RECENT PROJECTS
We see ourselves as a catalyst for delivering Industrial Digital Transformation through Innovative Solutions in the Industrial IT-OT space. These AI-powered solutions improve efficiencies by reducing unplanned stoppages, understanding the interdependencies of measured variables and empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions. Our project lists are growing. Some recent ones are given below.
Digital Transformation
VISY Glass is part of a large global corporation, and it embarked on a journey towards digital transformation as part of its continuous improvement strategy. As part of this initiative, they had the following objectives:
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Create a unified Platform that supports real-time Production Scheduling, Monitoring, Collaboration, Data Recording, Dashboarding, Reporting, Engineering Setup and Configuration, and Quality Assurance.
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Migrate from paper-based product defect recording to fully automated web and mobile-based platforms that could be used to record defects, which could then be analysed using Power BI.
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Capture process alarms and events and determine the root causes for line stoppages and loss of productivity.
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Establish a real-time platform that shows Asset Uptimes and also allows the Operations Managers to benchmark typical repair times when a line has to be repaired.
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Establish a data platform that enables them to view in near real-time people movement through various access points within the premises.
The project was delivered to the full satisfaction of the client and has now been adopted as their 'source of truth' for taking business decisions.
Martin Ruiz who led the project from the client's side had this to say:
SP Software & Automation P/L has provided an amazing support to our 24x7 business operation by developing the business Data Platform, supporting values such as continuous improvement, operation excellence and root/cause analysis. - “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” and this is what SP Software & Automation has helped us to achieve.
Upgrade of Plant Historian
MM Kembla is the largest manufacturer of copper tubes in Australia while SAPUTO ( Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Plant) is a large integrated dairy producer. The common thread both these manufacturing giants share is in using GE Digital's Proficy Enterprise Historian as their Operational Data Platform. When it came to upgrading these Historians, there were several challenges:
- These were running plants and data loss could not be allowed as their manufacturing decisions and batch recording and reporting depend on the Historian being available.
- Following migration, past data also needed to be migrated and in MM Kembla's case the new Historian had to be integrated to their old SCADA system.
Both projects were delivered on time and on-budget without any loss of data during the migration process.
Real-Time Analytics
An Electricity Utility wanted to understand how the Winding and Oil Temperature of their Power Transformers are related to the measured sensor data current, power, switchboard temperature, neighbourhood temperature, voltage etc.
Twdg= 0.343 / (1.0 - 0.280* Current - 0.193*Tout - 0.183*Tswitchboard - 0.0979*Power) for winding temperature
The discovery of the above relationship enabled the utility to:
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predict future values
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use the above relationship as a soft sensor
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model the winding temperature