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Engineering Consultants Group Introduces latest Glance™ Version
[March 02, 2015]

Engineering Consultants Group Introduces latest Glance™ Version


AKRON, Ohio, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineering Consultants Group™, a company with over 20 years of experience focused on custom software development, process control, testing, monitoring, and analysis, is now introducing the latest Glance™ Version 2.1.12. Glance is a real-time graphical visualization client for OPC DA/HDA and OSIsoft® PI. Glance runs on all modern devices and any modern desktop browser that support HTML5 without requiring add-ons. With Glance, users can house thousands of displays, view, and even build displays.

Glance's intuitive interface allows users to easily navigate and maintain a collection of graphical displays suitable for fleet wide use at industrial facilities. The extensive Advanced Search interface allows users to quickly find relevant displays by interrogating their metadata. Clicking on a search result brings up the real-time display in question. Displays include interactive value, gauge, and trending features such as cursors, zoom, scaling, and much more.

By leveraging lightweight data historians, users have a simple and affordable soluion for viewing their equipment process information through Glance's enterprise architecture. A single installation of Glance supports the many demands of both small and large corporations by serving thousands of real-time displays to hundreds of users. Glance's OPC data interface is fully compatible with Kepware® ExServer's® Local Historian as well as many other OPC DA/HDA servers. Create displays in just minutes using Glance's integrated display builder and built-in drawing tools that are user-friendly and require minimal training.



Glance users can simply login and upload their existing OSIsoft PI ProcessBook® files with just a few clicks. The Glance server performs a one-time conversion of PI ProcessBook files into a web-friendly format while maintaining performance and user experience.  Uploaded displays can also be modified by using Glance's integrated display builder. Glance also supports searching and trending classic PI tags as well rendering and interacting with PI Asset Framework™ Element Relative Displays. Users can share documents and displays with colleagues using global folders and secure others using their own personal folder.

About Engineering Consultants Group: Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, Engineering Consultants Group offers unique solutions that include: fuel tracking software, a fleet-wide constraint management and availability monitoring solution, pulverizer diagnostic equipment, and bolt-on notification software for PI System users. Although ECG's background is in power generation, many industries have successfully employed the company's products and services. ECG is an OSIsoft Partner and Microsoft® Certified Partner.


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SOURCE Engineering Consultants Group


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