Introduction

Whether you are an Operator, Process Engineer, or Manager, Wonderware Historian Client tools help you to organize, explore, analyze, present, and disseminate your process data in a wide variety of formats. All of this can be done from your desktop.
Wonderware Historian Client tools integrate tightly with the most popular Microsoft Office tools.

Wonderware Historian Client tools are also integrated with Wonderware Historian Server as a full- featured suite of client applications that maximize the value of the data displayed in Wonderware Historian Client. With Wonderware Historian Client tools, you can:

• Explore your data graphically to find important information
• Analyze the data to produce relevant information
• Develop and execute the ad-hoc queries against any Historian Server data
• Visualize the current process state
• Disseminate information on an intranet
• Produce clear and rich automated reports

 
Analyzing Process Data

Process data is any type of information that is relevant to the execution of a process. The following types of information are considered a part of process data:
 
 

Real-time data:	What is the current value of this tag?
Historical data:	What was the value of this tag every second last Monday?
Summary data:	What is the average of each of these five tags?
Business data:	How much does this particular material cost?
Event data:	When did that boiler trip? What was the internal pressure and temperature, when it tripped?
Configuration data:	How many DA Servers am I using and what are their types?

 
To improve performance and quality while reducing cost, we need to be able to analyze all of this acquired information. Plant data is typically analyzed to determine:

• Process analysis, diagnostics, and optimization
• Materials management, such as raw materials usage
• Predictive and preventive maintenance of equipment
• Product and process quality (SPC/SQC)
• Health and safety, and environmental impact (FDA/EPA)
• Production reporting
• Failure analysis

 
Desktop Applications

Wonderware Historian Client tools include the following standalone applications:

1. Trend – Enables trending of historical and real-time data over time. Powerful features allow data to be compared with other data from different periods. Alarms and limit excursions are readily visible. It is also possible to add and view annotations in your trends
2. Query – This point-and-click application enables complex queries to be built to return any Historian Server data without any knowledge of the database structure or TSQL. Query can be extended to view InTrack and InBatch data tables
 
Microsoft Office Add-ins

1. Workbook –An add-in to Microsoft Excel that enables almost any type of analysis and display of data from the Historian Server, using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format
2. Report – An add-in to Microsoft Word that allows sophisticated reporting from Wonderware Historian Server using the Microsoft Word document format

 
Other Controls

In addition to these applications, aaHistClientTrend and aaHistClientQuery are ActiveX controls that provide the essential functionality of trend and query for use in container applications, such as InTouch and Internet Explorer. Use of Wonderware Historian Client tools constituent controls, such as the Tag Picker and Time Bar, in any application is possible with a server license.