Rethinking the Purdue Model for Modern Data Architecture
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Summary
The Purdue Model is the gold standard for an effective industrial data system that securely passes process data from control systems to plant-wide analytics. Data historians sit squarely at the heart of this infrastructure, and there are a variety of ways to configure and utilize these critical components. This webinar introduces some best practices you can use for effective data historian design by looking at the Purdue Model from a modern perspective. We’ll also demonstrate how implementing these recommendations can give you better, faster insights that will prepare your operation for AI success.
What We'll Cover
• Why your historian strategy matters for AI integration
• A deep dive into the Purdue Model and how it applies today
• Hardware & infrastructure best practices
• Configuring your historian for high availability & uptime
• Data governance considerations in today’s data landscape
Speakers
Nick Eimers
Senior Project Engineer
dataPARC
Nick Eimers is a process engineer who's been with dataPARC for nearly 15 years. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho and is currently a Senior Project Engineer helping global manufacturers implement and optimize dataPARC solutions for process analytics and data visualization.
Wayne McAdams
Senior Project Engineer
dataPARC
Wayne McAdams spent 20 years as a Process Engineer and Process Control Engineer in the pulp & paper industry before moving to dataPARC in 2007. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University and currently serves as Senior Project Engineer where he helps customers, install, learn, and use dataPARC to improve their processes.
Moderator
Traci Purdum
Editor in Chief
Chemical Processing
Traci Purdum, an award-winning business journalist with extensive experience covering manufacturing and management issues, is a graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kent, Ohio, and an alumnus of the Wharton Seminar for Business Journalists, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Purdum, who has been with Chemical Processing since 2008, serves as moderator to the brand’s many webinars and roundtables. She also hosts the podcast Process Safety With Trish & Traci.
