As organizations execute their digital strategies, they look to align decision-making, work processes and supporting data needs around their targeted business outcomes. KBC AcuityTM Industrial Cloud Suite, powered by Yokogawa Cloud Platform, simplifies and streamlines creation and delivery of decision support information to stakeholders in a wide range of workflows and applications important to improving efficiency and profitability in the process industries.
Even simple workflows can require data from multiple sources. Basic and advanced analytics may be applied to different data sources and contexts. In complex workflows, the multiple analytics tools from various vendors may be employed. Different ‘end users’ may want to see the same data in differing ways. The result of these factors is often a work flow that depends on many manual steps, is labor intensive and hard to sustain.
These challenges are well addressed by cloud solutions. By enabling the secure integration of data, basic and advanced analytics, and visualization, KBC Acuity, powered by Yokogawa Cloud Platform, provides customers with a single environment for sharing, collaborating and decision-making. Maximizing the effectiveness of limited human capital – your people – by focusing them on high value add decision making tasks.
KBC Acuity analytics are based on simple and complex algorithms and calculations to identify anomalies. Users receive an alert for potential deviations from normal operations, deviations in data quality, equipment malfunctions, and others. Some examples are smart alerts, integration with engineering and simulation tools, UX improvements.
KBC Acuity integrates first principles simulation artificial intelligence, and machine learning tools to produce high level insights for operations and strategic decision making. The introduction of AI/ML technologies is the last stage of the analytics journey. As the users are more familiar with all the previous stages, and their level of knowledge and confidence increases in the previous stages, the ability to accept more advance technologies becomes a reality. Compatibility with AI/ML to predict failures and anomalies are a reasonable next step in the journey.
Yokogawa is committed to delivering security and safety excellence to our customers. Our engineers are always trained to meet the highest Global Security Standards.
Multi-level, cloud-based cyber security network protects infrastructure and operations against threats while meeting governance and compliance rules.
Data reliability consists of the insights and process by which your data is highly available, of high quality, and timely. For data to be considered reliable, it must be free from errors, inconsistencies, and bias. Reliable data is the foundation of data integrity, which is essential for data quality management and to maintain customer trust and business success.
It is essential to reduce the number of interfaces used by the end users. With KBC Acuity you can securely integrate data management with cloud-based tools for data visualization and reporting, streamlining work processes and boosting employee productivity. Using the concept of a single pane of glass, KBC Acuity facilitates the visualization of insights, KPIs, and predictive and prognostics analytics results in a common platform with integrated data. It allows to visualize real-time data along with transformed information.
Pre-canned and ad-hoc reports facilitates the ability to integrate and organize data elements in a way that can be easily organized and shared by end users.
Alerts are a natural extension of the notification capabilities of the KBC Acuity platform. The integration with the rules engine makes it straightforward to automate the creation of alerts.
Alerts Management and Framework with escalations and SMS/Email notifications. KBC Acuity offers Service Delivery Models and Alert Types such as Published, Private and Assigned to articulate and take advantage of any warning and insights.
A very important function of IoT applications is the usage of notifications. Notifications are sent through various channels – they can take the form of an SMS or email.
Andrew McMullan explains that one of the trends we’re seeing with clients is the need to make data available anytime, anywhere to a variety of stakeholders. But it’s not just the data by itself. Customers are seeing the value in the data combined with powerful analytics tools to help them make faster and better decisions.
Global DX Business Line Leader
“Customers want advanced technology to deliver value and be sustainable. Often the value is there, but the simplicity and sustainability of the solution is not. Cloud platforms offer a path to deliver on the promise”.
