http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:32:26 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/lib/tpl/writr/images/favicon.ico http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:3d_model 3D Model In ARDI-VE, a 3D model describes the shape of an object, in three dimensions. You can create your own 3D models, but where possible we suggest downloading them from our ARDI Model Library - most are free, and they will save you a considerable amount of time. ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:32:21 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:addons Addons Addons are used in ARDI for several reasons.... * To integrate ARDI with another system, such as a Document Management System or ERP system. * To provide additional visualisations, such as the Notify addon. * To extend the functionality of ARDI and allow additional features that aren't part of the core product. ardibasics Tue, 18 Dec 2018 01:06:51 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:alert Alerts As well as properties and relationships, ARDI also has a list of alerts attached to each asset. In most visualisations, alerts are clearly displayed. Upstream Alerts Because ARDI understands how your assets are physically connected, many of our visualisations can let you know if the asset has an ardibasics Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:12:40 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:alerts ardibasics Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:35:19 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:analytical_addon Analytical Addon The Analytical addon extends the capabilities of the charts that are already available in the ARDI pacakge. Where most of the built-in charts are designed to look at your measurements, the charts provided by the analytical addon are designed to look at the ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 04:33:17 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:anatomy_of_an_asset The Anatomy of an Asset An asset is the fundamental component of ARDI. They represent everything from a single component of a system to an entire facility, and all stages in between. They relate to physical objects, such as buildings, sensors and staff members, and logical things such as production units, areas, subsections and departments. ardibasics Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:48:17 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:ar_marker_tags AR Markers AR markers are special images placed around your environment to allow augmented reality to function. ARDI uses what are known as barcode-style markers. The unique pattern of black and white squares results in a unique identifier for your marker, which in turn tells ARDI what asset(s) you are looking at. ardibasics Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:03:49 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:ardi-ar ARDI-AR ARDI AR is our augmented reality client for ARDI, allowing you to access all of the information about your asset by simply looking at it through your phone. Benefits ARDI-AR delivers information to people when and where the need it, in the easiest way physically possible. ardibasics Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:44:14 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:ardi-ve ARDI-VE ARDI-VE is our Virtual Environments client for ARDI. It constructs a 3D world from your ARDI asset information, using it's knowledge of asset position and a library of pre-made 3D models to give each item an appropriate appearance. This virtual environment not only gives you a unique perspective on your assets, but they also connected to your ARDI data. You can look through pipework into the pressures, temperature and flow within, or trace asset connections through walls and undergro… ardibasics Thu, 27 Apr 2017 05:19:15 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:ardi_core ARDI Core ARDI Core is the name of the central ARDI server - the software used to set up and maintain your asset data and provide information to the various ARDI visualisations. Other components are usually named ARDI plus then their purpose. For example, our products ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:34:58 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:asset Assets Everything is an asset. Every piece of equipment you have, every sensor, every person, every vehicle - they are all examples of assets. Assets don't even need to be physical objects. Plant areas, departments and regions can also be examples of assets in ARDI, and are often used to group other ARDI assets together. ardibasics Mon, 01 Aug 2016 02:29:05 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:asset_charts Charts ARDI can help you quickly create charts, such as a basic live or historical trend. But thanks to it's knowledge of the relationships between your assets, it's also capable of creating more complex charts as well. The structure of your asset relationships can help ARDI suggest report formats that might be helpful. ardibasics Tue, 11 Dec 2018 01:13:44 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:attributes Attributes Some properties contain more than one piece of information - for example, GPS properties contain both latitude and longitude, while measurements contains value, units, decimal places and both minimum and maximum values. These points if information inside a property are called ardibasics Tue, 02 Aug 2016 02:09:22 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:augmented_reality Augmented Reality Augmented Reality adds augments your view of the real world by adding something more to the world around you. Called 'AR' for short, the technology allows you to use your mobile device (such as a phone or tablet) as a window. The camera at the rear of your device plays its view to the front screen. ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 05:42:50 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:digital Digital A digital measurement is one that always has only two possible values - 0 or 1. You represent digital properties in ARDI with the status property type. Digital signals are the opposite of analogue signals. ardibasics Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:09:11 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:hierarchical_relationships Hierarchical Relationships A hierarchical relationship places your assets into a hierarchy as a method of organising and grouping them in ways that make sense to people who may not be completely familiar with the layout of your plant. They split your facility into smaller sub-pieces (which may themselves be split further) to break everything up into a logical 'tree'. ardibasics Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:06:09 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:hierarchy Hierarchies A hierarchy is an arrangement of items (assets, in our case) in which the items are represented as being above, below or at the same level as one another. This forms a 'tree' structure - like that found below. At their most basic level, they help to give what would otherwise be a large, daunting pool of assets a