The document discusses the use of a digital twin called a Capability Assurance Digital Twin to help address issues related to human operators in industrial processes. It can help reduce operator actions and alarms while improving process stability. This is achieved through modular procedural automation that digitalizes standard operating procedures. Actual case studies found reductions in operator actions by up to 96% and improvements in productivity by up to 22%. The digital twin allows for better decision making and operational execution while improving safety, reliability, and standardizing procedures. It also helps ensure operator knowledge is maintained and provides opportunities for continuous learning.
ISG: TechChange Presentation on M&E MIS SystemsMichael Klein
The pressure to get Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) “right” in today’s high-tech and data-hungry world can prove daunting for any organization. Many organizations track their results quite well without sophisticated tools. However, M&E systems may make sense for cases of accountability and efficiency.
So what does the process of adopting an M&E IT system look like? Mike Klein, director of ISG, explained for the TechChange class on Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
A short presentation about the challenges associated with balancing IT innovation and operation excellence - and how Katz IS research and education focus on these issues.
ISG: TechChange Presentation on M&E MIS SystemsMichael Klein
The pressure to get Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) “right” in today’s high-tech and data-hungry world can prove daunting for any organization. Many organizations track their results quite well without sophisticated tools. However, M&E systems may make sense for cases of accountability and efficiency.
So what does the process of adopting an M&E IT system look like? Mike Klein, director of ISG, explained for the TechChange class on Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation.
Brighttalk converged infrastructure and it operations management - finalAndrew White
How Converged Infrastructure Will Change IT Operations Management
Over the past decade, Enterprises have leveraged a shared service model to make IT more cost effective. The emergence of “Converged Infrastructure” and “Fabric-Based Infrastructure” will allow IT to offer purpose driven solutions rather than the function driven solutions of the past. To do this, IT will need to evolve towards more modular designs, rely more on open standards, and rethink their approach to management frameworks.
In this session you will learn:
How converged infrastructure is used to create purpose driven solutions
Why new operational challenges are faced as this new approach is used broadly
What changes need to occur to succeed with this new paradigm
A short presentation about the challenges associated with balancing IT innovation and operation excellence - and how Katz IS research and education focus on these issues.
Ever since the pocket calculator replaced the adding machine and the slide rule, accountants have been debating whether today’s accountant is less skilled than those that went before. The increasing reliance upon legislative compliance and ‘best practice frameworks’ has ensured that the modern professional must rely on the computer to carry out their tasks.
This session presents preliminary results from Micheal’s research into whether the sophisticated use of computers (‘intelligent decision aids’) to assist with accounting and audit reduces the professional’s judgment capability – their ‘know-how’. Micheal’s research draws upon interviews with 59 public sector auditors to identify whether this ‘deskilling’ is occurring.
The session identifies the driving forces behind this ‘deskilling effect’ (‘technology dominance), outlines recent research into the phenomenon (and in fact whether it exists or not), and identifies risk factors that may be at play in deskilling yourself and your staff if you rely on computers too much. Potential strategies to reduce this deskilling effect are also outlined and discussed.
This session should be of interest to any professional that relies upon a computer to help them with their professional tasks.
This deck shows a method for communicating to decisions makers the architectural impacts of decisions over time across for the 4 domains of Enterprise Architecture.
Ignore middle managers at your peril!!!. Why middle managers hold the key to ...IQ Business - agility@IQ
Lack of Executive buy-in is known to be one the leading causes of failed Agile transformations! But what about another level of management buy-in that can either make or break your agile transformation efforts… Middle management!
Based on my experience in large corporate organisations undergoing an agile transformation, I have encountered massive support and buy-in from senior leadership and executives. Yet, still some of these transformations have failed to see the significant improvement in results that there were expecting. Middle management are often overlooked in Agile transformation initiatives, yet they are the people most effected by the change… and therefore the most likely to resist.
