General Electric Predix Essentials

Monitoring and event management is the first step in harnessing the power of an edge-to-cloud IIoT solution. With Predix Essentials, you can centralize data, apply analytics, then visualize and act on the insights. It allows you to connect assets and IT/OT data, monitor conditions, analyze alerts, and manage incidents through resolution without any software development required. By leveraging Predix Essentials, you can reduce downtime and lower maintenance costs—and that’s just the beginning. Connectivity and data collection Predix Essentials can collect data from common data sources, using a variety of secure connection and forwarding methods. The data can then be viewed, analyzed, and more using the Event Console. Edge-to-cloud processing Predix Essentials is based on Predix Platform and provides a secure and scalable foundation for your evolving IIoT needs. Core Predix Platform capabilities are included with Predix Essentials, while others are available as additional services. Event Console The rich user capabilities enable utilization from engineers to executives, including remote experts, operators and supervisors, safety and compliance teams, executive management, and customer self-service. For monitoring and event management, Predix Essentials provides a complete end-to-end workflow. Operators and supervisors can:

• Monitor. View assets, operational data, metrics, and KPIs via customizable dashboards

 

• Analyze. Visualize and analyze data for ad-hoc investigation and root cause analysis

 

• Detect. Get alerts from thresholds, business rules, and machine learning analytics

 

• Respond. Recommend and assign actions, create cases, and track through resolution

 

Benefits The rich connectivity, processing, and Event Console features of Predix Essentials enable a host of uses across any industry. Whether you’re directly connecting assets or augmenting current investments in MES or HMI/SCADA systems, Predix Essentials delivers centralized visibility, augmented analytics, and analysis capabilities for monitoring, exception handling, and decisioning. Typical use cases include:

• Centralized asset and process visibility
• Condition-based monitoring
• Remote HMI monitoring and support
• Cross-plant dashboards
• OEM fleet monitoring and service

Key Capabilities: Dashboards reporting; Alerts, metrics, KPIs; Visualization analysis; Criticality analysis; HMI visualizations alarms; Recommendations; Case management; Policy management.