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Power Economics and Management

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2nd Semester, 3rd Year (13EL) Management Information System

 Data and Information
B.E Electrical Engg. Program  MIS Definition
 Sources of MIS
 Output of MIS
Nayyar Hussain
 Characteristics of MIS
Assistant Professor
 MIS Competitive Advantage
Lecture No. 31  Functional MIS
Department of Electrical Engineering  MIS and Web Technology
Mehran University of Engg. & Technology, Information Technology
Jamshoro

Data and Information Management Information Systems (MIS)

 What is the difference between Data and Information?
 Data are raw facts about the organization and its
business transactions. Most data items have little
meaning and use by themselves.
 Information is data that has been refined and
organized by processing and purposeful intelligence.
Information Systems transform data into useful information.
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 Management information system (MIS)
 An MIS provides managers with information and support for
effective decision making, and provides feedback on daily
operations
 Output, or reports, are usually generated through
accumulation of transaction processing data
 Each MIS is an integrated collection of subsystems, which are
typically organized along functional lines within an

 An information system is an arrangement of people, organization

data, processes, interfaces, and geography that are
integrated for the purpose of supporting and improving
the day-to-day operations in a business, as well as
fulfilling the problem-solving and decision-making
information needs of business managers.

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Outputs of a
Sources of MIS
Employees

Corporate
databases
Databases Corporate Management Information System
of intranet
of
external
internal
data
data
Decision  Scheduled reports
support  Produced periodically, or on a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly)
systems
 Key-indicator report
Transaction Databases Management Executive  Summarizes the previous day’s critical activities
Business Application
processing of information support  Typically available at the beginning of each day
transactions systems valid systems databases systems
transactions  Demand report
 Gives certain information at a manager’s request
Exception report
Drill-down reports Expert
Exception reports systems 

Operational
Demand reports
 Automatically produced when a situation is unusual or requires
management action
Key-indicator reports
databases
Input and Scheduled
error list reports

Characteristics of a Management Management Information Systems for

Information System Competitive Advantage
 Provides support to managers as they work to
 Provides reports with fixed and standard formats achieve corporate goals
 Hard-copy and soft-copy reports  Enables managers to compare results to established
 Uses internal data stored in the computer system company goals and identify problem areas and
opportunities for improvement
 End users can develop custom reports
 Requires formal requests from users

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Functional MIS MIS and Web Technology

 Financial MIS  Data may be made available from management
 Manufacturing MIS information systems on a company’s intranet
 Marketing MIS  Employees can use browsers and their PC to gain
 HR MIS access to the data
 Accounting MIS

Information Technology for Power

Conventional Wisdom
Systems
 Two main issues  One can not do real-time power flow management
 Supply << Demand (transactions and billing) for transmission level flows
 Requires investments of billions  Today, pools operate based on historical or aggregated
 Ability to pay is limited information
 Often, power companies are loss-making; some of that is inefficiency  One can not measure demand (usage) from all
 Where can ICT contribute? consumers in real-time with high granularity
 Components of power sector vertical
 Generation
 Transmission
 Distribution
 Consumption

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Focus here on
Using IT to Enable Sustainability
Distribution/Consumption
 IT is already extensively used in
generation/transmission in developed countries  Sustainability has many components
 Other Synergies  Resource utilization
 Efficiency and loss reduction are sine-qui-non
 Stringing Optical Fibers along power lines  Economic viability
 Smart Cards (pre-payment)  Theft reduction
 Found extensive use in S. Africa in Black Townships (12 years  Management
experience)
 IT can improve power sector distribution, consumption
 Can link to other utilities or consumer services (pre-paid cell-phone
cards are very popular)
(utilization), and quality of service
 Requires a change in mindset, and the willingness of utilities
to innovate

MIS/Information Technology
MIS/Information Technology Applications
Applications

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Information Technology for system operation
Critical Loads
Load Shedding Grid SCADA systems
Limited In-plant Generation
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 System Data Acquisition System (DAS)
Insufficient reliability of Public Grid  Outage Management System/ Distribution Management
Several Generators Power Control System of DISCOM
Contracted Power Importation  Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

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Information Technology for other business functions
Different Electrical Operational Mode Control  Metering, Billing and Collections

Configurations possible  Consumer Web Portal

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 Office IT
Complex Distribution Networks SCADA Communication Systems for coordination amongst operators and the
“Local only” Control facilities above data exchange/ processing nodes

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Display Generator Capability

Overview of the control mode of the turbine/generator unit

Display Grid Capability Diagram

Diagram
Overview of the control mode of the turbine

Overview of the control mode of the generator

Overview of the measurements and the setpoints

Working point of the

turbine and the generator

Overview of the operation of the network

Setpoint to the turbine

and the generator

10 Dynamic keys for

operator control

Display Maximum Demand

Display Load Shedding Overview
Monitoring

ABB

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Display Calculated Control Margins Summary

 As IT continues to evolve, so do its strategic uses.

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