Expands operations reliability and growth in renewable energy

This Customer Case Study discusses the benefits of digital collaboration and the role of HMI/SCADA systems in improving productivity and collaboration for industrial processes. Outdated systems hinder organizational efficiency and agility, and organizations must rethink their approach to HMI/SCADA management and deployment by implementing digital infrastructure and adopting hybrid cloud and on-premises solutions. A connected workforce, enabled to access context-specific information regardless of location, will drive operational efficiency, productivity, and agility. The paper also discusses the need for a digital infrastructure and the benefits of hybrid architecture.

Goals

• Move from independently managed systems to a standardized and consolidated operations control software strategy
• Enable better data analysis and reporting across operations to reduce communication silos
• Create a system to ensure data integrity and archiving. Eliminate data loss.

Challenges 

• Mixed set of software vendors and vintages deployed across sites and functions resulting in upkeep complexity
• Remote site communication connections were not 100% reliable
• Limited visibility into the cause of performance impacts

Results 

• Increased software system reliability and usage consistency, reducing upkeep effort between connected operations and staff
• Tiered data architecture gives huge improvement in data redundancy, integrity and archival accessibility for analysis and reporting
• Implemented critical tools for troubleshooting the process in real time by operations staff at every plant (Tier-1) as well as by the managers from the corporate office (Tier-2) all using the same data

Industry: Power Generation

Solutions: AVEVA^™ PI System, AVEVA^™ Operations Control, AVEVA^™ Insight

“AVEVA Operations Control is providing significant flexibility to deploy what we need and makes it easy to upgrade to remain current. It consequently allows us to make accurate business cases when it’s time to invest on process equipment.”

François Riopel, Automation Specialist, INNERGEX