Our industries are faced with many challenges:
- Need to cut operating costs
- Need to improve equipment utilization by reducing downtime
- Massive turnover (and retirement) in experienced operators
- Regulatory pressures for environmental, safety and quality operations
Video combines data to deliver information quickly in an intuitive format. The result is better decisions done faster.
Long Watch is the leader with two powerful software solutions that deliver productivity and fast payback:
- The Console Recorder
- Video Historian
The Console Recorder
Finally…a “black box recorder” for the cockpit of your plant: the control room!
The Long Watch Console Recorder automatically captures HMI, SCADA and DCS displays and provides you with live and recorded images of exactly what was on the operator displays at any point in time (including the mouse tracks).
The Console Recorder is a great tool for:
- Reduced Downtime: don’t dig through alarm logs, operator logs, trends and reports – just play back what the system was showing the operator and you’ll know what happened and how to fix it.
- Troubleshooting: it aggregates and associates the information in various databases – by showing you that data the way the operator saw it!
- Training: Just like the pros: use console recording as “game films” to show best practices for procedures, startups and shutdowns.
There are two versions of the Console Recorder:
- Value Edition - a basic screen recorder that provides live and recorded read-only images.
- Enterprise Edition - a screen recorder that is scalable to many consoles and display stations, and includes our patent-pending technology that links video with various databases in your automation systems. This saves troubleshooting time, reduces downtime and helps train operators for higher quality and productivity.
The Console Recorder can record multiple consoles and it supports Windows, non-Windows and terminal server-based displays.
Video Historian
Data historians are the backbone of applications that drive productivity improvements in today’s competitive and challenging manufacturing environment.
Video transfers more information in an understandable context: faster than any other method.
The Long Watch Video Historian is a breakthrough in data management, automatically linking and integrating real plant video to help improve plant efficiency, documentation regulatory compliance and operations management.
In short, the Video Historian is THE platform for Video Manufacturing Execution Systems: Video MES.
The Long Watch Video Historian links video with your key applications to help you:
- save time
- save money
- improve quality
- reduce downtime
- reduce errors and accidents
Video can help deliver more productivity, faster.
Learn more about how the Video Historian works and what the Video Historian can do for you.