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What does digital transformation really mean for a plant? How do they do it? For the third year I call 24th of July (24/7) the World Reliability Day to recognize the men and women that keep equipment working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24/7). I spend a lot of time thinking about digital transformation of plants to make their job easier, and how digital transformation can help all the other amazing people in the plant which ensure safety and compliance, energy efficiency and low emissions. So much of what we do privately and in the office is digital and data-driven, why should work in the plant be any different? Here are my personal thoughts:
In plants the basic process control and safety is already automated. That is, the production of oil, gas, petrol, ethylene, polystyrene, electric power, water, insulin, alumina, sheet metal, paper, and beer etc. is an automatic process. Yet, around the plant there are still lots of manual tasks being carried out for supporting functions. Digital transformation is about changing from manual paper-based tasks to data-driven tasks infused with digital Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Here I have summarized digital transformation I have seen in various plants. Imagine what it could do for the operations people in your plant.
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