Get started with PI System Explorer

With Asset Framework (PI AF), you can represent assets and processes as PI AF objects and structure them to provide value to your business.

PI System Explorer (PSE) and PI Builder are the primary tools that you use to create and manage PI AF objects. Both tools include support for the following features:

• Event frames

  With event frames, you can capture important process events and collect relevant data around them to help analyze why they occurred. See Understand event frames in PI AF for more information.

• Asset analytics

  Integrated into PI System Explorer, you can use asset analytics to create calculations and set up conditional statements involving asset values. See the "Asset analytics" topic in the Analytics and Notifications publication for more information.

• Notifications

  Integrated into PI System Explorer in PI AF 2016 R2, you can use notifications to create rules by which users can be alerted in real time to anomalous conditions in the system. See the "Introduction to notifications" topic in the Analytics and Notifications publication for more information.