ibaHD-Server
Recording Measurement Data and Events and Making Them Available Immediately
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ibaHD-Server is a high-performance solution for the long-term storage of time-stamped process signals and event data. It seamlessly collects data from distributed ibaPDA systems and writes it into a central database, ensuring that relevant information is securely archived, structured, and always accessible for analysis or reporting.
Thanks to its optimized architecture, ibaHD-Server supports both continuous recording and event-based data logging—enabling full transparency across production lines, shifts, or entire plants.
Key capabilities
- Continuously record process data from multiple ibaPDA sources into a centralized archive
- Store high-resolution signal data and event logs in a scalable format
- Define trigger-based logging rules to capture data only during relevant conditions
- Ensure data integrity and security with automated file handling and access control
- Integrate seamlessly with ibaAnalyzer for fast retrieval, trend visualization, and diagnostics
- Support long-term analysis with structured storage by time, product, or process step
By combining real-time input with intelligent storage management, ibaHD-Server makes plant-wide data history fully traceable and evaluation-ready.
Typical use cases
- Creating a central data archive for production lines or entire facilities
- Recording data for compliance, audits, and quality assurance
- Supporting predictive maintenance through historical trend analysis
- Archiving alarm-triggered data segments for troubleshooting
- Providing high-resolution data access for engineering and process optimization
With ibaHD-Server, your process data becomes a reliable foundation for continuous improvement, operational transparency, and long-term value creation.
ibaHD-Server provides powerful options to publish archived process and signal data into higher-level IT systems. Using the ibaHD-Server-API-Read interface, historical values can be accessed directly by third-party applications such as reporting platforms, databases, or business intelligence tools. This ensures that long-term measurement data is not isolated, but available wherever it adds value.
Through standardized APIs, archived signals and events can be retrieved with full precision and resolution, enabling seamless integration into enterprise workflows and analysis environments.
Key capabilities
- Open API access to historical data for third-party tools and applications.
- Read archived signals and events with maximum resolution and time accuracy.
- Integrate seamlessly with enterprise databases, reporting solutions, and analytics platforms.
- Support cross-departmental use of process data beyond engineering.
- Enable continuous improvement by making long-term insights widely available.
This publishing capability turns ibaHD-Server into a bridge between production data and IT systems, allowing archived information to be used for more than troubleshooting alone.
Typical use cases
- Feeding long-term data into corporate data lakes or SQL databases.
- Supplying KPIs and trends to business intelligence dashboards.
- Integrating historical signals into predictive analytics workflows.
- Providing audit-proof evidence for compliance and certification processes.
By publishing historical data openly and reliably, ibaHD-Server ensures that measurement information becomes an enterprise-wide asset instead of staying siloed in the control environment.
ibaHD-Server offers an open interface(API) that enables external applications to directly access archived process and signal data. This makes it easy to integrate long-term measurement data into higher-level IT, reporting, and analysis environments—ensuring that valuable historical information is not locked into one system.
Using ibaHD-Server-API-Read, third-party tools and custom applications can retrieve stored signals with full resolution and accuracy. In addition, ibaDatCoordinator can be used to automatically extract time- or length-based datasets from ibaHD-Server and distribute them into SQL databases, reports, or various file formats—bridging the gap between production data and enterprise workflows.
Key capabilities
- Open, standardized API access for external tools and applications.
- Retrieve archived signals and events with precise timestamps and full resolution.
- Integrate ibaHD-Server data with reporting systems, BI dashboards, or custom analytics.
- Automate extraction and distribution via ibaDatCoordinator into SQL or file formats.
- Support cross-functional workflows by making long-term data widely usable.
This functionality ensures that archived measurement data can be transformed into an organization-wide resource, accessible to both technical experts and business stakeholders.
Typical use cases
- Importing archived data into enterprise reporting tools for KPI tracking.
- Using ibaDatCoordinator to schedule automatic SQL database updates from historical datasets.
- Enabling external analytics platforms to work with precise historical trends.
- Providing compliance-ready datasets to auditors or regulators.
With open access for external applications, ibaHD-Server ensures that historical data is no longer siloed, but actively fuels analysis, reporting, and decision-making across the enterprise.
ibaHD-Server includes built-in tools for the automated processing of historical data, enabling efficient and repeatable analysis without manual effort. Using defined rules and triggers, the system can extract, calculate, transform, and distribute archived process signals—supporting everything from quality documentation to advanced performance monitoring.
This automation ensures consistent evaluations and speeds up decision-making across departments.
