Presentations

Opening Comments

Businesses look to strategic advisers to help them drive broad digital transformation. At OSIsoft, we have built the PI System for critical operations for a generation.

In this keynote, our Product and Development leadership will update PI World attendees with OSIsoft’s Product strategy and highlight key product topics that will be covered throughout PI World. OSIsoft Development leadership will update new features in the PI System, ...

In this Keynote presentation OSIsoft is delighted to welcome Claes Nord from Sandvik Coromant who will share details of Sandvik’s journey to becoming an internationally recognised leader in the areas of manufacturing excellence and sustainability. In his presentation Claes will ...

EDP Produção has been using the PI System for more than 20 years, to support our “data driven” and “open data” strategies. By then, we were focusing essentially on using PI Datalink and PI Processbook in our operational areas, and ...

The market research and strategic consulting firm teknowlogy | PAC has published the PAC RADAR Platforms for IoT & AR in Europe 2019. It is the broadest analysis of the vendor landscape around newly emerging topics in the context of ...

Already impacting other industries from retail to transport, digitalization’s impact on the manufacturing industry has been slower. As manufacturers begin to invest, the paybacks can be significant, but the challenges can also be many. This presentation will introduce findings from ...

Brief history of the deployment of an OSISoft PI based enterprise historian solution within the Air Liquide Group, from early 2000s to today, where the project reached global scale after the incorporation of the America's region and the signature of ...

Petro Rabigh will be presenting its journey with the PI Infrastructure and how it has helped the company lay the foundational infrastructure to manage, analyze and consume operational data for Real-time Operational and Business Intelligence across the company.

IT are heavily investing in data lakes, AI and advanced analytics tools. They are NOT crazy. They are also looking for outcomes. The reality is that these valuable people on the right are small in number and hard to find. ...

Building on a wide range of client use case examples we will present Accenture's take on the value of enterprise adoption of PI. We will present a value framework and the key solution components that have generated value from our ...

The objective is to discuss defensive measures in OCS and its approach to identity.

Orion Engineered Carbons runs Carbon Black production sites all over the world operating multiple process equipment including rotary dryers and large-scale heat exchangers. To increase production line availability through improved reliability Orion is focusing on improving planning ability by damage ...

Welcome/Intro by Industry Principal/Champion

Production processes are controlled by a large number of sensors – the LSI network is actually equipped with more than 150,000 of them! How can we improve our productivity in manufacturing, optimize costs and make our processes more reliable and ...

End of May 2019, Actemium, together with a major Food & Beverage client, started working on a bespoke Mobile App to facilitate mobile data collection and mobile data usage powered by NFC and the OSIsoft PI System. Today this application ...

The journey of implementing Avebe Operations Strategy 2022 and Factory 4.0 at Avebe is business driven that transforms Avebe from an average performance to a World Class Operation Management company. Business impact areas for Avebe are around: • Loss Prevention & Asset ...

Welcome to the Life Sciences Industry Day

In our talk we show how we use PI as an IOT Platform for smart building operation. As soon as information about a building is readily available and consumable with various client applications, topics like energy saving, building usage optimization ...

The presentation details how LEO Pharma are implementing a global PI Data Infrastructure across 6 production sites. LEO has initiated an ambitious plan of Digitalizing the Production to meet future challenges, which includes establishing a common Production Data Platform, thereby ...

This presentation summarizes the rapid deployment of a real-time multivariate process monitoring system and at Takeda leveraging the data from OSIsoft PI. It will cover the entire process starting from system conceptualization to implementation of SIMCA Online, which took less ...

Lonza’s analytics journey began with the OSIsoft PI system - investing in Asset Framework, Event Frames, and PI Vision. In 2018, Lonza Specialty Ingredients expanded analytics to their entire engineering community. This enabled experts to have 24/7 live access to ...

Throughout biopharmaceutical manufacturing non-conformances, product loss and quality is impacted through unforeseen issues. Applying analytics in real-time has revolutionized the way in which Janssen approach and prevent unwanted deviations in manufacturing. Projects at the Leiden and Cork large molecule sites ...

How to save time, improve process and product quality by Golden batch analysis and CPV utilizing the new OSISoft Rockwell Pharmasuite PI interface

How does an organization reduce paper records, comply with data integrity and ensure process traceability in a regulated environment? These are the challenges that Interquim was facing. They were solved by implementing a robust data infrastructure with the PI System ...

Welcome/Intro by Industry Principal/Champion

As a world leading automotive and mobility company, Toyota committed to preserve the environment and drive sustainability across the company and its supply-chain through an ambitious challenge targeting a global zero CO2 impact by 2050. A key point of our ...

How Sandvik Coromant uses PI in production

The presentation will initially cover how DNV GL as a class registrar is adapting to the digitalization trends in the business areas where we are present. Why it means that we are establishing digital class inspection regimes and why we ...

IVA Schmetz created an IoT platform to offer PdM for their customers’ heat treatment equipment. This gives insights into the technical setup of the platform and corresponding usage of the OSIsoft Pi System. By networking machines, states and processes can ...

All transportation equipment begin life on the CAD table before starting its journey through discrete manufacturing plants into the hands of supply chain operations. Modern digital models are created at every step of this process and connecting those data sets ...

Welcome/Intro by Industry Principal/Champion

Petro Rabigh will be presenting its journey with the PI Infrastructure and how it has helped the company lay the foundational infrastructure to manage, analyze and consume operational data for Real-time Operational and Business Intelligence across the company. Some of ...

With Daleel's production requirements continuing to rise, the exploration, development and production of new oil and gas resources are shifting to increasingly challenging sites. Meanwhile, regulations continue to tighten worldwide, and finding and keeping experienced personnel is getting harder. Forecasting ...

PI usage history in MOL History of PI usage PI applications Digital transformation approach How MOL work digital transformation based on PI system Advanced analytics based on PI AF Environment, architecture New applications,analytics Online weekly -planning program Latest application ...

This paper highlights the extension of PI analytics functionalities taking advantage of the power of Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics. These techniques have been applied to the forecast and reduction of the energy consumption in an upstream plant. PI ...

Monitoring the quality of critical data used for operations is critical within the Oil & Gas industry - ensuring that accurate and reliable data is provided to an operator is a commercial obligation but can also impact on critical systems. ...

In recent years, assets were deploying various Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) remote monitoring system solutions for different types of OEM, which require additional hardware installation at site, significant capital expenditure and a monthly subscription for each OEMs. Defying the norm, ...

This paper examines the efforts made to strengthen the management of real time data from our offshore legacy assets in PETRONAS & provide an assurance mechanism on data trustworthiness. It aims to share the experience in developing & operationalizing an in-house ...

Welcome/Intro by Industry Principal/Champion.

With thousands of turbines distributed across North America, EDF Renewables sought a tool to better monitor and measure the efficiency of the Return to Service of turbines down over 72 hours. In addition to helping identify improvement opportunities, the tool ...

Data is becoming one of the most important assets in every company. There are massive loads of data being created every second. At EDP Produção we have all our Power Plants generating data by the second thanks to the PI ...

It has been 2 years since Uniper’s Digitization journey began, with PI positioned as the backbone of fleet wide real-time data infrastructure. In this presentation, we will demonstrate the tangible value we have achieved during the program, including how PI ...

