Industrial Data Compression: How dataPARC Takes a Different Approach

Data compression is one of those settings most engineers configure once and never revisit, but the decisions baked into it have real consequences for data quality, storage, and analysis.

Data compression is one of those settings most engineers configure once and never revisit, but the decisions baked into it have real consequences for data quality, storage, and analysis. We sat down with Jim Gavigan of Industrial Insights and Kevin Jones of dataPARC to unpack how traditional historian compression actually works, where it falls short, and what dataPARC did differently with the dataPARC Historian.