August 5, 2024
While the use of engineering standards for designing and maintaining equipment pre-dates regulatory requirements, the industry agrees that the..
December 21, 2021
When companies use fractured systems in silos to develop an Operational Excellence Management System, the resulting application proliferation makes..
October 28, 2021
In challenging economic times, many companies focus on optimizing existing production facilities instead of expanding or investing in new ones. The..
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..
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..
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..
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..