Automated information and control systems

The financial success of the company depends on the speed of production decisions and the ability to restructure business processes as soon as possible, if the market situation requires it. Automated information processing will ensure the company’s productive activities in all selected areas.

The benefits of using computer systems to analyze data

The company’s development strategy is directly related to the collection and analysis of data from external and internal sources. The introduction of automated control systems (briefly ASS) into production to integrate the necessary information has a number of advantages:

the number of employees decreases, resulting in lower wage costs (key feature);
If any individual parameters are changed in the reporting that is already ready, new values are recalculated as soon as possible;
When researching competitors, market slices, and internal business processes, computerized systems form a single database with the ability to sort information differently for later comparative analysis by the parameters selected;
maximum speed of analysis.
Formalized databases generated by automatic information collection include:

Classification of contained objects in accordance with officially approved classifiers;
A boilerplate description of the parameters
Identify each object based on its unique characteristics.
coding and other security tools to protect information.

Protecting information databases

Protection from unauthorized access to the automated system is determined by the following regulatory documentation:

ISO/IEC 15408 is an international standard;
GOST 15408-2002 – in Russia.
The security of any database is based on three parameters:

Privacy
Affordability
Integrity.
Important! Most automated information processing systems are suited to a model in which there is a constant race of base protection and new threats.

In other words, the new security measure is in place after the previous security system was hacked. But such a scheme is unacceptable for critical application structures:

The military industry;
Environmentally hazardous production
Transport facilities
financial and credit systems, etc.
After all, the violation of their performance due to unauthorized hacking will cause significant damage not only to representatives of certain specialties, but also to society as a whole, so automated data processing systems used for these industries (ASOD) ) differ security priority over functionality. Therefore, they are characterized by the use of proven technologies, already tested in other industries of business and production.

Principles and Concepts of ASOD

Automated information collection and processing systems (ASDS) are generally based on the following principles:

Integrate information in real time with the condition that all possible users work together.
The distribution of data through modern transmission channels using modern communication methods;
The use of different management techniques;
Modeling a work situation in changing information mode (the feature allows you to automate online processes);
taking into account the features of the information being analyzed.
They also include automated systems in the case work, as mentioned in the previous article.

Integrating information

The use of integrated automation tools allows us to improve the integration of data located in different sources into single processing bases. This process is especially relevant in cases where it is necessary to synchronize the work of two productions or entire enterprises for a period of time.

Integration challenges

The tasks of the integration complex are traditionally:

The development of a system architecture;
Creating a user interface
Designing information to be displayed according to the data sources used
adjustment of the heterogeneity of the information received.
Classification of integration systems
Depending on the specifics of the information being processed, different integration methods can be used:

Consolidation, in which information from different sources is placed in a single database, but is no longer distributed from it.

federalization, in which there is no physical movement of information, and each user of the system can access them when forming a request (for example, integration of corporate information);

The dissemination of real-time data, in which two-way information is transmitted;
SOA (service-oriented) architecture, which allows the data to remain at the source, its position remains encrypted, and the user requesting information is given out as a special service sample;

hybrid or cloud integration that makes it easy to commute applications, data, and processes in the enterprise with API support.

Modern data transfer methods for processing

One of the key characteristics of communication channels are:

Capacity

Security from interference.
Communication interference in the system may occur due to:

Targeted attacks by competitors
Atmospheric causes;
network outages, etc.
How to protect data

To protect channels from such problems, businesses use analog and digital filters to collect information, as well as special messaging techniques (in addition to standard binary code):

Coding by adding additional characters that help control the integrity of the message but don’t distort its meaning.

Asymmetric encryption of information that uses two access keys at once, which protects the network from hacking.

shorthand, hiding the very fact of coding (i.e. in the message inserted pictures, videos, etc.), while the information is hidden in the pixels of the image (the appearance of the original information is possible only with the action of a special decoder).

Squeezing information

Widespread automation and the development of industrial information systems make it necessary to collect and process large amounts of data in real time. One of the key ways to increase efficiency from the use of enterprise communications resources is to reduce redundancy. Thanks to it, large amounts of information can be compressed and freely transmitted through existing communication systems.

Advantages

The advantages of using enhanced protection methods (in addition to economic benefits) include:

Unloading transmission channels and information processing programs
Avoiding duplicate messages
Improving the bandwidth of communication systems;
increase the capacity of storage equipment.
Information management
Automated processing and management systems (ASOIU or ASUP) provide information to keep track of the main factors of production (labour, resources, capital) and to receive the maximum financial benefit from their operation.

Manage internal business processes

Under this system, all business processes of the organization are considered as certain resource components. The following steps are used to work effectively:

Camera simulations

Use of special software to mechanize all units
real-time business process restructuring by ordinary system participants.

Information Resources Management

Important! Information management techniques are used to collect, store, sort, store, manage, and deliver information within a single enterprise.

They are ideal for structuring disparate technical and other information:

Drawings
Graphs
Word and Excel documents
PDF files
scans
video, etc.
Thanks to modern automation programs and control modules, automated, integrated processing of all content in a short period of time is carried out, which significantly improves the efficiency of the enterprise.

Programs to process information

There is a huge number of data processing programs used in enterprise activities. The application of a particular functionality depends on the specifics of the organization’s business processes, its size and structure.

Text editors

Text editors are used to collect and process information:

Word
Excel;
Notebook;
Notepad;
WordPad;
LibreOffice (the program is typical of Linux, although there is a version for Windows);
Documents on Google and Yandex (they can be edited simultaneously by employees located in different cities and even countries).

Graphic editors

All sorts of graphics editors are suitable for processing data in office mode. They are classified by:

The raster;
Vector
Hybrid.

Raster

These graphics editors are designed to create point or pixel images in formats:

JPEG;
TIFE;
PNG;
Adobe Photoshop is a classic example of an editor.

Vector

Vector editors allow you to create drawings from geometric elements (lines, triangles, polygons) and save in formats:

AL;
EPS;
Hybrid
Hybrid graphics editors can create multi-format images. Examples of programs include RasterDesk and Autocad with universal design work functionality.

Database Management Systems (DATABASE)

The following steps can be taken by the DATABASE:

Automated information processing and management
Control the structure job and describe all the data.
Organizing the collective use of all information
creating catalogues and maintaining large volumes of information.
The databases are industrial (professional) and desktop.

Desktops include Microsoft Access, a simple program (from high school computer science and engineering courses) to identify, process, and manage data.

Professional databases, for example, are:

Oracle;
PostgreS’L;
MicrosoftS’L;
MyS’L;
MongoDB;
Redis;
DB2;
Sybase;
System Progress.
They are standard in meeting the following conditions:

The ability to collaborate with multiple users at once.
Scalability, in which the system increases as the object grows;
Portability to various information platforms
ensuring the security of stored information.

Programs 1C

The full range of 1C programs allows data processing (especially related accounting activities) to be established. In them, automated and structured information gets into the system and, depending on the selected packages and modules, is processed in conjunction with the rest of the information. You can read more about 1C in our special section.

This utility can be delivered on a personal computer in a large office or private home. The standard 1C product consists of a platform and an application solution. Through segmentation, each module of the program can be replaced without losing data on another. Even an unprepared user can work with the program because of the extensive instructions.

Computerization of the office and production helps to increase the efficiency of any enterprise. If an organization operates without the use of integrated automation tools, it becomes uncompetitive in today’s market in almost every industry.