Founded in 1975, Genentech is one of the earliest pioneers of the biotech industry. It had over 20 years’ worth of data in a legacy system that it wanted to migrate into AVEVA PI System, the software that its corporate parent, Roche, uses. With the help of its partner, RoviSys, Genentech migrated all its data into AVEVA PI System and validated it without incurring downtime.Mr. Salvador Toscano
“We had more than 20 years’ worth of data that had to be moved over, and, being in a regulated industry, we needed to be able to prove that we were moving this with 100% data integrity.”
- April Phillips
Senior Engineer, Genentech
Goals
- Migrate continuous and batch data from a legacy historian to AVEVA PI System
- Migrate custom tools critical to the manufacturing process
Challenges
- Migration could not incur any downtime
- 20 years' worth of data, constituting billions of data points had to migrate
Solutions
Results
- Moved 130 billion events across 27,000 AVEVA PI System tags
- AVEVA PI System is more stable and uses less storage than the legacy system
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