PagerDuty: Optimizing Incident Response to Deliver Amazing Digital ExperiencesPagerDuty
Best practices for major incident management, and how you can optimize your major incident response to deliver the best possible digital experiences for your customers.
The problem of mobility is one of the
major challenges for governments around the world, because of the problems growing concern that noise pollution
and environmental. In recent years, the European Union
encouraged, through promotional campaigns and appropriations ad hoc funds, the use of alternative methods for the circulation of people. In this context, the organizational challenges the use of public transport in the cities, big and small they are particularly felt. The information on schedules,
trips, lines and bus stops are not always readily available from
part of those who are to use the services of transport.
The natural consequence is represented by discomforts of all sorts of which is spoken daily in the media. In this paper
GoBus is presented, a service for the simplification
management processes, exposure of information about
transportation activities, both in terms of users
from that of the companies.GoBus allows users to order
access to information on mobility organized by services
Transportation of each city and at the same time, companies to manage this information by placing a continuous feedback from the their users. Compared to concurrent applications, GoBus allows you to catalog and display the information on services offered by companies in a new way. The holding of the project followed the guidelines regarding the management of the projects software and application of techniques and processes proposed from Engineering Software. The report describes the entire engineering process applied, the techniques and the description of the prototype consisting of a web application, which acts as a management for companies, a web service for the export of infos and
a mobile application for Windows Phone platform to use the service.
The Italian Student Contest in Software Engineering (SCORE-it 2015) is a novel Italian initiative inspired by worldwide SCORE, and it will be part of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015).
SCORE-it emphasizes the engineering aspects of software development, as opposed to a narrower view that tends to reduce the endeavor and process of software construction to mere programming. The competition is targeted to students in Italian Universities at both undergraduate and master's level.
After a careful evaluation carried out by the SCORE-it Program Committee, several finalist teams will be invited to ICSE 2015 in Florence to present their projects and receive their awards at the conference.
In this webinar we talked about working from the beach. Being able to mobilize Salesforce processes for the smart phone generation. The topics we covered include:
- The essential guide for connecting to Salesforce
- Using Cloud Master Data Management to deliver a single view of your customer information
- Mobilizing processes for the smart phone generation
Webinar Slides [Oct 26] Putting the Ops in DevOpsIBM DevOps
Watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEu9tVVK_-U&feature=youtu.be
Explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
Incubated in IIT Kharagpur
Focused on addressing data theft, data loss with security analytics from on-premise and cloud platform, product christened as “inDefend” targeted for Enterprise, SMB and End-Consumers
In this webinar we will explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
In this webinar we will explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
Ever since the pocket calculator replaced the adding machine and the slide rule, accountants have been debating whether today’s accountant is less skilled than those that went before. The increasing reliance upon legislative compliance and ‘best practice frameworks’ has ensured that the modern professional must rely on the computer to carry out their tasks.
This session presents preliminary results from Micheal’s research into whether the sophisticated use of computers (‘intelligent decision aids’) to assist with accounting and audit reduces the professional’s judgment capability – their ‘know-how’. Micheal’s research draws upon interviews with 59 public sector auditors to identify whether this ‘deskilling’ is occurring.
The session identifies the driving forces behind this ‘deskilling effect’ (‘technology dominance), outlines recent research into the phenomenon (and in fact whether it exists or not), and identifies risk factors that may be at play in deskilling yourself and your staff if you rely on computers too much. Potential strategies to reduce this deskilling effect are also outlined and discussed.
This session should be of interest to any professional that relies upon a computer to help them with their professional tasks.
This deck shows a method for communicating to decisions makers the architectural impacts of decisions over time across for the 4 domains of Enterprise Architecture.
Ignore middle managers at your peril!!!. Why middle managers hold the key to ...IQ Business - agility@IQ
Lack of Executive buy-in is known to be one the leading causes of failed Agile transformations! But what about another level of management buy-in that can either make or break your agile transformation efforts… Middle management!
