Not so long ago—in the dim and distant days before the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) — an Ethernet port hung off an industrial machine’s programmable logic controller (PLC) was about all the out-of-the-box connectivity that an industrial asset owner/operator could expect of its OEM suppliers. Today a new class of embedded software application —part historian, part analytical engine, part operator interface and part fault-tolerant integration platform — is allowing industrial OEMs to build “IIoT-ready” machines that can much more easily and flexibly be integrated into a plant’s existing automation and information infrastructure.
Year: 2018

Condition-based maintenance along with fault detection and diagnostics use data and analytics to help building owners and facility managers save money and provide better service.
Year: 2018

At first glance, many parts of the metals, mining and manufacturing industry may not seem the most obvious candidates for digital technology-driven efficiency gains. For one, many of the manufacturing processes are generations old. Steelmakers have been using electric arc furnaces and Linz-Donawitz processes since shortly after World War II, while aluminium producers have been smelting the light metal using the Hall–Héroult process since its discovery late in the nineteenth century. And it is difficult to apply modern, industrial data-driven pricing methods to markets where one’s own prices are not in one’s own control, are commonly set on exchanges, and have themselves become speculative financial instruments for lightning fast algorithmic traders.
Year: 2018

Mining and metals companies could achieve a step change in their safety records while also significantly improving productivity by incorporating inexpensive sensors and analytics tools into their existing systems, an executive at privately-held US software company OSIsoft says.
Year: 2018

In the first part of this paper, we explored how TransCanada, Petronas, and ADNOC Onshore have successfully embarked on a digital transformation with real-time operational data. Now, we’d like to share the success stories from such leading industry players as Shell, Transocean and SBM Offshore who are achieving similar transformational gains from real-time data using the OSIsoft’s PI System.
Year: 2018