Key capabilities
- Automatically extract and process archived data based on time, events, or triggers
- Generate computed values using formulas, filters, and statistical operations
- Schedule recurring analysis tasks with the help of ibaDatCoordinator
- Create and export data sets in structured formats for external use
- Embed processing workflows into quality control or reporting routines
- Ensure traceability and consistency through rule-based execution
By automating data workflows, ibaHD-Server turns raw historical signals into ready-to-use insights—reliably and at scale.
Typical use cases
- Running automated quality evaluations after each production batch
- Calculating energy KPIs or cycle times over daily or weekly periods
- Exporting standardized data packages for regulatory compliance
- Preparing maintenance-relevant indicators such as vibration trends
- Enabling custom logic evaluations without manual interaction
ibaHD-Server brings automation to historical data processing, so your teams can focus on decisions, not data handling.
ibaHD-Server allows engineers and operators to navigate and view historical process data with exceptional speed—right from the ibaPDA interface. Thanks to its built-in high-performance database engine, users can seamlessly scroll through past signals, zoom into specific time frames, and correlate data across multiple channels—all without switching tools or interrupting live operations.
This integration brings powerful analysis capabilities directly into the operational environment.
Key capabilities
- Browse historical signal data directly within the ibaPDA client, alongside live data
- Scroll and zoom interactively through high-resolution trends across long time periods
- Access synchronized data from multiple sources—including past alarms and triggers
- Overlay live and historical signals for fast comparisons and anomaly detection
- Work with minimal latency, even when retrieving large datasets from the archive
- Enable immediate troubleshooting with direct access to past conditions
With this capability, users can quickly verify process behavior, detect patterns, or review past faults—without waiting for report generation or file transfers.
Typical use cases
- Diagnosing root causes by comparing current and past signal behavior
- Supporting shift handovers and incident reviews with visual trend playback
- Investigating intermittent issues using zoomable, high-resolution data
- Validating parameter changes or optimization effects over time
- Reviewing alarm-triggered conditions in their original time context
By combining real-time monitoring with fast historical access, ibaHD-Server ensures that the knowledge of your process is always just a click away.
ibaHD-Server empowers users to go beyond simple data logging by offering high-performance tools to search, filter, and analyze vast volumes of archived process data. Whether you're investigating quality deviations, identifying patterns over time, or preparing reports, the system’s tight integration with ibaAnalyzer ensures fast, intuitive access to exactly the data you need—down to the finest resolution.
This enables engineers, analysts, and maintenance teams to make data-driven decisions based on complete historical insight.
Key capabilities
- Search historical signal data based on time ranges, signal names, value ranges, or events
- Access archived data quickly with intelligent indexing and optimized retrieval
- Visualize trends and overlay comparisons using ibaAnalyzer with direct access to ibaHD-Server
- Extract, export, and document findings for reporting or regulatory compliance
- Analyze both time-based and event-triggered data across multiple sources
- Automate recurring evaluations with predefined queries and analysis templates
With this functionality, historical data becomes an active tool—not just passive storage—supporting optimization, troubleshooting, and strategic planning.
Typical use cases
- Investigating recurring faults or downtime causes
- Performing quality trend analysis across batches, shifts, or product types
- Supporting audits and compliance with traceable data evidence
- Preparing engineering reports based on long-term performance data
- Monitoring process drift or slow equipment degradation over time
By making past data instantly accessible and actionable, ibaHD-Server transforms your archive into a powerful tool for continuous improvement.
With ibaHD-Server and the visualization tool ibaDaVIS, users can easily access and analyze archived process data through any modern web browser. Using the ibaHD-Server-API-Read interface, historical signals and events are retrieved and displayed in an intuitive, browser-based environment—without the need to install additional software.
This makes cross-departmental and cross-location collaboration straightforward, as anyone with browser access can review, interpret, and share insights directly from the stored datasets.
Key capabilities
- Browser-based access to historical signals and events with full resolution.
- Search and filter functions to quickly locate relevant data in long-term archives.
- ibaHD-Server API integration for seamless connection to ibaDaVIS and other tools.
- Shareable, interactive views for collaboration across teams and locations.
- No client installation required, reducing IT overhead and simplifying rollouts.
By centralizing access through a web interface, ibaHD-Server ensures that archived measurement and process data remain both easily accessible and highly usable throughout the organization.
Typical use cases
- Remote analysis of archived data by experts across different sites.
- Quick retrieval of past events to support troubleshooting and audits.
- Cross-department collaboration using shareable browser views.
- Continuous improvement initiatives based on long-term data reviews.
With its web-based data access, ibaHD-Server transforms archived signals into a readily available resource for diagnostics, optimization, and decision-making.