Based on my experience in large corporate organisations undergoing an agile transformation, I have encountered massive support and buy-in from senior leadership and executives. Yet, still some of these transformations have failed to see the significant improvement in results that there were expecting. Middle management are often overlooked in Agile transformation initiatives, yet they are the people most effected by the change… and therefore the most likely to resist.
PagerDuty: Optimizing Incident Response to Deliver Amazing Digital ExperiencesPagerDuty
Best practices for major incident management, and how you can optimize your major incident response to deliver the best possible digital experiences for your customers.
The problem of mobility is one of the
major challenges for governments around the world, because of the problems growing concern that noise pollution
and environmental. In recent years, the European Union
encouraged, through promotional campaigns and appropriations ad hoc funds, the use of alternative methods for the circulation of people. In this context, the organizational challenges the use of public transport in the cities, big and small they are particularly felt. The information on schedules,
trips, lines and bus stops are not always readily available from
part of those who are to use the services of transport.
The natural consequence is represented by discomforts of all sorts of which is spoken daily in the media. In this paper
GoBus is presented, a service for the simplification
management processes, exposure of information about
transportation activities, both in terms of users
from that of the companies.GoBus allows users to order
access to information on mobility organized by services
Transportation of each city and at the same time, companies to manage this information by placing a continuous feedback from the their users. Compared to concurrent applications, GoBus allows you to catalog and display the information on services offered by companies in a new way. The holding of the project followed the guidelines regarding the management of the projects software and application of techniques and processes proposed from Engineering Software. The report describes the entire engineering process applied, the techniques and the description of the prototype consisting of a web application, which acts as a management for companies, a web service for the export of infos and
a mobile application for Windows Phone platform to use the service.
The Italian Student Contest in Software Engineering (SCORE-it 2015) is a novel Italian initiative inspired by worldwide SCORE, and it will be part of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015).
SCORE-it emphasizes the engineering aspects of software development, as opposed to a narrower view that tends to reduce the endeavor and process of software construction to mere programming. The competition is targeted to students in Italian Universities at both undergraduate and master's level.
After a careful evaluation carried out by the SCORE-it Program Committee, several finalist teams will be invited to ICSE 2015 in Florence to present their projects and receive their awards at the conference.
In this webinar we talked about working from the beach. Being able to mobilize Salesforce processes for the smart phone generation. The topics we covered include:
- The essential guide for connecting to Salesforce
- Using Cloud Master Data Management to deliver a single view of your customer information
- Mobilizing processes for the smart phone generation
Webinar Slides [Oct 26] Putting the Ops in DevOpsIBM DevOps
Watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEu9tVVK_-U&feature=youtu.be
Explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
Incubated in IIT Kharagpur
Focused on addressing data theft, data loss with security analytics from on-premise and cloud platform, product christened as “inDefend” targeted for Enterprise, SMB and End-Consumers
In this webinar we will explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
In this webinar we will explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, how the traditional IT Operations best practices could be leveraged for use in a DevOps methodology, and how new operations management tools can help you carry out those best practices to meet your goals on an on-going basis.
You’ve heard that many industries are moving to the cloud, but can government be one of them? Leading organizations are in fact moving certain technologies into the cloud to save money and improve service effectiveness.
This presentation, which Ryan Shopp gave at Data Center World on Oct. 5, 2010, describes today's data center challenges and how to fix them, as well as the following five steps on the journey from virtualization to cloud:
1. Pair virtualization with management
2. Don’t just use the same old tools
3. Integrate lifecycle management disciplines
4. Integrate management across domains
5. Virtualization management + automation + service management = cloud
Data, Data, Everywhere...GA10 Brings It All TogetherYokogawa1
Today, data is everywhere. Collected by a multitude of sensors and devices, most organizations have plenty of data. The question becomes, “What should you do with it all?” In steps Yokogawa’s GA10 Data Logging Software. GA10 acquires data from various instruments via communications, such as EtherNet, Modbus, and OPC-UA, and enables centralized monitoring and recording of data from a PC or remote location. With all your data in the same place, users can make real time decisions while monitoring standard or custom dashboards, receive automatic reports, send email or alarm notifications to maintenance personnel, and much more. Let’s put your data to work, when you bring it all together, with GA10!