Since 2006, PI went through an organizational and functional evolution within Engie's Business Unit Generation Europe (BU Gen). As of 2017, the PI infrastructure has been further consolidated on a private cloud and was branded as ROBIN. It is considered ...

During 2017 Statkraft decided to implement an OSIsoft PI System Solution as a Common Data Platform (CDP) for collecting and storing data from our wind and hydro assets. This have enabled us to move on to data-driven projects, one of ...

Power generation from Distributed Energy Resources (DER) is expanding rapidly. As a global leader in deployment of DER, California is stepping up efforts to address cybersecurity concerns. This presentation highlights activity in a consortium of leading researchers, major US utilities ...

Welcome by Industry team followed by short commentary by Osvaldo Bascur on Digital Transformation in the Process Industries: An ongoing Journey. The process industries face many pressures, such as meeting production targets, minimizing costs, and maximizing product quality. In addition, manufacturers ...

Presentation shows more than 20 years of PI system usage in steel industry. The main part is focused to automation of blast furnace and maintenance processes. The platform of realisation are : - interfaces between MES and Process automation levels - optimisation ...

EcoFlex is the name for Mondi Steti’s transformation. The PI System is at the core of this enterprise as we expand to 1.000.000 tonns per year in a growing market in the P&P Industry. With the application of the latest ...

Monitoring systems of machines and mining equipment are the essential elements of the effective management of the mine, because they affect the safe operation and increase equipment efficiency. We will talk about how the PI System helps us solve problems ...

This paper aims to share Hydro' journey's experience with corporative PI implementation by crossing sensible information between Hydro's different PI servers, enabling new initiatives on Azure cloud platform as the basis of a strong digital transformation of the company. Our ...

With the aim of turning buzzwords into tangible impact, Covestro has launched the digitalization initiative ProDAVis (Process Data Analysis and Visualization). ProDAVis seeks to enhance production and process optimization by leveraging years of expert know-how and state-of-the-art digitalization technologies. The ...

Realization of predictive process control with advanced analytics techniques. + Identify data breaks and enable data accessibility; Define framework / data needs; Refine use cases for machine learning application + Validate data; develop predictive model; Validate critical parameters and how to ...

CEMEX has continuously implemented technologies and best practices in order to increase energy efficiency and to maximize the capacity of each process and unit operation used in the manufacturing of cement. Continuing with this strategic vision, CEMEX decided to implement ...

Life after PI - Analytics on top of PI. In this panel we will explore how innovative teams went about extracting and exposing plant data for corporate analytics, models, and machine-learning algorithms. We will discuss the best practices that leading ...

Pattern operation monitor system is a visualization system based on big data analytics. It’s advanced operation mode versus classic parametric control mode in petrochemical processes. The system furnishes visual, intuitive and definite outcome for operators and engineers to avoid them ...

RHI Magnesita has a huge positive experience in optimization of products and production processes with OSISoft tools (e.g. PI AF, PI Notification, PI Vision and PI Data Link). With the help of examples, the presentation offers an insight into the ...

Orion Engineered Carbons runs Carbon Black production sites all over the world operating multiple process equipment including rotary dryers and large-scale heat exchangers. To increase production line availability through improved reliability Orion is focusing on improving planning ability by damage ...

Welcome/Intro by Industry Principal/Champion

The irregular production of DER that are mainly connected to the distribution grid, along with fast variations in supply and demand, challenges the Distribution System Operator mission to maintain a continuous service. This situation led STEDIN to seek for more ...

As the Belgian electricity transmission system operator, Elia is continuously improving its asset management strategies in order to cope with the changes in the environmental, legal, financial and technological landscape. One of the enablers is the choice to speed up the ...

Outlier events happen on a regular basis in any operational environment. Unfortunately many outliers are simply normal behavior which happens infrequently or simple errors (human data entry errors, sensor errors, sampling errors, data compression errors, etc.). All these outliers are ...

MPWiK (Wroclaw Water and Sewage Authority) is a fair size user of the PI System infrastructure with 200,000 tags coming from production, field sensors, weather stations as well as historians. We managed to implement PI in some of different areas ...

Intro Our common customer Oasen connected PI with enerGQ, The result is a CSA that enables enerGQ to scale up fast and will create value for many more triangular relationships in future Presentation + supported with cases We believe that energy is the ...

E.ON Climate & Renewables have moved on and expanded usage of real time data heavily, the presentation will provide a view how EC&R approach the sustainability of our PI Infrastructure. With OSIsoft PI System being a one of the key ...

The Regional Security Coordinator (RSC) entity as such is completely new in Europe, meaning that all the connected regulations, processes and tools are changing and developing in a fast pace. The presentation introduces basic information about a special industry segment ...

Electricity grid operators are employing digital technologies to adapt to new challenges in transmitting and distributing power. This includes sharing operating data between companies, using predictive maintenance to reduce outages, and experimenting with artificial intelligence for grid balancing. The extent ...

New to the PI System? Wondering what the hype is around big data, unstructured data, and what it has to do with you? Attend this session to find out how it all fits together. This talk is uniquely designed for ...

Wondering how you’ll navigate which PI World sessions to attend? Have no fear; you are not alone. This talk is uniquely designed for those who have never used the PI System and are first-time OSIsoft conference attendees. This talk offers ...

New to the PI System? Want to learn how others in your industry are monitoring their assets? Find out what it takes and get familiar with the main PI System components that can help you kick off an asset-monitoring or ...

Sensor data in its raw form is not enough to monitor and make decisions on complex processes or systems. Equations from physics, thermodynamics, and other disciplines are used to make sensor data actionable. If you want to go further and ...

Gain insights and overview of OSIsoft's Pervasive Data Collection Products & Technologies. - PI Connectors and PI Interfaces - Edge Data Store - Open Source devices - OMF applications and connected sensors See benefits and constrast of Data Connectivity options ...

Ready to take your data infrastructure to the next level? Catch the highlight reel of the most powerful and secure PI System yet, and see the state of the possible for your advanced analytics with PI Integrators. This talk will ...

Visualizing data is one of the critical steps to gaining insights and optimizing your operations. PI Vision, OSIsoft's unified visualization infrastructure, is your window into operational intelligence from building and sharing dashboards across the enterprise to trending and analyzing data ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services (OCS) is a scalable, OSIsoft-managed, multitenant data platform for real-time operational data. With OCS, data scientists can easily select, shape, and surface data from their PI System to their preferred analytics applications. Starting with existing PI System ...

The objective is to share the methodology followed by EDPR in the configuration of the PI WEB API, aspects to consider, example of reading types as well as lessons learned. The main keys to be highlighted are: 1) Basic configuration and readings used 2) Project ...

The PI System in the Manufacturing Line – Calculating OEE Across Your Factory

Maintenance and Reliability – Aligning asset maintenance with operations – failure modes, usage-based, condition-based and predictive (pattern recognition) maintenance

High value systems warrant hardcore hardening measures. The PI System resides at a critical junction, communicating across strict network boundaries. Under this paradigm, the PI System acts as a 'safe harbor' for data, defending critical systems by reducing the number ...

This presentation discusses the standard architectures for PI System implementations. The recommended standard architecture to support PI implementation must be robust and highly available to ensure data availability to the end users that make decision based on PI System information. ...

