ARC Advisory Group's 2014 European Industry Forum in the Netherlands included this interesting presentation from Willem Hazenberg of Stork on control system migration.
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Adrian Gonzalez.
Mobile Internet usage is and will be bigger than most people think.
Use of mobile technologies by consumers is growing quickly, especially in Asia and emerging economies. This will impact supply chains.
Mobile + Social Media = Process Innovation
Supply chain software vendors are investing heavily in mobile solutions.
Early adopters, including CPG companies and 3PLs, are already achieving benefits.
ARC’s 19th Annual Industry Forum in Orlando drew more than 700 participants from approximately 300 different companies and 25 countries. The theme for this year's Forum, "Industry in Transition: The Information-driven Enterprise for the Connected World," resonated well with attendees, many who are currently trying to get a handle on the latest Internet-enabled automation and information technologies and determine if and how they can enable competitive advantage.
Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry ForumARC Advisory Group
Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Sid Snitkin.
AIM is Important => Every Organizations Should Assess the Potential Benefits of Better AIM (See ARC AIM Cost Models)
AIM is More Than Technology => Build an AIM Strategy Considering Goals, People, Processes and Technology (See ARC AIM Strategy Development Process)
AIM Solutions Vary Significantly => Understand Your Needs First and Identify the Portfolio of Solutions That Really Satisfy Them (See ARC AIM Technology Models)
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Andy Chatha.
Today’s Business Drivers
Uncertainty
Security
Scarce Resources
Need to Go Green
Global Competition
Changing Workforce
Increasing Regulations
Emerging Smart Grid
Easy IT Solutions
Today’s business drivers demand agility
Plotting the Path to Autonomous OperationsYokogawa1
Digital transformation (DX) is becoming the journey towards autonomous operations across devices, equipment, business and process systems. The application of advanced intelligence and cognitive technologies across operations, supply chain planning / scheduling / distribution, engineering, field operations, and maintenance is enabling adaptive and dynamic responses to market changes and asset disturbances. It also enables real time self-optimization of processes. High levels of industrial autonomy require a strong automation base layer; procedure automation; use of more intelligent sensors; remote surveillance and inspection through traditional approaches and with robotics and drones; digital twins; artificial intelligence (AI), and other analytics to monitor, predict, and mitigate process and equipment failures. This presentation will provide an overview of the levels of industrial autonomy and applications. Furthermore, it will show what companies can do today and in the future to achieve autonomous operations.
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Mobile Technologies and Supply Chain @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Adrian Gonzalez.
Mobile Internet usage is and will be bigger than most people think.
Use of mobile technologies by consumers is growing quickly, especially in Asia and emerging economies. This will impact supply chains.
Mobile + Social Media = Process Innovation
Supply chain software vendors are investing heavily in mobile solutions.
Early adopters, including CPG companies and 3PLs, are already achieving benefits.
ARC’s 19th Annual Industry Forum in Orlando drew more than 700 participants from approximately 300 different companies and 25 countries. The theme for this year's Forum, "Industry in Transition: The Information-driven Enterprise for the Connected World," resonated well with attendees, many who are currently trying to get a handle on the latest Internet-enabled automation and information technologies and determine if and how they can enable competitive advantage.
Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry ForumARC Advisory Group
Asset Information Management (AIM) Presentation @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Sid Snitkin.
AIM is Important => Every Organizations Should Assess the Potential Benefits of Better AIM (See ARC AIM Cost Models)
AIM is More Than Technology => Build an AIM Strategy Considering Goals, People, Processes and Technology (See ARC AIM Strategy Development Process)
AIM Solutions Vary Significantly => Understand Your Needs First and Identify the Portfolio of Solutions That Really Satisfy Them (See ARC AIM Technology Models)
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum ARC Advisory Group
Driving Innovation, Sustainability and Performance @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Andy Chatha.
Today’s Business Drivers
Uncertainty
Security
Scarce Resources
Need to Go Green
Global Competition
Changing Workforce
Increasing Regulations
Emerging Smart Grid
Easy IT Solutions
Today’s business drivers demand agility
Plotting the Path to Autonomous OperationsYokogawa1
Digital transformation (DX) is becoming the journey towards autonomous operations across devices, equipment, business and process systems. The application of advanced intelligence and cognitive technologies across operations, supply chain planning / scheduling / distribution, engineering, field operations, and maintenance is enabling adaptive and dynamic responses to market changes and asset disturbances. It also enables real time self-optimization of processes. High levels of industrial autonomy require a strong automation base layer; procedure automation; use of more intelligent sensors; remote surveillance and inspection through traditional approaches and with robotics and drones; digital twins; artificial intelligence (AI), and other analytics to monitor, predict, and mitigate process and equipment failures. This presentation will provide an overview of the levels of industrial autonomy and applications. Furthermore, it will show what companies can do today and in the future to achieve autonomous operations.
