Ask PI
Ask a question about your PI data in plain words, and get the answer with the tag, the period and the PI calculation behind each number.
The problem it solves
Simple questions wait for the PI expert.
How many tonnes yesterday? How long did the crusher run? The answer is in PI, but few people know where to look or how to compute it.
An answer from AI is only useful if you can see where its numbers come from.
1 · Asked Ask in plain words, or start from an example of the mine.
2 · Answered The answer in a few sentences, with PI’s own number.
3 · Explained The source, the period and the PI calculation of the number.
4 · Trended The values behind the answer, over the same period.
What it does
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Plain language
Name the equipment by its code or its words, what you want (a total, an average, a maximum, a running time) and the period. Example questions of the mine help you start.
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From PI itself, read only
The AI finds the AF attributes and PI points and asks PI for its totals, averages or values. Ask PI only reads PI. When PI has nothing matching, the answer says so and gives the closest names.
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How each number was computed
The source (the AF element and attribute and its PI point), the period in the mine’s local time, what PI computed and how, and the units, with a trend of the values.
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Production days and shifts
“Last production day” or “this shift” becomes exact times, from the mine’s own production day.
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Conversations
Your questions are kept like a chat, and Ask PI follows what was said before: “and yesterday?”
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On the simulated mines
Ask PI works today in the Demo section, on the PI data of the simulated mines.
Who uses it
- Supervisors and engineers who need a number from PI without building a display.
- Managers who want a quick answer, with its source.
- PI teams who want fewer simple requests.
See it on your own data.
Ask for a demo on our simulated mines, or tell us how you want to use it on yours.