Speaker: John Leskowat, Renewables Data Analyst, Duke Energy

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.

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.

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.