There is a PI System in most of the world's largest chemical companies. These companies and others in the chemical industry have implemented over a dozen applications for the PI real-time database and client tools. Since its introduction in 1985, OSI's PI System has been used heavily in continuous chemical processes. In addition, over the last three years chemical facilities with batch operations have both discovered and demanded the operational cost savings, better asset management and quality improvements possible with a PI System.
Data leading up to an outage and post-outage is useful in determining the root cause of the problem.