sensible, understandable and more easy-to-digest structure. ardibasics Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:introduction ARDI: An Introduction This guide is designed to explain the basic concepts around ARDI. It's a good idea to read this if you're new to ARDI in general, before you continue to the guide on using ARDI. First, we will need to answer the simple question “What Is ARDI?” ardibasics Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:56:31 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:logical_relationships Logical Relationships A logical relationship is an association between two assets that isn't physically obvious - for example, it doesn't have a pipe, cable or chain connecting the two. Logical relationships are quite open - you can make a new logical relationship to represent a wide number of different types of association. ardibasics Thu, 07 Jul 2016 01:04:43 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:media Media Files Media files are the documents you have associated with your assets. These may be manuals, work instructions, isolation procedures, calibration sheets, maintenance details or much more. PDF files, documents, photographs, sounds, web links or videos can all be added to your asset. ardibasics Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:33:39 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:notify Notify Notify is an addon that adds the ability send messages to ARDI. In this case, it allows you to send notification messages when an alert or a change to a property value occurs. These alerts can be from a variety of sources, including... * SMS (via one of the available ardibasics Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:36:04 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:physical_relationships Physical Relationships A physical relationship is one that has a real-world physical connection between the items. So for instance, a ‘Mains Power’ relationship is made up of wires, cables and plugs - it’s physical. So are many other relationships, such as the supply of water, air or gas. ardibasics Tue, 02 Aug 2016 23:06:35 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:properties Properties Each asset in your system can have any number of properties. A property is a single piece of information about that asset. Examples include... * A Postal Address * A Serial Number * A Phone Number * A Measurement (ie. Temperature, Pressure etc.) ardibasics Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:31:48 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:relationship_diagrams Diagrams ARDI knows how your assets are connected through the relationships you've defined. But it can be difficult to see where these relationships lead without a good visualisation - that is why ARDI uses relationship diagrams to explain how your various assets are connected. ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 04:40:40 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:relationships Relationships Relationships describe the connections between your assets. Each relationship has a start point, an end point and a direction. For example, a light switch feeds power to a light-bulb in the ceiling, so in this case the 'Power' relationship between the two moves from the switch to the bulb. ardibasics Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:07:02 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:sidebar ARDI Basics Introduction What Is ARDI? The Anatomy of an Asset Asset Visualisation * Web Dashboard * ARDI-AR * ARDI-VE Other Documentation ardibasics Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:10:54 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:skin Skins When creating a virtual environment, ARDI needs to know what your asset looks like. There are two parts to that - the 3D Model and the skin. While the model determines the shape of the asset, a skin determines how it's coloured - how ARDI paints it. This not only includes the base colours, but also how glossy, smooth or bright different areas of the model are. ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:32:00 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:sms_gateway_services SMS Gateway Services If you'd like to send an SMS using the Notify addon, you don't need to connect a 3G or 4G modem to your computer. Instead, we use SMS gateway services, who allow you to send text messages via the internet for very low cost. We currently support ardibasics Fri, 22 Jul 2016 12:17:03 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:symbols Symbols To make diagrams more informative, ARDI allows you to create a library of symbols for your assets. This replaces the standard circle that represents assets in ARDI diagrams with something that represents the function of the asset. For example, it's much easier to interpret a water flow diagram when each of your valves actually ardibasics Mon, 24 Feb 2020 02:29:51 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:virtual_environment Virtual Environments A virtual environment is a realtime* 3D world created from your ARDI asset information. There are two key components of a virtual environment - the structure and the assets. The Structure The structure includes the walls of your building, the surface of the ground or the tunnels in your mine - they are the ardibasics Tue, 18 Dec 2018 02:43:11 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:visualisations Visualisations In simple terms, a visualisation is a view of your information. There are many possible ways of looking at the data you have available, and ARDI allows you to choose from a range of possible data visualisations, each designed with a specific audience in mind. ardibasics Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:56:56 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:visualisations_and_clients What Is Asset Visualisation Collecting all of your data into one centralised location is extraordinarily useful - but only if people actually make use of that information. To help with that, ARDI provides a number of visualisations of your data - techniques that present your data in ways that are ardibasics Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:52:49 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:web_dashboard Web Dashboard The Web Dashboard is web page designed to summarise the important details about your asset. It includes all current measurement values, important properties such as equipment reference number, relationships with other assets and media such as manuals and certificates. The page is accessible on any modern browser and works well on all sizes of screen, from mobile-phones and tablets to 4K HD TVs. ardibasics Tue, 18 Dec 2018 03:14:07 +0000 http://www.optrix.com.au/docs/ardibasics:what_is_ardi What Is ARDI? ARDI stands for Asset Relationship and Data Integrator. The main job of ARDI is to take all of the information about your assets, consolidate them in a single place, and then provide that information to all levels of your organisation in powerful, consistent, intuitive and innovative ways. ardibasics Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:33:54 +0000