Overview

InfoPlus.21 Foundation Course

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 InfoPlus.21 Functional Overview

InfoPlus.21 Manufacturing Information System

Layered Layered
Product: Product:
AspenCalc SQLplus core product
Real-Time
Interface Layered Database
Technology: Product:
Cim-IO Batch.21
Historian
Archives
Layered
User
Product: Security layer
Application
other
InfoPlus.21 API

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 Client Data View Options
Remote Process
Engineer
uses Web.21 to Process Manager
monitors KPI reports Accountant
view process views rolled-up
data over intranet via Excel spreadsheet
with Process Explorer values via Excel
Excel Add-In spreadsheet
with ODBC link
Local Process Operator
views Process Explorer trends
and inputs manual entry
data using QC Analyst
VBA forms monitors key quality
indicators online using
Aspen Process Explorer
with Q

InfoPlus.21 Server
Process Equipment

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 The Real-time Database

• All data in the InfoPlus.21 InfoPlus.21 Core System

Real-time Database is
stored in memory, in Real-Time
structures called records Database
• Real-time database
Historian
features: Archives
– High Speed Data Storage
and Retrieval InfoPlus.21 API
– Pre-defined or custom
record structures
– Built-in data processing,
with custom options

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 InfoPlus.21 Records
• InfoPlus.21 records can be:
– “Tags,” each containing data about a single process value
– Other kinds of records, such as records that:
• Hold lists of things, like engineering units
• Perform processing on other records, such as calculations or data
movements
• Hold system information

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 What is a “Tag?”
• An InfoPlus.21 tag is a record that contains information
about a single point, which could be a single:
– Measured value read from plant instrumentation
– Setpoint value read or to be written to a control system
– Value representing the result of a calculation

• Besides the current value, a tag stores other information

about the point (described in detail in later module), including:
– Time related data
– Name of the tag
– Description
– Name of engineering units used
– Plant area
– Historical values

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 The Historian
InfoPlus.21 Core System
• Historical values for
each tag are stored
on disk by the Real-Time
InfoPlus.21 Database
Historian
Historian
Archives

InfoPlus.21 API

• The Historian offers:

– Massive storage capability both online and offline
– Transparent access to values by tag name from all client user
interfaces

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 Introducing the AspenChem Simulation
1. Raw Material Silos
• Measured Levels, Flows
• Measured pH
• Valve Positions

2. Mixer • Measured Level, Flow

• Mixer on/off
• Valve Positions

• Calculated
3. Reactor • Measured Level, Flow, Product Cost
Temperature, Pressure
• Calculated
• Vent Status Wastage
• Valve Position

4. Storage Silos • Measured Level

• Valve Positions
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 Overview Review
• InfoPlus.21 is a process data manager and historian with many
versatile links to other applications
• All data items are stored by the InfoPlus.21 database in fields
within records
• Some records are “tags,” each storing current and historical
information about a single process value
• Current values and some historic values are stored in the real-
time database, which resides in the server computer’s memory.
For longer-term storage, values are transferred to disk archives
by the Historian, which also retrieves these values when required

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