Performance Remote Monitoring

1. General

What would you expect from Axens as a provider of Remote Monitoring solutions?

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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). 

How could Axens help your projects of Smart Refinery or Refinery 4.0?

2. Needs

General

Do you think that Remote Monitoring could support your activity? Why?

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JLN: Why and How instead of just Why

Who is your organisation share similar difficulties?

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JLN: Not sure to understand

Objectives

What are currently your priorities of improvement (reliability, margin improvement, safety, knowledge management, maintenance, turnaround planning, ...)

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JLN: What are your improvement priorities (reliability, margin improvement, safety, knowledge management, maintenance, turnaround planning, ...)

Do you have objectives to reach your Solomon targets? Which ones?

How do you justify catalyst replacement currently?

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JLN: How do you justify catalyst replacement (performance not met, turn-around, potential for higher magin)?

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?

Skill Management

Do you consider Remote Monitoring as a solution to develop and enrich the skills of employees

Reports

How do you fill internal and external reporting as for example energy conservation, envronmental declaraiton, ...)

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JLN: How do you gather information to produce internal and external reports (for example energy conservation/usage, environmental reports ...)

How do you fill Solomon surveys?

Time Efficiency

How do you check performances of your different sites today?

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JLN: How do you benchmark performances between you different sites

Reactivity

How do you decide when you have to choose between pushing unit severity versus catalyst premature/faster aging?

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JLN: How do you balance pushing unit severity (for higher margins) versus catalyst premature/faster aging?

3. Today

Digital

What are the digital solutions that you have already applied?

Remote Monitoring

Did you already apply Remote Monitoring while applying ISO 50 001 (Energy)? or ISO 55000 (Asset)?

What are the Remote Monitoring use cases that your company is pursuing today?

APM Asset Performance Management

Do you have APM? from who? which units? equipments?

APC Advanced Process Control

Do you have APC? which units? From who?

Online Analyzers

Do you have online analyzers? Do you plan? For which application? Product?

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JLN; are you satisfied with their performance (accuracy / reliability)

From who?

6. Questions to:

Technical Director

Process Engineer or Process Manager

Production or Process engineers

Any technical person

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5. Pay

Do you have a budget for KPI Improvement?

Have you already implemented Remote Monitoring? Did you pay for this service? What was the payback? Do you plan to continue?

4. Stoppers

General

What are the top challenges that your company face in deploying Remote Monitoring?

Cybersecurity

Do you have specific concerns regarding data sharing with us?

Do you consider that the storage of your operating data on third party server (Axens, Cloud, ...) is a concern? in US? outside your company?