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A whole generation of industrial workers is about to retire, taking extensive knowledge and skills with them. How can companies attract new high-quality workers and quickly give them the skills previous generations took years to develop? New information technologies, called connected-worker solutions, are helping new workers get up to speed faster than ever before—and making their jobs more safe and attractive as well.

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Learn what solutions HENN connector group is using to connect its workers to real-time industrial data, digital systems, and each other, helping them work faster, safer, and more proactively.

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Guests: Berkan Fidan, Performance and Process Director, Oyak Cement
Martin Provencher, Mining Metals and Materials Industry Principal, AVEVA
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.

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David Trombly, engineering supervisor at University of California, Davis on saving water and energy with real-time data.

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The value of real-time data in power station and water station management with regards to network reliability. How Norah Thompson, senior information officer, and Kieran Magann, senior SCADA and control system engineer at Power and Water Corporation in Darwin, Australia are using real-time data visualization to improve uptime.

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