Operations need to manage production, equipment, recovery, energy and water, while information from the operation can also support teams upstream and organisations downstream.

The challenge is making that information available where it can create the most value, without having to replace the systems already in place.

Mining operations generate large amounts of data every day, from equipment and production to energy, water and process performance.

When this information is connected and put into context, teams can get a clearer view of what is happening across the operation and make better-informed decisions.

The goal isn’t to standardise everyone’s software. It’s to make trusted information easier to access and use.

Our IS³ Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and technology platform is the answer to the demands and complexities of present-day manufacturing systems. General Manufacturing depends on IS³ for improved, high-performance operations in the areas of Production, Performance, Quality, Inventory and Asset Management.

The efficient management of crucial aspects of process manufacturing, such as formulation, ingredients, routing, unit of measure, lot traceability and product and implementation pricing demands specialised industry knowledge and carefully crafted IT solutions.

Regardless of whether your processes take place in the Food and Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Consumer Packaged Goods or Biotechnology industries, IS³ offers solutions that will improve efficiency and profitability, as well as improving your overall plant and process operations. Such solutions improve control and make possible regulatory compliance, while also offering the flexibility to support product innovations.

Pressures on the Food and Beverage/Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industries have reached an all-time high. Over the course of the past decade, the amount of product variations have soared, alongside the momentum of new product introductions.

Brands are becoming increasingly global and valuable, shining a new spotlight on food safety as well as brand integrity. This wide reach has also resulted in an increase in competitiveness, driving a sharp focus on cost reduction and manufacturing efficiency.

Consumers demand more, with decreased brand loyalty. These factors increase the importance of avoiding out-of-stock scenarios, as well as presenting a consistent customer experience and bringing the best and most current products to market rapidly.

Additionally, there is a need for more self-regulating, stringent corrective and preventative food safety measures, driven by industry regulations.

With vast experience serving the food industry, and offering the broadest and most up-to-date software portfolio, IS³ is the proven, safe and modern choice for food and beverage manufacturing.

Blockbuster medications are a thing of the past. These days, the pharmaceutical industry is moving towards personalised, targeted medicines. AVEVA assists medicine manufacturers and biotechnology companies in ensuring product integrity as well as regulatory compliance, while revolutionising their operations through smart manufacturing.

In order to stay competitive in today’s cut-throat market environment, the life sciences ecosystem has to be highly efficient and fully connected – from production to distribution.
This translates to having smart equipment connected with the enterprise in real-time, in order to push critical process data.

It entails making use of smart processes that support release by exception through rapid and efficient quality and production processes. It means smart suppliers providing consistent batch reports across the manufacturing network, as well as smart supply chains supporting serialised global track-and-trace.

South Africa is internationally renowned for its wealth of mineral resources, as well as its expertise in mineral extraction. But there is more to being a roleplayer in this complex industry than reputation. Mining is one of the most competitive industries on earth. It relies on human labour as much as it does on technological advancements and expertise.

Fixed resource prices on the open market mean the only way to increase turnover is to increase mining volumes. It also means the only way to increase profitability is to
reduce costs in the face of ever-increasing energy and raw material costs.

In these times, the way to create shareholder value is through efficient mining practices, improved product quality and the ability to show employees that their demands are being considered in the face of these global realities. Doing so might mitigate industrial action and grow the spirit of competition required to restore this industry to its previous standard of excellence.

To succeed, you require a strategy spanning your global portfolio – across the entire asset lifecycle. In other words, managing your assets safely and securely, maximising production while increasing profitability.

Digital technology can help you to unite, analyse and manage your engineering data, processes and supply chain in the most efficient, intelligent manner. It can also empower you to operate with the utmost levels of corporate social responsibility.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) provides the link that shifts hydrocarbon industries to new levels of connectivity. Now, you can achieve – and sustain – improvements through AVEVA’s connectivity, operations and information management solutions for oil and gas.

We assist you in identifying “value-leaks”, then we outline and implement the operations improvements required in order to close them.

That is why the world’s leading chemical companies depend on AVEVA to actively drive value, agility and sustainability throughout their asset lifecycles. 

Contributing around 5% to South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) and approximately 25% of its manufacturing sales, the chemical industry is of considerable economic significance to the country. The largest of its kind on the continent, SA’s chemical industry is highly complex and extremely diversified, with end products often composed of a number of chemicals which have been combined in some way, in order to provide the required characteristics and properties.

Particularly prominent is the synthetic coal and natural gas-based liquid fuels and petrochemicals industry, with South Africa being the global leader in coal-based synthesis and gas-to-liquids (GTL) technologies. The primary, as well as secondary sectors, are dominated by Sasol (through Sasol Chemical Industries and Sasol Polymers), Dow Sentrachem and AECI. Recently, these companies have expanded and diversified their interests in tertiary products, especially those products with the potential for export.

There is a Digital Transformation underway in all sectors of the chemicals market at present. However, the digitalising of your capital projects and manufacturing plant is only the first step towards increasing your supply chain’s agility. In addition, digital transformation makes it possible for your organisation to improve and grow plant operational business practices, so driving higher levels of collaboration, standardisation and agility.

This approach involves the utilisation of people and processes, as well as technology, in order to deliver improved performance, reliability and agility. Find out more about some of AVEVA’s Digital Transformation customer strategies.

