Performance Remote Monitoring
4. Stoppers
Cybersecurity
Do you consider that the storage of your operating data on third party server (Axens, Cloud, ...) is a concern? in US? outside your company?
Do you have specific concerns regarding data sharing with us?
What are the top challenges that your company face in deploying Remote Monitoring?
5. Pay
Have you already implemented Remote Monitoring? Did you pay for this service? What was the payback? Do you plan to continue?
Do you have a budget for KPI Improvement?
6. Questions to:
Any technical person
Production or Process engineers
Process Engineer or Process Manager
Technical Director
3. Today
Online Analyzers
From who?
Do you have online analyzers? Do you plan? For which application? Product?
JLN; are you satisfied with their performance (accuracy / reliability)
APC Advanced Process Control
Do you have APC? which units? From who?
APM Asset Performance Management
Do you have APM? from who? which units? equipments?
Remote Monitoring
What are the Remote Monitoring use cases that your company is pursuing today?
Did you already apply Remote Monitoring while applying ISO 50 001 (Energy)? or ISO 55000 (Asset)?
Digital
What are the digital solutions that you have already applied?
2. Needs
Reactivity
How do you decide when you have to choose between pushing unit severity versus catalyst premature/faster aging?
JLN: How do you balance pushing unit severity (for higher margins) versus catalyst premature/faster aging?
Time Efficiency
How do you check performances of your different sites today?
JLN: How do you benchmark performances between you different sites
Reports
How do you fill Solomon surveys?
How do you fill internal and external reporting as for example energy conservation, envronmental declaraiton, ...)
JLN: How do you gather information to produce internal and external reports (for example energy conservation/usage, environmental reports ...)
Skill Management
Do you consider Remote Monitoring as a solution to develop and enrich the skills of employees
Shutdown interval
Do you think that Remote Monitoring can help to increase the duration between 2 turnarounds? The prediction of catalyst replacement period ore precisely?
Objectives
How do you justify catalyst replacement currently?
JLN: How do you justify catalyst replacement (performance not met, turn-around, potential for higher magin)?
Do you have objectives to reach your Solomon targets? Which ones?
What are currently your priorities of improvement (reliability, margin improvement, safety, knowledge management, maintenance, turnaround planning, ...)
JLN: What are your improvement priorities (reliability, margin improvement, safety, knowledge management, maintenance, turnaround planning, ...)
General
Who is your organisation share similar difficulties?
JLN: Not sure to understand
Do you think that Remote Monitoring could support your activity? Why?
JLN: Why and How instead of just Why
1. General
How could Axens help your projects of Smart Refinery or Refinery 4.0?
What would you expect from Axens as a provider of Remote Monitoring solutions?
JLN: should not we say digital solutions (broader than remote monitoring).
Should not we introduce Remote Monitoring as a tool to advice / provide guidance (vs. being more directive).
