PDMS - Competence Questions

Gents + 2
This question is more of an apology.
I have just been regaled by a consulting eng firm extolling the virtues of their PDMS system and what it can do for one of my clients. I need to know the system capability, advantages and shortcomings. From a user perspective. No sales talk.
Will need to interface with an existing maintenance package and and an existing accounting package. Does PDMS have interfacing suites? Included as add-ons or is custom software required? Is PDMS going to serve a useful purpose on an existing plant which changes its configuration by about 15% in capex terms per annum? Am just about to go through the agony of a DCS upgrade, but with super competent help ( Microexcel over Yokogawa, 8 bit to 32/64 bit, so its going to hurt anyway), so adding yet more embedded software is not at the top of my favourites list at present. Is there an easy way? Or should I just put it off until the DCS is up and going?

Cheers

Steve Received on Thu May 19 07:46:00 2005