A Cost-Effective Solution To Exploiting Siloed Data

Today’s chemical plants collect an extensive array of data ranging from engineering design to asset maintenance, laboratory information, and real-time process operation.  The data collection systems have been deployed over time as necessary and vary widely in age and even in manufacturing origin.  Modern sources of data now include the IoT devices — many connecting straight to the cloud — that might not connect through traditional control systems. Without much thought given to how those systems might function in a collective effort, they now generate a mountain of disparate information.