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The industrial world has a long history of modernizing their process controls in order to keep production running efficiently and safely while minimizing downtime. Yet, many are locked in established data historian solutions that are costly and lack the methods needed to provide innovation and interoperability. In contrast, open-source software —which is built on the foundation of community — inherently provides diverse design perspectives not available from a single software vendor. It provides freedom from vendor lock-in, which means it will always provide you with the ability to integrate with other solutions. And finally, open-source software provides customization, allowing you to adapt the code to fit your ever-changing system requirements (which is not easy with proprietary systems). In this article, we will examine what the existing solutions lack and review a few open-source projects that should be considered for future success for operators.
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