Benefits of plant-based asset management Plant-based Asset Management makes it possible for the maintenance engineer to unambiguously identify and discriminately assess assets such as components, systems and plant sections in order to be able to take suitable measures at the right time with as little overhead as possible for the purpose of safeguarding the required availability. Great importance is given to fast acquisition and proper evaluation of the relevant state variables. The objective is to efficiently eliminate any faults or malfunctions which occur and to minimize the potential for future problems. Different tasks, different information requirements From the viewpoint of the machine operator, it is primarily information about the production process itself that is of interest while the job of maintenance is to request information about the state of the production equipment. Different tasks, different information requirements Whether the problem is machine operation or machine maintenance, it is the plant's HMI systems, and therefore mostly SCADA stations, which serve as interface between human and machine or plant. It is these over which the relevant user is supposed to be able to find precisely the information important to his task without being flooded with extraneous information. Within the framework of intelligent maintenance strategies, HMI and SCADA systems play a central role in plant-based asset management.