The Value of Maintaining RAGAGEP Documentation With a Digital Solution

August 5, 2024

While the use of engineering standards for designing and maintaining equipment pre-dates regulatory requirements, the industry agrees that the..

Operational Excellence Requires a Strategic Framework — Here’s Why

December 21, 2021

When companies use fractured systems in silos to develop an Operational Excellence Management System, the resulting application proliferation makes..

Enterprise Loss Prevention and the Interface to Operations

October 28, 2021

In challenging economic times, many companies focus on optimizing existing production facilities instead of expanding or investing in new ones. The..

The Benefits of Interoperable Frameworks

September 1, 2021

When it comes to successful operations, decisions can only move as fast as the data supporting them – meaning waiting on reports puts companies at a..

LyondellBassell Industries Keynote at CCPS

August 18, 2020

Bob Patel’s keynote presentation at the AIChE Spring Meeting discussed the current challenges the marketplace is facing because of the coronavirus..

Operational Performance Management

July 15, 2020

In operating facilities, millions of data points and billions of records are created daily. In fact, one terabyte of production data is being..

Integration Alone Doesn’t Lead to Transformation

May 27, 2020

Today, the focus of many IT projects in the petrochemical world is on configuration and integration. In other words, companies seek a software..

Why Enterprise Loss Prevention (ELP) is a core element of the Intelligent Operations Framework

October 10, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous post, I shared why MOC corresponds to the skeletal system for Intelligent Operations. If MOC is the skeleton, ELP is..

Achieving Effective Conduct of Operations

August 28, 2015

Doing the same thing in the same way each day is the heart of Operational Discipline. An effective Conduct of Operations (CoO) philosophy turns the..