Ashish Patel

Background

The Plant Information (PI) system is an enterprise infrastructure, which follows a client-server model, that use widely used in the oil and gas industry to monitor large plants and their systems in real-time. The PI System turns real-time data into real-time intelligence for the oil and gas company.

The PI System builds a real-time enterprise by providing a real-time information infrastructure that closes the time and information gap between business objectives and actual production floor operations. Data is acquired, routed, processed and displayed simultaneously on desktops, portables and PDAs throughout the enterprise worldwide.
This valuable information is stored for decades, yet remains instantly accessible at its original time resolution for automated reporting, trending and analysis, giving you insight into your process to realize significant gains across the enterprise.

My Experience

Working for one of Canada’s largest integrated petroleum companies in 2003, I was responsible for developing a suite of PC-based applications that make controlling and managing the company’s nationally distributed PI Systems easier and efficient.

I developed a collection of client applications, known as the PI Client Applications, and server applications, known as the PI Server Applications. The applications included tools for managing accessibility, users, archives, digital states, real-time system monitoring and on-the-fly alters via e-mail and text messages, and the embedded database easily. Once these applications were developed, they were deployed to sites across Canada and are still being used today.