Best Practices for PI AF Deployment and Management

Techniques for Optimizing Asset Analytics

This presentation discusses the most effective methods of utilizing Event Frames for everyday operations. In addition to providing an introduction to Event Frames, this presentation covers the basics of how Event Frames can be used to capture what’s vital to ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services Sneak-Preview for Developers. Join the OSIsoft Cloud Services team as we show you our technical roadmap for OCS (OSIsoft Cloud Services) and how our developer technologies for cloud will enable you to unlock your operations data in ...

An increasing number of organizations are migrating their IT workloads to cloud platforms as part of their digital transformation and cloud first initiatives. New techniques have emerged to ease some of these challenges with automating deployments of network, storage and ...

Modernizing PI SQL For The Future: New Clients, a New Engine, and New Integration Ideas. OSIsoft debuted the Real-Time Query Processor which modernizes and simplifies the SQL language interface to the PI Server, making it easier than ever to use ...

An increasing number of organizations are migrating their IT workloads to cloud platforms as part of their digital transformation and cloud first initiatives. This migration trend has led to the emergence of new techniques for automating deployments of network, storage ...

This session shows best practices of how Stora Enso Paper Division integrates the PI System, Shiftconnector and Power BI at the Langerbrugge site in Belgium to create a lean plant performance toolkit. Learn how Stora Enso’s shift teams use visualized ...

Rolloos has been involved with the Edge Data Store beta testing. In this presentation, we will dive deeper into the Rolloos solutions that utilize EDS. These solutions include the following: • Red Zone Monitoring: in which we combine video analysis with time ...

For globally operating organizations, a scalable, centralized environment that enables fast advanced analytics is needed to enhance operational excellence. OSIsoft Cloud Services are designed to meet today's digital transformation needs. With TrendMiner’s added capabilities, subject matter experts, such as process ...

Key takeaways 1. Contextualize your data before it’s too late! Ensure that data contextualization is included in your digital transformation roadmap from the start or you will face great inefficiencies in the future. 2. Align your data models and avoid the data swamp! Consistent ...

John Matranga will kick off our event with an overview of OSIsoft’s goals around the Academic Program at OSIsoft. Highlighting the flow of the day for our symposium, John will touch on the talks to come, recap the morning Data ...

An overview of current trends in reliability and maintainability (R&M) will be provided. Specifically, the positive impacts to each key performance indicator (safety, people, uptime, quality, and cost) will be depicted with industry data. University viewpoints: • Why is it important to engage ...

In this session, Rutgers University and Purdue University will share perspectives on continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Specifically, they will discuss the importance of data management and adherence to industry standards in academic research. You will learn how the universities used the ...

The University of Maryland partnered with NIST National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence to host the Situational Awareness Project and Energy Sector Asset Management Project. Leveraging the OSIsoft PI System, the Campus Co-generation Substation and 6,300 ton chiller plant was used ...

Currently at West Virginia University the senior educational lab is adopting better data storage and data acquisition methods using the OSIsoft Academic Hub. At West Virginia University data collection methods in the Unit Operations Lab are being adapted to use ...

Attend this session to learn What’s New for the OSIsoft Academic Program. Learn how the OSIsoft Academic Hub is being used in academia to transform student learning. We share success stories and new ideas for addressing pressing needs in engineering ...

This presentation discusses the most effective methods of utilizing Event Frames for everyday operations. In addition to providing an introduction to Event Frames, this presentation covers the basics of how Event Frames can be used to capture what’s vital to ...

In this presentation, we will discuss some of the best practices for rolling out AF in your enterprise, including template design, template management, process governance, hierarchy design and much more. Come learn about the do's and don'ts when rolling out ...

Asset Analytics is a feature of Asset Framework that allows you to easily configure calculations and apply them to many assets. In this presentation, we will discuss some of the best practices for developing and managing calculations using Asset Analytics. ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services comes with simple tools to transfer data from your existing PI Systems, OMF applications and next generation PI Connectors. Come for a deeper dive into the configuration of these tools work and your data in OCS can ...

Developer Technologies - Which are the best tools and technologies to use for your project A discussion on the different data access techniques for the PI System and how to make the right choice to best suit your needs. ...

The Industrial Internet of Things is changing everything. Every day, sensors are smaller, cheaper, faster and smarter. FogLAMP is the open source way to collect data from anything and get it into your PI Server. FogLAMP can buffer data so ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services is a scalable, OSIsoft-managed, multitenant data platform. Data scientists can select, shape, and arrange data from their PI System using OSIsoft Cloud Services regardless of what analytics application they use. We will build data tables that are ...

The Edge Data Store provides lightweight data collection, storage and access on edge devices and is an excellent platform for analyzing and visualizing data at the edge for immediate decision making prior to sending this data to an on premises ...

Digital Transformation is here. The question now is how can an organization avoid the pitfalls and achieve success. Neil Strother, Senior Analyst at Navigant Research, and Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst at OSIsoft, interviewed a range of OSIsoft customers last year ...

BHP is undertaking the challenge of building a global real-time data platform that will change the way we think. Instead of creating more point solutions driven by the unique requirements of specific users, we want to empower users to create ...

National Security risks and the scope of catastrophic failures mean utility companies have been among the most conservative and aggressive with time-based maintenance. Thanks to new EPRI guidelines, utilities now have the chance to combine PI and continuous online machine ...

Condenser efficiency has more impact on power plant performance than any other unit operation in the plant. OMNI Condenser Performance is a comprehensive platform developed by Nalco Water that provides power customers with a new approach to managing those critical ...

This opening session to the PIWorld Food & Beverage industry track will feature an update on OSIsoft in the Food & Beverage market from OSIsoft's Industry Principal and Industry Champion. Includes in this update will be a discussion on industry ...

Cargill is one of the largest privately held businesses in the world, with a diverse portfolio ranging from Agriculture and Food to Industrial and Financial businesses. Working across so many varied businesses means standardization can be a challenge. Cargill wants ...

Building an electronic record of your product’s critical control points and production is a challenge most Food, Beverage, Consumer Products, and Fine Chemical companies share. The sustainable solution needs to be based on your enterprise model, production methods, and transfers, ...

UC Davis has for many years used the PI System to form the backbone of the operations and sustainability programs on campus. Jill will describe one of the most engaged sustainability research efforts on campus. The UC Davis Sustainable Wine ...

Ekhosoft is a leading supplier of operational performance management software for the Food & Beverage sector. Our customers use real time data from operations for creating actionable intelligence and driving performance improvement initiatives. Key focus areas are Production Efficiency, Downtime ...

This session will demonstrate how to get faster insights and data-driven decisions from the OSIsoft PI System - including data hosted in OSIsoft Cloud Services - and investments in PI AF, EF, and PI Notifications by leveraging recent innovations in ...

Smart, connected real-time data that is synchronized throughout the plant and global enterprise is the future for process automation, the digital transformation, and smart manufacturing. Smart manufacturing involves solving problems using data infrastructures, cloud, edge, analytics and new technologies. Whether ...

Welcome to the Forest and Paper Products Industry Day! In this session you will find peer presentations on why and how technology is helping the mills to advance in their Digital Transformation journey and build stronger communities.

Learn how people with data can transform their world through advanced analytics and data science. In this talk we will first demystify some confusing terminology such as AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science. We move on to explain the characteristics ...

Goldielocks could have been a highly effective problem solver as she tested various techniques before selecting the right bed (or tool) for the job. Asking the right questions and selecting the right tool for the job are required to get ...

