Replay. Understand. Improve operations.
With the Amitec PI Vision Playback Tool, users can scroll through historical data like a video and visualize how process values, states, and events have developed over time. This enables deeper root cause analysis, training, incident review, and a better understanding of operational processes directly in PI Vision.
Key benefits
- Playback of historical process behavior across all PI Vision displays
- Step-by-step analysis of incidents, transitions, and process dynamics
- Improved root cause analysis and operator training
- No external tools, fully integrated into PI Vision
The Amitec Playback Tool extends PI Vision with time navigation controls that allow users to continuously replay historical data instead of jumping between static time ranges. By simulating the passage of time, users can observe how process values, KPIs, states, and visual indicators changed during incidents, starts, shutdowns, or abnormal situations.
Unlike traditional time range selection, Playback transforms PI Vision into an interactive analysis environment where history becomes intuitive and easy to understand.
How playback works in PI Vision
The playback tool controls the global time context of a PI Vision display. Once activated, all symbols on the display are dynamically updated over time.
Users can:
- Start, pause, and stop playback.
- Control the playback speed.
- Jump forward or backward in time.
- Jump to specific timestamps.
Playback works with both standard PI Vision icons and advanced PI Vision Suite icons, ensuring consistent behavior across the entire display.
Key features
- Time-based playback of PI Vision displays
- Adjustable playback speed for quick or detailed analysis
- Step-by-step navigation for precise investigations
- Global time control for all symbols
- Works with PI tags and AF attributes
- Completely browser-based, no client installation required
The Amitec Playback Tool helps users understand complex process flows more quickly by converting historical data into continuous, intuitive playback rather than static time jumps. This significantly reduces the effort required for root cause analysis, incident reviews, and operational investigations. By simplifying the tracking and discussion of historical scenarios, Playback improves collaboration between operations, engineering, and analytics teams. At the same time, it increases the value of existing PI Vision displays by enabling deeper insights without additional modeling or external tools.
