Introduction to PI Manual Logger

PI Manual Logger (also referred to as PIML) is a set of client applications for manually entering data to PI Data Archive.

Your facility may have a significant amount of data that cannot be collected automatically from instrumentation and control systems. PI Manual Logger provides these alternative data entry methods:

• Enter data using PI Manual Logger data entry screens on a PC.

• Enter data using an HTML5-compliant browser on mobile devices that use Apple iOS, Google Android, and Windows Phone operating systems.

• Enter data on a Microsoft Windows Mobile device, a Windows Vista/7 or Windows 8 laptop, or a Tablet PC. You can review, edit, and approve the data on a PC before you transmit it to PI Data Archive.

Some reasons to use mobile devices to collect data include:

• A plant or unit has older analog instruments and the cost of new cabling and instrumentation is too high.

• Users may need to collect extra readings in a unit or plant for short periods, such as a month or two, and existing instrumentation does not allow them to collect the data.

• Certain data (such as lab readings, cooling water temperatures, water tide levels, tank gauges, and manual field valve positions) only needs to be collected once a shift, once a day, or once a week.