The problem for operations managers at Abbott’s production facility in Granada was not a lack of data. “We had
a lot of data and information, but in the end, we weren’t using that data and information to make decisions,”
Julio López Ortega, Senior Engineer, Process Monitoring & Control at Abbott said during his PI World 2018
presentation in Barcelona. As part of their process monitoring initiative, engineers at the Granada facility decided
to launch a pilot project around their pouch filling process. The project had several clear goals in mind:
• Improve real-time process monitoring and control
• Increase overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
• Increase yield by reducing scrap and taking control of filling machine leaks and overfilling
• Reduce product variability and increase batch cycle times ...
Year: 2019
For utility companies, end-of-month reporting periods can be stressful.
Management waits impatiently to receive the closing reports with KPIs from
the previous month’s accounting cycle. The data is often incomplete and not
up-to-date, and those responsible for the reports spend days preparing labor-intensive,
manual reports. Now imagine the added pressure of being the world’s
number one independent power producer, with over 115 gigawatts of installed
capacity and millions of customers relying on your business to run reliably and
efficiently. That’s precisely the kind of frustrating situation ENGIE, a French
multinational electric utility company, faced each month before it automated its
business management process with the help of OSIsoft’s PI System.
Year: 2019
Headquartered in Genoa, Italy, Ansaldo Energia is a leading manufacturer of
power plants and power generation equipment such as coal and gas turbines.
The company has built over 100 power plants and 300 gas turbines around the
world and provides remote monitoring services and maintenance solutions for
customers in 35 countries.
To monitor the health and reliability of so many pieces of hard-working
equipment across the globe, Ansaldo Energia adopted OSIsoft’s PI System™.
By 2016, the company was operating two diagnostic centers – one in Italy,
another in Florida – to deliver 24/7 remote monitoring and maintenance
solutions to its customers as part of its Integrated Plant Services (IPS). At the
heart of the IPS diagnostic platform was the PI System, which collected data
from hundreds of assets across the world ...
Year: 2019
A cooperative of starch potato growers with a 100 years of history, Avebe is
a niche player that breaks down its product into starches and proteins, which
are used as raw materials in food and industrial markets like pulp and paper,
adhesives and textiles. Avebe’s competitive advantage depends on production
plants that the company runs in the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden.
Recently, the cooperative started facing a dual challenge: a growing “technology
storm” – demanding greater efficiency and compliance with increasingly complex
regulations – and the aging workforce, with 20% of employees due to retire within
five years. The company’s management recognized that it was time to embark on
a journey of digital transformation and build a Factory 4.0 manufacturing platform
to put real-time data analytics tools into the hands of its personnel.
Year: 2019
Anglo American Platinum, a leader in refined platinum, produces around 37% of the world's platinum. Unfortunately, platinum extraction provides very small yields. Out of the 29.7 million tons of rock Anglo American Platinum mined in 2017, the company extracted only 78 tons of platinum. Each piece of platinum is smaller than a speck of dust – some are as small as 5 microns – so efficiency in the refinery process is crucial. To keep all Anglo American Platinum’s equipment up and running and maintain ingot quality assurance, the company collected operations data manually, which required many man-hours to extract from spreadsheets. After putting together a list of requirements for a new data platform, the mining producer opted to unroll the PI System as their digital transformation solution.
Year: 2019