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    More Data, More Accountability: Eastman and the PI System

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    More Data, More Accountability: Eastman and the PI System

    Tennessee-based Eastman Chemical Company manufactures a variety of materials, chemicals, and fibers at about 50 sites worldwide. At its Tennessee plant, Eastman’s Process Analytics Group is recently embarking on a major digital transformation project, integrating PI System data with data sources and analytical tools from Microsoft Power BI to create a central system for overseeing more than 1300 process analyzers.
    Reports that matter: BioMarin uses the PI System to build better batch review

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    Reports that matter: BioMarin uses the PI System to build better batch review

    BioMarin's legacy system for creating batch reports worked – just a little too slowly. The extensive manual review required to do quality assurance for each batch was bogging down the process of getting products to market. Faced with a bottleneck in the manufacturing process, BioMarin engineers wondered, could they use the PI System to create more streamlined, tailored reports, and deliver only the information that mattered?
    Carbon Neutral By 2025: UC Davis Taps Into the Transformative Power of Data

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    Carbon Neutral By 2025: UC Davis Taps Into the Transformative Power of Data

    In 2013, UC Davis as part of the University of California system had an ambitious goal: Net zero greenhouse gas emissions from the campus’s building and vehicle fleet by 2025. University of California, Davis was the first major university to pledge carbon neutrality, and with more than 1,000 buildings comprising a total of 11.3 million square feet, it’s a high bar to clear. In early steps toward carbon neutrality, the university embarked on a few large projects with clear benefits, retrofitting large plants and buildings to operate more efficiently. But when the obvious projects had been tackled, UC Davis turned to the PI System to identify opportunities for using data to drive more efficient use of resources.
    Carbon Neutral By 2025: UC Davis Taps Into the Transformative Power of Data

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    Carbon Neutral By 2025: UC Davis Taps Into the Transformative Power of Data

    In 2013, UC Davis as part of the University of California system had an ambitious goal: Net zero greenhouse gas emissions from the campus’s building and vehicle fleet by 2025. University of California, Davis was the first major university to pledge carbon neutrality, and with more than 1,000 buildings comprising a total of 11.3 million square feet, it’s a high bar to clear. In early steps toward carbon neutrality, the university embarked on a few large projects with clear benefits, retrofitting large plants and buildings to operate more efficiently. But when the obvious projects had been tackled, UC Davis turned to the PI System to identify opportunities for using data to drive more efficient use of resources.
    How the PI System Helped EDF Renewables Shed Light on Lost Revenue

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    How the PI System Helped EDF Renewables Shed Light on Lost Revenue

    It’s late on a Friday night in San Diego and Max, a controller you might imagine working in the operations control center (OCC) for EDF Renewables, has his eyes full of lights. He scans multiple control screens displaying the status of all the company’s wind turbines scattered across North America. A glance at one screen reveals that a few turbines at a site in Canada are down. After Max realizes he cannot reset the turbines remotely, a fraught but inevitable question arises: should he call out an after-hours maintenance crew, or not? Every hour a turbine is down means more lost revenue. Max knows there is a potentially huge amount of money on the line. But how much? And how much lost potential revenue merits a call-out? If only OCC controllers like Max had data to help answer such questions, the savings could be enormous.
    Digital transformation drives operational efficiency at riverside public utilities

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    Digital transformation drives operational efficiency at riverside public utilities

    Riverside Public Utilities serves electric power and water to 324,000 Southern California residents east of Los Angeles. As a municipal water utility, Riverside has a lot of monitoring and reporting responsibilities. Before integrating their various data sources, Riverside staff spent a lot of time creating daily reports, and by the time they were created, the reports were a day old. By collecting and contextualizing their data in the PI SystemTM, Riverside was able to automate reporting while also making it more accurate and timely. The company is using the PI System to support both water and power operations and also using GIS integration to map and display real-time digital data.