The laboratory includes integrated information system of the corporate level equipped with the systems for production planning and control, administration of documents, tools for Business Intelligence, simulator of processes and service processes with the possibility of their optimisation. Implementation aiming at ensuring the mutual cooperation and interconnection of individual laboratory modules is the integral part of the laboratory. The laboratory provides the possibilities for research and development in the field of integrating the information and control systems, simulations and optimisation of systems as well as in the field of Big Data, and predictive analyses.
In the laboratory we carry out the research and investigate professional issues for practice, particularly those related to collecting, processing, and analysing of an extreme volume of structured and unstructured data for the purposes of control of complex systems. We also execute data analyses to obtain new potential knowledge to be used in various levels of hierarchical control, such as prediction of emergency conditions of the controlled process in real time, planning of preventive maintenance, identification and optimisation of relevant parameters of processes control, etc.
We also deal with forming the data repository to store and archive structured and unstructured data from individual hierarchical levels, designing the paltforms based on Data mining determined for analysing available production data to find and recognize the patterns in data, which can thus have impact on acquiring new kowledge about the analysed process and increase the ability to predict emergency conditions, optimisation of theprocess, or decrease of operational costs, etc.