An overview of what it is and how it can benefit your operations. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the lifecycle management of the physical assets of an organization. An asset can be such things as machines, equipment, tools, buildings, plants, vehicles or ships.
Try IBM Maximo today: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/maximo
Application Management Service OfferingsGss America
GSS America extends support for Application Development and Maintenance initiatives and helps customers focus on their strategic priorities. The cost effective AMS solutions from GSS ensures that customers achieve significant savings on running their business operations, so that they can channel these savings towards new product development initiatives that contribute to additional revenue generation.
After fully exploiting digital computing technology to enable safe and efficient operation since the 1970s, the tank farm and terminal industry is in the midst of a major step change as organizations apply advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to the massive operational data they have collected. Applications of digital transformation technologies are ultimately leading to the autonomous terminal. An autonomous terminal possesses comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and limitations; it works with operators to provide maximum operational safety and efficiency. To realize the autonomous terminal, digital transformation is inevitable and includes fully digitalized execution, digitalized information exchange with all internal and external stakeholders, digitalized asset optimization and fully automated operations. Participants in this session will learn how to realize broad-based benefits and how operations should continuously improve in a sustainable manner.
Reduce Operational Costs in Healthcare by Adopting Lean Application Support ...HCL Technologies
Application Support and Maintenance (ASM) is an RTB spend that has increased over time. Primarily, this is because ASM has become an important, recurring revenue stream for IT Vendors, who are therefore less inclined to help the CIO radically lower this spend. Therefore, the very contract that defines and protects this predictable revenue for IT vendors, tends to limit cost savings for the CIO. While other IT Vendors are motivated to keep growing their ASM engagement, it is important to proactively try to kill it by adopting cost reduction approaches.
ARC's Sid Snitkin & Ralph Rio's AIM Workshop at ARC's 2009 Industry ForumARC Advisory Group
ARC's Sid Snitkin & Ralph Rio's AIM Workshop at ARC's 2009 Industry Forum in Orlando, FL.
What Is Asset Information?
What Is Its Role in Asset Lifecycle Management?
Asset Information enables ALM Stakeholders to
Perform. For Good Performance, it must answer:
• any reasonable question,
• about any asset,
• for any ALM stakeholder
• in a way that supports their workflow
Asset Information is the “Virtual Asset” that Humans need to understand, analyze and improve the Physical Asset
Data Center Infrastructure Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Data Center Infrastructure Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. You can present key drivers for sustainable infrastructure by using our readily available PPT slide deck. The PowerPoint slide deck helps to illustrate the market size, key funding areas of infrastructure, key technology trends in infrastructure in a presentable manner. Further, the slideshow also showcases the asset management process with lifecycle and framework. Utilize our visually-attention-grabbing asset infrastructure PowerPoint templates to mention inventory assets for manufacturing companies. Showcase the deterioration modeling and the types of deterioration modeling such as asset and risk assessment deterioration modeling with the help of asset infrastructure PPT visual. With this infrastructure management PPT slide deck, explain each deterioration modeling in detail using this PPT slideshow. It is possible to depict asset management decision journey, and performance and cost functions by downloading this PPT presentation. https://bit.ly/3c8cORj
Achieving “services” business process excellence: Metrics-driven best practic...Genpact Ltd
With Aftermarket Services (AMS) rapidly becoming both a competitive differentiator and a growth mechanism, manufacturers would do well to shift to a service factory model, which can reduce service costs for AMS by 20% and increase service revenue by 25%.
ILAP (held at the 3rd Digital Oilfield Summit)André Torkveen
The presentation I gave back in October ’15. The conference was held in London by ACI (see http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/digital-oilfield-summit-europe/)
Maximo has traditionally been a very powerful maintenance management tool, but with pressures from a new younger workforce and competing products, there are a lot of new and exciting investment areas coming up for 2016.
Making the Business Case for Remote Service CapabilitiesPTC
Manufacturers are looking to make their service more efficient and more profitable. Adopting remote service capabilities allows OEMs to move from vendor to partner, building customer trust along the way.