Presentation describes 19 years with PI system in Mondi Štetí, one of the biggest pulp&paper factory in Europe. In 2000 we started with PI database, 10k tags and 100 licences for PI DataLink. During the time users and new technologies ...

The information age has brought an ocean of newly accessible data to our fingertips through investment in advanced sensors, IoT edge devices, and advanced technology to manipulate and discover new insights hidden your data. As companies’ digital footprints exponentially grow, ...

A pulp digester is among the most complex, interconnected systems in the paper & pulp industry. A giant tangle of pumps, motors, gearboxes, and chemically-laced goo that, when it fails, brings production to a halt and ignites battles between Operations ...

This panel will cover the best practices in implementing a success enterprise program around the PI System, and advance analytics. We will explore the new trends in terms of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence as means to leverage knowledge and ...

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? ...

Grand Ballroom: Opening Remarks

Grand Ballroom: Message from OSIsoft CEO & Founder Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy

Grand Ballroom: Businesses look to strategic advisers to help them drive broad digital transformation. At OSIsoft, we have built the PI System for critical operations for a generation.

Grand Ballroom: In this keynote, our Development and Product leadership will update OSIsoft’s Product strategy and highlight key product topics that will be covered throughout PI World. Come learn about how the PI System supports critical operations and drives data ...

Grand Ballroom: A foundation of DCP’s digital transformation is having rapid, near real time, accurate, meaningful and complete data with context. An important part of this capability is provided by a company-wide PI System that was deployed in 2017. Change ...

Grand Ballroom: A compelling keynote about the link between Communication Excellence and Business Success. Author and Communication Expert, Mark Jeffries, presents an instantly useable toolbox of innovative communication, networking and influence tools designed to accelerate your business success. From the ...

In our opening session, OSIsoft Product Managers and Engineering leaders will provide an end to end tour of OSIsoft’s Data Infrastructure highlighting new enhancements within OSIsoft’s leading data infrastructure the PI System from Connectivity, Data Management, Data Processing, Visualization, and ...

Introduction and overview of state of the industry by our Life Sciences Industry Principal

Merck is an OSIsoft EA customer with PI deployed around the globe in research and manufacturing environments. Historically within Biologics Process Research and Development (BPRD), PI has been used heavily to capture continuous time series data from bioreactor controllers at ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb implemented the capability to provide operations with a proactive, multivariate tool to monitor batch manufacturing processes in real-time. This capability highlights the value of the enhancements made to our underlying data infrastructure and data availability from various manufacturing ...

At BioMarin we push the boundaries of biotechnology including striving toward new methods to analyze and improve our manufacturing processes. Over the last year, we migrated PI data to the cloud to prove that co-location of corporate data would facilitate ...

Lilly is actively working on its Digital Plant vision. Delivering on this vision is a transformational journey and will need significant collaboration and coordination across Lilly’s manufacturing sites to deliver with speed and agility. Establishing global standards and solutions will ...

Scientists, engineers, managers and other decision makers must be able to thrive in a challenging business environment defined by process development, regulations, market shifts, and growing competition. Technology for supporting innovative product design, process operation, analytics, and robust data management ...

Pfizer WRD in partnership with NECI implemented a 3 stage PI system to most effectively utilize and implement novel advanced manufacturing technologies. The PI Integrator for Business Analytics was used for the publishing of asset framework data to external analytical ...

A data management strategy based on S88 has been developed and demonstrated for a continuous solid dose pharmaceutical manufacturing facility housed at Rutgers University. This full scale advanced manufacturing implementation allows for data from the plant to be collected through ...

Welcome to User Group meeting for Life Sciences, Food & Beverage, Specialty Chemicals - Panel Discussion: Ask the experts - Breakout Sessions:

Today, thanks to the power of IoT, new data processing technologies, and availability of analytical forecasting models, the entire manufacturing value chain, from concept to completion and beyond, can now take advantage of new sensor technology. BUT WAIT... this ADVANTAGE ...

IoT and AI are powerful technologies to organize, analyze and create value from industrial data. Together these digital tools can reduce waste, enhance workforce productivity, and ultimately improve operations. However, companies often grapple with common foundational questions when starting to ...

Bondtech an OEM of CNC systems has extended their PI System to collect data at their customer's facilities. By leveraging products from HMS Networks Bondtech has created a new level of service for their customer base. This has lead to ...

At Kimball we have many equipment types and several systems that manage our overall manufacturing processes. When an engineer wants to analyze the data they need to go to each equipment or to each system, export the data into a ...

General Atomics Aeronautical is a DOD contractor that produces one of the widely recognized unmanned air vehicles (UAV) in use today. They are one of the many affiliates of General Atomics taking on the great opportunities the journey to digital ...

The average age of manufacturing assets and equipment currently in operation in the United States, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, is close to 20 years, and since 1990, the age of assets has virtually doubled. Older machines tend to ...

Analytics, AI and machine learning are the foundation of the factory of the future. Now comes the hard part: how do you develop a strategy and marshal the resources to make digital transformation a success? A panel of experts will ...

Seeq is a provider of self-service advanced analytics, reporting, and collaboration. The life-blood of data analytics is data, of course. Seeq excels with high speed, low latency Unfettered access to data; this level of is not a given, many things ...

Manufacturing organizations, on their journey to complete automation, have a wealth of historical data from sensors and control systems available. OSIsoft PI Systems create a highly proficient data, standardization and governance layer while OCS delivers the streaming data infrastructure for ...

This session shows best practices of how chemical manufacturers integrate the PI System and Shiftconnector to create a performance toolkit for the operator teams. See how PI Tags and Event Frames are used to calculate performance targets, visualize batch cycle ...

With the proliferation of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Monico recognized the need to introduce two products for machine owners – mCore® SDR and MonicoLive™. MonicoLive is a cloud-based monitoring service built on the Pi System. mCore SDR is ...

Welcome to the Mining, Metals and Materials Industry Day! In this session you will find peer presentations on why and how technology is helping the Industry to advance in their Digital Transformation journey to improve production efficiency and reduce operating ...

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 ...

The presentation will discuss how CSL is implementing a fully integrated view of its moving vessels’ operations and how the various pieces integrate with the business. The presentation will discuss: • Overview of CSL • Key business drivers leading to the digitalization ...

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 ...

Nutrien, a merger between PotashCorp and Agrium, uses an Enterprise PI System to manage their operational data for the Potash Division. Utilization of the PI System has drastically expanded the implementation of PI AF. This presentation will expand on four ...

Mining operations including Load & Haul is the first link in our value chain, a world of giants where every optimization effort is likely to bring great benefits. Drilling, blasting, loading and transportation processes must work together to provide the ...

Imagine being able to visualize your underground mine; to monitor, in real time, where your equipment and all operators are located. Being able to access historic data; to use that data to create reports, analytics, even trackers. That’s what we ...

Barrick Gold Corporation, the largest gold mining company globally, has recently positioned themselves as a leader in predictive maintenance and digital transformation. In 2018 the company implemented the Asset Reliability & Optimization (ARO) System from Petasense to improve asset reliability ...

This presentation outlines 2 specific use cases with the PI System in the Mining, Metals and Supply Chain Industry. The first section covers the use of a digital plant template in the steel production industry with the objective of tracking ...

