Plant Information Management System
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A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) collects and integrates information about a production process from different sources.[1]
Overview
[edit]Tasks
[edit]Important tasks of a PIMS are:
- Company-wide gather, consolidate and process data
- Analysis of production performance, product quality, process capacity and control compliance.
- Provide Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to improve decision-making processes
- Reporting for decision support and documentation
- Consolidation of data from different sources (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Laboratory, Distributed Control System (DCS)...)
- Integration of off-line data (laboratory, calculations, future load profiles)
- Access via the company-wide intranet also from offices. Via Web (Thin client) or Tcp / Ip (Fat client)
- Enriching / refining raw data
- Event-driven calculations
- Long-term archiving of data and reports (over many years)
Manufacturers
[edit]Manufacturers are:
- Aspen Tech InfoPlus.21 (IP.21)
- Elipse Software EPM - Elipse Plant Manager
- GE Proficy Historian
- Open Systems International Inc. CHRONUS™
- Osisoft PI
- Honeywell PHD
- Wonderware Historian
- Iba-ag Davis
Subdivisions
[edit]There are the following subdivisions:
- SQL / desktop systems
- SCADA Historian
- Enterprise Historian
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kraft, Theresa (2008). Systematic and holistic IT Project Management approach for commercial software with case studies. Information Systems Education Journal 6(63)
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