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SHOW PREVIEW
POWER and Chemical
Engineering
magazines are hosting the sixth annual
Connected Plant Conference (CPC),
taking place May 23-26, 2022, at the
Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta,
Georgia. CPC is the only event specifically
covering the digital transformation
taking place in the power generation and
chemical process industries. This year's
conference includes a look at the technology
moving the power generation
sector forward, including data and analytics,
and provides detailed information
about digital technologies for process,
product, and enterprise improvements
for chemical processing. This year's
event will explore new digital cloudcomputing
operational and management
tools to help your business reap more
from investments.
Diamond Sponsor Siemens
Energy Enables Customized
Solutions
The digital transformation of power generation
is more than technology. As more
and more data is generated, many groups
in the energy sector struggle to leverage
this vast flow of information, and recognize
how to put it to work. Rapid changes
in energy markets require in-depth data
analysis, interpretation, and advice to
make an impact on the bottom line. Siemens
Energy, as a group immersed in
the digital transformation, offers a large
portfolio of services. Siemens also can
deliver a collaborative approach to boost
your business' performance with custom
solutions. It's a model that leverages
expertise, and domain know-how, to
enable your business to profit from digitalization,
thanks to Siemens' experience
and highly skilled workforce. Specifically,
Siemens' Omnivise Digital Services Portfolio
offers your business a data-supported,
collaborative approach to optimize
plant operations and maintenance with
customized solutions. Siemens Energy
(USA), Orlando, Florida
siemens-energy.com
1. The keynote address at the 5th Connected
Plant Conference in 2021 provided a wealth
of practical advice and perspectives on the
use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Keynote speaker Lloyd Colgrove, independent
consultant and former director of data analytics
at Dow Chemical, said that while AI can
be extremely effective at identifying subtle
signals that may indicate future problems, it is
also very complicated to implement correctly
and requires extensive domain knowledge
surrounding the process environment and the
underlying chemical and physical fundamentals.
Source: POWER
CPC attendees can network with
colleagues, and hear from speakers
(Figure 1) providing information from
power generators and chemical plant
operators who have adopted the latest
digital monitoring, diagnostic, analytics,
Industrial Internet of Things, and
decision-support technologies. Representatives
of companies serving the
power generation and chemical processing
industries will be available to
discuss the challenges you face, and
what capabilities are on the wish list
for your facility and business. Here's a
look at some of the products and services
being showcased by companies
at this year's event.
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Southern Company: Digitalization
Helping Decarbonization
Southern Company, the host utility for
CPC this year, views digitalization as a
key element of its strategy to decarbonize
its vast power generation fleet, along
with upgrading its systems and improving
overall performance. Digital technologies
can be applied to both thermal and
renewable energy generating facilities,
streamlining operations, and supporting
the transition from schedule-based
maintenance
to
more
cost-effective
condition-based maintenance. Sensors
deployed throughout a power plant can
provide real-time or near-real-time data
about the conditions and performance
of components and systems. Diagnostic
software can analyze the data to identify
anomalies, which can be addressed by
digital controls. The hardware, software,
and other digital technologies being deployed
by Southern Co. include advanced
controls to automate plant operations;
advanced equipment sensors; wireless
communications; and cybersecurity for
installed technologies. Southern Company,
Atlanta, Georgia
southerncompany.com
Seeq Provides Solutions to
Improve Outcomes
There's a lot of hype in the power sector
about predictive analytics, machine
learning, and data science. Power generators
know they need solutions to the
real challenges facing an analytics-driven
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organization. That means tapping the expertise
of your employees, and finding
support for collaboration and knowledge
capture to foster sharing and reuse of
analytics efforts. A key element is having
the ability to rapidly distribute insights to
the people who need them to quickly improve
outcomes. Seeq applications enable
the complete lifecycle of advanced
analytics, from connecting to data to
landing insights in improved business
and production results. A power generator
or chemical processor can search
data, add context, cleanse, model, find
patterns, establish boundaries, monitor
assets, collaborate in real time, and interact
with data like never before. Seeq,
Seattle, Washington
seeq.com
AWS Leads the Way in Cloud
Computing
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the
world's most comprehensive and broadly
adopted cloud platform. Millions of customers-including
the fastest-growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies, along with the
power and chemical industries-are using
AWS to lower costs, become more agile,
and innovate faster. AWS has significantly
more services, and more features within
those services, than any other cloud provider,
from infrastructure technologies
like compute, storage, and databases,
to emerging technologies, such as machine
learning and artificial intelligence,
data lakes and analytics, and the Internet
of Things. This makes it faster and more
cost-effective to move your existing applications
to the cloud and build nearly
anything you can imagine. Amazon Web
Services, Seattle, Washington
aws.amazon.com
Cognite Brings Context to
Industrial Data
Cognite's Data Fusion is a leading open
Industrial Data Operations platform. It
provides many services and enables several
applications, including digital twins,
where it manages source and domainspecific
data, and information models
providing read-and-write services. Its
artificial intelligence-powered data contextualization
makes data self-explanatory
to data consumers, without needing
subject matter expert support. The platform's
industrial knowledge graphs are
trustworthy, reliable, and provide actionable
insights to help teams collaborate
better, scale more broadly, and innovate
faster. Context-intelligent industrial robots
are also a feature, and a foundational
tool to enable large-scale use of
ground-based robots for autonomous
tasks. Cognite, Austin, Texas ■
cognite.com
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