Archive for ‘June, 2009

Diminishing a Limitation

by Oliver

Eliyahu Goldratt is an internationally recognized leader in the development of business management concepts and systems. The originator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), he wrote the book, “Necessary, but not Sufficient.” Written as a business novel, the story of software and how software alone is necessary, but not sufficient to dramatically improve the bottom [...] Read more »

Semantic Search

by Oliver

So while ZOOMS is advertised as a “Google” for PI, it really is not a full-text search. Here’s why: There isn’t a lot of text in PI. Users go to PI to look at trends. Trends for troubleshooting a phenomenon in the plant. Trends for a preliminary look at experiments running in the lab. [...] Read more »