New Enhancements to PI Data Infrastructure and Asset Information Management Converge All Industrial Data on the CONNECT Platform
AVEVA is setting a new standard for the industrial digital twin. Showcased at Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit in Copenhagen, AVEVA announced major enhancements that will converge all crucial engineering and operational data onto its CONNECT industrial intelligence platform.
This integration is key to delivering a unified, edge-to-cloud digital twin, enabling organizations to achieve enterprise-wide transformation.
The core innovation lies in strengthening AVEVA Asset Information Management and the AVEVA™ PI Data Infrastructure. These enhancements enable the visualization of traditionally siloed engineering and operations data within a single, flexible user interface on the CONNECT platform.
According to Rob McGreevy, Chief Product Officer, AVEVA, this technology is vital for building trust:
“AVEVA’s technology is being used to aggregate, contextualize, and validate asset information following industry data standard rules to provide a trusted digital twin. This convergence happens within the CONNECT platform, built on Microsoft Azure.”
The convergence unifies:
- Trusted Asset Information: Equipment specifications, maintenance records, and engineering documentation (P&IDs, drawings).
- Real-time Operational Data: Sensor readings, process events, and historical performance metrics from the AVEVA™ PI System™.
By eliminating data silos and streamlining data transfer to the cloud, the new solutions deliver powerful benefits:
- Real-Time Insights: Providing instantaneous, contextualized information.
- Improved Reliability: Accelerating decision-making and enhancing asset performance.
- Cost Reduction: Lowering infrastructure costs and improving data availability.
- Scalable Analytics: Enabling more precise and scalable digital twin applications powered by AI.
This convergence ensures that engineering, operations, and IT teams can collaborate seamlessly, driving better performance, carbon efficiency, and actionable industrial intelligence across the entire asset lifecycle.
The CONNECT platform, built on Microsoft Azure, provides the scalable and secure foundation for these advancements. Dayan Rodriguez, Corporate VP for Manufacturing, Microsoft, noted the importance of this collaboration:
“By expanding the capabilities of the AVEVA portfolio and of the CONNECT platform on Microsoft Azure, AVEVA is unlocking new possibilities for industrial digital twin, bringing together trusted asset information and real-time operational data to deliver AI-powered insights, seamless visualization, and enterprise-wide scalability.”
AVEVA is positioning itself at the forefront of the industrial digital transformation, making the comprehensive, contextualized digital twin a reality for its customers.
