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South Africa, Johannesburg, 23 March 2023 – Digital Industries (DI) through its business unit Industry Software Solutions and Support (IS³), announced that it has become an AVEVA Select partner for the East and West Africa regions. AVEVA Select partnership allows Digital Industries to deliver AVEVA’s full portfolio of leading-edge industrial software solutions to customers that will help them become more sustainable and profitable.

The AVEVA Select agreement has set specific strategic intent to support customers’ requirements for improving operational efficiency, driving better returns and increasing the sustainability of their businesses. A people-based ecosystem driving digital transformation is the key enabler to achieving these strategic objectives on the African continent. DI will expand its ecosystem of customers and partners who want to adopt technologies to enable their digital transformation. Leveraging existing indigenous knowledge and skills and creating new skills pools is the key differentiator.

In East Africa, the regional footprint will be led by Kenyan operations AVEVA Select East Africa and the Nigerian representative offices AVEVA Select West Africa will take on a similar role in West Africa. Both these operations are also investing heavily in establishing training and demonstration centres to build these skills pools and to equip system integrators, partner companies and end-users with skills to enable them to maximize the use of the technology and to customize the service offerings available.

The coveted ‘AVEVA Select Partner’ designation allows distributors to enable customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can take advantage of programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. The AVEVA Select Program offers an effective way for partners to penetrate new markets and build upon existing solutions and local relationships.

The AVEVA Select partnership has accelerated the value that DI can provide, empowering their customers and partners to optimize engineering, operations, and asset performance. A common digital thread across all enterprise pillars is enabling a new level of Performance Intelligence using bedrock technologies from Artificial Intelligence (AI), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), big data to the cloud and hybrid solutions.

With AVEVA’s Engineering solutions, they can assist customers in efficiently delivering capital projects on time and within budget. The AVEVA Operations suite eliminates supply chain value leaks while improving operational efficiency and enhancing collaboration. DI can also empower customers and partners to balance operating expenses and risk to optimize performance with AVEVA Asset Performance Management.

“Digital Industries’ customers and partners will continue to get the same dedicated local support, now with the added value of wider access to AVEVA’s complete portfolio of solutions, which enables a new level of Performance Intelligence using technologies such as AI, IIoT, big data and cloud. The AVEVA Select program helps our distributors to deliver even more value and support their customers digital transformation initiatives,” said Kerry Grimes, AVEVAs Global Head of Partners. “We are pleased to extend Digital Industries coverage as an AVEVA Select partner and look forward to developing and capitalizing on mutually beneficial growth strategies.”

“The Industrial sector in Africa is the final frontier for at scale digital transformation. Leaders in industry are adopting strategies for digital transformation across the continent. The market for industrial software and services is increasing exponentially and growth will be driven by customer value creation. As an AVEVA Select partner, we are on a journey to create sustainable digital champions. We look forward to industrial organizations joining us,” concluded Dion Govender, CEO of Digital Industries and Managing Director of IS³.

For more information visit www.eastafrica.avevaselect.com and www.westafrica.avevaselect.com

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About AVEVA Select

The AVEVA Select program is designed for partners with full access to AVEVA’s comprehensive software portfolio, enabling them to help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey. AVEVA Select aligns to both market and technology trends, with programs designed to suit every product and solution specialization in the engineering and industrial segments. By leveraging the breadth of the AVEVA software portfolio, AVEVA Select partners can now help customers simplify design, optimize production, and maximize performance. More at https://www.aveva.com/en/about/partners/aveva-select/

About Digital Industries

Digital Industries is an Operations Technology focused business operating in more than 30 countries in Africa and is a wholly owned subsidiary of listed technology group EOH.

Digital Industries is a leading provider of Operational Technology software, solutions and services. As the sole distributor of the AVEVA portfolio of industrial software solutions, which combined with our extensive experience in the implementation of complex process automation and management systems, we are ideally positioned to provide our clients with integrated, end to end solutions and services.

About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software, sparking ingenuity to drive responsible use of the world’s resources. The company’s secure industrial cloud platform and applications enable businesses to harness the power of their information and improve collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners.

Over 20,000 enterprises in over 100 countries rely on AVEVA to help them deliver life’s essentials: safe and reliable energy, food, medicines, infrastructure and more. By connecting people with trusted information and AI-enriched insights, AVEVA enables teams to engineer efficiently and optimize operations, driving growth and sustainability.

Named as one of the world’s most innovative companies, AVEVA supports customers with open solutions and the expertise of more than 6,400 employees, 5,000 partners and 5,700 certified developers. With operations around the globe, AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK. Learn more at www.aveva.com

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Generic Drum Unit Simulator Boosts Productivity at South African Power Plant

Background

SOUTH AFRICA – Located between Vereeniging and Sasolburg, the Lethabo Power Station, owned by Eskom Holdings, is responsible for over half of the electricity generated on the African continent and provides affordable electrical power to an increasing percentage of the African population.
Eskom Holdings generates, transports and distributes approximately 95% of South Africa’s electricity – making up 60% of the total electricity consumed on the African continent. Eskom is the world’s eleventh-largest power utility in terms of generating capacity, ranks ninth in terms of sales, and boasts the world’s largest dry-cooling power station.

