Plant Information Management System

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

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