air liquide advanced industrial it project
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AIR LIQUIDE ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT. OSIsoft Users Conference April 2004. J.R. Brugerolle - Corporate VP Technology T. Roba – Process optimization manager. Industrial & Medical gases. 40 Billion € worldwide business AIR LIQUIDE is the global leader. 2003 Sales: 8.4 B€ - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
AIR LIQUIDEADVANCEDINDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT
J.R. Brugerolle - Corporate VP Technology
T. Roba – Process optimization manager
OSIsoft Users ConferenceApril 2004
2The world leader in industrial and medical gases
Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Industrial & Medical gases
40 Billion € worldwide business
AIR LIQUIDE is the global leader
• 2003 Sales: 8.4 B€
• 1 million customers
• 65 Countries
• 30,800 employees
• 350,000 shareholders
3The world leader in industrial and medical gases
Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Main objectives of the project
Enhance:
Business growth
Quality, Reliability
Cost reduction
Opportunities for Services
through an advanced industrial information system
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Initial phase
24 Production plants
1,600 Miles of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen pipelines
240 Remote distribution & metering stations
Over 4 countries: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain
5The world leader in industrial and medical gases
Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Main geographical coverage
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Global project architecture
Server components: 24 local servers across Europe (1/site) 1 centralized server 1 IIS server + application server 1 Oracle server 97,000 Tags (growing)
Redundancy: Clustering at server level
PI Tools: Active View – Data Link – Process book ACE – MDB – SDK/API
Air Liquide WANIndustrialNetwork
DCS
PI node
PI Servers
IIS server Oracle server PI serverERP
Users
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Site A
Site B
Site C...
Paris (Boulongne)
Client Meter Station
PI Node
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Local IT architecture
- Windows/Cluster- PI historian- Microsoft SQL DB- HP Open view
ALDedicate
dIndustrial Intranet
To/From Paris
RNISBack-up
Radio
Primary sites (24 x)
Secondary sites (240 X)
Redundant serversRemote operation.
LOCAL IT ARCHITECTURE
Air Liquide WAN
Direct Web Access
Ethernet
Phone line
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Basics for applications
All data available to everyone
Field + Central
Business specific applications
Generic applications
User defined personal applications
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Application architecture
Local system
(PI server)
- Specific calculations, KPI
(PI-ACE & PE based)
- Process Book - PI DataLink
- Toolbox for reporting & troubleshooting
AL toolbox
(hard-coded) - Pipeline Management
- Energy Management
AL toolbox
(100% user configurable)
Central system
(Applications server)
OSI tools
- Structured plant info
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
A few screen shots…
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
One example: Energy Management
FORECAST
INFORMATION
FOLLOW-UPACTION UPON MARKET
- Power prediction- Target prices
- Overview
- Electricity price
- Nomination
- Scenario
adjustment
- Contracts- Prices- Market
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Major changes of behavior
Real time management
Sharing of expertise is possible
Remote troubleshooting
High visibility of events – no hidden plant
Fast & easy reporting
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
How to get the credit
Anticipate benefits beyond cost reduction
Improvements in quality, uptime …
Reengineering of the organization: sharing of expertise …
Opportunity for new services: traceability …
Company image
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
How to succeed in the project
As usual plus: Strong involvement of the field Field must be the first entity to get benefits Dedicated IT entity
- Investor and operator: Air Liquide Services
- Integrator: (Canadian AL subsidiary)
- Users: Air Liquide Tonnage Europe Organization
- 20 Men * year project
- 18 Months first sites - 26 Months total
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
How to get the job done
Very powerful tool but high sophistication requires:
Top quality global architecture
Well adapted programming in order
to avoid unacceptable response time
Good on-going support
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
How to keep the system running
In our case, among other industrial IT people
a dedicated team of 5 experts:
PI
Network
Windows
Hotline
Applications on-going improvements
Last twelve months uptime was above 99.9%
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Conclusions
Project is a tool that brings a quantum leap
in operation improvements
OSIsoft PI is a proven good choice
Flexibility of the system is tremendous
But building and operating such a complex project requires a high level of expertise
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Asia-Pacific Americas
Africa
Contacts
Contact us
North America: KEOPS:François [email protected]
Nicolas [email protected]
Air Liquide Services: Jérôme [email protected]