As industry continually increases the demand for accurate measurement on pipeline systems, we must light up our dark data to gain powerful insights into the inner workings of measurement equipment and achieve maximum accuracy. With PI Asset Framework, smart devices ...

Short presentations and associated Q&A that highlight best practices in the use of the "Modern PI System". Joanna Zinski will present Best practices in PI AF/PI EF and Seeq Integration.

Short presentation and associated Q&A that highlight best practices in the use of the "Modern PI System". Phillips 66/ROVISYS - Seth Tate and Joe Rose will present Best Practices in Simulation Model Integration with the PI System.

What are leaders in Going Digital leveraging the "Modern PI System" doing? As the PI System continues to evolve by assimilating new technologies and offering new capabilities, these leaders in delivering truly transformative business value have common approaches that can ...

MOL has been a global leader in the use of the PI System to deliver transformative business value. Core to accomplishing this has been their use of a "layers of analytics", evolutionary approach with strong operational/SME involvement and leadership. PI ...

Air Liquide is the world leader in gases, technologies & services for Industry and Health, present in 80 countries with around 65,000 employees. In 2017, the Group’s revenues were €20.3 billion. The World Business Line 'Large Industries' (LI) provides Air ...

How can we build simple, smart tools that deliver tremendous value to everyone across our organization? TransCanada recently developed OpsVision to expose real-time operating conditions to Operations personnel using PiVision. By leveraging the existing structure in Asset Framework, as well ...

Many industries rely on demand forecasting to help them plan and make critical business decisions. TransCanada is taking steps to augment this process by leveraging AWS Machine Learning and libraries like TensorFlow to develop scalable analytics models and make data ...

This presentation tells the journey at Plains Midstream Canada's NGL facilities starting with several individual PI servers with no standardization to an standardized, enterprise PI System with a hub and poke design. The focus will be how the vision and ...

This Presentation will overview the key updates at DCP Midstream and Equitrans Midstream since the last presentation at PI World 2018. The focus will be on high impact uses of their PI Systems in the areas of: - Advanced analytics ...

California Resource Corporation has a vast asset infrastructure, most with PI monitoring enabled. We used PI ESRI integrator to leverage the REST services for integration with the DJI SDK. The result was the ability to overlay our real-time monitoring data ...

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 ...

What are leaders in Going Digital leveraging the "Modern PI System" doing? As the PI System continues to evolve by assimilating new technologies and offering new capabilities, these leaders in delivering truly transformative business value have common approaches that can ...

BP, an Oil and Gas supermajor, has been at the forefront of the Digital Transformation and IIoT revolution specifically targeting improvements in reliability and safety of their global oil and gas production assets. In their journey, they have uncovered the ...

NOV has developed the Max IIOT platform, which enables large-scale collection, aggregation, and analytics of real-time equipment data. Leveraging these data and analytics capabilities enables significant improvements in performance and reductions in maintenance costs. In addition, NOV is using these ...

A blowout preventer (BOP) is pressure control safety equipment that is used during the drilling and completion of oil and gas wells. In the event of a loss of well control, the BOP serves as the final safeguard by shearing ...

Offshore drilling is an activity known for the several challenges and risks that when not well managed can end up in a catastrophic situation. Recent technology discoveries have made drilling much safer than ever, but economic cycles bring another variable ...

Historically, Marathon Oil modeled wells, equipment, and metadata in PI and PI Asset Framework (AF) for consumption by users, digital oilfield dashboards and analytics. As Marathon’s implementation of digital oil field technology and analytics increased, so has the complexity of ...

The current oil&gas market is characterised by high instability and low prices, leading to cost cutting and investments reduction. This scenario highlights the operating assets need to achieve maximum exploitation performance through optimization actions focused on the entire production system. ...

iUp is a system that gives engineers the tools they need to see how oil wells are performing and prevent failures by using analysis tools and predictive algorithms. The system consists of a SCADA system based on iFix that takes ...

There are several analytics tools and approaches available for working with PI data: Performance Equations, AF analytics, custom data references, PI ACE, PI DataLInk and Business Intelligence (BI) tools. It can be a quandary in determining which tool should you ...

As part a larger project to monitor a large number of distributed wind farms throughout the US and Canada, the customer desired to have visibility into substation status information. This included showing substation one-line diagrams, voltage regulation status, breaker status, ...

This session will showcase a weather application designed using the new OSIsoft Cloud Services (OCS). A backyard weather station was used as a data source for a live and historical data source. Forecasted data was then added to provide a ...

In today’s energy marketplace, poor energy awareness and a lack of data visibility coupled with the technical complexities of DER integration leads to a gap in local Advanced Energy Community development. DERNetSoft provides a scalable solution to this issue, making ...

Data quality is critical in the success of data-driven decisions. Issues with data will impact users across the organization- from operators, engineers, data scientists, to leaders. Answering business intelligence questions such as “which assets are performing well and which are ...

New to the PI System? Wondering what the hype is around big data, unstructured data, and what it has to do with you? Attend this session to find out how it all fits together. This talk is uniquely designed for ...

Wondering how you’ll navigate which PI World sessions to attend? Have no fear; you are not alone. This talk is uniquely designed for those who have never used the PI System and are first-time OSIsoft conference attendees. This talk offers ...

New to the PI System? Want to learn how others in your industry are monitoring their assets? Find out what it takes and get familiar with the main PI System components that can help you kick off an asset-monitoring or ...

Sensor data in its raw form is not enough to monitor and make decisions on complex processes or systems. Equations from physics, thermodynamics, and other disciplines are used to make sensor data actionable. If you want to go further and ...

Introduction and overview of state of the industry by our Power Generation Industry Principal

Portland General Electric (PGE) Company is a vertically integrated, investor-owned energy utility in Northwest Oregon. It operates numerous generating facilities and has a diverse portfolio of 17 assets, including 400 wind turbines, 2 large hydro complexes, 4 combined-cycle plants, a ...

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has taken bold steps towards OT/IT integration by designing the industry’s first ever Integrated Smart Operations Center (iSOC) that combines Asset Health, IT Network Health, Cyber Health, and Physical Security in a unified space. Utilizing ...

Vistra Energy acquired Dynegy in 2018, creating a nationwide power generation fleet with leading positions in ERCOT, ISO-NE, PJM and MISO via 57 generation facilities. This presentation will describe how Vistra Energy onboarded the generation units into their existing monitoring ...

Energy Development Corporation is now embarking on a PI System Digitalization Strategy to optimize their Power Plant operations and maximize their Geothermal Steamfields. They have 4 major sites in the Philippines making them the 2nd largest Geothermal Energy producing company ...

Uniper started its 3-year Digitization journey in 2016. A major element of the program is the consistent and harmonized introduction of the OSIsoft PI System for our asset fleet. Now, 2/3 through the program, Uniper leverages the central availability of machine data to optimize its maintenance CAPEX budget and reduced it by 16% for 2019.

Power Factors' CTO Matt Brocklehurst will share how to use the latest in cloud technology to drive down the portfolio levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Matt will present a cloud-based "system of engagement" -- built on the PI System -- ...

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) is an industry leader in gas turbine technology. The MHPS Remote Monitoring Center (RMC) monitors gas turbines and steam turbines across the Americas, with a new undertaking into Total Plant Monitoring. The RMC uses the ...

Gain insights and overview of OSIsoft's Pervasive Data Collection Products & Technologies. - PI Connectors and PI Interfaces - Edge Data Store - Open Source devices - OMF applications and connected sensors See benefits and constrast of Data Connectivity options ...

