Experience the CONNECT Effect
The CONNECT industrial intelligence platform accelerates efficiency through digital transformation across your ecosystem.
Gain a more holistic view of your business across the full industrial life cycle
Trusted intelligence
Accelerate digital transformation with fully contextualized information and industry-specific AI solutions that upskill your workforce and unlock innovation.
Actionable insight
Streamline your operations with real-time analytics for unparalleled efficiency and real-world impact.
Unified experience
Create a centralized view of your OT, ET, and IT data with rich visualization and analysis to strengthen collaboration and eliminate data silos across your organization.
Empowered ecosystem
Share information across your network of on-prem and cloud solutions by leveraging value-added services to increase sustainability and maintain competitive edge.
SUCCESS STORIES
The CONNECT Effect in action
- Boliden
- CPG
- AGL Energy
- SQM
- YINSON
Boliden is a leading Swedish mining and smelting company, producing base and precious metals.
The company faced unexpected failures of a mission-critical conveyor belt responsible for transporting ore from the crusher to the concentrator. Boliden’s data was held in a separate silo from the vibration analysis of its partner, SKF, making it hard to predict or resolve the root cause.
Using CONNECT and AVEVA software, Boliden and SKF created a solution to integrate, visualize, and share data, enhancing the efficiency of the conveyor belt.
"The CONNECT platform enables Boliden maintenance engineers to collaborate with SKF application engineers and get better insights by combining condition monitoring data from our PI System and the SKF Observer platform. This will allow us to reduce unplanned downtime significantly."
Goals
- Improve collaboration and efficiency by sharing vibration data and contextual insights between Boliden’s and SKF’s teams
- Improve data quality by integrating information into a single asset view
- Boost availability and cut unplanned downtime to keep critical processes moving
- Leverage AI-enhanced insights by integrating process and vibration data and adding advanced analytics to predict failures before they occur
Challenges
- Critical conveyor belt bearings showed a shorter‑than‑expected lifespan
- Breakdowns risked halting ore transportation from crusher to concentrator, causing production losses and high maintenance costs
- Traditional condition-based monitoring relied on limited data, restricting diagnostic capabilities
- Needed to share maintenance data securely with SKF without exposing sensitive process information
The CONNECT Effect
- Improved understanding of conveyor performance thanks to end-to-end data insights, which enabled early detection and improved issue resolution
- Enhanced collaboration between Boliden and SKF by connecting process and condition-monitoring data
- Reduced downtime and maintenance burden through a proactive response to equipment performance
A global CPG leader providing food and beverage products to customers in over 180 countries for more than 150 years needed to optimize the production of its powder beverage products to keep pace with the market.
By deploying CONNECT and AVEVA software, the team used advanced analytics and real-time data in the cloud to enhance product quality and minimize waste.
“We wanted to have real-time predictions of the density and moisture of our product. We also wanted to give our operators variable suggestions, so they can make that more consistent powder on their own”
Goals
- Predict powder moisture and density in real time using live production data
- Move and integrate process data into the cloud to support advanced analytics with AI and machine learning
- Equip operators with dashboards that show predictions vs actuals and provide clear guidance to take the guesswork out of process control and drive product consistency
Challenges
- Fully manual operational process caused variability in product moisture and density
- Low product yield due to low moisture
- Inconsistent product caused unnecessary waste
The CONNECT Effect
- Reduced jar-to-jar weight variation by 10% as a result of improved moisture content
- Drove up to 10% cost savings on powder production
- Improved product consistency and consumer satisfaction
- Reduced product waste in production and packaging lines
AGL Energy is an integrated energy company that produces energy from thermal power, gas, wind power, hydroelectricity, gas storage, and battery storage across Australia.
Since 2010, AGL’s supply capacity has grown from 300 megawatts of electricity generation to over 10,000 megawatts. As a result, the company has seen overwhelming growth in its data.
Using AVEVA software and CONNECT, AGL centralized its time-series information from every generation site. Now, the whole team has secure access to near-real-time data, and everyone is empowered to make changes that can improve many aspects of business performance.
