of remote condition monitoring additionally maintenance or operational personnel may enter the event directly into the central computer 16 based on input from equipment operators field maintenance technicians or pre shift inspections yet another method of generating abnormal events is through enterprise resource planning u201c erp u201d systems erps are integrated information system that serve all departments within an enterprise evolving out of the manufacturing industry erp implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer erp modules may be able to interface with an organization 39 s own software with varying degrees of effort and depending on the software erp modules may be alterable via the vendor 39 s proprietary tools as well as proprietary or standard programming languages an erp system can include software for manufacturing order entry accounts receivable and payable general ledger purchasing warehousing transportation and human resources abnormal events are received as data packets e g a block of data used for transmission in packet switched systems once an event has been received 102 the event and associated information is stored in database 104 data such as time date an abnormal event identifier equipment identifier location equipment operator operational status action alarm snapshot and production information may be stored in a database along with the abnormal event once the event has been stored in.