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PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch

PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV 5​.1​.10

  • Last UpdatedJun 04, 2026
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PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV captures batch, manufacturing, and process data from an Emerson DeltaV System. The interface collects data from a DeltaV SQL server or EVT files, converts this data to PI tags and PI batch properties, and stores the collected data as event frames and elements within PI Asset Framework (PI AF). You can use tag templates to control PI point creation and event population. All modules, tags, tag aliases, and health tags are automatically created on the PI server.

PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch 5.1.10.8, released January 2025, is a maintenance release addressing minor bug fixes.

For more information on product features and functions, including system requirements and installation/uninstallation instructions, refer to Welcome to PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch guide.

The latest information about the 5.1.10.8 release is available online on the AVEVA Documentation Portal.

New features and enhancements

There are no new features or enhancements in this release.

Resolved issues

This section lists items resolved in this release:

Work Item

Description

75880

Procedure level recipe events are processed correctly and have no missing end times.

79243

Service IDs that start with "-" now function as expected.

94547

The BIFConfig preview window has all the batch interface output visible.

94680

Startup data file is no longer written in delete or status mode.

94881

Tagpath now can be entered with no value and with no error message.

97880

Open batches that are updated after restart are no longer incorrectly closed.

98019

Null parameter messages are no longer logged when processing point annotations.

98872

Debug messages now show values rather than value lengths.

98905

CHECKINLIMIT and UNIRECORDBUFFERLIMIT parameters are configurable in the Operational Settings tab in PI Event Frames Interface Manager.

99787

EMDVB only queries event records that have not already been fetched.

99896

PI Event Frames Interface Manager allows the user to specify if they would like the explicit "DESCRIPTOR" field to be used in the .ini file configuration, as opposed to the abbreviated "DESC" field.

100363

Desc or Description may be used interchangeably in recipe or property templates.

100365

The correct Descriptor input field is shown for every recipe level in the template configuration page.

102264

Batch interfaces now exit cleanly.

102472

The batch interface element is created after startup rather than before shut down.

103101

PI Event Frames Interface Manager no longer crashes when the user is not specified.

103371

Batch interfaces now exit with a helpful message when an AF-SDK timeout error occurs.

103415

Log Viewer exceptions are caught, logged, and displayed In the case of exceptions, the window remains open for user interaction.

103520

Duplicate issued by rounding error.

103530

The Batch Viewer shows the event logs as expected without shutting down on its own.

103600

The ENABLEINTERFACEELEMENT and INTERFACEELEMENTPATH options are now properly documented.

104437

Emerson DeltaV phases from SQL data sources are now associated with the correct element.

105139

PI Event Frames Interface Manager displays the state of "Disable auto module creation for A&E data source" correctly.

105670

Phase-step stop events are applied to the correct event frames when the parent stops or starts a new phase-state before the phase-step stop event.

105740

Batch interfaces with SQL sources no longer shut down due to multiple SQL source connections.

106559

Interfaces with a version less than 5.0.0.0 can now be configured using the PI Event Frames Interface Manager (higher than v. 5.0.0.0 flag/SMP) without PI Asset Framework.

106630

Emerson DeltaV continues to process primary database data even if the archived database is not attached or found.

106721

A standby failover interface starts at the time the previous primary stopped processing.

106798

Batch Interfaces log an error message to let the user know that they need to modify MaxMessageLength in their PI Server.

107355

You can now use command line switch /dpretc (Optional - event frames only) to disable propagation of referenced elements to children. By default, the interface propagates each event frame element reference to its child event frames.

107429

Batch interfaces no longer fail to use PI Collectives when PICONNTO or PIDATO are defined.

111069

The event log viewer is now able to detect the interface event log.

113190

Batch Interfaces now truncate string tag values and log each occurrence.

113191

Batch interfaces can write any number of tag values without failing due to PI server message size limitations.

Known Issues

There are no known issues for this release.

Security information and guidance

We are committed to releasing secure products. This section is intended to provide relevant security-related information to guide your installation or upgrade decision.

We proactively disclose aggregate information about the number and severity of security vulnerabilities addressed in each release. The tables below provide an overview of security issues addressed and their relative severity based on standard scoring.

Vulnerabilities Found or Fixed

This section provides relevant security-related information to guide your installation or upgrade decision. We are proactively disclosing aggregate information about the number and severity of security vulnerabilities that are fixed in this release.

For this release of PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV, there were no vulnerabilities identified or fixed.

Distribution Kit Files

Product

Software Version

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86)

14.21.27702.2

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64)

14.21.27702.2

PI Network Subsystem

3.4.450.165

PI AF Client 2018 SP3 Patch 4

2.10.10.2539

Microsoft OLE DB Driver 19 for SQL Server

19.2.0.0

PI Interface for Emerson DeltaV Batch (EMDVB)

5.1.10.8

*The PI Network Subsystem Support (PINS) component is not displayed on the installation welcome screen if Data Archive is installed already.

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