3. Information chains and automation

3.1 Information chain concept

The information chain enables :

• acquire information

  • on the condition of a product or one of its components (particularly the energy chain),

  • from man/machine interfaces or other information chains,

  • on a process managed by other systems (database consultation, resource sharing, etc.);

• to process this information;

• to communicate the information generated by the processing system in order to assign orders to the energy chain and/or to prepare messages for man/machine interfaces (or other information chains).

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