Factry Historian

What it is^{[1, 3]}

Industrial data platform to capture, store and analyze time-series data from OT systems, with an asset hierarchy, calculations, automatic event detection (batches, CIP cycles, downtime) and manual entry forms.

Pricing model^{[1, 2]}

One flat fee per production site, with unlimited users, tags, collectors and integrations. Standard, Advanced and Enterprise tiers; Historian prices are not published (FactryOS MES starts from €15,000/year). A guided proof of concept is offered.

Data collection^{[3, 5, 2, 1]}

Collectors for OPC UA, OPC DA, MQTT (JSON and Sparkplug B), Modbus TCP, Siemens S7, SQL and REST APIs. Collectors store and forward: they buffer data on disk during network outages. High availability is supported.

Storage^{[3, 4]}

InfluxDB (v1.x and v2.x supported) holds time-series data such as measurements and calculations; PostgreSQL holds configuration, metadata and events.

Deployment^{[1, 2, 9]}

On-premises, in a corporate data center (hub-and-spoke to sites) or in the cloud; runs on practically any Linux OS. A Docker Compose setup is published for local evaluation.

Grafana & outputs^{[6, 7, 3]}

Official Grafana datasource plugin, maintained by Factry and open source (Apache-2.0), with asset browsing and event overlays. Also a Seeq connector, Excel add-in, MQTT (Sparkplug B) output, Parquet export and an OpenAPI-documented REST API.

Ignition connector^[8]

Native Ignition module: tags marked for historization in Ignition are collected automatically, with local store-and-forward and bi-directional queries back into Ignition.

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