ThinkIQ Glossary of Terms


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Term Definition

Module

Modules are lightweight and flexible pieces of functionality that can be inserted into a page to display certain types of pre-configured content.

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No Interpolation (none)

When no data exists, no line is drawn between the values of time-series data between two recorded points. 

OPCDA

OPC Data Access specifications for communicating real-time and continuous data from historians to other systems. In ThinkIQ’s case, a gateway uses this protocol to receive/read data from a historian.

OPCUA

OPC Unified Architecture. A machine to machine communication protocol for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation.  see industrial automation on Wikepedia.

Outflow

Movement of material out of a Material Account.

Pens

The function of trend / data. A “description” of how the data is behaving.

Previous Interpolation

When no data exists,line is drawn between the values of time-series data between two recorded points will maintain the current value

 

Process Layout

Process Layout is a graphical overview diagram composed of production or logistics processes based on defined relationships in the Model. It is a starting point for most of the navigation in the platform and for many users it will act as their home page.  A platform can have multiple Process Layout diagrams that focus on different areas of a plant.

Quantity Kind

A quantity kind is a representation of all the properties that can be measured with the same kind (type) of measurement unit. For example, the quantity kind length can be measured using centimeters, inches, yards, miles, etc.

Reasoning

A detailed report on how the Feed Chain determined that materials flowed from material account A to material account B, when the material stops flowing; why it was determined to have stopped flowing by drawing attention to the pieces of equipment that stopped the flow, etc. The reasoning is displayed in the Material Flow Diagram.