Improving Safety and Plant Profitability
AVEVA supplied an Operator Training System (OTS) at Eskom’s Lethabo Power Plant in South Africa that is helping to boost safety, efficiency and profitability at the plant.

Operator Training System Solution
Eskom realized that improved productivity depends on improved plant operation, which depends on the quality of its operators. As a result, in March 2004, Eskom took delivery of AVEVA Generic Drum Unit Simulator.

The Generic Drum Unit OTS is based on a sidewall-fired unit boiler coupled with a train of high, intermediate and low-pressure steam turbines. The simulator components include physical, first principles based dynamic simulation models, the instructor station, DCStype controls, and training for up to four operators.

The flexibility of the solution allows the emulation of the DCS interface through a single application, including alarming and trending, execution of the process model, and support of the instructor’s interface. This integrated solution allows the displays to be visible at every operator station for maximum training flexibility. This interface also requires minimal training for an instructor, allowing the focus to be on process training rather than navigating the simulator system.

Dan Wilbers, Managing Consultant of Operator Training Systems and Services, AVEVA said, “The generic drum simulator purchased by Lethabo is the result of AVEVA’s extensive experience delivering training systems to power generators around the world. We are excited that it has been chosen as the platform to build a solid performance improvement strategy at this facility.”

Benefits Realized
The training program has already produced a lot of benefits. Operating costs have been reduced, while plant understanding and personnel safety have improved. Lethabo operators are able to maintain plant equipment in the normal operating range and prepare for off-normal operations such as valve breakage and tube leaks.

Generic Drum Unit Simulator Boosts Productivity at South African Power Plant

Background

SOUTH AFRICA – Located between Vereeniging and Sasolburg, the Lethabo Power Station, owned by Eskom Holdings, is responsible for over half of the electricity generated on the African continent and provides affordable electrical power to an increasing percentage of the African population.
Eskom Holdings generates, transports and distributes approximately 95% of South Africa’s electricity – making up 60% of the total electricity consumed on the African continent. Eskom is the world’s eleventh-largest power utility in terms of generating capacity, ranks ninth in terms of sales, and boasts the world’s largest dry-cooling power station.

Improving Safety and Plant Profitability
AVEVA supplied an Operator Training System (OTS) at Eskom’s Lethabo Power Plant in South Africa that is helping to boost safety, efficiency and profitability at the plant.

Operator Training System Solution
Eskom realized that improved productivity depends on improved plant operation, which depends on the quality of its operators. As a result, in March 2004, Eskom took delivery of AVEVA Generic Drum Unit Simulator.

The Generic Drum Unit OTS is based on a sidewall-fired unit boiler coupled with a train of high, intermediate and low-pressure steam turbines. The simulator components include physical, first principles based dynamic simulation models, the instructor station, DCStype controls, and training for up to four operators.

The flexibility of the solution allows the emulation of the DCS interface through a single application, including alarming and trending, execution of the process model, and support of the instructor’s interface. This integrated solution allows the displays to be visible at every operator station for maximum training flexibility. This interface also requires minimal training for an instructor, allowing the focus to be on process training rather than navigating the simulator system.

Dan Wilbers, Managing Consultant of Operator Training Systems and Services, AVEVA said, “The generic drum simulator purchased by Lethabo is the result of AVEVA’s extensive experience delivering training systems to power generators around the world. We are excited that it has been chosen as the platform to build a solid performance improvement strategy at this facility.”

The Solution

The iROC solution will creates the ability to:

Integrate systems and information sources to provide a holistic In-Time view across the value chain.
Create Situational Awareness by using integrated data sets and defined business rules, initiating actions that maximises business benefit.
Standardise critical workflows to minimise human error and as a result minimise business risk.

The Success

The Business benefits will be:

By adding the integration of control room operations into the entire mine business value stream, better decision making and operational loss reduction can be achieved.
Integration of control room operations into the entire mine business value stream will also allow us to visualise impact to business and better manage our mining as well as process operations.
Machine and people tracking improving both safety and efficiencies.
Access to more granular information will improve focus on the root causes of problems and variations to which better targeting of corrective actions is possible.
In-Shift monitoring and control to respond to problems as they occur and minimising deviations to plan, which provides the opportunity to save the shift in the shift.
Empowering supervision to make more informed decisions to reduce variability.
Improved equipment utilisation.
Improved response time to breakdowns implying improved availability.
Improved mining cycle management implying more effective use of resources both human and machine.
Improved face utilisation.
Improved scheduling and planning.
Platform for continuous improvement and continuous integration of future digital transformation initiatives to the iROC.