As an energy services company, Coriance distributes hot water to cities and municipalities across France.
Coriance has 30 heating networks spread over multiple substations and its equipment consists
of gas boilers, cogeneration engines and more. Unfortunately, its legacy control systems provided only
scattered, poor-quality operational data, preventing Coriance from understanding its asset performance
and making preventive adjustments.
Not only that, engineers relied on Excel reporting, which was cumbersome and complex. All of these hurdles
made it impossible to understand energy consumption, optimize power production, and manage meter data
from one centralized location. With the help from OSIsoft’s partner Accenture, Coriance turned to the
PI System™ to collect, standardize, validate data, and gain real-time operational insights. Through a unique
configuration, the company deployed the PI System in the cloud, giving its engineers access to a flexible
solution that today is available anytime and anywhere.
Year: 2019
Kellogg’s, like many name-brand food and beverage producers, is adjusting to a world with tighter regulations and safety standards and increased public scrutiny of its products. The company’s international assets require infrastructure upgrades to reduce recalls, meet more stringent regulations and sustain consumer trust. Over the past three years, a PI System™ deployment at Kellogg’s manufacturing plant in Valls, Spain, has supported multiple use cases for a plant-wide digital transformation. Data analytics have delivered cost reductions and improved operational standards while enabling a smoother compliance process.
Year: 2019
Illovo Sugar Africa – a discrete manufacturer of sugar, headquartered in South Africa – produces a wide range of products from industrial sugars to prepacked sugar for direct consumption in domestic markets. Form Fill and Seal (FFS) Machines fill consumer stock units, and operational productivity hinges on minimizing the downtime of these machines as well as the risk of recalls from variability in product packaging. Unfortunately, FFS Machines have typically had a high probability of downtime and variability. With very little reliable, repeatable data at Illovo’s fingertips, there was no way to target and improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
Year: 2018
PKN Orlen is a Polish integrated energy company that operates multiple refineries and thousands of gas stations in Central Europe. The company is also the largest industrial producer of electricity and heat in Poland and operates water and wastewater treatment plants. Lack of real-time visibility into its water operations made it hard for PKN Orlen to tackle issues like leaks, profit loss, and resource management. To thread the needle, the company began using the PI System™ for its water and wastewater management in 2002 and shared the results of its digital transformation at PI World San Francisco 2018.
Year: 2018
Founded in 1902, Air Liquide is one of the world’s largest suppliers of industrial gases, including oxygen,
hydrogen and nitrogen. Large Industries, a
subsidiary of Air Liquide, operates hundreds of plants and primarily produces oxygen and hydrogen molecules
using air separation units and steam methane reformer units. In 2015, Large Industries launched Smart and
Innovative Operations (Smart and Innovative Operations, SIO. Perform for short) initiative with two clear goals:
to eliminate unplanned shutdowns and double the efficiency gains of their gas production plants by 2020 through
leveraging more value from their operations data. At PI World 2018 in San Francisco, Olivier Rioux, a project
manager for the SIO initiative, told the story of how his team used operational data mining techniques to improve
the economic performance of their plants and to reach their goals long before their 2020 deadline ...
Year: 2019