Managing and Rationalizing the Application Portfolio with CA PPMCA Technologies
One of the fastest-growing business usages for CA Project and Portfolio Manager (CA PPM) is application portfolio management. More and more organizations are implementing CA PPM to first understand and manage projects and portfolio, and then taking the next step to leverage for application management. In this session, learn about Application Portfolio Management in the financial services industry.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Facility personnel often face the choice of maintaining aging equipment or buying new. Now there is another, more cost-effective, option to increase equipment reliability, efficiency and productivity….modernization. Learn key considerations and advantages of upgrading existing equipment to current technology.
A survey by Schneider Electric in the US revealed that predictive maintenance services can lead to 25% reduction in cost. Learn about industrial IoT framework that enables PdM
An overview of what it is and how it can benefit your operations. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the lifecycle management of the physical assets of an organization. An asset can be such things as machines, equipment, tools, buildings, plants, vehicles or ships.
Try IBM Maximo today: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/maximo
Application Management Service OfferingsGss America
GSS America extends support for Application Development and Maintenance initiatives and helps customers focus on their strategic priorities. The cost effective AMS solutions from GSS ensures that customers achieve significant savings on running their business operations, so that they can channel these savings towards new product development initiatives that contribute to additional revenue generation.
After fully exploiting digital computing technology to enable safe and efficient operation since the 1970s, the tank farm and terminal industry is in the midst of a major step change as organizations apply advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to the massive operational data they have collected. Applications of digital transformation technologies are ultimately leading to the autonomous terminal. An autonomous terminal possesses comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and limitations; it works with operators to provide maximum operational safety and efficiency. To realize the autonomous terminal, digital transformation is inevitable and includes fully digitalized execution, digitalized information exchange with all internal and external stakeholders, digitalized asset optimization and fully automated operations. Participants in this session will learn how to realize broad-based benefits and how operations should continuously improve in a sustainable manner.
Reduce Operational Costs in Healthcare by Adopting Lean Application Support ...HCL Technologies
Application Support and Maintenance (ASM) is an RTB spend that has increased over time. Primarily, this is because ASM has become an important, recurring revenue stream for IT Vendors, who are therefore less inclined to help the CIO radically lower this spend. Therefore, the very contract that defines and protects this predictable revenue for IT vendors, tends to limit cost savings for the CIO. While other IT Vendors are motivated to keep growing their ASM engagement, it is important to proactively try to kill it by adopting cost reduction approaches.
ARC's Sid Snitkin & Ralph Rio's AIM Workshop at ARC's 2009 Industry ForumARC Advisory Group
ARC's Sid Snitkin & Ralph Rio's AIM Workshop at ARC's 2009 Industry Forum in Orlando, FL.
What Is Asset Information?
What Is Its Role in Asset Lifecycle Management?
Asset Information enables ALM Stakeholders to
Perform. For Good Performance, it must answer:
• any reasonable question,
• about any asset,
• for any ALM stakeholder
• in a way that supports their workflow
Asset Information is the “Virtual Asset” that Humans need to understand, analyze and improve the Physical Asset
Data Center Infrastructure Management Powerpoint Presentation SlidesSlideTeam
Introducing Data Center Infrastructure Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides. You can present key drivers for sustainable infrastructure by using our readily available PPT slide deck. The PowerPoint slide deck helps to illustrate the market size, key funding areas of infrastructure, key technology trends in infrastructure in a presentable manner. Further, the slideshow also showcases the asset management process with lifecycle and framework. Utilize our visually-attention-grabbing asset infrastructure PowerPoint templates to mention inventory assets for manufacturing companies. Showcase the deterioration modeling and the types of deterioration modeling such as asset and risk assessment deterioration modeling with the help of asset infrastructure PPT visual. With this infrastructure management PPT slide deck, explain each deterioration modeling in detail using this PPT slideshow. It is possible to depict asset management decision journey, and performance and cost functions by downloading this PPT presentation. https://bit.ly/3c8cORj
Achieving “services” business process excellence: Metrics-driven best practic...Genpact Ltd
With Aftermarket Services (AMS) rapidly becoming both a competitive differentiator and a growth mechanism, manufacturers would do well to shift to a service factory model, which can reduce service costs for AMS by 20% and increase service revenue by 25%.
ILAP (held at the 3rd Digital Oilfield Summit)André Torkveen
The presentation I gave back in October ’15. The conference was held in London by ACI (see http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/event/digital-oilfield-summit-europe/)
Maximo has traditionally been a very powerful maintenance management tool, but with pressures from a new younger workforce and competing products, there are a lot of new and exciting investment areas coming up for 2016.
Making the Business Case for Remote Service CapabilitiesPTC
Manufacturers are looking to make their service more efficient and more profitable. Adopting remote service capabilities allows OEMs to move from vendor to partner, building customer trust along the way.
