Oxy is on a journey to change the way work using innovative technology. Companies have been implementing the Digital Oilfield for years, but where are we today? We have massive amounts of data sitting in databases, providing limited value to ...
Year: 2019
CEMEX Manufacturing processes are concerned with quality, production costs from energy, fuels and materials and equipment efficiency, which in turn are often simultaneous tradeoffs, to be made in real time.
Standardized repeatable processes easily replicated day after day, require understanding of ...
Year: 2019
Radix has been working alongside NEXA RESOURCES to improve the latter´s efficiency and stability in production and to increase its level of maturity in system governance, as well as to trigger internal actions related to Industry 4.0.
Multiple PI System projects ...
Year: 2019
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
The P&P Industry is generally driven by responsive actions: most engineers quickly become firefighters trying to alleviate the day-to-day challenges. How do we move from this reactive approach to a more proactive one and finally evolve to predictive process control? ...
Year: 2019