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General Introduction
If you are a process expert such as an engineer, operator, or process manager, TrendMiner will give you quick access to your process data and provide the tools necessary to analyze data without the need for an extensive data science background.
You will be able to solve process issues, investigate process improvements, and monitor your process more effectively than ever before.
What is TrendMiner?
Watch the following video to get a quick overview of TrendMiner.
TrendMiner helps you analyze time series data from process measurements like temperatures, pressures, and valve states. We refer to these measurements as tags.
See how to access, visualize and edit your tags.
Recording
In this recording you will learn how to visualize a certain tag, by entering at least 3 characters in the “Search tags and attributes” top bar, using the * as wildcard.
The available tags appear in the Active tag list, within the Tag menu on top left of the toolbar. Click on them to modify the scale, color, hide or remove them.
TrendMiner's easy to use time navigation will help you move quickly through all your data that is being visualized, to find trends that help you define a problem or to confirm a hypothesis.
Here you will become familiar with the time navigation options open to you.
Recording
You will learn the difference between the Focus Chart (used for visualization) and the Context Chart (used to find search results).
Become familiar with basic visualization, you will see how to can configure fields such as start and end date/time, duration, as well as zoom in or undo time navigation.