Plant Information Management System
A Plant Information Management System collects and integrates information about a production process from different sources.
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 to improve decision-making processes
- Reporting for decision support and documentation
- Consolidation of data from different sources, Laboratory, Distributed Control System
- Integration of off-line data
- Access via the company-wide intranet also from offices. Via Web or Tcp / Ip
- Enriching / refining raw data
- Event-driven calculations
- Long-term archiving of data and reports
Manufacturers
Manufacturers are:- Aspen Tech InfoPlus.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
There are the following subdivisions:- SQL / desktop systems
- SCADA Historian
- Enterprise Historian