Caterpillar Integrates OSIsoft Connected Services for Cat® Asset Intelligence Integrating OSIsoft’s data management system into Caterpillar’s advanced analytics platform to help shipping companies reduce fuel and maintenance costs and increase uptime. General 2018-09-25 San Leandro, CA and Virginia Beac ...

Founded in 1902, Air Liquide is one of the world’s largest suppliers of industrial gases, including oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. Large Industries, a subsidiary of Air Liquide, operates hundreds of plants and primarily produces oxygen and hydrogen molecules using air separation units and steam methane reformer units. In 2015, Large Industries launched Smart and Innovative Operations (Smart and Innovative Operations, SIO. Perform for short) initiative with two clear goals: to eliminate unplanned shutdowns and double the efficiency gains of their gas production plants by 2020 through leveraging more value from their operations data. At PI World 2018 in San Francisco, Olivier Rioux, a project manager for the SIO initiative, told the story of how his team used operational data mining techniques to improve the economic performance of their plants and to reach their goals long before their 2020 deadline ...
Year: 2019

First established in 1998, PayPal has been a subsidiary of eBay for the majority of the last 20 years. PayPal now operates across 33 data centers and facilitates more than 6 billion payment transactions per year. In 2014, eBay announced plans to separate PayPal and turn it into its own company, initiating a long journey for PayPal toward independence. Shawn Tugwell, Senior Data Center Engineering Manager at PayPal, recently told the story of that journey during the PI World 2018 conference in San Francisco.
Year: 2018

Soil, Mud, Vessels and Innovation: DEME to Serve as the Data Sponsor for the Innovation Hackathon at OSIsoft’s PI World Conference in Barcelona General 2018-09-11 San Leandro, CA. August 13, 2018- OSIsoft LLC , a leader in operational intelligence, is proud to announce that DEME will serve as the dat ...

In this talk I'll explain how psychological and social incentives make our judgment less accurate, damaging our ability to figure out which risks are worth taking, set ambitious goals that are still achievable, and introspect about our own strengths and weaknesses. I'll explain how inaccuracy sometimes helps us in the short run but hurts us (and our teams) in the longer run. I'll also describe strategies for improving our judgment by changing our incentives to become better decision makers and effective professionals.
Year: 2018