Managing and Rationalizing the Application Portfolio with CA PPMCA Technologies
One of the fastest-growing business usages for CA Project and Portfolio Manager (CA PPM) is application portfolio management. More and more organizations are implementing CA PPM to first understand and manage projects and portfolio, and then taking the next step to leverage for application management. In this session, learn about Application Portfolio Management in the financial services industry.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Facility personnel often face the choice of maintaining aging equipment or buying new. Now there is another, more cost-effective, option to increase equipment reliability, efficiency and productivity….modernization. Learn key considerations and advantages of upgrading existing equipment to current technology.
A survey by Schneider Electric in the US revealed that predictive maintenance services can lead to 25% reduction in cost. Learn about industrial IoT framework that enables PdM
Helping Industrial OEMs improve asset uptime and service profitability through end-to-end M2M design and deployment support, remote monitoring, data management, prognostics and in depth analytics
Operational Efficiency Based on Innovative Automation, Industry Expertise, En...Sergey Mishin
Eastern Europe (Russian speaking) conference for #executives in #refining and #petrochemistry. The presentation describes why #automation is crucial for financial results changing #industries in a way similar to iPhone for personal life 10 years ago.
Amish Sabharwal, EVP Americas with AVEVA, presented at the Rice Annual Forum on what the impending ‘Industry 4.0’ means for engineering and project execution. In this presentation, focused on intelligent information management in plant operations starting with trusted engineering data, Amish demonstrates the savings and risk-reduction potentials of maintaining a truly digital plant. View the presentation, and for more information on how AVEVA can help you digitalize your plants, visit www.aveva.com.
PEM2: Control Applications Portfolio from GE PowerPredix
http://predixtransform.com
This session explains how Predix Machine was used to interact with real-time control systems (the GE A&C Mark VI/VIe platform), creating the first generation of GE Power Industrial Internet Applications (IIA). We will show life app demos, and take an in-depth look at their architecture.
Energy Management Strategies for Operational Excellence @ ARC's 2011 Industry...ARC Advisory Group
Energy Management Strategies for Operational Excellence @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Dick Hill.
10 Energy Optimization Recommendations
1.Secure Management‟s Full Support
2.Plant-level Energy Teams –Include Automation
3.Build an Energy Strategic Plan
4.Perform Energy Audits –Current Reality
5.Establish Energy Metrics
6.Benchmark: Other Plants & Other Companies
7.Energy KPIs –Not just for Management
8.On-Line Energy Measurements –Fill Gaps
9.Automate to Optimize
10.Empower the Worker
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @...ARC Advisory Group
Energy Management and the Evolution of Intelligent Motor Control and Drives @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Craig Resnick.
Intelligent motor control & drives once provided a safe, flexible & centralized means to control & protect motors
•Today, these devices have evolved to ‘smart’ energy managers that bring advances ranging from complex drive systems to basic control of fan or pump motors
•In high demand where uptime & equipment reliability are critical, in applications where even a short period of downtime can prove extremely costly & damaging
•These devices perform critical protective & troubleshooting functions & detailed diagnostics to help improve productivity & minimize downtime
Anti-counterfeiting and Brand Protection (ABP) Workshop @ ARC's 2011 Industry...ARC Advisory Group
Anti-counterfeiting and Brand Protection (ABP) Workshop @ ARC's 2011 Industry Forum by Janice Abel and John Blanchard.
Market for ABP technologies is increasing
Important to protect brands and image
Brand protection teams and organizations are important
Secure the supply chain
Range of ABP technologies to consider –depends on many factors
Only a few companies have e-pedigree in place
Current Automation Purchasing Strategies Fall Short
End users today have a paradoxical relationship with their suppliers. Primary
business drivers in today’s environment include maximizing asset
utilization, enhancing plant performance, and reducing capital, maintenance,
and operational expenditures, but many manufacturers employ
purchasing strategies and supplier relationship management strategies developed
during the heyday of the 1980s. Rather than
focusing on achievement of today’s objectives, the
current environment is characterized by an approach
that relies primarily on initial cost, driving discounts
off list price, and failure to employ a lifecycle costing
perspective.
Controls to CPM Connection: Are We There?
The requirements for manufacturing
intelligence and visualization are
becoming requisite components of
the collaborative manufacturing
enterprise.
Conoco on Path to Reliability Centered Loop Management: Enhancing ROA on the WayARC Advisory Group
Conoco on Path to Reliability Centered Loop Management: Enhancing ROA on the Way
Process manufacturers have invested heavily in manufacturing plants and
automation systems. A typical manufacturing plant may have hundreds or
even thousands of regulatory control loops to enable safe and efficient operations.
