t cht lk notifications, that there might be a problem with this equipment. That is predictive analytics.
t cht lk notifications, that there might be a problem with this equipment. That is predictive analytics.
Prescriptive analytics becomes not just notifying someone that there may be a problem but advising them on what might be causing the problem so that they can actually take corrective actions.
Roadmap for implementing industrial AI
AVEVA creates templates for different types of equipment that exists in manufacturing, but all plants and all operating environments are unique. This is where customers themselves, or a system integrator will help the customer tweak the models a bit based on their operating conditions and their equipment.
This is really a tight partnership between AVEVA as the technology provider and the customer. The data is always the customer’ s data, so they use AVEVA tools to capture high fidelity process and production data. They use AVEVA models to be the starting point for analytics. And there is a lot of great cases of this.
Customers would start with using AVEVA process historians, and then look to drive improvements. And then the vendor would come in and sell them a predictive analytics capability. This is where AI that sits on the top and helps customers identify anomalies, optimise for fuel consumption, or fuel burn, among others.
AVEVA supports both on-premises and in cloud and call this a hybrid solution, so customers can have some of the historians on site. They can choose to connect into the CONNECT platform in the cloud, and they can do both, if they like. If they want to just do the cloud, they can do that as well.
For most process heavy industries, especially ones that have safety and reliability requirements, the hybrid model is the most popular. That is some stuff on-premises and then using the CONNECT cloud platform to do long term planning, analytics and visualisation.
Today AI is in some but not all AVEVA products. Eventually it is going to make its way into all of the vendor’ s products. The most notable one is the industrial AI assistant, which provides operators and users of the system guidance on how to find information, access information, and is almost like having a conversation.
Rob McGreevy, Chief Product Officer, AVEVA
The data is sourced from any customer automation system, control system, engineering design documents, alarms, events, process anomalies. You are having a conversation with an industrial assistant.
Role of channel partners
The basic industrial AI assistant works with AVEVA tools and there is not a lot of custom work that needs to be done. On the predictive and prescriptive analytics there are sophisticated models. This is where system integrators or specialists from the AVEVA team, do a bit of work, because there is more science and math involved for tweaking the models.
If customers are looking for a reliability centre, maintenance, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, anomaly detection, AVEVA solutions can do a lot of that. It starts to get sophisticated if you are doing advanced thermal modelling for example.
If customers are on the AVEVA CONNECT platform, they have access to the tools and technologies. The platform is AVEVA CONNECT, and the commercial model is Flex where they can buy credits. And if customers have Flex credits, they can use those against any of the technologies in the AVEVA portfolio. p
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