The ability to operate and manage operations in a location-agnostic manner opens the door to a wealth of opportunities. For instance, experts and operations staff can be relocated to population centers, and out of harms’ way. They can then be leveraged over multiple assets in real-time to ensure maximum utilization. Networking collaboration also allows for much faster creation and utilization of best practices across a network of operating assets, thereby contributing to better knowledge retention and management as well as greater efficiency, and establishing a true, shared corporate culture throughout the enterprise.
Real-World Stories
Faster, more-effective decision making by operations staff
Greater production flexibility
Increased efficiency through reduced helicopter flights, ship movements and supply of material to platforms
Increased uptime and higher levels of productivity and throughput
Improved safety through full redundancy and built-in failover support
But What Really Matters: The bigger picture to see here is that these benefits far exceed operations, and extend over into the business as well. The biggest of these was reduced operating costs, which greatly contributed to keeping assets viable as reservoir resources dwindled.
The Situation: As a major international producer of primary and fabricated aluminum sought to enhance production and raw material efficiencies across its refining business, it turned to Honeywell to provide a standardized process control infrastructure and control solutions across multiple refineries in six countries.
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http://www.automation.com/business-transformation-through-remote-collaboration-optimization-and-operations
