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

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 (Fat 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)
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

See also

References

^ 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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