A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) 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 (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) 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 Data acquisition Data collection system Totally integrated automation References Information systems Industrial software