• Pursuit of Operational Excellence at The Hershey Company

    Food & Beverage companies are facing ever changing challenges. Extended supply chain integration, shifting customer preferences as well growing environmental concerns and social responsibilities. At the same time new technologies are being developed and deployed that are disrupting long established ...
    Year: 2018

    Enhancing Time-Series Data to Prevent Sewer Spills

    In an effort to prevent sewer spills in Tasmania, TasWater sought out approaches to reduce the likelihood and impact of these events occurring the future. One of the approaches investigated was to leverage live and historical data to provide an ...
    Year: 2018

    PI System and BI, Essential Tools for Productivity in the Paper Industry

    Industrial Insight and International Paper have been using PI AF, PI Event Frames, PI Vision, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and the PI BI Integrator for Analytics to investigate numerous issues plaguing several mills. We have also combined these tools with both ...
    Year: 2018

    Mill Wide Intelligence Delivered to Higher Management

    AV Terrace Bay , a pulp manufacturing company aware of the value of data, implemented the PI system in 2014. In partnership with ECGIT, a system integrator company, AVTB transformed the way Higher management, managers and operators use data for ...
    Year: 2018

    The PI System – Leveraging the IT/OT Relationship to Identify Optimization Opportunities

    Companies are beginning to see operational data as an asset. However, operational data comes from multiple control systems, IoT solutions and manual entry. Data rates vary from sub-second to monthly values. There are few standards to label the data points ...
    Year: 2018