The most complex units often have advanced process control and
optimization schemes implemented on top of these regulatory control
loops. All of these systems have a need for
tighter process control to enable more effective
use of assets that result in higher ROA and ultimately
better business performance and
profitability.
Unfortunately, automation effectiveness deteriorates
over time. The lack of a structured
methodology for control loop maintenance is a
contributing factor that erodes performance. A
manufacturing plant typically has only two or three control engineers who
each have responsibility for a large of number of loops, yet they often have
no means of identifying where to focus their efforts so that their work has
the largest economic impact on plant performance.
Component Based Solutions Well Aligned with Needs of Service Logistics ProvidersARC Advisory Group
Component Based Solutions Well Aligned with Needs of Service Logistics Providers
Service Logistics supply chains are very dynamic. Achieving customer satisfaction
depends not only delivering the right parts, but also the right
people, the right tools and the right information to the right place at the
right time. Two Service Logistics providers, TNT and IMI Bevcore, concluded
that in order to effectively enable their processes,
they had to implement logistics software
based on component-assembly architectures.
Combined Fluid Power and Mechatronic Technology Optimizes SolutionsARC Advisory Group
Combined Fluid Power and Mechatronic Technology Optimizes Solutions
Current electro-hydraulic actuation products employ technologies that
provide greater functionalities and practically eliminate many drawbacks of
hydraulics. Additionally, some new electro-hydraulic actuators on the
market today come as a highly integrated unit
with advanced electronic control and plug and
play design for modern distributed architecture.
These advancements in electro-hydraulics technology
create opportunities for users to optimize
their investments in automation solutions by selectively
using both electric and electro-hydraulic
actuation.
Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management Vision and StrategiesARC Advisory Group
Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management Vision and Strategies
Capital asset management is once again becoming a key managerial concern.
Organizations that have been focusing on developing new products,
expanding services, and making supply chains super-efficient are now facing
challenging markets and expensive overcapacity. Survival demands
that they reduce their cost basis and capital assets, one of their largest expenses,
which are becoming the target for these efforts.
Discussions about postponing asset purchases and eliminating non-critical
assets are dominating many executive agendas. But lack of information
makes any decision a gamble. The importance of an effective capital asset
management strategy that minimizes the need for such discussions and
enables executives to confidently make necessary
decisions is becoming painfully clear.
Manufacturers are used to market swings and frequently
adjust their product inventories to match
reduced demand forecasts. The rapidity of this
“inventory alignment” for the current situation is
clear testament to the effectiveness of new supply
chain management technology. But the persistence
of this slowdown is forcing all organizations
to consider the more complex issue of “structural
Closing the Gap on Digital Manufacturing
The concurrent engineering required for new product designs between design
engineering and manufacturing engineering has always been a critical
focal point for manufacturers to shorten time-to-market, accelerate time-tovolume,
and minimize cost of production. Today, collaboration between
product design (CAD) and manufacturing processes
(CAM) is a robust process due to tight
integration between CAD and CAM and the emergence
of extended PDM and PLM systems.
However, there has not been a corresponding
level of tight integration between CAD/CAM and
production management. But the benefits of exchanging
information between the product
definition domain and production management are becoming clear as
manufacturers move to a collaborative environment. Two leading PLM
suppliers, EDS and IBM/Dassault, have recently launched new programs
to integrate these disparate domains.
Cautious Optimism Pervades Hanover Fair
With the war in Iraq, stumbling European economies and a mysterious flulike
epidemic from Asia, the Hanover Fair opened its gates last week with
three strikes against it. But despite the subdued
atmosphere, exhibitors expressed cautious optimism
about signs of a recovery in automation
markets. This year a number of automation
suppliers showed surprisingly innovative products
centered on real-time Ethernet, which
finally proved that it’s ready to conquer the factory
floor.
Capital Expenditure Survey 2003
Capital spending continues to decline in nearly all industries, continuing a
trend that began in the mid-1990s when manufacturing productivity began
to increase markedly. The continuing uncertainty in most economies has
put pressure on manufacturers to cut spending, resulting in a steady decline
for several years now despite increasing revenues. Helping to fuel the
cost-cutting fire are the mega-mergers between industrial giants that have
racked up billions in savings as companies increase their manufacturing
economies of scale and eliminate duplicate functions.