To gain maximum results across your entire operation, you need to focus on the efficacies that can be gained from supply chain excellence. In Operations, in the quest for excellence, the goal is maximised profitability through well-trained operators, as well as a safe environment. Among other factors, asset excellence can examine the entire asset set in order to predict when failures may occur.

Operators of water and wastewater facilities face many challenges. They are not only required to provide affordable, reliable water and wastewater services, they must also be compliant with various government regulations while ensuring that their operations are sustainable.

As they endeavour to expand the availability of water to the general population at an affordable cost, water utilities are in need of more efficient methods of engineering, energy supply optimisation and contextualised compliance monitoring.

There are many global challenges. How would it be possible for engineers to find ways to create and reticulate clean, affordable water and wastewater services in developing countries using standard technologies? How can engineers balance the new cost equation between energy and water quality introduced by energy-hungry reclaiming and desalination technologies? What intelligent infrastructure options are available to enable automation vendors to deliver real-time data for multi-user operations decision-making?

In conversation with global power industry leaders, shared insights have revealed three areas of strategic importance. These are the areas where AVEVA can assist in accelerating the Digital Transformation journey, so helping to shape a new energy future.

Digitally transform your water and wastewater operations and achieve operational excellence by applying AVEVA’s proven, trusted industry-leading technology solutions and services.

In conversation with global power industry leaders, shared insights have revealed three areas of strategic importance. These are the areas where AVEVA can assist customers in accelerating their Digital Transformation journey, so helping to shape a new energy future.

AVEVA’s power industry portfolio adds value at every stage of the plant lifecycle. From savings in capital expenditure costs during the initial design and build stages, to reducing operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures, AVEVA can assist in extending the total lifetime value of power assets.

As citizens, we depend upon the infrastructure provided by transportation networks, municipal operations, buildings, facilities and campuses, public utilities and Smart Cities for just about everything. The more efficiently they are run, the greater their contribution to increasing the health, safety and well-being of everyone who uses them.

Addressing critical infrastructure challenges such as urbanisation, overpopulation, pollution, congestion and security require complex networks that have to operate efficiently, safely and effectively. However, a rapid increase in sub-systems, hardware devices, connected and manually intensive data sources, as well as operational silos, ask for a different approach to solving the interconnected challenges which infrastructure operators are so often confronted with.

To Systems Engineers, systems thinking is not a novel concept. At the heart of any well-designed monitoring and control system lies a deep understanding of the way components interact, interrelate and interdepend to form a complex and unified system. In the complex world of smart infrastructure, the necessity for systems thinking has never been more crucial.

From Smart Cities to campus administration, integrated traffic control to smart airport operations – in order to derive pertinent operational insights, a single view of the interaction between people, processes and technology is a necessity.

Gautrain is a state-of-the-art commuter service, which connects OR Tambo international airport and the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria. It is the busiest transport hub in our country. The construction of the Gautrain project entailed overcoming geological, as well as logistical challenges. It involved having to tunnel under and through some of the most populated business centres in SA.

Transnet comprises the largest and most crucial part of the freight logistics chain that delivers goods to each and every citizen of South Africa. On a daily basis, through its pipelines and both to and from its ports, Transnet delivers thousands of tons of goods across South Africa. The transport giant then moves that cargo on to ships for export, while it unloads goods imported from abroad.

One of Transnet’s most significant achievements is the 860 km rail link between the Sishen iron ore mine in the Northern Cape and the Port of Saldanha on the West Coast. These trains measure nearly 4 km in length and weigh over 40 000 tons. More than 3,000 of these RDP trains have been in operation since their launch in December 2007.

Several factors, such as capital budget restrictions, ageing infrastructure, stricter environmental policies, as well as dynamic security concerns hamper the ability of infrastructure operators to meet the service levels their customers expect.

More and more, such operators are applying technological solutions, such as IoT, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Mobility and Digital Twins, to transform the asset lifecycles and operations of their infrastructure.

AVEVA’s capabilities in monitoring and control, engineering and design, asset performance and operations optimisation is an ideal fit for cities, power utilities, water and wastewater utilities, campus and facility managers, transportation operators as well as data centres who are looking to digitally transform their operations in order to save costs, reduce risk, as well as optimise performance and speed crisis response.

Make more informed decisions faster, increase the speed of crisis response, minimise operational costs and energy consumption, reduce risk to employees, assets and users and enable an efficient, mobile workforce by applying AVEVA’s digital transformation solutions.

The food production industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the world – and South Africa is no exception. The industry has no choice but to keep up with its ever-expanding consumer base, all the while facing increasingly complex challenges throughout its supply chain.

With regards to sourcing, South African farmers, like farmers across the globe, are finding it a serious challenge to keep up with an ever-increasing demand for food. Merely increasing output using current methods of agriculture production is no longer sustainable – 86% of SA’s land is already being utilised for crops or grazing. In order for food production to keep up with demand – and to adapt for environmental sustainability – sustainable agricultural practices must be widely adopted and implemented. This includes finding a balance between the need for fuel (ethanol) and the need for food, which underlies a more recent concern – the matter of food security.

Food security is concerned with South Africa’s capacity to be self-sufficient, guaranteeing the sustained availability of nutritious food for all its people.

AVEVA has created an end-to-end industrial software platform with solutions that remove information silos. This empowers customers to improve efficiency, increase profitability and maximise return on capital – across the value chain.

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