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Canary Labs products are engineered from the ground up to be fast and efficient. They can run on hardware that is smaller than what you would normally consider to be needed. For example, the PI system from Osisoft requires a server level operating system to run. Canary also supports high speed applications, supporting updates as fast as 10 milliseconds. Compare that with the definition of high speed for FactoryTalk from Rockwell Automation.

Here is what one customer said when they had to upgrade their Aspentech IP21 system: I was impressed with the ease of setup and fast data retrieval with the Canary Historian vs the Aspen InfoPlus.21 system. It took minutes instead of hours. AspenTech expected me to upgrade from CIM/21 to IP.21 at great costs thinking I was still in love with their Process Explorer. I enjoyed setting up the Canary Trend Link and the Enterprise Historian and realizing immediate positive results.... and I don't miss the week-long training sessions for PI and Aspen either!

Canary Labs - Scaleable Process Historian Solutions

Canary Labs is the solution that companies turn to when their existing historian can't meet the scale or complexity of their environment. Our solution has been proven to work in almost every industry with over 10,000 implementations in 24 countries. Our customers have come to rely on Canary's products to enhance production visibility, reduce down time and eliminate product waste. Many of our customers realize significant savings within the first few months of using our products.

Pipelines

Canary's Trend Historian is deployed at remote pumping stations, gathering and synchronizing data to a central location with redundancy.

Pipelines

Canary's Trend Historian is deployed at remote pumping stations, gathering and synchronizing data to a central location with redundancy.

Power Generation

Canary Systems are helping power producers and utilities diagnose and find difficult and intermittant problems.

Power Generation

Canary Systems are helping power producers and utilities diagnose and find difficult and intermittant problems.

Water & Wastewater Treatment

Canary Trending is used to monitor water and waste water applications. Data is used to automatically generate reports submitted to government agencies.

Water & Wastewater Treatment

Canary Trending is used to monitor water and waste water applications. Data is used to automatically generate reports submitted to government agencies.

Precision Optics

ESO uses Canary's Trend Link to help ensure that the mirrors used in their telescopes are recoated properly.

Precision Optics

ESO uses Canary's Trend Link to help ensure that the mirrors used in their telescopes are recoated properly.

Oil & Gas Exploration

Canary Trending provides highly reliable and visible data in a critical off-shore application.

Oil & Gas Exploration

Canary Trending provides highly reliable and visible data in a critical off-shore application.

Chemical

Canary meets the data historian requirements of a chemical processing equipment manufacturer. 200+ tags are logged every second providing years of detailed history.

Chemical

Canary meets the data historian requirements of a chemical processing equipment manufacturer. 200+ tags are logged every second providing years of detailed history.

Fiber Optics and Communication

Canary Trending provides the validation that the fiber optic cable meets the demanding quality specifications for transoceanic applications.

Fiber Optics and Communication

Canary Trending provides the validation that the fiber optic cable meets the demanding quality specifications for transoceanic applications.

Petrochemical

Canary is able to handle the large number of data points over long periods of time required by refineries. Years of data can be quickly viewed with Trend Link.

Petrochemical

Canary is able to handle the large number of data points over long periods of time required by refineries. Years of data can be quickly viewed with Trend Link.

Mining & Metals

Canary is used by control room operators in a steel plant to improve quality, efficiency and to reduce downtime.

Mining & Metals

Canary is used by control room operators in a steel plant to improve quality, efficiency and to reduce downtime.

High-Tech Crystal Growing

Canary Trending is a critical component in the production of silicon crystals increasing production and quality.

High-Tech Crystal Growing

Canary Trending is a critical component in the production of silicon crystals increasing production and quality.

Food & Beverage

Canary is used in the processing of food and beverages to monitor process variables that are critical.

Food & Beverage

Canary is used in the processing of food and beverages to monitor process variables that are critical.

  • Pipelines

  • Power Generation

  • Water & Wastewater Treatment

  • Precision Optics

  • Oil & Gas Exploration

  • Chemical

  • Fiber Optics and Communication

  • Petrochemical

  • Mining & Metals

  • High-Tech Crystal Growing

  • Food & Beverage

An efficient and scaleable historian solution means that the Canary Enterprise Historian can run on a wide range of computers from desktop computers (even laptops), all the way up to enterprise servers. It allows you to capture and summarize manufacturing data more than ten times faster than the average multi-purpose database solution. Speed and efficiency makes logging rates of 100 times a second (10 milliseconds) possible. Data from thousands of tags over many years are quickly retrieved and displayed in seconds.

The Canary Enterprise Historian is very scaleable. For example, it's quick and easy to use the Canary Enterprise Historian in a small scale lab test. Just set it up quickly on a small desktop computer. On the other hand, if you have a large job, the Enterprise Historian can be setup on multiple large servers in multiple locations providing high speed and redundancy. The efficient design allows the same historian solution to do both small and large scale tasks.



Canary Labs Trend Link - The Recognized Leader in Trending


Canary Labs Trend Link Viewer

The Canary Trend Link viewer is unmatched by any other trend viewer and is very easy to use. Customers call it "obviously intuitive". Based upon the old style strip chart recorder display, Trend Link is much more powerful and faster (and paperless). When Trend Link is used with our Enterprise Historian, the retrieval speed of large amounts of process data is extremely fast. Typically a full year's worth of data can be recalled and displayed in seconds.

It's very easy to configure and use Trend Link to view data. Browse and select the tags that you want to view. Drag and move the trends around. View both real time and historical data just by scrolling the cursor. You can even view the trends in different orientations. It's very graphical, easy to use and intuitive.



Customized Industry Solutions


Water Treatment Plant Control Room using InfoLink

Canary Labs has products that can be integrated together to create customized industry solutions. Examples include Water and Wastewater, Oil and Gas, and Power Utilities.

For example, a system for Water and Wastewater Plants uses the Enterprise Historian and Canary Logger to collect and store process data. The data is graphically displayed using InfoLink and Trend Link. Trend Calc is used to calculate KPI's and other meaningful measurements. Important alert tags indicating problems trigger an automatic call to the manager, immediately letting him know that an unusual situation may need his attention. He can then view plant data with Canary Mobile on his smart phone.

In addition to real time information, laboratory testing data is recorded using a Lab Data Entry program and is combined with the plant's process data to automatically create monthly government compliance reports, eliminating hours of tedious manual calculations and work.

Contact Canary Labs to see how we can put together a solution for your company that will meet your needs.

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Canary Software is Easy to Setup and Use

Canary Labs' software is easy to setup and use. How easy is it? Our quick start installation guide shows how you can log and view data in six easy steps. Or view this short 7 minute training video produced by Randy Kondor, lead OPC instructor at the OPC Training Institute. Click on the screen below to view the training video.

" Through Canary Labs, the added access to historical data trends of plant equipment by the maintenance and engineering staff, has improved troubleshooting methods and enhanced the ability of predictive maintenance. The final outcome is that the Canary software has improved our productivity. "

Frank Teixeira, Electrical Engineer, Xerox