ARC’s CapEx index tracks capital expenditures, total revenue, total assets,
EBIT, and return on assets (ROA) for 56 companies in 10 target industries,
representing $2.4 trillion in annual revenue. Companies in the index
generate revenue from most global markets and many
spread their manufacturing around the globe. Of the 56
companies, 64 percent have their headquarters in North
America, 27 percent in Europe, and 9 percent in Asia.
Collaborative Discrete Automation Systems Define the Factory of the FutureARC Advisory Group
The primary function of the Collaborative Discrete Automation System
(CDAS) architecture is to define the vision for the factory of the future and
to provide an architectural roadmap based on the prevailing business drivers
and emerging technologies for discrete manufacturing.
Manufacturing is moving into an era that requires levels of coordination
and collaboration that existing legacy systems will not be able to deliver. It
will be imperative that all the disparate organizations, business and manufacturing
processes, systems and applications that represent the
manufacturing enterprise be brought together within the context of an all
encompassing architecture. Future factories will be based on an entirely
different set of business drivers and emerging technologies. It will be incumbent
on manufacturers to set business plans and strategies into place
based on an architecture that captures these strategies and processes.
Business Process Unification: CMM Gets Real
Business Process Unification refers
to manufacturers’ use of new
platforms to transform existing
processes and systems to support
new business initiatives or enhance
performance. BPU also refers to the
fusion of technology platforms and
applications by suppliers.
The interim report on the US Blackout of 2003
points to failures of SCADA systems and critical
software applications as the chief culprits. Companies
who operate SCADA systems and advanced
online applications should note carefully the role of
these systems in the Blackout events.
Biometrics Provide Strategic Business Advantage in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingARC Advisory Group
Biometrics Provide Strategic Business Advantage in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
The pharmaceutical industry is faced with increasing regulatory requirements
to provide work flow enforcement and event traceability as well as
to ensure the integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality
of electronic records. This requires physical
and logical security that includes policies, procedures
and technology. Consequently,
pharmaceutical manufacturers will be the first to
deploy biometric technology. Biometrics-based
access, authentication, electronic signature, and
event traceability systems also reduce the cost and time to achieve and
maintain compliance with current and future FDA regulations, protect intellectual
property, improve manufacturing productivity and safety, and
reduce system administration costs.
Managers currently regard large, multi-site, multi-year Supply Chain Management
(SCM) implementations as too risky. Indeed, such projects require
extremely skilled project management. BP Chemicals implemented Aspentech’s
MIMI supply chain management solution across 17 businesses. It
was a huge, highly successful project, largely because of excellent project
management.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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Stork Presentation on Migration (Willem Hazenberg)
1. ASSET REPLACEMENT STRATEGY AND
AGING FACTORS OF CONTROL SYSTEMS
March 20, 2014ASSET LIFECYCLE INTEGRITY PARTNER PAGE 1
Willem D. Hazenberg MBA EUR ING RI
March 5 - 6, 2014
MERCURE Hotel Amsterdam City - The Netherlands
EUROPEAN INDUSTRY
FORUM 2014
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4. Remnant Life Methodology
Asset Integrity Management
Compliance Ranking
Future Impact: Business
Ranking
Future Impact:
Operating
Ranking
Commissioning
Design Life
(e.g. 30 years)
Year 1987 2017
?
Remnant Life
Study
Remnant Life
2014
Horizon
2034
Year 1987 20172014 2034
Year 1987 20172014 20342018
5. Asset & production ref. plan
Maintenance
& Replacement
Strategy
Maintain
Replacement
Candidates
Business
Case
Value upgrade?
Production impact?
Remaining life?
Replacement
Project
Company Strategy
Maintenance & replacement plan
Establish decision drivers:
Safety
Integrity
Reliability
Availability
Future demand
Etc.
Build business model
for replacement
decision making:
Pilot project
on one unit
Step 4
Establish Risk Matrix
Collect data on:
• plant and process
• current equipment status
• planned replacements
Criticality analysis
Gap analysis
(incl. remnant life of
most critical equipment)
Select replacement
candidates
Set up planning for 20 year
replacement studies
Establish Risk Matrix
Collect data on:
• plant and process
• current equipment status
• planned replacements
Criticality analysis
Gap analysis
(incl. remnant life of
most critical equipment)
Select replacement
candidates
Set up planning for 20 year
replacement studies
Overview Long Term Asset Replacement Project
6. Main questions in a replacement study
Main questions in this field:
1. What is the expected life of my assets?
2. Why should I replace my assets?
3. When should I replace my assets?
7. WHAT IS THE
EXPECTED LIFE OF
MY ASSETS?
DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS
N M
T(X; Y;Z) =X – Σ YI + Σ ZI
I=1 J=1
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8. What is expected life
Depends of the view – Who is looking:
• Engineering - design lifetime
• An assumed time period within which a component/system can be
maintained as scheduled, is free from major repair and can fulfill the
original usage.
• Accounting:
• Tax deductible depreciation;
• Operational:
• How long can it perform the ―current?‖ requested task?
• Can it perform the ―near‖ future requested task?
• Technical:
• Maintenance:
• How long can we maintain the component/system?
• Do we need to anticipate by strategy on obsolescence?
9. Asset Integrity Management Compliance Ranking
Design Procure/
Construct
Operate/Maintain Change/Replace
Equipment
Type
Design Life
[Years]
Asset Integrity Measurement rankingSpent life
[Years]
According
international specs
Maintain-
ability
Operat-
ability
Proven
Technolo
gy
Design
As per spec Building
Instructions
Maintenance and
Operating (OEM)
Manual
OEM
recommended
Spare Part list
Procure/ Construct
Up/below design
specifications
Preventive
maintenance plan
Follow OEM techn.
Recommendations
Condition Monitoring Available resources
and skills
Environmental
/cleaning conditions
Accidents/
incidents
analyses
(RCA)
Operate/Maintain
Replacement
parts on
condition
Replacement
parts on use
Registration Maintenance
History
Change/Replace
NEN 2767, PAS55 / ISO 55000 are the reference base.
10. What is expected technical life
• Prediction, based on normal patterns.
• After the normal expected life failure data will be irrational.
• This mainly caused by an unacceptable MTTR in case of failure of a
component since no direct replacement product is available anymore.
• This impose a unacceptable risk if no life cycle solution is
implemented.
11. ENGINEERING – DESIGN LIFETIME
AGING AND DEGRADATION
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Definition degradation:
An undesired departure in the operational performance of any
device, equipment or system from its intended performance.
Note: the term degradation can apply to temporary or permanent failure.
12. Aging and degradation assets
Aging factors
• Age of components;
• Degradation of material;
• Environmental stress; (see next slide)
• Use of components:
• Load of energy;
• Movement of component.
Degradation of relay spacer
material
Degradation of E-Wiring material
14. Expected Life DCS components
PCS Components 1970-1995 1995-2010
systeem software 15 year 5 year
HMI Client 15 year 5 year
HMI server N/A 6 year
Network 20 years 6-12 year
Controller 16 year 8-12 year
Input/Output 16 year 8-12 year
Termination panel 15-25 year 15-20 year
Field wiring 25-30 year 25-30 year
field devices 10 year 10 year
15. WHY SHOULD I
REPLACE MY ASSETS?
DECISION TRIGGERS MECHANISM DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS
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16. Triggers for replacement decisions
There are different triggers to decide to start a replacement.
Triggers are internal and external.
Most important triggers for aged equipment are:
• OEM marketing / Trust;
• Operations;
• Technical;
• Business;
• Organization;
• Legislation.
17. What a modern DCS can do for you (DCS vendor
marketing info)
Automation technology has probably changed significantly since your existing
system was installed 10 or 20 years ago and so has the business climate. Today’s
successful industrial operations require much more from their DCS than just
safely controlling the process.
1. An integrated system — enterprise-wide;
2. A lower total cost of ownership;
3. A truly open technology platform;
4. A verifiably cyber-secure system;
5. High reliability and performance;
6. An architecture that evolves with your needs;
7. An easy-to-use system;
8. Improved asset management.
But why buy people new systems?