In this webinar, we will:
• Share best practices for monitoring, recording, and transferring data
• Challenges in data acquisition and how Yokogawa can help
• Demonstrate GA10 Data Logging Software capabilities:
Seamlessly connect Yokogawa and 3rd party devices
Easily create projects and standard or custom dashboards
Generate automatic reports, notifications, alarms, and emails
Chromatography is introduced to us from a very young age; from marker and coffee filter art projects to the simple black ink separation. All of which the pigments wick from the papers are different speeds when dipped into water, showing the various types of pigments. Chromatography is based on this originally when it was first used for the synthetic dye industry in the early 1990s as Chromatography means color measurement.
This one-hour session covers chromatography basics and explains what makes up a process gas chromatograph that is used today.
We will dive into:
Different types of sample injection methods.
What and how a separation column works.
Basic rules of thumbs for best practice.
An Economic X-ray of Digital TransformationYokogawa1
Recent dynamic market changes and uncertain business environments have placed a sharp focus on digital transformation (DX). DX initiatives must clearly align with business strategies and have a clear vision of where, and how, they add value in terms of enhanced profitability, capital efficiency and license to operate. Focusing on enhanced profitability, we start with a simple refresh of the “Profit & Loss” or income statement and demonstrate how it is impacted by DX initiatives, thereby demonstrating how money is made and lost. These general concepts are reinforced with several real-life examples across the upstream, refining and bulk chemical sectors. Through this exercise, conclusions are drawn on where DX has the greatest immediate impact.
Using A Unique, Next Generation APC Solution To Address Common Problems In Th...Yokogawa1
Shell Chemical's Geismar plant is the largest alpha olefins producer in the world. Being ready, situationally aware and making the right decisions only guarantees success with efficient and effective operational execution. This presentation will profile a series of unique ways to solve common multi-variable process control challenges often encountered in chemical processing units. Several examples will be given that were used at Shell’s Geismar facility to drive superior efficiency and productivity savings.
Open Process Automation: Status of the O-PAS™ Standard, Conformance Certifica...Yokogawa1
Today, end users in the energy and chemical industries must work with and integrate multiple proprietary systems in almost every process plant or facility. These systems include manufacturing execution systems (MES), distributed control systems (DCS), human-machine interfaces (HMI), programmable logic controllers (PLC) and inputs/outputs (I/O). These multiple proprietary systems, and the integration thereof, result in elevated capital costs on new projects and high total cost of ownership through the asset lifecycle, especially in the operation and maintenance of such systems. The Open Process Automation™ Forum (OPAF) is an international forum of end users, system integrators, suppliers, academia, and standards organizations who are working together to develop the specifications for open process control systems. OPAF’s goal is to enable more open and modular systems that supports integration of best-in-class components. This architecture will provide both configuration and application portability across components from different suppliers, thereby reducing system capital cost and total cost of ownership. The vision is a standards-based, open, secure and interoperable process control architecture that reduces the cost of control system upgrades and replacements, as well as removes barriers to technology insertion, with adaptable cybersecurity designed in. This keynote presentation will outline the Open Process Automation initiative, standard and status of industry prototyping, as well as share evidence of commercialization.
The Value-driven Approach to Digitalizing Assets and their Supply ChainsYokogawa1
Facilities must pursue the agile optimization of feedstocks and other inputs with products and operations to reflect market demand and prices. This is how the demand-pull business model is achieved and a measurable change in profitability delivered. This presentation will showcase why a mindset shift to value chain optimization is needed, as well as the deliberate approach needed to digitally transform value chain optimization activities. The value chain digital twin combining traditional solutions and AI will be profiled, along with the first steps that need to be taken, now.
