PJM Interconnection is responsible for maintaining grid reliability and running energy markets across 13 states and the Washington DC area. As one of the largest transmission operators in the country, they serve 61 million people and manage a peak load of 163,000 megawatts. To improve its operators’ situational awareness, PJM recently developed the Dispatch Interactive Map Application (DIMA), which brings together real-time grid, weather and spatial data using ESRI ArcGIS and the OSIsoft® PI System. Erich Cline, Software Architect, Integral GIS; Frank DiCicco, GIS Lead; and Ed Kovler, Solutions Architect presented a demonstration of DIMA at the 2015 OSIsoft Users Conference in San Francisco.

Headquartered in Mukilteo, Wash., UniEnergy Technologies (UET) is a young company that manufactures and installs large-scale energy storage solutions for utility, commercial, and microgrid applications. Their core technology is a vanadium flow battery. In a talk at the 2015 OSIsoft Users Conference, Becca Gillespie, Application Manager at UniEnergy Technologies, described how UET uses OSIsoft’s Connected Services to offer capacity guarantees for their technology.

Syncrude is one of the largest operators in Canada's growing oil sands industry. In Northeast Alberta, Syncrude operates two large-scale surface mines using truck and shovel techniques. Kyle Gogolinski, Process Control and Automation leader at Syncrude and Peter Wright, Head of the Industrial Information team at Dexcent, introduced Syncrude's Mobile Equipment Events Synthesis solution for analysis and reporting of mechanical events and discussed its impacts on mobile equipment uptime, safety and operating costs.

Headquartered in Monterey, Mexico, CEMEX is a global manufacturer of building materials including cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates. As part of its commitment to becoming the most efficient and innovative building materials company in the world, CEMEX continually evaluates and evolves its systems and processes. One example of this commitment to evolution is CEMEX’s use of the PI System™.   ...

Manufacturers worldwide are launching strategies to integrate digital intelligence into industrial equipment to improve uptime, prevent accidents and help the bottom line. Worldwide, process industries lose $20 billion dollars due to unplanned downtime and faulty maintenance practices and approximately 80% of these losses could be stopped with early, accessible information.