In the context of a refinery, petrochemical or chemical facility, Digital Twins can be used to model and simulate the structure and behavior of equipment, systems, and processes. This session will decompose and demystify the ‘Asset’ and ‘Visual’ virtual representations and their association with one another as Digital Twins. Supported by key use cases that are commonly faced by every operating facility along with actual achieved benefits.
Participants will:
Gain a basic practical understanding Digital Twins in their primary forms,
Secure guidance as to the accepted prerequisites, methods, and required level of effort to craft and deploy Digital Twins,
Learn about Digital Twin sustainment challenges and mitigation strategies, and
The achievable benefits to be realized from Digital Twin initiatives supported by actual use case experiences.
Facilitator: Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
Speakers:
Bruce Taylor, Digital Transformation SME, FurtherTec
Adam Williams, Motiva Enterprises LLC
The industrial sector is going through digital transformation. ExxonMobil's Digital Reality Ecosystem, aka the Industrial Metaverse holds huge benefits with its ability to visualize their sites and offer seamless immersive and connected experiences across their fleet of assets. As this is an emerging technology space, there are diverse sets technologies that will need to be curated as the Industrial Metaverse is still in infancy stage. This session will explore existing and potential industrial use cases of the metaverse, augmented/mixed reality to illustrate the various functions, applications, and benefits of the technology. Participants will:
Gain an understanding of how ExxonMobil is moving to a visual way of working utilizing innovations and new technologies
Learn about the components of the ecosystem
Appreciate the value of data interoperability
Facilitator:
Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Speakers:
Athicha 'M' Dhanormchitphong, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
Kyle Daughtry, ExxonMobil Global Services Company
This session explores the issue of making data driven open loop models for a complete plant. This involves many independent and dependent variables and the task is to find meaningful and reproducible relationships between them. This webinar will help anyone involved in the task in the refinery, petrochemicals, or any continuous processing unit.
Facilitator: Atique Malik, AIControl LLC
Speakers:
Adi Punuru, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co.
Rajan Rathinasabapathy, Phillips 66
Vikram Gokhale, Chevron U.S.A.
Stephen Dzuik, Aspen Tech
Aaron Durke, Imubit
Yangdong Pan, Delek US
Alex Kalafatis, Aspen Tech
This presentation will focus on industrial pump monitoring and machine optimization and showcasing IoT’s revolutionary impact on our industry. We will explore solving real problems through digitalization and the seamless connectivity of objects, illustrating how data-driven insights and automation are transforming the way we manage our facilities and improve our daily experiences. Speaker will also talk about the benefits, and challenges, and inspire you with the potential of a connected world.
Alarm rationalization practices per ISA 18.2 and Safety PHA teams tend to have different approaches to justify alarms. As a result of these differences, alarms taken as safeguards in PHAs can be downgraded or in some cases removed during alarm rationalization. On the other side, PHA teams have a tendency to add more alarms than needed as safeguards which is counter to alarm rationalization principles. This session will highlight examples of these differences and approaches to agree through collaboration by understanding the needs of each team. Participants will:
See examples of PHA risk ranking contrasted with alarm prioritization matrix that illustrates one difference
See why it is ok to challenge safety alarms if redundant or counter to alarm rationalization principles
See why the alarm rationalization team may recommend PHA team swap or change safeguards
See why it is important to have the alarm management database aligned with PHA documentation
Understand the difference between a rated independent protection layer (IPL) and a non-rated safeguard as it pertains to alarm rationalization
Facilitator: Alyssa Parks, Pemex Deer Park
Panel:
Steve Gill, HF Sinclair
Karen Kuhn, Cenovus Energy Inc.
Patrick Robinson, Phillips 66
John Durnin, Marathon Petroleum Corporation
This session will present and discuss how the implementation of common business processes, complex scientific and business analytics and related performance dashboards utilizing low code technologies have rapidly maximized levels of organizational performance. Low/No Code platforms now enable experienced knowledge workers in front line organizations to add significant levels of incremental value as ‘Citizen Developers’ and ‘Citizen Data Scientist’. Without incurring the traditional levels of cost and external development overhead. In an environment where compliance with defined work practices and procedures, and performance transparency are so critical, it is amazing that critical workflows continued to be consigned to manual tasks and office tools like email to actuate.
Participants will:
Gain an understanding of the current and future state of Low/No Code technology,
Appreciate the achievable benefits to be realized from Low/No Code platforms,
Learn how to maximize and secure the best results from your human talent, and
Secure insights on how to begin a Low/No Code business process automation initiative.
Facilitator: Bruce Taylor, FurtherTec
Speakers:
David Horn, GembaSys
Andy Gramann, Macedon Consulting
Sarah Mahmoud, Parkland Refining (B.C.) Ltd.
After looking into the oil and gas future challenges and opportunities, Delek US adopted the ambitious vision to become a key player in the energy market and initiated its comprehensive journey involving people, processes, technology, and culture. Learn more of the fascinating story of how Delek operates Drones by Autonomous Inspection Flights using BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line Of Sight).
The most successful digital transformation initiatives invest in employees and underlying company culture as well as technology innovations. This session will discuss how enabling process engineers with advanced analytics applications scales digital transformation efforts across companies allowing management and front-line workers access to key insights to accelerate decision making. And how these insights reinforced new levels of empowerment and contribution to their organization.
Participants will:
Hear cases studies from refining and petrochemical manufacturers on technology deployment successes and learnings
Learn factors to consider when establishing digital transformation initiatives, and
Discuss ways to efficiently scale across organizations to drive enterprise-wide value