Plant Information Management System

A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) collects and integrates information about a production process from different sources.[1]

Overview

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Tasks

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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

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Manufacturers are:

Subdivisions

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There are the following subdivisions:

  • SQL / desktop systems
  • SCADA Historian
  • Enterprise Historian

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kraft, Theresa (2008). Systematic and holistic IT Project Management approach for commercial software with case studies. Information Systems Education Journal 6(63)