Empower mobile workforce to be active participants in real-time operations
Wednesday June 29, 2016
Technology, enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), is empowering organizations to shift to a holistic and operations-centric view where proactive and predictive maintenance (PdM) enables front line personnel to act before costly failures occur. Leveraging mobile workforce enablement tools, helps drive this change.
Manually collecting data generally means it is after the fact and very complex for collaborative use across the organization. Heavy industrial operations must have access to multiple software systems to manage day-to-day challenges in an effective and secure manner. These systems generate large sets of data which contain critical information pertaining to management systems, asset planning and costing as well as energy management.
As a result, customers are confronted with the timely collection and relevant visualization of the data to reflect performance measures in overall context of their operational process.
Turning Operations Data into Actionable Information
Accessibility is a key success factor in leveraging the hidden insights in industrial data. The ease by which to obtain this directly impacts the field workforce. Connecting the mobile workforce with the automation system and keeping them up-to-date on current operational conditions helps improve productivity. This enables workflow, data collection and general task management for plant operations, maintenance, production tracking, and compliance applications.
Through the consistent execution of best practices by the mobile workforce you can transmit asset condition data collected using a decision support system back to the automation system so it can be viewed by operators on their displays in the control room, by engineers and managers utilizing plant information portals or by reliability professionals to ensure optimal asset availability. The result is early identification of equipment degradation, accelerating and sustaining mainstream process improvements for reliable, safe and profitable operations.
Ascend, a global leader in Nylon 6-6 production, has a great story to illustrate the utilization of technology to enable the mobile workforce.
Terry Unruh, PE production and maintenanc...