- Getting Started
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How to Navigate This Course
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Discussion Forum
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Offline Course Videos for Blocked YouTube Users
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Course Workbook
- Training Cloud Environments
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Launch Cloud Environment
- Lesson 1 - PI System Basics
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Map of the PI System (6:47)
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Time in PI System (11:45)
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What are PI Assets, Attributes, and Tags? (13:45)
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Connect to and Search a PI System (22:14)
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Knowledge Check: Draw Your PI System
- Lesson 2 - PI ProcessBook Basics
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Using PI ProcessBook in Run Mode (13:35)
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Building Basic Status Displays (14:21)
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Knowledge Check: Identify an Asset to Monitor
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Building Element Relative Displays (22:10)
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Knowledge Check: Create a Reusable Display
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Building Linked and Custom Graphic Displays (24:12)
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Knowledge Check: Customize Your Display
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Organize Displays into Workbooks for Easy Sharing (11:10)
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Knowledge Check: Create a PI ProcessBook Workbook
- Lesson 3 - Advanced Topics: XY Plots, Client-side Calculations, SQC Charts and more
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Configure XY Plots to Compare Two Sets of Data (9:32)
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Knowledge Check: Configure an XY Plot
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Create Data Sets to Visualize Client-Side Calculations (9:44)
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Knowledge Check: Create a Calculation Data Set
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Build an SQC Chart to Determine Statistical Performance (8:20)
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Knowledge Check: Build a SQC Chart for Your Process
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Write VBA Scripts to Add Custom Functionality (12:42)
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Knowledge Check: Write and Test Your VBA Code
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Use the AF Display Builder add-in to Quickly Create Displays in PI ProcessBook (12:01)
- Final Exam
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Final Exam
- Course Evaluation
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How did it go?
- Next Steps
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Additional Learning Resources
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End of the course
PI ProcessBook: Basics
Create a variety of PI ProcessBook displays, such as trends and bar graphs, to monitor your process. This course leverages the power of intuitive Asset Framework hierarchies.
In this course, we will guide you on how to create a variety of PI ProcessBook displays, such as trends and bar graphs, to monitor your process. Additionally, this course leverages the power of the intuitive PI AF asset structures to enable you to display attributes of an asset, search in AF, and build element relative displays.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand the PI System Basics
- Build basic PI ProcessBook displays
- Build reusable displays using AF structure
- Create linked displays
- Organize displays into workbooks
- Configure XY plots
- Visualize client-side calculations
- Build SQC charts
Audience
This course is for beginning users of PI System data, and is open to anyone who wishes to learn more about PI ProcessBook. If you're a process engineer or a plant operator and are interested in learning about the key features of PI ProcessBook, how to visualize process data, and create meaningful displays that your end users could use - then this course will be useful for you.
Level: Introductory - Intermediate
Study Time: 10 hours
Course Access: Unlimited access to all content except the Training Cloud Environment (TCE). You have 30 days access to the TCE starting on the day you access module section "Launch Cloud Environment".
After those 30 days you can purchase additional access with one of the two options below:
Prerequisites
- No specific knowledge of the PI System software is required
- A computer that can access our YouTube content, and pass our connection test
Software Requirements
Learners are encouraged to use their own software and data structures whenever possible. This allows each learner to immediately leave the course with something valuable to their enterprise. In order to complete the course, you need to have the following software installed:
- PI ProcessBook 2014 or later (connected to PI Data Archive and Asset Framework)
* If you do not have access to a PI System you can use the included Training Cloud Environment. Go to the Training Cloud Environment section at the end of the course to learn more about it and deploy your cloud environments.
This Course Includes...
- Videos, exercises and quizzes to help you learn the material
- A Cloud Environment accessible for 30 days and configured to complete all the exercises in the course
- A sharable certificate of completion
Further Information
- This is a self-paced course. Any questions or assistance needed about the material can be asked in this course's space in the OSIsoft PI Square community
- When you complete the examination at the end of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion which can be shared and directly posted on LinkedIn
- For more information about our Online Courses please visit our FAQ page
You can audit the full video lecture content right now on the OSIsoft Learning YouTube Channel