“Our partnership with AVEVA has yielded significant operational value in data management, facilitating the delivery of operational insights and enhancing plant performance. The data is readily accessible, user-friendly, and available in real-time when necessary, empowering our sites to make informed operational decisions."
Goals
- To give teams across the organization access to real-time data and insights to improve accuracy of decision-making
- Expand from real-time awareness to predictive modelling to prevent lost time incidents.
- Share power generation data securely with partners, optimizing usage across distributed power generation sites.
Challenges
- Rapid energy transition drivers presented challenges managing data systems
- The team needed high-resolution data to optimize operational performance, especially with aging infrastructure
- The team had to consolidate scattered and isolated data, with multiple SCADA technologies in play, all within one system. They were able to achieve this with CONNECT
The CONNECT Effect
- Saved millions in avoided failures and maintenance costs
- Reduce data capture time from 10 mins to 1 sec across 200 wind turbines, helping optimize performance improvements and justify site-wide turbine upgrade
- Benefited from positive ROI and payback, and enhanced efficiency performance as a result
- Real-time wind power generation data from turbines is shared securely with 3rd parties to further optimize performance
SQM is one of the world’s leading producers of specialty plant nutrition products, iodine and its derivatives, and nitrate-based industrial chemicals.
The company faced several operational and process challenges to its goal to maximize nitrate production yield. Improving yield was critical to increasing operational efficiency, reducing production costs, and protecting margins.
Using CONNECT, AVEVA software and Databricks, SQM created an architecture that enables real-time insights to improve nitrate yield by unifying operational data, simulation models, and AI.
"We unlocked immense value by transmitting data from AVEVA PI System to CONNECT and Databricks. Now we have a developer-friendly, industrial solution to move PI data at scale, enabling not just this use case, but many more."
Goals
- Maximize nitrate production yield
- Create unified analytics, marrying process, sensor, and lab analytics data with simulation outputs
- Provide a scalable, developer-friendly way to integrate operational data with cloud analytics and AI platforms
- Seamlessly feed model results into on-premises systems as part of a digital twin
Challenges
- Operators’ decisions were based on experience, not data, with no predictive or simulation models to help them test variables or preempt failures
- Non-optimal operations led to higher salt consumption and raw materials waste
- Decisions were disconnected across plant areas, limiting yield optimization
The CONNECT Effect
- Increased nitrate yield by 1% through optimized chemical processes
- Improved Raw material efficiency by 1-3%, reducing salt consumption and waste
- Decreased process variability 10-15%, enhancing plant stability
- Enhanced operator decision-making with predictive models exceeding 90% accuracy
Yinson enhanced its data management and operational efficiency by integrating AVEVA™ PI System™ with AVEVA™ Engineering and CONNECT, supporting its growth and advancing towards net-zero emissions by 2050.
“By implementing AVEVA PI System, we were actually able to collect real-time data from the assets in operation."
Goals
- Streamline complex vessel design
- Structure and analyze data to enable analysis and optimization
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030
Challenges
- Growing number and size of assets across the globe made it difficult to control data
- Duration and multidisciplinary nature of projects hampered data sharing and collaboration
- Capturing greenhouse gas emissions across operations to calculate baseline for future reductions
The CONNECT Effect
- Increased real-time data enables more efficient maintenance
- Data integration empowers increased collaboration across teams
- Moved from monthly calculations of greenhouse gas emissions to daily monitoring
Learn how CONNECT is helping other teams unlock their Industrial Intelligence
Industrial transformation starts with CONNECT
Access trusted intelligence and gain valuable insights to empower your industrial ecosystem.
- Leverage rich, contextualized data through a unified and connected hybrid cloud experience built for your industry
- Streamline execution with real-time intelligence
- Stay ahead of the curve with enterprise visualization
- Collaborate across groups, break down silos and empower remote teams
- Optimize efficiency, cut costs, and reduce waste
