Manufacturing

A data historian that ties every reading to its batch

When a batch fails QC, Uncountable Data Historian shows your quality team what the equipment did during every step, bound to the batch, its formulation and its results. Keep your plant historian. We add the batch context it lacks.

Investigate from the batch
every reading tied to its batch, step and QC result
The evidence in one view
every tag on the equipment, lined up at the moment of failure
Works with your plant historian
keep the system you run today and add the batch context it lacks

Deployed by 175+ enterprise product development teams

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Lohmann logo with green abstract cross and tagline The Bonding Engineers in black text.
Dow company logo with white text on a red diamond-shaped background
Syngenta company logo with a green leaf above the letter g.
Beiersdorf
Clariant
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St Jude Logo
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Deployed by Enterprise R&D and Innovation Teams

Process data,
with its batch attached.

Uncountable Data Historian stores time-series tags from your equipment and binds them to the experiments, steps and results they belong to. Five parts do the work.

Tags

Each sensor signal is a tag with its unit and full measurement history. The tags table shows every tag's last value, last observed time and a 24-hour trend.

Bindings

Bind a tag to equipment, an experiment, a lab request or a monitoring location for a time window, so every reading records what it measured.

Experiment Trace

Each workflow step of a batch drawn over its tag data, with step times you can correct if a step was logged late.

Points

Line up every tag on a piece of equipment around one moment, with a highlight window, zoom, and min, max or average downsampling.

Run rules

Sigma, trend and alternation rules highlight readings that break the pattern, so drift shows up before it becomes a failure.

A failed batch rarely explains itself

The formulation was right and the raw material lot passed, yet the viscosity came back out of spec. The answer is usually in what the equipment did during the run. That data sits in a control system, a plant historian or a CSV export that knows the tag but not the batch, so teams match timestamps by hand or repeat the run instead of explaining it.

Experiment TraceBatch B-2410-20Reactor R-101Run rule flag
ChargeHeat-upReaction HoldCool-downTemperature°CPressurepsiAgitator speedrpmQC fail · 03:05Viscosity 2,480 cP, out of spec01:3002:0002:3003:0003:30
Excursion inside Reaction Hold. Temperature +14 °C, pressure +16 psi, agitator −110 rpm from 02:08.Demo data

One record.
Process and results, together.

When tag data is bound to the batch it measured, a scientist sees the conditions of each run next to its formulation and results, with no second system to cross-check.

The old way

Sensor exports matched to batches by timestamp in a spreadsheet
Which step an excursion happened in, answered from memory
Process history that knows the tag but not the batch
Drift noticed only after a batch fails QC

The Uncountable way

Tags bound to the experiment for the window it ran
Each workflow step drawn over the tag data for that batch
Tags with units, trends and a 24-hour view for plant, pilot and lab equipment
Run rules highlight readings that break the pattern

How teams use Uncountable Data Historian

When a result surprises you, start from the batch and work back to the conditions it ran under.

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Find the step it went wrong in
Experiment Trace draws each workflow step over the tag data for that batch, so an excursion during the reaction hold is visible at a glance.

Line up every tag at the moment of failure
Set a reference time on Points and every tag on that equipment lines up over the same window, with zoom and downsampling.

Correct a late step
If a step was logged late, edit its start and stop times on the trace and the step window updates.

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So after a failed batch, the conversation starts at the step where it went wrong.
Uncountable Experiment Trace showing batch steps drawn over reactor R-101 tag data (demo data)
Four steps take a reactor from untracked to traced, batch by batch:

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1. Choose the tags
Pick the equipment and signals that most often explain a result, such as reactor temperature, pressure and agitator speed.

2. Send the data
Keep your plant historian. Our team has built integrations from established plant historians, industrial connectivity servers and cloud time-series databases, and sets up yours to send tag data into Uncountable in batches or as a continuous stream.

3. Bind the tags
Bind tags to their equipment, then to the experiments that run on it, for the window each batch ran.

4. Trace every batch
Stamp each step in batch execution and the trace shows the tag data across every step of the run.

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Every batch that runs on bound equipment arrives with its process history already attached.
Uncountable Data Historian bindings list showing reactor R-101 tags bound to the reactor and to batch B-2410-20 with valid from and valid to times (demo data)
For teams already on Uncountable, the historian joins the batch data you capture today:

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Experiments and batches
Tag data bound to the batch record it measured.

Workflow steps
Start and stop times, and who ran each step, drawn over the tag data.

Formulations and process parameters
The recipe and settings for the batch, next to how the run actually went.

Test results
QC and R&D results on the same record as the conditions that produced them.

Lab requests and equipment
Tags bound to the equipment they sit on and the requests they served.

IBodie
Ask Uncountable's AI assistant to read tag data and summarize what happened during a run.

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So the process conditions sit next to the formulation and the result, with no second system to cross-check.
Uncountable experiment record for batch B-2410-20 with ingredients across Charge, Heat-up, Reaction Hold and Cool-down steps and the Historian Trace button (demo data)
Support from setup through everyday use:

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Dedicated expertise
A team that knows manufacturing and QC workflows helps choose the tags that matter and bind them to your batches.

Integration help
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Our implementation team scopes and sets up the integration from your existing plant historian or equipment, so your engineers don't have to build it.

Start small
Begin with the equipment that matters most and add tags as the value shows up.

One platform
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Process data sits with your R&D and QC records instead of in another standalone system.

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Start with one reactor, prove the value on real batches, then add equipment from there.
Uncountable Data Historian tags list with eight tags, units, last value, last observed time and a 24-hour trend for each (demo data)

See a failed batch traced to its step

A temperature and pressure spike on a reactor comes before a QC fail. Watch Uncountable Data Historian find the batch it hit and place the spike inside the step it happened in.

Where the historian earns its place

Failed batch
A batch fails QC and the formulation can't explain it

The trace shows the conditions during each step, so the team can see whether the run itself caused the result.

Scale-up
A process moves to larger equipment

Compare the same step on the small and large runs to see which conditions shifted.

Investigation
QA needs the evidence around a failure time

Points lines up every tag on the equipment at that moment, ready for the investigation.

Equipment health
A reactor starts to drift

Run rules highlight readings that break the pattern on the tag's trend chart, before the drift reaches a batch result.

Late logging
An operator logs a step late

Correct the step times on the trace so every window matches what actually happened.

Data science
A model needs process conditions

Process data already linked to experiments and results is ready to analyze alongside formulation data.

Put process conditions on the same record as every result.

When tag data is bound to the batch, the step and the result, a failed batch comes with its evidence attached. R&D, QC and process engineering work from the same view.

FAQs

What is a data historian?

A data historian collects and stores time-stamped measurements from equipment, sensors and control systems, so teams can review how a process behaved over time.

Does it replace our plant historian?

No. Keep your plant historian. Uncountable Data Historian adds the batch context it lacks, binding tag data to the experiments, steps and QC results in Uncountable. For lab and pilot equipment that has no historian today, it can also run on its own.

Do I need to use Uncountable for R&D or Quality?

No. It works on its own for plant, pilot or lab equipment. Teams that already use Uncountable get the batch, step and result links straight away.

How does data get into the historian?

Our implementation team sets up the integration with you. We have connected established plant historians, industrial connectivity servers and cloud time-series databases before. Tag data reaches Uncountable through its API or SDK, in batches or as a continuous stream.

How live is the data?

An open chart refreshes about every 15 seconds, which suits batch review, investigations and equipment monitoring.

Bring us the batch nobody could explain

We'll show you how its process conditions, steps and QC result line up in Uncountable.