Ready to take your data infrastructure to the next level? Catch the highlight reel of the most powerful and secure PI System yet, and see the state of the possible for your advanced analytics with PI Integrators. This talk will ...

Visualizing data is one of the critical steps to gaining insights and optimizing your operations. PI Vision, OSIsoft's unified visualization infrastructure, is your window into operational intelligence from building and sharing dashboards across the enterprise to trending and analyzing data ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services is a newly developed, cloud native platform, built for real time operational data. Operational data is transferred between PI Systems and OCS and also between Edge components and OCS. OCS makes data highly available, empowers users to ...

To OSIsoft customers and partners, PI System is an integral part of the critical operations which require a high level of reliability and security of this data infrastructure. Join us as we walk through the latest features PI System 2018 ...

In the treasure hunt for operational insights, OSIsoft provides the data infrastructure you need to strike it rich. While customers and partners have been using the PI System and PI Integrators for years to uncover insights, OSIsoft continues to invest ...

The Industrial IoT is making it possible to gain new insights from remote and otherwise unreachable assets but it’s often difficult to know where to start. In addition, on premises assets and systems are being upgraded with new technologies to ...

With PI Vision 2019, OSIsoft is providing a path forward for migrating PI ProcessBook displays into PI Vision. Join us as we walk through this process from analyzing and reviewing PI ProcessBook displays to migrating and viewing them in PI ...

Using PI Web API and Microsoft PowerApps to Build Real World Apps With Your PI Data. In this talk, we show an alternative way to create custom apps with your PI Data using PI Web API and Microsoft PowerApps. Learn ...

This How-To presentation walks you through the steps using the PI Integrator for Business Analytics to stream data out of a PI System, through a Kafka server, and perform real-time analytics using Spark to drive an automatic decision-make process.

PI Vision 3 Extensibility is a powerful model that enables you to write custom symbols and tool panes for use in PI Vision displays, including unique or industry-specific ways of visualizing PI data. This Live Coding presentation walks you through ...

All too often projects fail because the capabilities of your programming toolstack are not being exploited to their fullest. We will show you how to break out of this vertical-stack prison by demonstrating how concurrent programming works. You will be ...

Learn how to generate API client libraries using Open API 2.0 specifications and use them to interact with PI Web API REST endpoints.

An increasing number of organizations are migrating their IT workloads to cloud platforms as part of their digital transformation and cloud first initiatives. New techniques have emerged to ease some of these challenges with automating deployments of network, storage and ...

This presentation aims to demystify the world of AF SDK query performance. In developer technologies support we often encounter cases where customers would like to know what is the best way to use the AF SDK to query large amounts ...

OSIsoft Cloud Services Sneak-Preview for Developers. Join the OSIsoft Cloud Services team as we show you our technical roadmap for OCS (OSIsoft Cloud Services) and how our developer technologies for cloud will enable you to unlock your operations data in ...

Create applications to monitor PI Analysis Service. In this live coding session, we will learn how to query analyses runtime information from PI Analysis Service via new AF SDK calls. These queries will be used to build a lightweight application ...

Modernizing PI SQL For The Future:  New Clients, a New Engine, and New Integration Ideas. OSIsoft debuted the Real-Time Query Processor which modernizes and simplifies the SQL language interface to the PI Server, making it easier than ever to use ...

Introduction and overview of state of the industry by our Transmission & Distribution Industry Principal

JEA compiled a list of IIoT use cases and business needs from electric generation, T&D, water, and wastewater and realized we needed a common approach for tackling similar needs from diverse business units, all running different Industrial Control Systems. FogLAMP ...

After years of manually stitching together data from a number of disparate sources, the Energy Queensland plant ratings team now has access to realtime, weather-adjusted overhead line ratings across Queensland. Made possible through a number of key PI technologies, the ...

APS, an investor-owned electric utility in the American Southwest, has long used the PI System throughout its operations and since 2011 has monitored 10 utility-scale solar sites with PI. In 2018, APS conducted a project to transform the way the ...

Adversary groups and activities targeting industrial control systems are on the rise. Security teams are now tasked with defending increasingly complex and critical control systems without interrupting operations. This presentation highlights plans and progress of a large public electric utility ...

Distributed energy management systems (DERMS) play a critical role in an increasingly renewable generation world. But most DERMS have had limited success in meeting a customers’ ultimate need: reliability. And while strong on scheduling and optimization of resources, DERMS cannot ...

RPU relies on a variety of information systems, applications and databases to support its daily business processes. The applications and databases used consist of commercial off-the-shelf applications, internally developed applications, databases and spreadsheets. These formats are not interchangeable, which makes ...

Off-the-shelf drones that can be modified to wreak havoc are available on Amazon for as little as a few hundred dollars. These tiny flying machines can travel up to 75 mph, be launched more than 25 miles away from their ...

After intense rains in two structures, an overtopping occurred due to sudden elevation in the reservoir level, putting the stability of the structures at risk, which could lead to rupture. In order to improve the levels of security and monitoring ...

Welcome to an exciting day of best practices and stories about digital transformation and its impacts in water, energy, and facilities.

This presentation will run through how to connect traditional DDC systems to PI, and what to do with the data once it is connected. Specifically, RoviSys is developing a Tridium - PI connector that will be able to duplicate tag hierarchy ...

The UC Davis campus operates as a mini-city, with its own utilities serving about 1,200 buildings. Operating data from these systems is stored in a PI database. Two teams within Facilities Management use PI data to generate operational improvements and ...

Jacobs operates and maintains facility infrastructure at NASA Langley Research Center as the prime contractor on the Center Maintenance and Operations and Engineering contract. The program is routinely benchmarked by near peers and is often globally cited as a leader ...

Increasing penetrations of intermittent renewable sources of energy on the grid introduces a new element of uncertainty into the grid and complex energy systems. Energy storage is a key enabling technology to resolving some of these intermittency issues. However, the ...

The main objective of this work is present the implementation of the PI-System in Sabesp (Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo) and cover the functionalities created, the resources used, such as the PI -AF and PI-Vision assets ...

Data is everywhere and can be overwhelming. The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) water and sewer system is made up of 55+ major facilities and 500+ remote monitoring locations. These facilities generate a tremendous amount of data 24/7/365. Spatial visualization ...

Cal Water produces over 5 billion gallons of water per year. Our challenge is keeping track of each gallon- its source, cost and location. We changed our computer assisted production reporting process into a digitally transformed process - a process ...

Caso de éxito presentado por CENACE Ecuador, en donde se tenía el objetivo de deesarrollar una herramienta para toma de decisión de ejecutar un redespacho por desvío de demanda, minimizando el costo de producción evitando el ingreso de generación térmica, con el reto de utilizar la información histórica validada y la información de tiempo real. La solución llegó con PI System, que permitió utilizar la información disponible en los sitemas de CENACE y así disminuir la elaboración de redespachos con desvíos de la demanda, se logró utilizar la minería de datos e inteligencia artificial para realizar pronósticos de la demanda, estadística de cargabilidades, etc.

Caso de éxito de YPF, presentando por un antiguo colaborador, en donde se presenta cómo PI System benefició a la empresa a través de: Organización de Información SCADA con PI AssetFramework; Visualización en HTML 5 con PI OLEDB Enterprise y PI web API; Visualización de datos en línea con PI Vision, Mostrar instalaciones en su ubicación geográfica con PI Integrator for EsriArcGIS, entre muchos otros.

