AspenTech recently announced the general availability of the aspenONE® V12 software release, which embeds Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the portfolio and uses the Cloud to deliver enterprise-wide analytics and insights. The v12 release continues to support AspenTech's strategy of embedding AI and Machine Learning (ML) inside their products such that end-users can take advantage of these powerful tools without having to rely on data scientists or layer on external third-party analytics solutions.
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Operational Excellence,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation
In previous blogs and articles, I have written about the new “OT Ecosystem.” Over the past few months I had a chance to observe what’s happening in the market with a number of automation and software vendors, so I thought this would be a good time to revisit the OT Ecosystem, delve deeper into what it is and what it means, and why it is important.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Cloud,
IT/OT,
Connected Worker
Last week’s job report showed what many of us already knew intuitively. The real economy is bad and will likely get worse before it gets better.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
IT/OT,
Factory of the Future,
COVID-19
On September 9th and 10th of 2019, Operational Sustainability, LLC® held its second Operational Excellence (OE) Conference at the Norris Conference Center at City Centre here in Houston, Texas. Approximately 100 people attended, including partners and industry SMEs. Founder and CEO David Drerup opened the conference keynote with a renewed commitment to serving customers with their OESuite™ of intelligent, real-time decision support and risk management applications that integrate heretofore silos of multiple products. The company is celebrating its 10th year in business. OESuite focuses on the oil & gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, utilities, mining, water / wastewater, and food & beverage markets. They have more than 30 clients, some with 50+ sites.
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Operational Excellence,
Solution Vendor / Software Vendor,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Like manufacturing, asset performance management (APM) has evolved to leverage the digital technology associated with Cloud, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), mobility, Big Data, and the associated analytics. This overall industrial shift has been referred to as both Industry 4.0 (or Industrie 4.0) and Smart Manufacturing. Accordingly, LNS set forth a vision of how APM has evolved in support of these highly digital, capable manufacturing assets which we call APM 4.0.
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Operational Excellence,
Smart Connected Assets,
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM),
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Asset Performance Management (APM)
On Tuesday, March 20, LNS Research hosted the webcast, “Industry Standards as Building Blocks to Quality Maturity and Operational Excellence.” The presentation examined how to use industry standards to capture the attention and cooperation of senior corporate executives, the capabilities required to achieve competitive advantage through quality, and the results companies should expect.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Metrics,
Compliance,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Quality 4.0
Safety culture has been a long-standing topic in environment, health, and safety (EHS) and operational risk management (ORM) for industrial organizations. It’s receiving more attention in recent years with increased recognition of the essential role of human capital management and organizational dynamics in running a successful business.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Risk Management,
Continuous Improvement,
Culture,
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
Last year was big for the environment, health, and safety (EHS) business function, regarding the technology available to manage it, and industry developments that impacted EHS. For the most part, the trends we projected in our 2017 trend and impacts to watch blog were realized, or at least advanced substantially.
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Categories:
Operational Excellence,
Big Data,
Industrial Automation,
Culture,
ISO Standards,
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT),
Industrial Transformation / Digital Transformation,
Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing,
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML),
Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)
