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Streaming Data and Event Infrastructure To meet these demands rigorous benchmarking, upgrading and debottlenecking of facilities is required, all of which require operational data for engineering studies. The true cost of production for products must be known. Enhanced production, operation and decision making for continuous improvement require access to data. Performance improvements and development is made with continuous feedback, attention to global standards in operation and implementing state of the art manufacturing for quicker response to market demand and reduction of operating cycle times. Data availability in real-time is key to all of these initiatives. Globalization Companies are global today. This brings the need to manage the business globally while responding to local requirements, laws and customs. Global business puts more pressure on supply chains, inventory management while meeting trading and market conditions. Balancing a global asset base, inventory, customer demand, regulatory and economic environments require access to data across the entire company. Often decisions need to be made rapidly. The access to data allows for these decisions to me be made from information rather than relying entirely on experience and intuition. Workforce The workforce must be empowered with the right data at the right place in the right time to make decisions. They must have the ability to work across organizations for collaboration and the access expert specialists. Today’s workforce is highly mobile and always on call. They need to have the data as well as the analysis tools available on demand and from personal devices. Technology Technology and the need for data analysis are moving organizations towards the convergence of Information Technology and Operation Technology. These groups previously worked as silos within an organization. Today both groups are learning from each other to meet the demands of the business. Trends and requirements in Big Data, Analytics, Security and Reliability are being met with technology. Corporations are seeking technologies to help their people work smarter while maintaining the security of corporate IP. Innovation Whether it is product or process innovation companies are seeking the next breakthrough that will give them new opportunities in the market. Often data plays a role in being the catalyst to provide insight into existing conditions that open pathways to new opportunities. The flexibility to look at data in many ways and drill down into details of data at their original fidelity are some of the requirements when it comes to looking for innovation in process and product Last Saved May 4, 2012 8 of 20
Streaming Data and Event Infrastructure improvements. According to Michael Porter of Harvard Business School and Director, Institute for Strategy and Competiveness, the challenge for competiveness has shifted from the last decade of restructure, lower cost and need to raise quality to the innovation challenge. He says advantage must come from the ability to create and then commercialize new products and processes. A streaming data and event infrastructure is a critical requirement to address all of these business challenges. 5 Customer Success Stories Alcoa Alcoa is the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina. Alcoa’s sales in 2008 were $26.9 billion. They have 63,000 employees in 31 countries and have been named one of the most sustainable corporations in the world. Alcoa also makes a very sustainable product: more than 70% of the aluminum ever produced is still in use. Alcoa is in the very competitive global market of producing aluminum. Energy is 40% of their production costs and they run an 800MW generation plant to power their Warwick smelter. Two years ago, the Warwick plant decided to tie into their electricity provider’s demand response system to find new ways to manage their energy use. Using the PI System, Alcoa balances between consuming power and selling it to the electric utilities depending on which is more profitable. “Demand response is huge for us,” says Brian Helms of Alcoa. In the first year with the help of their PI System, they made 1,800 small changes in generation to earn millions of dollars in new revenue that would otherwise not have been possible. As Brian Helms, Alcoa project manager, put it, “Incremental changes, that’s what we found the PI System is doing for us. These little things that we can add to what we are already doing, to put the information out to the people making the decisions, and we reap the benefit of those decisions. That’s the power of the PI System.” Alcoa has the PI System installed in 20 facilities in 8 countries utilizing 400,000 tags, 27 PI System servers, 73 interfaces and 600 clients. Most recently the PI System was installed at Alcoa Aluminum’s largest North American smelter located in Newburgh, Indiana, USA. Adjacent to the smelter is Alcoa Power Generation’s Warrick Power Plant who’s 732 MW’s feeds the smelter and rolling mill processes. Prior to participating in the Midwest Independent System Operator’s (Midwest ISO) Energy Market, selling excess MW’s or buying needed electricity took resources to negotiate and manage those buy and sell transactions. Seeing an opportunity to participate in the upcoming Midwest ISO Ancillary Services Market (ASM), Alcoa Power Generation purchased the PI System as their underlying data infrastructure. When the ASM went live in Alcoa Power Gen became the only type II participant in the form of Demand Response. Alcoa allows Midwest ISO to send signals that are received Last Saved May 4, 2012 9 of 20
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