Marjan Milosevic, Head of Industrial IT, Holcim Technology

Self-service analytics is a key enabler in Holcim’s Plant of Tomorrow program, enabling plant engineers to both improve process performance and simultaneously upskill in analytics to better use the next wave of technologies around machine learning. We present how Holcim, a leader in sustainable building materials manufacturing, grew a sophisticated data analytics approach, as well as highlight some of the >100 use cases this effort delivered in optimizing emissions, energy usage, materials quality, productivity, and more.

Nicholas Bradley, Global Remote Monitoring Leade, Guardian Glass | Jesse Karkheck, Remote Process Monitoring Subject Matter Expert, Guardian Glass

Remaining competitive in the face of volatile market conditions requires rapid transformation in operations. We identified a few key use cases to address pressures around energy costs, currency valuation, and product yield. We will share how we successfully achieved energy savings of over €500k at one plant YTD, improved product quality with a 60% reduction in defects, and scaled these new analytics and approaches to sites worldwide.

Ashutosh Patel, Principal Engineer, Birla Carbon

As a global organization, digital transformation initiatives take time to take hold before they go stale. Birla Carbon has an Operational Intelligence Platform and a Global Asset Tree for seamlessly accessing manufacturing data, accelerating insights, and scaling the business impact. People and technology help drive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and problem-solving to impact operational issues. Applications covering environmental reporting, energy advisory, quality improvements, and digitization of operational configurations have allowed Birla Carbon to maximize the power of collaboration among subject matter experts.

Brian Schriever, Process and Equipment Monitoring Analyst, Flint Hills Resources | Brian Johnson, Process & Equipment Monitoring Lead, Flint Hills Resources

Learn how Flint Hills Resources and Seeq partnered to achieve monitoring at scale in Seeq. The Evidence Manager project created a system built on Seeq that triaged thousands of alerts and improved their workflow for analyzing and collaborating on production issues. This presentation will walk through various stages of the development of this solution and how it has improved the end user experience.

Johannes Sikström, Senior Development Engineer, Boliden

The most energy-intensive step in a mineral concentration plant is grinding, in some cases 40% – 50% of the total site consumption. Optimizing the grinding operations has the most impact in power consumption and mill throughput. Seeq was used to perform analysis of the mill power utilization in Boliden Garpenberg to identify the potential and then the performance of a new advanced process control system. The results of the assessment and early evaluation will be presented here.

Jaime De la Ree, Energy Transmission Analytics & Modeling Supervisor, Dominion Energy

Moving from data analysis and reporting to data ownership is a challenge. Enabling cultural change across Dominion requires enterprise technology with mechanisms for self-service, data transparency, and improved collaboration. Within the first 100 days of using Seeq, we have evaluated alarms to prioritize action for relay servicing and integrated with Power BI for Forecasting Load Growth. We learned that with proper data sources, the right support, and an incremental approach to success, a data-forward and self-service culture can evolve.

Ali Khafagy, Assistant Technical Engineer/Officer, Ontario Power Generation

OPG’s entire fleet for power generation and the Monitoring and Diagnostic Centre (M&D) work with a technology portfolio to monitor and meet important operations KPIs. Seeq is utilized to execute advanced requests in the nuclear and hydroelectric space. Resources, such as office hours, learning, support tickets, meetings and other touchpoints are leveraged to improve the communication strategy and make people aware of the solutions’ capabilities. As OPG continues to grow, we will discuss how Seeq fits into the future.

Trevor Andrews, Operations Engineer, NITROcrete

As NITROcrete’s operations grew, our home-grown IoT system became difficult to use. Seeq became pervasively present with a hands-off approach and focused on the needs of the primary end users. It is used to view site data to manage operations, communicate with the customer, troubleshoot issues, planning and scheduling, and even accounting. It is now the enabling platform to run NITROcrete’s business.