What is the difference between PI Vision and Grafana?
PI Vision is a commercial product from AVEVA. Grafana is an open-source visualization platform.
Historian Visualization
Historian visualization and dashboard services for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The engagement covers the dashboard design, the PI Vision or Grafana configuration, the KPI rollups, the real-time displays, and the operational use.
Dashboard design
The dashboard design covers the user personas, the information needs, the layout, the data flow, and the operational use.
PI Vision or Grafana
The visualization platform is selected based on the existing infrastructure, the user preferences, the operational requirements, and the integration with the historian.
KPI rollups
The KPI rollups are the calculations that aggregate the data across the hierarchy: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and the comparison with the targets.
How to use this page
Use this Historian Visualization page as a planning checkpoint before vendor selection, architecture review, validation scoping or implementation sequencing. The strongest next step is to compare the guidance with your current SOPs, system inventory, batch records, data flows and QA review routines so the discussion starts from evidence instead of assumptions.
Evidence to prepare
For Historian Visualization, prepare the records, owners, risks and decision criteria linked to dashboard design, pi vision or grafana, kpi rollups. Useful evidence includes current process maps, interface lists, audit trail expectations, exception workflows, data retention rules and the business reason for changing the current operating model.
Frequently asked questions
How many dashboards does a typical pharmaceutical site need?
A typical pharmaceutical site has 20-50 dashboards.