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What is
MIMOSA?
Expand your
customer base:
MIMOSA is an acronym for Machinery
Information Management Open Systems Alliance. This alliance,
in which PRUFTECHNIK Ltd and other manufacturers
of condition monitoring products are involved, is working to
establish a standard for connecting Condition Monitoring (CM)
systems and maintenance management (MM) systems.
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Why is it necessary?
Up to now, people who
use both types of programs have experienced great difficulties
in linking data from one system to the other. Nevertheless,
there is a great need to do so! MM-systems could easily use
the alarm notifications received from a CM-program to produce
reports and work orders. Conversely, CM software users could
implement all machine information automatically instead of
having to type in, by hand, every single machine part to be
monitored.
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How will it work?
The easiest way to pass
information from one program to another is via file transfer,
and that's exactly the lowest level of MIMOSA: a database can
export its information into several *.MED (MIMOSA export data)
files. OMNITREND, for example, will create a couple
of such files which an MM system can read and import. Second,
OMNITREND will be able to read machinery information from MM
systems and write it into its own database. On a more
sophisticated level, information can be exchanged using
structured query language (SQL), a language which standardizes
requests and answers to and from a database. A system that
works on this level of MIMOSA compliance offers much more
convenient operation. The information interchange will be
automatic; export files will no longer be necessary. To give
you, the user, an interface to the data - for control and
inspection purposes, a browser is available from MIMOSA.
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