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A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) collects and integrates information about a production process from different sources.
Video Plant Information Management System
Overview
Tasks
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 (Thick client)
- Enriching / refining raw data
- Event-driven calculations
- Long-term archiving of data and reports (over many years)
Manufacturers
Manufacturers are:
- Aspen Tech InfoPlus.21 (IP.21)
- Osisoft PI
- Honeywell PHD
- Wonderware Historian
- GeFanuc iHistorian
- Yokogawa Exaquantum
- Capstone Technology dataPARC
- Elipse Plant Manager
Maps Plant Information Management System
Subdivisions
There are the following subdivisions:
- SQL / desktop systems
- SCADA Historian
- Enterprise Historian
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See also
- Data acquisition
- Data collection system
- Totally integrated automation
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References
Source of article : Wikipedia