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Guests: Allen Turner, Advanced Analytics Team Lead, International Paper
Co-host: Mariana Sandin, Industry Principal, AVEVA.
Industry: Paper and Forest Products
Business Impact: Process Productivity
In this episode of Radio PI, co-hosts Nick D’Orazio and Mariana Sandin speak with Allen Turner of International Paper (IP) about the unique challenges of digital transformation in a legacy industry like pulp and paper. Mr. Turner, as part of International Paper’s global technology team, is working on an initiative called “mill of the future,” which focuses on cost savings and optimization across International Paper’s mills. Mr. Turner lays out the importance of establishing foundational data quality—or “cleaning up the messy basement” of old data tags and stale data tags—in order to ensure a successful digital transformation project.

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Guests: Berkan Fidan, Performance and Process Director, Oyak Cement
Martin Provencher, Mining Metals and Materials Industry Principal, AVEVA
Industry: Mining, Metals, and Materials
Business Impact: Safety, environmental quality.
Berkan Fidan describes a team approach to improving cement operations with sensor-based data. He started a 2016 digitalization project at Oyak Cement in Turkey, which leads Europe in cement production. As the performance and process director of his nation's largest cement producer he was trying to address the realities of cement production: enormous energy and heat costs and a product that sells for less than bottled water. He created a team consisting of production personnel from 7 cement plants and 3 grinding plants around the world and implemented a data collection and visualization system they referred to as Cement 4.0. Fidan reports his team did 90% of the work themselves. Among their accomplishments are 1) creating digital twins of their plants in Analysis Framework where they used a template of a kiln ID fan they created themselves to enforce common benchmarks and visualizations across their entire organization, 2) defining conditions for email notifications to local and corporate stakeholders of cement rotary kiln stoppage, and 3) creating event frames definitions to track and analyze mean time between failure.

By engaging local production personnel who found the system easy to use and popular, the system has seen organization-wide adoption and he attributes a clear improvement in KW per ton to the cultural change that has resulted.
A transcript of this interview is at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1330366/8199235.

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Guests: Michael Orcutt, Vice President of Sales and Engineering, CosaTron
Richard Klein, Senior Product Marketing Manager, OSIsoft
Daniel Noonen, Partner Solution Architect
Industry: Facilities
Business Impact: Safety, environmental quality.
A manufacturer of advanced air purification systems can now monitor and provide analysis of indoor air quality remotely. In our latest podcast listen to Michael Orcutt of CosaTron describe a project with OSIsoft that uses only OSIsoft Cloud Services (OCS) to view, analyze and store on the cloud indoor air quality data. He is joined by the OSIsoft engineer who did the work, Daniel Noonen, and OSIsoft marketing manager and OCS specialist Richard Klein.

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Industry: general. Business Impact: process optimization. OSIsoft founder Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy describes the sensor-based data toolset every production engineer needs, what he’s done right and wrong in 40 years in the business, and the truth about his high school diploma. Visit us at https://www.osisoft.com/resource-library/ to search through thousands of use cases by customers in the world's largest process and production industries. #sensorbaseddata #realtimedata #processoptimization

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SNOLAB is the deepest clean lab in the world. It searches for the most elusive building blocks of our universe: neutrinos and dark matter. The Nobel Prize website describes its experiments as like searching for a particular grain of sand in the Sahara—and it relies on industrial data to do it.

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