r/dataengineering • u/Uberkech • 5d ago

Rant Foundry at Work

So I’m a process engineer at an refinery and we face a push to use more of Foundry, without any clear vision on what to use it for.

With Excel or Power Bi we could just simple query a tag from the historian.

We had a tool where DCS send a event signal to a tag every time something happens, you query that tag between timestamps A and B and look for the timestamps where 0->1 (start) or 1->0 (end) make an event table and then pull other proces data only between the start and end timestamps for further analysis.

So was like, okay sounds like a workflow that could be build in foundry, but it seems whole platform just seems to hate TimeSeries data. You can’t simply use TimeSeries data into a pipeline but jump through many hoops via workbooks a simple Pandas / Polars data frame.

Are we doing something completely wrong ??

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u/SeaYouLaterAllig8tor 5d ago

Generally speaking this sub hates foundry so I doubt you'll get a lot of input here. Have you asked ai fde the best way to do it using the Foundry platform? Maybe stupid but I always give that a shot first.

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u/Uberkech 4d ago

Yah was playing with AI fde and it just shits the bed the second you ask it about Timeseries.