Are you ready to join Generation i?
A new generation is rising, defined not by age or experience, but by the relentless desire for progress.
By harnessing trusted insight and ingenuity - your Industrial Intelligence - you can open up new avenues for growth, drive decarbonization, and reshape Manufacturing today and for the future.
Maximize agility to meet customers' needs, while boosting efficiency and growth, through trusted insights that span your ecosystem.
Turn data into decisions
Transform disconnected data into decisive action.
Break down silos
Share integrated data across teams and systems.
Connect every link
Power collaboration and resilience throughout your value chain.
Turn insight into growth
Build new revenue streams and enable efficiencies.
Learn more about how AVEVA customers harness their Industrial Intelligence
- A responsible packaging producer
- Pfizer
- Henkel
A responsible packaging producer turned insight into impact
A global leader in responsible packaging wanted to boost production but faced a lack of real-time visibility into operational data. Manual data sharing and reporting also led to inaccurate information. The business needed to build a standard framework to facilitate data collection, sharing, and analysis.
We were just capturing a tremendous amount of data, putting it into our historian, and there was very minimum value.
Creating the solution to improve productivity
The company’s core objectives were to:
- Improve the quality and analysis of data through the development of a standardized structure and the establishment of consistent performance measurement, presented in a meaningful, visual way.
- Prevent equipment failures and unscheduled downtime through AI-infused analytics and predictive modelling.
- Foster global collaboration by giving teams across the organization access to centralized real-time data and insights, and enable faster, more informed decision-making.
Trusted insights and connected teams combine to enhance performance.
Partnering with AVEVA, the company adopted a phased approach to develop a solution.
First, the business deployed AVEVA™ Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and AVEVA™ System Platform to improve real-time visibility of operational data as well as standardize data structure and reporting KPIs. This created a foundational architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics.
Next, the company engaged in a Lighthouse project to pilot the CONNECT industrial intelligence platform. This enabled the business to assemble event and process data from multiple plants in the cloud and share this across teams, leverage industrial AI to uncover new insights, and predict asset failures and anomalies (in combination with AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics). The successful CONNECT Lighthouse engagement helped to decrease downtime by 1-2% (for 4 assets across 2 plants).
Pfizer turned timesaving into lifesaving
Pfizer relentlessly pursues breakthroughs that change patients’ lives, and its teams drive innovation to make the world a healthier place. This dedication shone brightest when the call came for the COVID-19 vaccine.
With the world waiting, Pfizer embarked on compressing the vaccine development timeline from nine years to nine months. Achieving this required re-invention and feats of innovation in science as well as data management and process optimization.
Having already embarked on a digital transformation journey with AVEVA, Pfizer understood the transformative potential of standardized and centralized data management to unlock benefits throughout its value chain.
When COVID-19 emerged, Pfizer swiftly leveraged these established practices to accelerate the vaccine project, recognizing the pivotal role of AVEVA software in this endeavor.
We were convinced that science would win, and how data and the AVEVA PI System would be an important part of that victory.
Innovating at the speed of light
Pfizer streamlines operations, facilitates collaboration, and accelerates decision-making across its network by centralizing and standardizing data collection and analysis.
The AVEVA PI System serves as the cornerstone of Pfizer's Global Historian Program, providing real-time, full data visibility and control over its manufacturing processes.
This optimizes Pfizer’s operations, supports the transfer and sharing of data, empowers collaboration between different sites, and enables rapid adaptability.
The data foundation enabled by the AVEVA PI system allows for the monitoring of critical parameters, such as temperature control in freezer farms, mRNA concentration in vaccine batches, and production scheduling for capacity modeling and the removal of bottlenecks.
Additionally, Pfizer’s team can gather insights on process performance, identify areas for improvement, and ensure batch quality and compliance with regulatory standards.
Leveraging the scalability and flexibility of AVEVA’s software, Pfizer exceeded expectations and delivered an unprecedented 3.2 billion doses of the vaccine by the end of 2021.
Transforming medicine manufacturing
By putting industrial intelligence to work, Pfizer maximizes the benefits of advanced data management and analytics.
Harnessing data to accelerate vaccine development has the potential to save millions and restore hope during global crises.
And centralizing data, standardizing processes, and leveraging predictive analytics can streamline operations, reduce time-to-market, and improve the efficacy and safety of medications.
By bringing it up to the global historian, and structuring it in a consistent fashion, suddenly we were able to leverage our SMEs throughout the world.
Henkel turned data into savings
Henkel, a global FMCG manufacturer, is a pioneer, reimagining and improving life today and for generations to come. This spirit led to the digital transformation of their Laundry & Home Care division to drive greater efficiency, and thereby greater sustainability.
Goals included reducing specific energy consumption, achieving ISO 50001 certification, and improving supply-chain resource efficiency by 5–6% annually, all the while maintaining growth.
However, Henkel’s challenges in data collection and communication across the supply chain would make attaining its goals difficult. A partnership with AVEVA led to an effective solution.
We adopted a digital backbone as this facilitates a vertical approach. It’s faster and ensures application roll-out quickly generates tangible business benefits.
An elegant device-agnostic solution
Henkel uses AVEVA software to enable its teams to capture and contextualize operational data, manage domain, database, application programs. Device integration is configured independently, without affecting the architecture. Engineers can seamlessly incorporate legacy hardware.
Teams installed more than 4,000 physical and virtual sensors, and more than one million data points are captured every day. Touch-screen devices instantly consolidate and contextualize relevant data, enabling operators to collaborate in real-time and identify problematic areas.
Now, operators can accurately measure energy use across the entire factory. They analyze results within meaningful parameters, empowering teams to take corrective action and reduce energy consumption.
AVEVA’s software delivers overall equipment efficiency (OEE) data that further increases productivity. Machine downtime information enables operators to target in-line improvements.
Payback and then some
Energy consumption decreased by 16% in 2020, leading to €8 million in annual savings and €37 million saved to date. The project achieved full payback within four years and quadrupled ROI after eight years.
Other benefits include a 15% improvement in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), reduction of filling line waste and 100% label quality rate.
By putting industrial intelligence to work, Henkel transformed its Laundry & Home Care operations, driving sustainability and efficiency across its value chain.
Once we’d implemented the AVEVA-based EMS solution, the energy saved was equivalent to the capacity needed to support the three million inhabitants of Amsterdam and Vienna
New teams now are willing to collaborate and make that exchange of data between systems, in this case between CONNECT and a technology like any ERP, at that point you are unfolding a totally new business and new ways to improve the entire operations.
By harnessing its Industrial Intelligence, the company now has a solution that integrates and optimizes production processes based on standardized real-time data visibility. It has also created new opportunities for teams to collaborate across multiple locations and systems to improve efficiency and decrease downtime.
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