En esta presentación se explica un caso de éxito en el sector de Utilities, y a través de este se exponen los motivos para cambiar el enfoque de mantenimiento, la estrategia y la metodologíaa de mantenimiento, se pone en marca un sistema de mantenimiento inteligente y se refuerza el valor del mantenimiento inteligente que se logra através de PI System.

Conferencia impartida por ESRI, en donde explica cómo la tecnología de la localización impulsa el crecimiento de los negocios. Explica la integración que existe entre ESRI & OSIsoft, que logra objetivos específicos en las industrias, como detectar problemas, compartir información entre áreas, mitigar riesgos y localizar activos.

Caso de éxito presentado por Biocosta, empresa que genera valor en la agroindustria de aceite, al ser el principal exportador de aceite de palma así como producir el único. Su sistema ERP (SIESA) se diseñó para el cálculo de cuentas y finanzas para un proceso por lotes (Control de piso) y su proceso continuo químico (justo a tiempo). Tenían la necesidad de convertir variables continuas en discretas en un periodo de tiempo corto para que sus sistema ERP lo pudiera identificar.

La presentación se enfoca en la Visualización de Análisis de Datos para Operaciones Industriales y muestra las maneras de encontrar las mejores herramientas de BI y PI System. La oportunidad para las Operaciones Críticas está en combinar análisis de activos con resultados de ciencia de datos operacionalizados, con el uso de herramientas de visualización como PI Vison, PI Data Link, etc.

Uso del PI System en el Área Distribución de UTE

Se trata de un sistema en tiempo real, que valiéndose de la información historizada de la telemetría de un pozo productor, realiza análisis sobre estos datos históricos para identificar y/o predecir potenciales eventos no deseables en cada pozo, para ser expuestos en un tablero de control por excepciones.

Se realizará una presentación con una reseña histórica de la empresa y sus objetivos. Continuando con la implementación de PI System, y como ésta benefició a Cargill a través de sus herramientas, utilizándolas para diversos propósitos en diferentes áreas y distintas unidades de negocio.

Después de mucho tiempo de recolectar e historizar datos comenzamos a gestionarlos y ordenarlos. Ahora es el momento de generar información, de facilitar las tareas y de alcanzar la verdadera meta final ayudando a las decisiones de negocio.

En esta presentación describiremos el proceso de digitalización en una de la Bombas de Alimentación de agua de Planta Genelba. Situación Inicial: 1. En el Sistema de Control de Planta se poseen mediciones de temperaturas, presión de descarga y flujo de agua; 2. Se realizan recorridas mensuales de un técnico para recolectar datos de vibraciones de manera local. A partir de la Digitalización de la Bomba en AF/PI Vision se obtuvo: Situación Actual: 1. Detección de fallas de forma temprana mediante el monitoreo y análisis online de las vibraciones en los equipos. Correlacionando estos datos con otras variables del proceso. Situación Futura: 1. Integración en AF de los nuevos Modelos Predictivos desarrollados en Matlab; 2. Analizar la posibilidad de vinculación con Meridian / SAP.

PI AF Empoderando las Soluciones y la Escalabilidad

Hoy en día, la analítica promete ofrecer nuevas eficiencias dentro de las operaciones industriales. Para maximizar el valor de la analítica industrial, se necesita un enfoque estratégico que aborde las herramientas de nube, empresariales y edge para los datos de operaciones, al tiempo que minimiza los retrasos y fallas por la inaccesibilidad de los datos, el procesamiento intensivo de los datos y la mala calidad de los datos. Una estrategia exitosa de análisis industrial requiere un enfoque de infraestructura de datos que fomente la confianza y esté optimizado para el análisis operativo de toda la empresa.Esta sesión de introducción presenta las últimas tendencias dentro de la analítica industrial, destaca las mejores prácticas para el éxito y muestra cómo el PI System de OSIsoft, Edge y la tecnología en la nube son compatibles con diferentes tipos de análisis para diferentes audiencias, desde ingenieros y gerentes hasta científicos de datos en grupos de TI y OT.

Muchas de las herramientas de análisis visual actuales han sido creadas para aplicaciones y usuarios de negocio y financieros. Los gerentes e ingenieros de operaciones necesitan herramientas de análisis específicamente diseñadas para operaciones industriales, que puedan entregar perspectivas sobre el proceso y el desempeño de los equipos en tiempo real. En esta sesión, exploraremos distintos métodos de visualización para descubrir las opciones que mejor se adaptan a sus necesidades operativas y de negocio. Demostraremos cómo los ingenieros industriales pueden fácilmente construir vistas operativas con PI Vision, usar herramientas como PI DataLink para la exploración ad hoc de datos en Excel, y aprovechar Power BI de Microsoft para reportar conjuntamente datos de negocio y operativos – todo esto con mínimas habilidades técnicas.

Para aprovechar los datos operacionales a largo de la empresa, necesita habilitar el consumo de datos por parte de más personas: ingenieros de mantenimiento, gerentes generales, científicos de datos y ejecutivos. Desde el acceso y la exploración en tiempo real hasta los reportes y análisis operativos, los usuarios tienen datos, tecnologías y necesidades diferentes. Los gerentes deben saber si los objetivos se están alcanzando. Los analistas necesitan datos operativos integrados con datos de negocio. Los científicos de datos necesitan un conjunto de datos operativos limpio para entrenar algoritmos de Machine Learning para lograr realizar predicciones. Pero los datos operativos crudos pueden ser difíciles de entender, difíciles de acceder en tiempo real y difíciles de consumir sin un amplio procesamiento, que lleva a problemas de confianza y calidad. En esta sesión, mostraremos cómo las capacidades del PI System pueden utilizarse para recolectar, estructurar, procesar y satisfacer las necesidades de análisis de diferentes actores a lo largo de la empresa, asegurando que cualquier persona pueda acceder, entender y confiar en los datos.

Aplicación y uso de analíticos para operaciones exitosas, con PI System

En busca de un mayor control de la información para así optimizar sus operaciones Buenaventura opta por utilizar PI System para recolectar, analizar, visualizar y compartir grandes cantidades de datos históricos, logrando esto, a través del desarrollo de Dashboards personalizados, los cuales nos proveen de argumentos necesarios para una correcta toma de decisiones, y así lograr la transformación global del negocio y estar al nivel de otras grandes mineras transnacionales.A lo largo de la presentación se habláran de cinco puntos clave para Buenaventura, los cuales se desarrollaron utilizando PI System, siendo estas: automatización de reportes en planta, monitoreo en infraestructura de red, desarrollo de Dashboards personalizados, gestión de eventos en equipos (downtime) e integración de PI con aplicaciones existentes (SAP-QLIK), logrando con esto obtener los datos correctos, en el momento apropiado, al nivel adecuado y para la persona correcta.

En esta presentación, Gonzalo Merciel, con experiencia en los proyectos de YPF explica cómo la unión de los equipos de Ingeniería, Producción, Mantenimiento, Gerencia y Tecnología de Operaciones, posibilitó la construcción de una jerarquía de activos en Asset Framework (AF) que brinda datos consolidados para el análisis y la toma de decisiones logrando aumentar la productividad de la empresa.

