.
See Event Analytics in Action
Watch how fast you can build a fully interactive, BI-style dashboard using your Event Frame data right inside PI Vision.
Unlock the True Value of Your Event Frames
Stop exporting your data just to make sense of it. Bring powerful reporting and analytics directly to your operations team.
