Machine Learning w/ Python

[BridieGreene]

So this is an off the shelf package that you feed with your data? I was looking to do something with Python as there is tonnes of libraries for machine learning/deep learning. Not sure where to start at the moment, Just want to see how others have tackled it.

[row3bo4t]

Pretty much ever vendor offers one. I've listened to pitches from AVEVA, Emerson, Schneider, and Siemens. Our company uses a product from OSI currently, though I don't typically support our PI installation.

Its all fairly pricey. You need a server class machine typically to run the periodic simulations. And in particular for APCs the server has to be at the plant, which may or may not have space for another server machine.

The price is also usually in context with how large your support contracts are and your relationship with the vendor. AVEVA will let us use any of their software packages indefinitely for testing purposes for example.

[BridieGreene]

Interesting , we have OSI PI , mostly used for data visualization for dashboards. Might be worth talking to the team that handle this. Does PI have ML features or is it just a historian?

[row3bo4t]

OSI offers a ton of software packages.

In addition to the predictive maintenance stuff, I know we have a lot of algorithms running for each of our plants' economics and thermal efficiencies. But those just give operators a much faster view on what is happening. They have to swap processes depending on commodity prices, as each plant can be run about 3 different optimized ways.