- Does it replace our SCADA or historian?
- No. It reads from them and adds what they don’t do: readings joined to maintenance, production and quality records, likely causes with reasons, and numbers for the whole business.
- How does it connect to our equipment?
- Through what you already have: read-only queries on a PostgreSQL historian or database, the JSON APIs of your maintenance and production systems, or a gateway posting readings to Evalu8 Pro’s readings API. Machine protocols come in through the gateway.
- Can it change setpoints?
- Only through controls you describe, only when someone allowed to presses the button, and always as a request the controller can refuse. Every press is logged, and only counts as done when the readings show it.
- Is our process knowledge safe?
- Your model, your diagnoses and your data belong to you, in your own account. Download the whole model at any time, and connection keys are encrypted and never shown again.
- Can we use our own prediction models?
- Yes. Every confirmed or corrected diagnosis is available through the API with the measurements behind it, ready to train on. A model you train elsewhere can write its predictions back as ordinary fields, where pages and dashboards use them.
- What if readings arrive late, or out of order?
- They slot into place. Readings can be sent in batches, resent safely after a timeout, and kept by a gateway through an outage and sent afterwards.