Information Systems in Chemical Industry

Author: Clement Khoza
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Introduction

Information Systems (IS) is applied throughout various industries around the world. It allows an individual to gather, organize, store, retrieve and share information that is the specific to others. This is by the use of software (apps) and hardware’s (devices). It is often important to realize that the important part of IS is that it involves groups of people working together to achieve a goal(s). We will focus mainly on Chemical Industry- thus Information Systems in Chemical Industries.

The Chemical industry

The chemical industry uses information technology to streamline the delivery of products and services. Reliable information technology is key to engineering new scientific and chemical developments, managing the supply chain, executing processes in plants, maintaining productivity in offices, storing employee benefit and payroll information and securing business and manufacturing control systems. The chemical industry is characterized by a large number of chemical processes such as chemical reactions and riffing. Information system and its applications are useful in all areas including the enterprise system management, supply chain management, asset chain management, sales management, etc.


Though other people may be disadvantaged when coming to IS, the digital divide, for example, which is the economic inequality between groups in terms of access to the use or the knowledge of information and communication technologies. Nevertheless, here we will specifically look at the advantages that IS bring to business, in this case the chemical industry.

Decreasing process cost

 

Chemical industry is designated by a comprehensive number of transactions, many of them of substantial value. Especially for basic chemical industry, where its major potential is to increase profit by minimizing cost. Trying to arrange separate amounts of numerical data a chemical industry for multiple services can be time-consuming, thus IS is an efficient tool in this industry.

Extend the market

Using internet and e-commerce on large e-market places (e.g. Elemica, www.elemica.com) increases the industry’s visibility to its partners and customers.

Spreading up information flows

The benefit here comes from the accelerated information generation and delivery. Depending in the activity, this can be research and development or trials of various products and processes, or the speed of reaction to customer enquiries and orders, especially the speed of fulfilling the orders.

For more information you can visit the following links…

varbanov@cpi.uni-panninia.hu     
 www.technology.blurtit.com 

 smallbusiness.com

References
Dr Petar Varbanov (2013)Information Technology (IT) in chemical industry.
Available: www.dcs.vein.hu/heckl/web/.../files/It-Chem-Industry-Lecture-Notes.