Plant Information Management System

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A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) collects and integrates information about a production process from various sources. Since in the past process control systems lacked the storage capacity for the very large amounts of data in long-term archiving, data for archiving historical process data is traditionally stored in separate systems (PIMS, Historian) from third-party providers. The connection to the process control system is made via OPC , for example . The data is made available to a higher-level system (ERP, MES) or accessed and evaluated via workstation computers.

Important tasks of a PIMS are:

  • Collect, consolidate and process data company-wide
  • Analysis of production output, product quality, process capacity and compliance with regulations.
  • Provision of key performance indicators (KPI) to improve decision-making processes
  • Reporting for decision support and documentation
  • Consolidation of data from different sources ( Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), laboratory, process control system ...)
  • 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)
  • Enrichment / refinement of raw data
  • Event-driven calculations
  • Long-term archiving of data and reports (over many years)
  • Reporting

Manufacturers are:

There is the following subdivision:

  • SQL / desktop systems
  • SCADA - Historian
  • Enterprise Historian

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonas Berge: Software for Automation: Architecture, Integration, and Security. 2005, ISA Verlag, ISBN 978-1556178986 , pp. 198-199.