The Role And Evolution Of Advanced Analytics In The Process IndustriesYokogawa1
To improve a plant’s operation, it is important to understand it’s potential for improvement so that the right actions can be taken. Plant data and advanced analytics are the keys to maximizing plant performance. This keynote presentation will highlight the role of advanced analytics and its evolution in the years to come.”
The Digital Twin For Production OptimizationYokogawa1
Digitalization is fundamental to the development of Repsol’s strategy for the future. To meet emerging challenges, the business units have developed an ambitious program comprising multiple projects. Within Repsol’s Industrial Business, development of a refinery digital twin leads the digitalization program. The digital twin allows the business to maximize production while optimizing energy consumption. This session will explore the digital twin project objectives to improve the accuracy and scope of the Refinery LP model that the Programming and Planning departments use to make decisions regarding crude feedstock purchasing and refinery unit operations. It will also report on the context of the business goals achieved, the technology and architecture developed, and the connectivity deployed to communicate results. It will conclude with a description of how enhancements to existing technology work with new technologies to improve value.
Multi-Site Optimization To Drive Value Creation In ChevronYokogawa1
The vision should be one of an asset, or portfolio of assets, that exists in the context of, and is synchronized with, its supply chains and surrounding business environment. The asset(s) together with its supply chain should continuously respond in unison to market signals, disturbances, and optimize holistically. Since the early 1980s Chevron has developed and continued to enhance its proprietary linear programming (LP) technology, Petro, to select the most profitable raw materials, evaluate product options, optimize refinery processes, and promote efficient capital investments across its global refining network. Key to this has been the use of Petro, with its highly efficient multi-location modeling methodology, to optimize raw materials and product supplies between refinery sites. This presentation will showcase how Chevron drives transformational value through multi-site optimization, and how development of associated people and business processes have accompanied evolution of the technology.
Keeping PACE with Advanced Process ControlYokogawa1
The pace was set to start APC sustainability, the software was chosen and the initial implementation was validated. This presentation will focus on how the company is approaching the upgrades, the training of new engineers, the benefits and results from it and the next steps to improve controls and stakeholders reliability.
Yokogawa’s DX and Smart Manufacturing Vision for Building our FutureYokogawa1
DX is the novel use of digital technology to accelerate companies' business strategies and business goals, not technology for technology’s sake. Digitalization and digital transformation involve business and workflow changes, adjustment of enterprise operations and business transformation. But to decide what digital applications and capabilities are required, business value drivers and the various digital challenges that contribute to operational excellence must be mapped out. Once these are known and understood, a holistic approach can be undertaken to drive triple bottom line performance in terms of people, planet and profit. Partners who have domain knowledge and best practices in the industry, are one of our key success factors. This keynote presentation will outline Yokogawa's vision for digital transformation of the energy and chemical industry to achieve their smart manufacturing goals. In doing so demonstrating Yokogawa's commitment to achieving net-zero emissions, making a transition to a circular economy, and ensuring the well-being of all.
Business Model Disruption - The Step-wise Transition to Remote OperationsYokogawa1
Many assets have reached the “point of diminishing returns” in their pursuit of optimization benefits using conventional business models. To reach the next horizon of value, these assets must undergo digital process re-engineering, digital re-organization and digital business transformation. In many cases, the entire operations management system needs to be re-written and re-implemented. The first step in transitioning to a new operating model involves defining the end-state and achieving a step-wise approach toward it. That end state might be a centralized optimization center, remote integrated operations center, minimal manning facility, or a fully automated facility. The internal rate of return (IRR) associated with the transition to remote operations depends on the extent to which operating cost savings can be traded for capital investment. Through various case studies, this session will explore the key considerations in making a successful transition and the important factors driving IRR variability and operational risk.
