Top alternatives to PI’s ProcessBook and PI Vision industrial analytics toolkits

In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, industrial organisations have more data at their fingertips than ever, offering the promise of higher production rates, more consistent quality, and reduced costs through data-driven strategies.

Standing between many businesses and this promise of process optimisation are questions surrounding the right tools to harness this data effectively – a choice complicated by the shifting status of longtime standard OSIsoft’s ProcessBook and PI Vision applications.

In this guide, we’ll give you some tips for evaluating ProcessBook & PI Vision alternatives, and present some of the best PI Server data visualisation tools available today. We'll cover:

•  A framework for understanding and categorising the current industrial analytics landscape

•  Roles new AI and machine learning applications play in optimising processes

•  The current status and roles of ProcessBook and PI Vision in the market

•  Methods for migrating from legacy systems like ProcessBook

•  Cost/pricing breakdowns

•  Top choices for ProcessBook & PI Vision alternatives