Leading Chemicals and Fertilizers companies rely on Wonderware to actively drive value and sustainability by applying its technologies and expertise to continuously improve plant and facilities operations, lower waste, provide more flexible and agile production capabilities and reduce unit costs, energy and greenhouse gas intensities and plant emissions, all while simultaneously raising yields and quality compliance.
Profitable production using a blend of discrete, continuous and batch techniques that employ mechanical, chemical and electro-chemical processes requires the sophisticated understanding of control and automation that you can find at Schneider Electric.
Wonderware solutions for this sector include focused operations measurements such as model-based, real-time measurement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), energy and cost accounting. These key performance indicators generate better insights for each value-generation step in a Chemical plant and its facilities and are given business context derived from Production Management Systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management.
Specialty and fine chemical producers deal with an array of challenges every day that impact the bottom line. These include scheduling disconnected from operations, disjointed workflow and collaboration systems which lead to production delays and slowdowns, evaluating current production conditions and situations with data from yesterday or last week (or last month), lack of timely waste and profitability numbers that would help limit the waste and increase profits and staggeringly high Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ).
Wonderware solutions for the Specialty Chemicals sector help improve yields, agility and workflow management so that problems with scheduling, product demand, product variations, yields and maintenance are identified and managed early. Root causes are analyzed and recommendations provided to empower plant personnel to make faster, more effective business decisions, quickly enabling them to implement corrective actions before problems or variations occur.
Using Wonderware solutions, product variability and product demand are managed better and month-end surprises avoided. The right information gets to the right person at the right time. Product yields and manufacturing capacity are greatly improved and waste and product variability reduced.
The Biofuels sector has an increasingly important role in balancing the energy mix due to its favorable carbon balance compared to traditional fossil fuel sources, but the challenges are significant.
Throughput, yield and reliability must be maximized in the face of dynamic production and market situations. With changing economic subsidies, competing oil-for-food and oil-for-biodiesel prices and unpredictable agricultural conditions, the challenges of maximizing throughput, yield and reliability are daunting.
Wonderware solutions for the Biofuels sector include focused operations measurements such as model-based, real-time measurement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), energy and cost accounting. These key performance indicators generate better performance insights for each value-generation step in a Biofuels plant and are given business context derived from Production Management Systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management.
Wonderware solutions for the Biofuels sector can deliver significant increases in the plant or facility’s Sales Value of Production (SVOP) and contribute to sustainability by easing the Environmental, Health and Safety compliance concerns that are increasingly occupying the minds of business leaders in this sector.
As the world’s population continues to increase, the demand for fertilizers is growing proportionately. However, with the exception of a few regions of the world, the cost of the natural gas feedstock for ammonia production is quite high and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. As such, maximizing the yield of ammonia and urea at minimum cost and operational risk is essential to the long-term competitive success of companies in the fertilizer industry striving to help farmers meet the increasing demand for food across the globe.
For decades Wonderware has helped ammonia and urea producers around the world operate their plants safely, reliably, sustainably, cost effectively and at peak levels of operational performance.