The zenon Report Engine is a key component of the zenon Software Platform for data analysis and reporting. Data consistency, from collection on the production floor to management and controlling-oriented analysis, ensures data integrity and completeness across all levels. As a result, the zenon Report Engine offers a decisive advantage when reliable reporting forms the basis of your decisions.
Fast Facts
- Use the Report Engine to prepare data, analyze it and distribute reports
- Reliable data handling for meaningful analyses
- Increase productivity and reduce resource consumption and costs
Create and distribute meaningful production and energy data reports
The zenon Report Engine is designed to process the data recorded in the zenon Software Platform, analyze and display it in reports, or forward the data to third-party systems. Process data, alarms, and events are consolidated centrally in the Report Engine, allowing them to be analyzed and interpreted with a holistic view.
It can retrieve and process data from all zenon data repositories (e.g., zenon IIoT Data Storage). You gain a wide range of insights into the details of your production or a complete overview of your facility’s status and productivity.
Thanks to its comprehensive functionality, the Report Engine offers
- a detailed analysis of alarms and events.
- comprehensive documentation of critical production processes that also meets the requirements of strictly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and life sciences.
- potentials for precise quality control and quality improvements.
- comparison reports across machines, production lines, or locations.
- dynamic reports tailored to your specific needs in terms of key metrics and corporate identity.
With the Report Engine you can
- unlock the potential to enhance the productivity of your plant.
- save costs through the tracking and analysis of energy and production consumption.
… and you minimize waste of resources to a great extent.
Parameterizing custom reports
Reports can be easily created using templates which can be modified at any time. Included report templates comprise for example
- Consumption analysis
- Alarm and event analysis
- efficiency reports
- OEE analysis
- statistical analysis
- and much more
The included templates serve as the basis for the customizable reports that can be created in Reporting Studio. The reports can be viewed in a browser using either the Report Launcher or the Report Engine Viewer. The Report Engine Viewer is integrated into zenon IIoT Services. This also enables reports to be responsive and be displayed in a format optimized for mobile devices (provided this has been considered in the project design).
Success Story – zenon Report Engine in action
Valid data as the basis for meaningful reports
The foundation of every high-quality report is complete and reliable data, combined with meaningful metadata. With the zenon Report Engine as part of the zenon Software Platform, you can be confident that the data on which you base your decisions is accurate. Thanks to the platform’s end-to-end integration, operational data is captured completely and consistently. Manual processes for data collection or transfer are eliminated, which minimizes the risk of errors or data manipulation.
Interfaces to third-party systems
With its openness the Report Engine provides data interfaces for further processing in third-party systems. This allows the data to be integrated into and processed by customer-specific tools or workflows.
- pyZAN is a Python library implemented by COPA-DATA that provides direct access to all data from zenon with Python. Whether historical or real-time values, alarms, events, batches, or metadata—users can freely decide which data to retrieve. Direct integration with Python makes it possible to utilize the data for applications such as predictive analytics or machine learning.
- The GraphQL interface provides metadata and process data. It enables data to be transferred from zenon to third-party systems that support GraphQL. For example, ERP systems can easily use data from zenon via this standardized interface.
- “OT Data Integration” allows production, alarm, and event data to be loaded directly into Microsoft Excel. The data is available there for further processing, analysis, and custom evaluation without the need for manual exports.
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