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Origin Migrate · Vision Calcs → AF · Pre-launch beta

Migrate your PI Vision calc estate to AF in an afternoon, not a quarter.

A bulk migration pipeline inside Origin Companion for Excel. It extracts your PI Vision calculation estate from two Admin Portal CSV exports, maps every expression into Asset Framework, scores each calc by business impact, and hands back one PI Builder-ready workbook per server.

1 WBPer PI server
2 CSVThe only input
0Cloud or agents
v0.9.1Pre-launch beta
Origin Migrate Admin Portal Import over the generated AF workbook
The problem · Behind the display

Calc knowledge walks out the door when the engineer who wrote it does.

Scattered across displays

Years of PI Vision calculations — the ones that actually run the plant — live spread across displays and in the heads of the people who wrote them.

A quarter-long slog by hand

Hand-migrating that estate into Asset Framework means every expression re-typed, every interval re-guessed, and every naming collision found the hard way.

No sense of priority

And no way to know which calcs even matter enough to move first. Origin Migrate turns that quarter into an afternoon — and puts every judgment call on a sheet you can see.

What it does · One consistent pipeline

Standardize, score, and reconcile the whole estate.

Every calc passes through the same transformation pipeline — no ad-hoc, engineer-by-engineer decisions — and every edge case is accounted for.

Generated _AF workbook — AF hierarchy and attribute config strings
AF Tune-Up

Transform, don't just copy

Standardization pipeline

Every PI Vision expression is rebuilt to AF-grade quality — automatically, and identically across the estate. BadVal guards wrap every expression, naming is sanitized and collision-checked, intervals map to AF Periodic frequencies, and the hierarchy is derived from the display path.

_SUMMARY sheet — top calcs ranked by business-impact score
Impact scoring

Know what to migrate first

Business-impact priority

Not every calc is worth moving. Origin Migrate scores each one so you can phase the migration — top-20 this quarter, the long tail next. Usage and reach come straight from the Admin Portal CSV; a per-server cost weight you control depresses the scores of heavier servers.

score = (UseCount × Views × Users) ÷ ServerCost
_SUMMARY sheet — reconciliation counts, nothing dropped silently
Full reconciliation

Nothing dropped silently

Human review gate

Every calc is accounted for. Anything that can't be migrated cleanly lands on the _REVIEW sheet with a stated reason — collisions, unparseable intervals, missing displays — flagged, not lost, and sorted highest-impact first for triage.

How it works · Three steps

Two CSVs in. PI Builder-ready workbooks out.

No new integration, no API access to PI Vision, no cloud. Everything runs locally in Excel.

Step 01 · Export

From the PI Vision Admin Portal, export the Calculation Usage and Display Usage CSVs on demand. That's the only input Origin Migrate needs.

Step 02 · Load

Open Admin Import in Origin Companion for Excel, pick the two CSVs, set per-server costs (optional), and generate one workbook per PI server.

Step 03 · Import

Review the _REVIEW and _SUMMARY sheets, then import the _AF and _ANA sheets into Asset Framework through PI Builder.

Pricing · Pre-launch beta

Licensed per site, or per seat.

Pick whichever fits your team. Try it before you commit — one workbook per server, free while in beta.

Quoted at launch

Site license

Unlimited users across a single site. Best for migration teams and shared PI administration groups running the whole estate.

Site license · unlimited users
Quoted at launch

Per-seat license

For smaller shops under five seats. Named-user licensing that scales with the people actually running migrations.

Per-seat · small teams (under 5)
In beta

Free beta trial

Run the full pipeline on your own data before you buy — generate one complete workbook per server, no obligation, while the beta lasts.

1 free workbook / server · beta

Origin Migrate ships inside Origin Companion for Excel — one license covers both. No public prices are set yet; final terms are confirmed at launch.

Questions · Straight answers

Frequently asked.

What do I need to run Origin Migrate?
Origin Companion for Excel plus two CSV exports from your PI Vision Admin Portal (Calculation Usage and Display Usage). No server-side install, no agents — the pipeline runs on your workstation.
Will it change my PI Vision displays or my AF database?
No. Origin Migrate only generates PI Builder-ready workbooks. Nothing touches AF until you review the output and import it yourself through PI Builder — the write step stays in your hands.
What happens to calcs that can't be migrated cleanly?
They land on the _REVIEW sheet with a stated reason — naming collisions, unparseable intervals, missing displays. Every calc in the estate is accounted for; nothing is silently dropped.
How does the business-impact scoring work?
score = (UseCount × Views × Users) ÷ ServerCost — usage and reach come straight from the Admin Portal CSVs, and the per-server cost weight is yours to set. The _SUMMARY sheet ranks the top calcs so you migrate what matters first.
Can I try it before licensing?
Yes — the beta includes one free workbook per server (up to three servers), enough to run your real CSVs end-to-end and inspect every sheet it produces. It's pre-launch (v0.9.1-beta); final pricing is set at launch.
Is this the tool that used to be called PI Kneader?
Yes — same pipeline, new name. PI Kneader became Origin Migrate when the product family unified under the Origin name; you may still see "Kneader" referenced as the name of the transformation engine inside it.
Move the estate before the knowledge does

Send us a sample and see it migrated.

Origin Migrate now includes display-migration sample intake. Send a display framework or a calc export — no live process data — and get it back mapped to AF, with beta access to run the rest yourself.