Large Chemical and Refining Industries are facing the challenge to supply complete technical information and full data access to their skilled workforce in order to improve constantly. The investment and the housekeeping required, to maintain such infrastructures subtracts from the bottom line. system:Nozom tackles these challenges with a complete technological approach, thus helping industries to create adaptive and scalable information management
Central Repository
All data of system:Nozom, including data from the field, but also internal system monitoring, statistics and logs, is stored in the central repository, which serves also as the unique configuration interface of the entire system. To be completely independent from the individual data source and flexible to reflect any given structures, a schema-free open database is used. system:Nozom consolidates all data into one central Namespace, that can be easily accessed by any modern corporate IT. To support very large systems the database supports clustering and redundancy to increase the storage capability to any level required.
Core & Computing Scalability
system:Nozom’s Core Service controls the underlying architecture of Connector instances. It distributes configurational changes, processes incoming data and creates reflective images of the data in the Repository, such as the device configuration data, event streams or real-time measurements. To allow for very large systems or redundancy, system:Nozom supports multiple, parallel Cores.
Connector & Endpoint System Integration Scalability
The system:Nozom Connector is the application exchanging data with multiple systems and interfaces, typically residing on a remote location. Depending on the scale of the architecture and data sources to be integrated, it can be one or many Connectors per site. Integrating a new site to the enterprise system is only a matter of adding more Connectors to the overall architecture.
Interface Standards
Data does not only originate from different systems, but is also exposed in different formats depending on the interface being used. system:Nozom supports all industry standards for data acquisition, from ‘classical’ COM-based OPC to OPC UA, as well as other traditional formats like text files or OLEDB/ODBC, which allows to get data from almost any source used within the control/performance layer of the plants.
Support For Various Information Sources
In process plants today, data is induced by various systems for different tasks, like real time data and alarm & event streams for process control, as well as performance data and KPIs from performance applications, plus engineering meta-data. system:Nozom is designed to be able to exchange such information of any source from any location, based on industrial interface standards.
Once you start to build integrated, centralized information management structures which aim to satifsfy all analytical needs of the entire corporation, the right foundation and accessibility for the data store is one of the core differetiators defining overall success. system:Nozom makes use of the latest schema-free ‘NoSQL’ data storage technology, which in itself addresses such requirements of easy to manage mass data stores.
Enterprise Data Store
Using the replication and sharding features of the MongoDB Repository, it takes very little effort to maintain and extent a central data store for all types of analytical requirements, accessing time series and event data in any context and with high performance. system:Nozom overcomes many limitations of the past, relating to proprietary data stores and/or monstrous, hard-to-manage SQL installations.
Data Sharding (Clustering)
Very large data collections (which are easily created with historical process data), can be distributed over different shards. The MongoDB system handles the logic and lets the collection appear as one, while multiple CPU’s work together in the background, ensuring fast data retrieval.
Core Service
The Nozom Core processes all incoming data, and integrates with the central MongoDB instance that acts as routing service for the distributed MongoDB architecture, which itself can be scaled to nearly whatever extent and easily be set up for very low maintenance and headache-free data replication. Using MongoDB’s open JSON/BSON-based data interfaces, system:Nozom lets you touch live data as it is created or updated. No secrets, no proprietary formats stand in your way to use the data for any application.
Remote Data
As it was explained above, one distinct system:Nozom may comprise any number of remote Connectors, which themselves may be connected to any number of endpoint servers.
