Enablers and inhibitors of integration between IT and AT

  • Authors:
  • Claudia Tomie Yukishima Züge;Sérgio Luiz Pereira;Eduardo Mário Dias

  • Affiliations:
  • Group for Electric Automation of Industrial Systems, Department of Electrical Energy and Automation Engineering of São Paulo University, Polytechnic School, Brazil;Group for Electric Automation of Industrial Systems, Department of Electrical Energy and Automation Engineering of São Paulo University, Polytechnic School, Brazil;Group for Electric Automation of Industrial Systems, Department of Electrical Energy and Automation Engineering of São Paulo University, Polytechnic School, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • ISPRA'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Signal processing, robotics and automation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Information Technology (IT) should effectively assist business strategies of companies, being a crucial factor for success. Automation Technology (AT) includes all hardware and software of an automated industrial plant, which includes Programmable Logic Controllers, Industrial Networks, Supervisory Systems, and all software licenses necessary to run the system. The integration of IT with AT provides data from the ground-floor to the management level of enterprises. Owing to the advance of technology, hardware and software architecture, automation systems enable the acquisition of a huge quantity of information that can assist in decision-making of companies. Integration models are presented, along with the main enablers and inhibitors of the integration between IT and AT and suggestions for future work in this area.