A software system that collects, stores, manages and distributes operational and process information from industrial facilities.
A Plant Information Management System (PIMS) is an industrial software platform that collects, stores, contextualizes and distributes operational and process information from control systems, historians, instrumentation and other plant data sources. PIMS solutions support operational reporting, performance analysis, asset management, engineering, regulatory compliance and digital transformation initiatives.
Plant Information Management Systems provide centralized access to operational information for analysis, reporting and decision-making across industrial facilities.
Modern PIMS platforms commonly integrate historians, SCADA systems, distributed control systems (DCS), enterprise applications and advanced analytics to provide a unified operational information environment.
A Plant Information Management System manages and contextualizes operational information across multiple systems, whereas industrial historians primarily focus on collecting and storing time-series process data.
Industrial Automation; Information Management; Asset Management.
Process industries.; Oil and gas.; Petrochemical.; Manufacturing.; Power generation.
ISO 13374; ISO 55000
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