Trends
Industrial process historian and trending application. Log anything you want, visualise everything, and catch problems before they become expensive.
What is Trends?
Trends is a process historian built into the Process Link Portal. It continuously logs data from your process-temperatures, pressures, flow rates, quality measurements, production counts-and makes it all visible through interactive charts and reports. Think of it as your process memory: everything that happened, when it happened, and how it all relates.
Who it's for
Process operators who need to see what's trending and catch deviations before they cause problems
Process engineers analysing process behavior and optimising production parameters
Production managers tracking KPIs and understanding what's driving production performance
Maintenance planners monitoring equipment health and planning interventions based on trending data
Problems it solves
No visibility into process trends until something breaks
Data locked in PLCs or SCADA systems without easy access
Manual data logging that's error-prone and incomplete
Can't correlate process variables to understand root causes
Expensive historian systems that are overkill for your needs
Key capabilities
Log anything
Capture any data point from your process. Production rates, temperatures, pressures, chemical dosing, quality measurements. If you can measure it, Trends can log it.
Visual trending
See what's happening with clear, interactive charts. Overlay multiple signals, zoom in on events, spot correlations. Built for operators who need answers fast.
Historical playback
Rewind and review. See exactly what was happening during a process upset, quality event, or production run. Compare historical patterns to identify root causes.
Smart alarming
Set thresholds and get alerts when things drift out of range. Catch trending problems before they become shutdowns. Alert the right people at the right time.
Root cause analysis
When something goes wrong, pull up the data and see exactly what led to it. Compare multiple variables, identify correlations, and prevent repeat incidents.
Export and reporting
Export data for deeper analysis or regulatory reporting. Generate production reports automatically. Get the data in the format you need.
How teams use Trends
Catching drift before shutdown
An operator notices flow rate trending down over several hours. They alert maintenance before it drops enough to trip the process. A $20,000 shutdown avoided because they could see the trend.
Quality troubleshooting
Product quality drops. The team pulls up Trends and overlays temperature, feed rate, and dosing parameters. They spot the correlation: a chemical dosing pump drifted 10% low two hours before the quality issue appeared.
Production reporting
Instead of operators writing down production numbers every hour, Trends logs them automatically. End-of-shift reports generate themselves. More accurate data, less time wasted on paperwork.
Equipment health monitoring
Track motor vibration, bearing temperatures, or pump discharge pressure over time. See degradation patterns weeks before failure. Schedule maintenance on your terms, not the equipment's.
Part of the Process Link Platform
Trends is built into the Process Link Portal. The same system that shows you real-time dashboards also stores and trends your historical data. Everything in one place. No separate historian to maintain, no integration headaches.
Ready to see what your process is telling you?
Talk to our team about implementing process trending and historical data logging.