PAREXEL International is a global consulting company specializing in pharmaceuticals and medical devices. From strategy to condition of clinical trials to post-release marketing, for over 30 years, PAREXEL has helped pharmaceutical companies get critical drugs into the hands of consumers as quickly, safely, and cost-effectively as possible. Typically, it takes a drug manufacturer an average of 10 years from the time of discovery to bring a drug to market. One of the most complex and expensive aspects of this 10-year process is clinical trials, a period when patient participation and adherence is imperative to success. To increase the success rates of clinical trials, PAREXEL turned to the combination of wearable devices and the OSIsoft PI System.
Year: 2017

With the high-fidelity insights from the PI System, WHUD pinpointed a leak spilling nearly 147 million gallons a year, reduced its costs by over $1 million and postponed $15 to $20 million in upgrades.

RWTH Aachen University, located in Germany, is one of the largest technical universities in Europe. Founded in 2014, the university’s PEM (Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components) institute focuses on designing electric mobility solutions. To make electric vehicles more affordable for mass production, engine batteries must be produced in a cost-effective manner. With the help of the OSIsoft PI System, PEM Aachen used operational data to optimize the production process in order to: predict battery quality during production in order to eliminate the cost and time associated with end of line testing, reduce overall production cost by as much as 20%, and shrink batter scrap rates from 10% to 2%.

Dell EMC’s Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) division has been developing Modular Data Centers (MDCs) solutions since 2008. Dell’s micro MDCs are part of a broader effort to change data center architecture by bringing computational equipment to the edge of the network and reducing the amount of IoT data traveling to a centralized data center. But how do you monitor thousands, if not more, data centers across a geographic area? During a presentation at OSIsoft’s 2017 Users Conference, Tyler Duncan, Dell’s Principal Thermal and Controls Engineer, explained how his company uses the OSIsoft PI System as a “single pane of glass” to monitor its latest micro MDCs for edge computing. With the help of the PI System, Dell EMC created the MDCi platform to apply data visualization and business intelligence to its data center operations across the globe.
Year: 2017

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Noble Energy is a global oil and natural gas exploration company. Noble has over 1.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent in reserves and a production rate equivalent to 400,000 barrels of oil per day, landing it squarely at number 703 on the Fortune 500 list. With a reserve mixture of petroleum, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; Noble has deep water drilling sites and shale/unconventional exploration locations around the world. Initially, Noble installed stand-alone PI System implementations across its sites. However, to drive efficiency and grow, Noble needed to go another route.
Year: 2017