What is the best way to store and handle trend of measures during a production cycle?

We suggest to store the trend of meausers  (temperature, pressure, moisture....) during a production cycle in an array instead of a group of tags (preassure1, preassure2, preassure3...). The benefit is that

  • We can reduce the number of tags and simplifty the solution.
  • Calculations can be done easier using MI scripts

Note:

  • you need to design correctly the database storage to be able to persist growing number of data history.
  • Persisting the data into database ideally should be done using stored procedure.
  • There should be a seperate OPC tag that signalized that the values in the array are ready to be read.