A New Digital Maintenance Platform in a Large Petrochemical Facility to Ident...Yokogawa1
Every day, asset management teams must reliably deliver the highest predictable availability at the lowest cost. The focus should be on providing information and understanding directly to decision makers–human or machine–in a way that drives the business as a whole to make improvements. Braskem operates a very large petrochemical complex in Camacari, Bahia, Brazil that produces ethylene, polyethylene and PVC, and other chemicals. The site has recently embarked on a project to implement a digital maintenance platform to deliver enhanced situational awareness and decision support. The presentation will showcase the goals of the project and how the platform will gather data from a variety of sources in a secure manner. It will describe the automation tools, databases, manual inputs, event sorting, data modeling, and data science to deliver the intended outcomes.
Shift team effectiveness: Don't bother if you can't change "shop floor" shift...Yokogawa1
Overall shift team effectiveness is critical, but especially shift handover activities. Shift teams are at the point of manufacture and hold the keys to plant and equipment safety, reliability, production and product quality, as well as operational discipline. Shift handovers take just 5% of operational time, but account for around 40% of plant incidents. So if you want your digital transformation (DX) initiatives to succeed, you need to think like an operator–to empathize and gain credibility with those on the shop floor–and to translate the DX agenda into their language. Only through this can a true changing of ways occur. This session will showcase a proven shift team effectiveness model comprising four key areas and sub-components–organizational capability, work environment, information and technology, and operating practices–and how they all need to work in tandem with each other. A case study will demonstrate how these areas should be leveraged to ensure safety, reliability and production information effortlessly flow in, and out, of the shift team to the various support departments.
Adversity Drives Innovation and Enterprise Resilience to Best Leverage a Hist...Yokogawa1
In most plants, process data is generated by various OT systems such as the DCS or SCADA, blending systems, dosing systems, fault detection systems, smart instruments, etc. Enterprise process historians should be the system of record for all operating data and should support achieving a ‘single source of truth’ for the plant. The desire to have a single source of truth for all data types that can be consumed in decision making and execution is driving IT/OT convergence. How enterprise process historians are leveraged, both on-site and remotely, is crucial for business continuity and advancement toward increasingly autonomous operations. This presentation will showcase how new processes and techniques around remote monitoring, data extraction and advanced analytics enabled Kuraray to maintain situational awareness and visibility into key plant operations whilst social distancing during COVID-19.
Improved Upstream Production Efficiency with Remote Optimization Centers, Fie...Yokogawa1
To climb down the cost curve, upstream companies need to fundamentally change how they operate – technology, people and processes. The industry has reached close to the maximum threshold on the number of individual point solution applications (and associated processes and siloed departments) that are in use today. To remain relevant and thrive, upstream companies must firstly buy time, then digitalize and lastly, position more effectively for the energy transition. This means taking a “systems thinking” approach that focuses on the way that a production system’s constituent parts interrelate, how they work over time and within the context of larger systems. This presentation will outline the role of field-wide models, which when operationalized with real-time data, result in a digital twin that is highly effective in achieving production system optimization. These models when run in the Cloud, then enable the remote optimization center and generate synthetic data able to train AI algorithms for machine learning with limitless potential.
Transforming Decision Making in Scheduling of Terminal OperationsYokogawa1
Terminals are mission critical assets for effecting mass transfers, exploiting arbitrage opportunities, blending, mopping up errors and inaccuracies in supply chain planning, amongst others, across the hydrocarbon processing value chain. Effective scheduling of terminal operations is required to handle timing, sizing, allocation and sequencing decisions involved in connecting the "ideal" (production plan) to the "real-world" (the operation), with its various subtleties, nuances and non-linearities. Complex decision-making is required to make money. It involves the development of a detailed (executable) plan that is able to implement the operations strategy from the planning process, running the asset(s) up against physical and logistical constraints. As a result, schedulers must deal with a large number of inter-related alternatives with high implications in business performance. Wrong moves in the decision chain can set the execution path towards costly disruptions. Only through combinatorial optimization algorithms can this complexity be simplified. This presentation will show how these algorithms can be incorporated into practical business applications and made available to extend the capabilities of scheduling personnel way beyond what can be achieved with current methods. The value captured and how it is achieved will be demonstrated using actual applications in LNG Regasification, Crude Oil Supply and Primary Distribution operations.
