Research Critique on MIS

Prepared By: 15BME164, 15BME165, 15BME167, 15BME169

Research Papers studied:

Development of Management Information System of Geo-drilling

construction.

Farm machinery management information system

Development of Management Information
System of Geo-drilling construction.

Authors: Tian Min; Hu Yuanbiao; Liu Zhiguo; Zhu Wenjian

Published Date: 23rd-25th May 2014

Abstract: Providing informationizaiton of geo-drilling design and

construction management with the use of computer and network
technology. An MIS has been design and developed of geo-drilling
construction.
 Introduction
Geological drilling work and mineral resources is one of the major
contribution towards the development of national economy.
With continuous development of economic and social progress, traditional
method is difficult to use and also it takes more time as per the
requirement.
A modernization is required for the whole process in order to patch up with
the embarkation of new technologies.
Management Information system introduced which deals with the whole
lifecycle of drilling borehole.
MIS will improve production efficiency, save production cost, provide
decision support for management and provide decision support and
provide information support to risk control at drilling site.
 Geological drilling is based on whole life cycle management of the drilling
borehole information in the process of geological drilling, by means of
information technology, to realize scientific drilling, systematic and
standardize management.
By using Management Information System, system can not only timely
accumulate, collect and analysis various kinds of management information,
but also generate various report according to users requirement.
With the use of MIS, all these reports will be stored and saved in the computer
including all the details of the work,
Life Cycle management of borehole

Four Stages of Life Cycle:

1. Drilling Project

2. The Information collection in the process of drilling.

3. Drilling information comprehensive utilization.

4. Drilling borehole information archive storage.

Drilling Project

Contract is initiated

Drilling tasks are decided.

Engineering specification, quality and time limit for a project.

Borehole planning are formulated.

At the same time, the drilling construction design of computer aided design

begins.
The information collection in the process of
drilling:

Drilling personnel entry the drilling production shift reports through mobile
terminal equipment
Then upload it to the database server by China mobiles official website
Ultimately, the centralized management of drilling data in the drilling
process is realized.
Drilling information comprehensive utilization:

According to drilling production shift reports, drilling personnel can master

real-time and dynamic information of drilling borehole.

Timely discover and solve the existing problems on site and eliminate
hidden safety trouble.

With further statistical analysis of the drilling production shift reports, decision
support will be provided for improving the production efficiency and saving
the production cost.
Drilling borehole information archive storage:
All the details of the project will be stored and archived.
It will also contain the borehole historical information, which is convenient for
referring and summary analysis on drilling information later.
 Process of MIS in Geo-drilling
Drilling contract and construction design management of drilling production
management department
The drilling borehole management manages the configuration of personnel,
equipment, materials and other basic information in drilling production
The information management of drilling production shift reports which on-site
staff input, modify and query.
The archive management of drilling production records for archives
department.
Companys leader and middle managers have the corresponding
responsibilities of borehole data query, review, statistical analysis, etc.
Function Design
Contract Management
Design Management

The module is mainly used for information management of geo-drilling

design, and submits the drilling design books of boreholes or a mining area.
Currently, the function can submit corresponding construction design
document of a drilling borehole or a mining area.
Drilling borehole management

Inputting Interface of Shift Production Reports

on Mobile Terminal

Inputting Interface of shift production reports on

PC

Query Interface of Shift Production Reports

Equipment Management
Material Management Statistical reports
 Leadership focus
This method mains focuses on information management includes contract
situation, operation condition and annual statistics.
The queries coming throughout the contracts are been studied and various
solution in implemented on it.

