industrial data

The City of Riverside Public Utilities Department has embraced digital transformation by making better use of sensor-based data. Because they work closely with their board of public utilities on expenditures they track the value they are getting from their efforts. In this episode, we talk to the people who have grown the return on investment (ROI) they get from their work on the PI System from $672,000 per year in 2019 to $1,300,000 per year today. We discuss how they track ROI, how they improved adoption of the use of their Operational Data Management System (ODMS), what they did to improve water operations, how they use it in their market operations system for trading energy, and what value they found in putting their sensor-based data on their ArcGIS map displays.

Guests: Jennifer Tavaglione, Principal Project Manager

Brando Crozier - Administrative Analyst

Marc Smith - Utilities Principal Analyst

Ed Cortez - Principal Electrical Engineer

Robin Glenney - Water Quality Manager

Carey Tilden - Utilities Senior Resource Analyst

Wes Wisniewski - Utilities Senior Resource Analyst

Ivan Velasco - Power Scheduler/Trader

Co-Host: Gary Wong, Water Industry Principal, AVEVA

Guests: Allen Turner, Advanced Analytics Team Lead, International Paper
Co-host: Mariana Sandin, Industry Principal, AVEVA.
Industry: Paper and Forest Products
Business Impact: Process Productivity

In this episode of Radio PI, co-hosts Nick D’Orazio and Mariana Sandin speak with Allen Turner of International Paper (IP) about the unique challenges of digital transformation in a legacy industry like pulp and paper. Mr. Turner, as part of International Paper’s global technology team, is working on an initiative called “mill of the future,” which focuses on cost savings and optimization across International Paper’s mills. Mr. Turner lays out the importance of establishing foundational data quality—or “cleaning up the messy basement” of old data tags and stale data tags—in order to ensure a successful digital transformation project.

Digital Transformation Podcast Interview with Janice Abel, ARC Advisory Group and Antonia Hansen, Operations Coordinator, HanAra Software.

Industrial Data and Operations Innovation are an important part of the Digital Transformation.  Listen to the this podcast with Janice Abel and Antonia Hansen, Operations Coordinator, HanAra Software as they describe how modern industrial data platforms are providing operational intelligence.