Executive View

Top Level Objectives

Given the financial and environmental challenges of today’s process industries, executives are finding themselves in search of ways to increase production and reduce energy usage to improve profitability without the capital expense of adding physical capacity. Fine-tuning maintenance and reliability processes to get more out of existing assets has fast come to the forefront of the goals and objectives for each of the individual plants as well as the enterprise as a whole. To do this, leadership must set strong processes and most importantly, have an effective way to monitor their operations against these processes.

Solution - Innovation

Rolta’s OneView™ Operational Insights provides insights into operations, reliability and maintenance for executives and managers to monitor and analyze critical plant work-processes. It lends a cross-functional view of the facility that was never before available, enabling a cooperative culture of identifying and remediating operational and reliability issues.

Advantage - Insight

Operational Insights integrates data, applications and processes from distributed high value CMMS , Reliability, Historian, LIMS, and Financial sources and presents the information in an intuitive, drillable interface that gives you the ability to correlate and analyze information needed to make judicious and knowledgeable decisions. From maintenance engineers, to line managers to plant general managers, Operational Insights allows for identification of threatening situations driving preemptive and proactive action rather than blindly following a predetermined path.

Management View

Business Objectives

Each and every line manager in a process facility has a responsibility for overall production, safety, reliability and maintenance of their individual areas. Rolta believes that plants with higher reliability are intrinsically safer, have fewer environmental violations and drive more profits. With this in mind, Rolta OneView™ has been developed to give these managers the ability to quickly identify, monitor and manage the conditions in their facilities that drive a higher level of production and reliability while consuming less energy.

Solution

The concept of Operational Insights is to logically integrate many applications used by process manufacturers to enable a plant wide decision support system that increases plant utilization through increasing the reliability index and maintaining a state of “Operational Excellence”. The reliability index is the most important KPI in any plant because they exist to make products, to produce. Rolta’s Operational Insights goal is to help reduce plant downtime by as much as 50% or more by increasing the plants’ reliability index.

Approach

Operational insights integrates data, applications and processes from distributed high value CMMS, Reliability, Historian, LIMS, and Financial sources and presents the information in an intuitive, drillable interface that gives you the ability to correlate and analyze information needed to make judicious and knowledgeable decisions. From maintenance engineers, to line managers to plant general managers, Operational Insights allows for identification of threatening situations driving preemptive and proactive action rather than blindly following a predetermined path.

Business Value

Operational Insights is based in Rolta-developed best practices as well as industry standard best practices such as AP-913 (nuclear industry) for improving overall reliability. The cross-functional capability enables many benefits:

Ability to identify and monitor critical risks
Fewer issues in operator routine duties, preventative maintenance procedures, critical reliability exceptions
Fewer reportable environmental events
Reduced cost of unplanned outages
Reduced energy consumption

Technical View

Technical Issues

A constant challenge faced by process industry organizations today is the gathering of timely and accessible information to make sound decisions. This is especially true in Reliability & Maintenance. An excessive amount of time is spent in searching and collecting data from multiple applications and dozens of desktop databases and spreadsheets, resulting in excessive and unnecessary costs. The remainder of the time must be spent in analyzing that data in an attempt to make intelligent business decisions. Due to this ineffective process, decisions are often delayed, efforts aborted and patterns of failure are difficult to recognize. Management struggles to make decisions to prevent future failures. Ultimately resolutions are unsuccessful. Rolta’s OneView™ platform brings the full power of Business Intelligence to process manufacturers helping them reduce their costs while increasing their performance.

Solution Components

The Rolta OneView Operational Insights decision support system is role-based and the tabs presented are relevant to the role accessing the system. The granularity level can be drilled down to a Plant, Unit or any level in the hierarchy to make actionable decisions across the informational silos.

Implementation

OneView brings together a cross-functional view by integrating data from key industry source systems such as:

CMMS
- Maximo
- SAP PM
- Oracle eAM
- Passport
Process Historians
- OSI Pi
- Aspentech IP21
- Exaquantam
Reliability Strategy
- Meridium

These sources and others are brought into an industry standard data model built around ISA IS95 definitions. The model is built with extensibility in mind, ready to incorporate unique differences across industries and customers. From there, OneView presents role-based, drillable KPI’s, analytics and reports at all levels of the enterprise.