Archive Management

It is mainly used to realize

information management on
materials of completed drilling
holes.
 Conclusion
With the use of MIS, The system possesses these information management
functions including drilling contract, construction design, drilling production
materials configuration (personnel, equipment, materials, etc.), shift production
reports, production historical archives and its statistical analysis, etc.
This improves the life cycle information management and increases the
production efficiency of geo-drilling and also implement drilling information
sharing which meets the users need.
Also real timing monitoring is deployed which shows the whole operation process
in which drilling problems would be found and dealt with on time.
Farm machinery management
information system
Author: S. Fountas , C.G. Sorensen, Z. Tsiropoulos , C. Cavalaris , V. Liakos , T.
Gemtos
Published: 7 November 2014
Abstract: The aim of this study was to analyse and design a future farm
machinery management information system to handle tractor and
implement data together with the interactions with their surroundings. Soft
systems methodology was used to analyse the human activities and to
identify user requirements in relation to the use of farm machinery and the
management of the information generated.
 Introduction
The technological innovations of on-board tractor performance monitoring systems and the
recent advances in tractor technology, enables the acquisition of tractor and implement
status data through the ISOBUS and provide useful information to optimize the overall
operations and field productivity.
The ISOBUS protocol plays an important role in the development of precision agriculture by
helping information to be exchanged and stored more efficiently between sensors,
processors ,controllers and software packages from different manufacturers within the same
tractor or vehicle.
The challenge is to integrate the data captured by these new technologies into a coherent
farm management system. The main problem arises from the heterogeneous nature of these
data resulting in a variety of data formats and interfaces.
 Incompatibility of different data formats are usually a fundamental problem and
considerably manual efforts is required just to convert data from one format to
another.
Therefore, there is an imperative need for continuous data exchange either
between the farms computer and the computing devices mounted on the farm
machinery or between the farms computer and the external farming systems such
as contractors, suppliers and advisory services.
The term Farm Machinery Management Information System (FMMIS) is used in this
paper to describe the above approach which relies on information-to-action
decision processes for field operations.
Therefore, the overall objective of this study was to create a conceptual basic
outline and structure for a Farm Machinery Management Information System
(FMMIS) using the soft system methodology (SSM) as the deriving approach.
 This approach will establish the interrelationships between farm machinery and their
surroundings through explicit formulation of the information flows, definition of the
databases, guidance of knowledge encoding and extraction of requirements for the
advanced FMMIS.
Specifically, it is the objective to understand the soft-system and process oriented activities
of tractor operators and farm managers and to design a model of the individual FMMIS
components, indicating where the FMMIS will be required to enable information flows.
 Method

First step, a rich picture to describe the problem situation was derived, which
depicts a particular situation or issue of the system under study and depicts
relationships, connections, influences and cause and effects.
Second Step is root definition,defining the goal of the system and presenting
different perspectives on the system and the inherent assumptions including
guidelines on how to bring about transformations, enhancing change and
improvement of the system under consideration
 CATWOE, a mnemonic word representing the terms Customers (C), Actors
(A), Transformation process (T), World-view (W), Ownership (O) and
Environmental constraints (E).
In a four nation survey between Denmark, Germany, Finland and Greece
as part of a European Union project ,Interviews was taken.
 Results
Based on the results from the questionnaires, it was shown that the answers were
significantly influenced by the age of the farmers, their economic status, the technology of
their tractors/implements and their technology adoption and familiarity with ICT in their
everyday life. Specifically, the young farmers were willing to use new technology on their
tractors while the older were not.
Moreover, all of the interviewed respondents were interested in learning the recent
technological advancements adhering to tractor/implement systems but farmers with old
machines were reluctant to use them.
A key reason for the latter was the economic situation and the small sized farms
preventing the acquisition of new equipment.
To change this mind-set, elaborated cost-benefit analyses will be required. Specific local
conditions like the non-existence of trustworthy maintenance networks in Greece may
dictate a special reluctance toward acquiring new advanced machinery.
 Additionally, current economic status of farms determines farmers willingness to
acquire new equipment in a way that a solid economic basis encourages
farmers explore more advanced machinery.
A rich picture denoting a preliminary mental model of the current situation of a
Farm Machinery Management Information System (FMMIS) is illustrated in Fig.
Particularly, the rich picture supports further deliberations of the system, which
proves itself complex with numerous interconnected external as well as internal
entities and stakeholders partners. The machine entity is at the center of the
system.
The acquired data by the FMMIS will be analyzed and processed by specific
FMMIS modules and other components and formulated as control actions or
decision support guidelines.
Additionally,many of the processed outputs are displayed in real time and
visualized.
 Conclusion

The depicted systems have common characteristics and the differences

concern type of technology and subsequent capabilities. The final FMMIS
models comprise complete data collection and processing of all parameters
of a farm using all available instruments and subsystems that can be used on
a farm.
The idea of the soft system methodology employed here is to set out
guidance for the interrelationships between farm machinery and their
surroundings through explicit formulation of the information flows, definition of
the databases, guidance of knowledge encoding and extraction of
requirements for the advanced FMMIS.