Contributing to the Development and Application of Cybersecurity StandardsYokogawa1
As security threats evolve and adapt, so too must organizations’ responses to them. The development and application of cybersecurity standards in support of current and new generation industrial automation and control systems (IACS) are of fundamental importance. This presentation will provide practical and useful information on how cybersecurity standards are progressing and how they are applied. The initial focus will be on current activities in the development of the IEC 62443 IACS cybersecurity standards, and implications to the various stakeholders. An illustration will describe how to use the standards to frame the development of secure-by-design products and services, both current and future. Thereafter, the focus will shift to how IEC 62443 standards are used by other industry standards and securing IIoT and associated cloud systems. This is of particular importance in the context of the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS).
Asia NOC Bridges Business-wide Performance Objectives and KPIs through an Adv...Yokogawa1
Misalignment and conflicting performance objectives between management and front line operators is the root cause of a lot of profit erosion. Businesses need systematic ways to align senior management objectives and operating KPIs. This presentation will demonstrate how a National Oil Company in Asia utilized data analytics and KPI trees with drill-down capabilities to systematically align performance objectives and KPIs in its gas processing division to achieve profit driven operations. The presentation will also highlight how first principles digital twins can be incorporated to serve as a soft sensor to deliver further accuracy and rigour.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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/
4. Human Operator Issues
▪ Semi-automated and manual processes
▪ Safety
▪ Workforce performance management, training, empowered “connected” worker
▪ Process performance
▪ DX and autonomous operations goals
Source: ASM Study
Single largest factor in plant trips and accidents is
human error
TIME UTILIZATION
Routine TASK
▪ Operation & monitoring
▪ Reporting
Improvement TASK
▪ Troubleshooting
▪ Improvement activities
5. Role of the Connected Worker
Source: Kaasinen E., et al. (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.01.052
Real-time, data-driven decisions
and guiding of actions
Empowered feedback
Centralized action monitoring
and decision support
7. Better Decisions, Faster
The Interface of People and Physical Asset
Goal Monitoring
Knowledge Mgt.
Mgt. of Change
5
Practices
People
1
2
3
4
Decision-Making
• Forecasting (“what’s next?”)
• Prediction (“what if?”)
• Optimization (“what’s best?”)
Operational Execution
• Best practices
• Advice-based action
• Closed loop control
• Procedural automation
• Closed loop optimization
Physical AssetsSystems
Business Readiness
• Data
• Infrastructure
• Consumption
• People
Situational Awareness
• Hindsight
• Insight
• Foresight
• Oversight
8. Digital Twin
A digital twin is:
A virtual digital copy of a device, system, human or
process…
that accurately mimics actual performance
in real-time
that is executable and can be manipulated
allowing a better future to be developed
9. Capability Assurance Digital Twin - Origin
• Modular Procedural Automation, ISA TR106
• Digitalized, traceable standard operating procedures.
• Capability Assurance actual case results achieved:
96% 90% 50% 22% 18%
Reduction in
Operator Actions
Reduction in Alarms
per Operator
Reduction in Process
Unit Time to Stability
Reduction in Annual
OPEX
Increase in
Productivity
10. Time Utilization Benefits – Actual Cases
• Static alarm suppression
• Dynamic alarm suppression
• Process stabilization
11. Sustainable Benefits – Actual Cases
Improved safety
and reliability
Reduced
operation hours
while maintaining
product quality
Prevent
operation errors
and improved
operator
effectiveness
Standardize
procedures and
operation methods
regardless of
operator skill levels
Ensure
experienced
operators
‘know-how’ is
maintained in the
implemented
procedure flows
Provide
opportunities for
operators to obtain
further knowledge
about the plant
processes