UNACEM presentará su experiencia respecto a la analítica de datos, que les ha permitido la evaluación respecto a la capacidad norminal de producción de la máquina y la evaluación respecto al desempeño operacional.El proyecto que implementaron tiene como objetivo medir el uso de las máquinas respecto a la capacidad nominal y a sus responsables en cada turno y evaluar cómo los operadores mantienen la estabilidad de los procesos de cada máquina en base a las señales principales y por turno.

Existe un reto al trasladar los datos de operaciones al negocio, y existen 6 formas de habilitar TI con datos operativos para beneficio del negocio. A través de una presentación didática con casos de negocio, se explican estas maneras de lograrlo.

Muchas de las herramientas de análisis visual actuales han sido creadas para aplicaciones y usuarios de negocio y financieros. Los gerentes e ingenieros de operaciones necesitan herramientas de análisis específicamente diseñadas para operaciones industriales, que puedan entregar perspectivas sobre el proceso y el desempeño de los equipos en tiempo real. En esta sesión, exploraremos distintos métodos de visualización para descubrir las opciones que mejor se adaptan a sus necesidades operativas y de negocio. Demostraremos cómo los ingenieros industriales pueden fácilmente construir vistas operativas con PI Vision, usar herramientas como PI DataLink para la exploración ad hoc de datos en Excel, y aprovechar Power BI de Microsoft para reportar conjuntamente datos de negocio y operativos – todo esto con mínimas habilidades técnicas.

Aplicación y uso de analíticos para operaciones exitosas, con PI System

Conferencia impartida por Accenture, en donde se aborda el panorama de los analíticos y la terminología, el paso de los sistemas de decisiones humanas a las decisiones de las máquinas; Bases para los analíticos predictivos, Normas y un caso de éxito de la compañía a través del uso de PI System.

Caso de éxito presentado por Mitsui, empresa que proporciona servicios para la Administración, Operación y Mnatenimiento a MT Falcon, Valladolid y EDI &EDP. En donde se platica de la relación entre PI System de Osisoft y Mitsui, ya que cuentan con varias herramientas con PI Processbook, PI Asset Framework, PI Data Link, PI Builder en su día a día. Se mencionan las aplicaciones de PI System en la industria eléctrica; así como las Pruebas de concepto que llevaron a cabo en Mitsui, hacia la industria 4.0, con la creación de modelos para la predicción de energía para venta de excedente.

Caso de éxito presentado por Kimball Electronics, empresa líder en manufactura por contrato. Con el reto de tener equipos que cuentan con su propio Software de monitoreo, pero los datos no son compatidos, y los análisis estadísticos tenían que ser realizados manualmente después de extrar la información a cada equipo. A través de PI System de OSIsoft, se logró tener un repositorio centralizado de datos. Esto generó un ahorro de entre $50k y $100k USD evitando el sorteo de material en la planta del cliente, y al mismo tiempo ahorro tiempo y recursos para determinar una causa raíz.

Conferencia impartida por PwC, que muestra cifras relevantes para conocer la manera en que la Industria 4.0 puede apoyar el desarrollo sostenible, considerando los desafíos más urgentes de la tierra y las Tecnologías para lograro. A través del PI System de OSIsoft, se logran beneficios como monitoreo de los consumos energéticos en plantas industriales, integración con datos de producción a través de SAP, ERP, etc; gráficos compartivas y predictivas entre otros.

Existe un reto al trasladar los datos de operaciones al negocio, y existen 6 formas de habilitar TI con datos operativos para beneficio del negocio. A través de una presentación didática con casos de negocio, se explican estas maneras de lograrlo.

Se expone el caso práctico, en el que el objetivo era la Optimización de las Instalaciones de SLTC para mejorar la eficiencia energética del edificio optimizando el arranque de las unidades de Enfriamiento de Volumen de Aire Variable (VAVCO). Se descubrió el problema de hardware defectuoso de la compuerta de la unidad VAV (Siempre abierta) y que 1 unidad de aire acondicionado se estaba iniciando mucho antes de lo esperado. Después de esto se mencionan las acciones que se llevaron a cabo.

Utilizando algoritmos inteligentes e automatização de processos para algumas rotinas operacionais do Centro de Operação da Geração (que coordena e opera 14 usinas hidrelétricas e 11 eólicas com potência total de 3 GMW) como, o Controle Hidráulico, Trasmissão de Dados a Stakeholders e Consolidação da Medição de Faturamento, foram obtidos ganhos substanciais em termos de redução de custos e confiabilidade aos processos do COG.

Caso prático de um PI AF bem estruturado que promove a facilidade de rollout tanto de estrutura quanto de aplicação cliente. O foco do projeto é no controle de eficiência energética em duas unidades engarrafadoras. Foram mapeados os equipamentos de maior criticidade do processo e então representados no PI AF. Para monitoramento destes KPIs foi desenvolvida uma aplicação Web em formato de TreeMap com navegação Drill Down; permitindo a rastreabilidade da causa raiz de uma eventual ineficiência. A aplicação foi desenvolvida inicialmente em uma unidade e posteriormente replicada com muita facilidade, realizando apenas a modelagem do PI AF.

Utilização do PI System para Cálculos de Performance de Plantas de Geração Eólica e Solar

Implementação do PI System na Diretoria Metropolitana da Sabesp para otimizar a gestão, agilizar a tomada de decisão e aumentar a satisfação dos clientes. Estes objetivos foram atingidos por meio da integração de informações dos processos negócio do Ciclo do Saneamento e do monitoramento on-line de indicadores, disponibilizando ferramentas de análise e relatórios pré-formatados pela Intranet Sabesp

Hoje, analytics está prometendo fornecer novas eficiências nas operações industriais. Para maximizar o valor da análise industrial, você precisa de uma abordagem estratégica que trate de ferramentas de borda, corporativas e de nuvem para dados operacionais, minimizando atrasos e falhas de inacessibilidade de dados, processamento intensivo de dados e baixa qualidade de dados. Uma estratégia de análise industrial bem-sucedida exige uma abordagem de infraestrutura de dados que promova a confiança e seja otimizada para análises operacionais em toda a empresa.Esta sessão apresenta as tendências mais recentes de Analytics industrial, destaca as melhores práticas de sucesso e mostra como o PI System, a tecnologia de borda e a nuvem suporta diferentes tipos de análise para diferentes públicos - desde engenheiros e gerentes até cientistas de dados nos grupos TI e TO.

Em grande parte, as ferramentas de visualização foram desenvolvidas para ambientes e usuários financeiros e comerciais. Gerentes, técnicos e engenheiros necessitam de ferramentas para análises industriais que forneçam insights focados no desempenho de processos e equipamentos. Nesta sessão será apresentado o ferramental de visualização adequado à sua necessidade de negócio. Demonstraremos qual a melhor escolha caso necessite de um relatório, tela sinótica, dashboard ou ferramenta de Business Intelligence.

Estratégias de Integração com Cloud

Nesta sessão vamos visitar os desafios no uso de novas ferramentas de Analytics com dados de processo, discutir como o PI System e os PI Integrators entregam informações prontas para Analytics, mostrar como os especialistas de processo podem, facilmente, curar os dados de forma a torná-los compreensíveis pelas áreas de negócio e discutir como ferramentas de Advanced Analytics como Amazon, SAP e Microsoft podem consumir estes dados para análises precisas e com qualidade