www.dcsselect.eu MBA Thesis Willem Hazenberg 166 inputs from 39 country's
18. Business reason long list selection
Knock – out criteria 40,3%
Knock – out criteria 12,8%
Knock – out criteria 12,0%
Knock – out criteria 11,8%
Knock – out criteria 13%
Knock – out criteria 21%
Knock – out criteria 10,1%
Knock – out criteria 13,3%
Knock – out criteria> 10% shown
……………………………Knock – out criteria 12%
Knock – out criteria 13,3%
Knock – out criteria 13,7%
Knock – out criteria 10,8%
Could not maintain old system
Replace obsolete system
19. Importance of business case reason
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
% end users response
Impor tance of :
Coul d not mai ntai n ol d system
Repl ace obsol ete systems
Impr oved Automati on
Use of advanced contr ol al gor i thms
Impr ove l oop contr ol
Impr ovement of pr oduct Qual i ty
Cr eate a mor e cost-ef f ecti ve pr ocess
Automati c star t-up and shutdown r outi nes
Hi gher pr oducti on
Reducti on i n Equi pment M ai ntenance
Impr oved pr oduct Yi el d
Removal of manual pr ocesses
Impr ove r epor ti ng
Incr ease r eal -ti me deci si on maki ng
Need f or a ease to use system
Incr ease i n pr ocess knowl edge
Ef f i ci ent wor kf l ow
Impr oved use of Raw M ater i al s
Incr easi ng i nf or mati on f or the wor kf or ce
Impr oved engi neer i ng data
Reduce wor kf or ce
Reduce compl ai ns of customer s
Removal of r edundant pr ocesses
Regul ator y r equi r ements
busi ness i nf or mati on to the pl ant f l oor
Impr ove accounti ng data
Lar ger pr oducti on mi x
M or e peopl e thi nki ng i n the bi g pi ctur e
Importanceof
Importance for business case
Extreme important
Very important
Important
Somewhat important
Not very important
Not important at all
Could not maintain old system
Replace obsolete system
Improve Automation
Use of advanced control algorithms
21. Product life cycle (ABB Example)
• Active (active R&D and Sales)
• Classic (product maintenance Phase)
• Limited (Support by ABB Service)
• Obsolete (“try to fix when it fails”)
Product sales release
>7 Year >3 Year
Limited ObsoleteClassicActive
Last Buy
>12 month
Manufacturing End
>6 maanden
Obsolete announcement
Obsolete products are products for which, despite best efforts, support,
maintenance and repair is no longer feasible
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22. In the interviews we focus on these questions
Some obsolescence factors:
• Age of the system?
• What is current Life cycle stage of the product?
• Did the vendor declare the product obsolete?
• Year of Obsolescence?
• Is the original vendor still in the market?
• Was there a vendor company take over?
• Are there migration solutions from vendor or new owner?
• Are there migration solutions from 3e parties?
23. Operational replacement reasons
• How long can it perform the ―current?‖ requested task?
• Are there performance problems for operations?
• Are there downtime cost for operations?
• Is there a corporate objectives for enterprise-wide data sharing?
• Can it perform the ―near‖ future requested task?
• Do you need new functionality from the system in the next five
years that the current system can’t provide?
• Process changes;
• Advanced control capabilities enabling increased throughput.
24. Technical /maintenance replacement reasons
• Maintenance:
• Can we maintain the component/system?
• Reduced equipment reliability;
• Technical reliability (emotional EHS Fear + Availability);
• (increased failure rate or bad actors);
• Reparability;
• Serviceability;
• What is the primary fail component that the asset should be
replaced.
Mission Maintenance department
"Maintenance will safely accomplish our goal of providing Service
Excellence (including increased Uptime and increased Overall
Equipment Effectiveness) ….
25. Maintenance approach survey
• Maintenance Execution:
• Skilled Resources people on site;
• Numbers employees;
• Function levels;
• Trainings level.
• Service Contracts:
• Is there service contracts/Call in contracts?
• Number of spare parts?
• Spare parts position (as a long term strategy)?
• What is the call out time?
• What is the quality of speed en service?
• Logistics:
• Spare parts level on site (%);
• Spare parts level of site under contract (%);
• Time to get external parts (hours).
• Operation risk:
• Comply to Alarm management Status according EMMUA 191 standard
29. Organization replacement reasons
• Equipment expertise disappears from customer/ vendor;
• Project management resource and engineering capabilities;
• Standardization of technology platforms;
• New project that need newer technology;
• Centralization of control functions;
• Reduction in Staff – operators in control room or plant.
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• DCS/SCADA Security certification requirements? ISO / IEC 17799
and 270001;
• Relocating of Production facility by government rules;
• Lower Pollution rules need new Process;
• Military want to use certain technology – radiofrequencies;
• Compliance with food safety and traceability needs (FDA);
• Regulatory compliance, while responding to customer demands
for better product quality and faster delivery.
―Legislation‖ triggers for replacement decisions
Training - services
Guidelines and manuals
Codes of best practice
Standards
Legislation
Policy
31. WHEN SHOULD I
REPLACE MY ASSETS?
DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS
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32. When should I replace my assets?
What kind of company are you?
• Technology trendsetter (early adopters);
• Technology follower (main stream);
• Late stage;
• Laggards.
Depends also on your company:
• Profit/lost;
• Market;
• Shut down time table;
• Expected life (EOL) plant;
• Expected life plant business.
Best time for the replacement is before you get into the obsolesce phase.
33. THANKS
QUESTIONS &
DISCUSSION
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MAYBE WE HAD JUST FORGOTTEN THAT MAN SHALL NOT MAKE DECISIONS BY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ALONE.
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