Patent ID: 7194529

Claim:
A method of managing a plurality of physical assets of an industrial enterprise, the assets including a first asset, said method comprising the steps of: (a.) providing a network based data management infrastructure with a plurality of data sources each of which have a unique name for each of said assets, said network based data management infrastructure including an asset management server, and said data sources including a monitoring system for monitoring an operating characteristic of the first asset; and (b.) operating said asset management server to: receive a first message from the monitoring system, said first message containing information about said operating characteristic of the first asset; determine from said first message that other data sources need to receive said information; determine said unique name used for said first asset by each of said other data sources that need to receive said information; prepare a second message based on said first message for each of said other data sources that need to receive said information, wherein said second messages contain said information and are respectively prepared using said unique names for said first asset that are used by said other data sources that need to receive said information; and transmit said second messages to said other data sources that need to receive said information, respectively; and (c.) displaying said information on a human machine interface associated with one of said other data sources that need to receive said information.