Programme Overview: Systems Integration and IT is developing standards and tools for data
exchange and integration between management information systems and asset
based technical systems to provide strategic management decision tools in
maintenance and operations.
Organisations frequently adopt business, financial, human resource,
inventory and maintenance systems, which are incompatible with technical
systems like system control and data acquisition and condition monitoring.
Only detailed research into data modelling and analysis will bring these
business and technical systems together in integrated systems, which are
currently unavailable.
System Integration's major goal is to develop a multi-tier open
architecture, which begins with handling sensor input via operational
database systems, to data warehouses where relevant data is collected to
build a timeline.
The research follows four themes:
- data capture and exchange
- inter-operability and integration
- asset data warehouse with active capabilities
- impact of collaboration and e-commerce on asset management.
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