Assets Overview

Assets is an essential GENESIS component, seamlessly integrated with GENESIS tools for alarms, trends, and commands. It is designed to organize, visualize, and manage physical and logical assets in an industrial or enterprise environment.

Assets acts as a hierarchical management system that integrates real-time and historical data from various sources such as OPC servers, databases, or web services into a unified interface. The system organizes equipment, data sources, and visualizations into logical structures that represent the real-world arrangement of assets like machinery, buildings, production lines, and their geographic locations.

The architecture can follow ISA-95 standards, ensuring consistency and scalability. Assets integrates well with existing business processes, and provides a robust framework for industrial control, monitoring, and reporting. The core components include assets (individual equipment nodes), equipment classes (reusable templates), and tree views for customized navigation.

Key Benefits of Assets

Feature	Description
Data normalization	Assets simplify how clients interact with data. Instead of connecting to multiple sources with complex tag syntaxes, clients communicate with Assets that aggregate data from various systems. This centralized approach reduces the server load and provides a streamlined data access pathway.
Hierarchical organization	You can build a structured asset tree that mirrors your real-world layout, from large campuses to individual machines, making it intuitive for navigating assets across your enterprise.
Efficiency with templates	Equipment classes act as reusable templates that streamline the creation of asset hierarchies, significantly reducing set-up time in large systems where many assets share similar properties. They also help to enforce a reliable and predictable pattern to your data structures, which can help expedite other aspects of project development.
Bulk Asset Configurator	This is an auto-configuration tool that uses spreadsheets to allow for the rapid creation, update, or deletion of large batches of assets, significantly reducing manual configuration time. It can automatically instantiate equipment classes and set up alarms, historian tags, and other properties in bulk.
Integration with other GENESIS components	Assets seamlessly integrate with other components like Data Historian, Alarm Server, and the Fault Detection engine. This tight integration ensures a comprehensive view of asset performance across the entire enterprise.
Asset Navigator	The Asset Navigator is a control used in various GENESIS visualization interfaces that allows users to interact with the asset tree using predefined commands. It supports commands, search functionality, and customizable columns. Additionally, you can apply styling rules to highlight certain asset conditions, such as alarms, in the tree, providing visual cues for asset monitoring.
Distributed architecture	Assets can be distributed throughout a project architecture. You can integrate asset structures from multiple locations, such as different subsidiaries, into a global asset tree, making it highly scalable for large enterprises with geographically dispersed operations. This provides centralized visibility and management while maintaining local control.
Tree views	With tree views, you can organize your assets into a hierarchical structure. This feature allows you to create custom views of the asset tree based on properties or filters, providing flexible ways to organize and navigate assets. You can configure different views for run-time clients, enhancing the user experience and focusing on specific operational needs.