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AIR LIQUIDE ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT

AIR LIQUIDE ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT. OSIsoft Users Conference April 2004. J.R. Brugerolle - Corporate VP Technology T. Roba – Process optimization manager. Industrial & Medical gases. 40 Billion € worldwide business AIR LIQUIDE is the global leader. 2003 Sales: 8.4 B€

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AIR LIQUIDE ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT

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  1. AIR LIQUIDEADVANCEDINDUSTRIAL IT PROJECT OSIsoft Users Conference April 2004 J.R. Brugerolle - Corporate VP TechnologyT. Roba – Process optimization manager

  2. Industrial & Medical gases • 40 Billion € worldwide business • AIR LIQUIDE is the global leader • 2003 Sales: 8.4 B€ • 1 million customers • 65 Countries • 30,800 employees • 350,000 shareholders

  3. Main objectives of the project • Enhance: • Business growth • Quality, Reliability • Cost reduction • Opportunities for Services through an advanced industrial information system

  4. Initial phase • 24 Production plants • 1,600 Miles of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen pipelines • 240 Remote distribution & metering stations • Over 4 countries: Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain

  5. Main geographical coverage

  6. Global project architecture • Server components: • 24 local servers across Europe (1/site) • 1 centralized server • 1 IIS server + application server • 1 Oracle server • 97,000 Tags (growing) • Redundancy: • Clustering at server level • PI Tools: • Active View – Data Link – Process book • ACE – MDB – SDK/API

  7. Local IT architecture LOCAL IT ARCHITECTURE Primary sites (24 x) RNIS Back-up To/From Paris AL Dedicated Industrial Intranet Direct Web Access Secondary sites (240 X) Radio Redundant servers Remote operation. Air Liquide WAN Phone line Ethernet - Windows/Cluster - PI historian - Microsoft SQL DB - HP Open view

  8. Basics for applications All data available to everyone Field + Central • Business specific applications • Generic applications • User defined personal applications

  9. Application architecture - Energy Management AL toolbox (hard-coded) - Pipeline Management Central system (Applications server) AL toolbox (100% user configurable) - Specific calculations, KPI (PI-ACE & PE based) - Structured plant info - Process Book - PI DataLink - Toolbox for reporting & troubleshooting Local system (PI server) OSI tools

  10. A few screen shots…

  11. One example: Energy Management INFORMATION ACTION UPON MARKET - Contracts - Prices - Market FOLLOW-UP • Nomination • - Scenario adjustment • Overview • Electricity • price FORECAST - Power prediction - Target prices

  12. Major changes of behavior • Real time management • Sharing of expertise is possible • Remote troubleshooting • High visibility of events – no hidden plant • Fast & easy reporting

  13. How to get the credit • Anticipate benefits beyond cost reduction • Improvements in quality, uptime … • Reengineering of the organization: sharing of expertise … • Opportunity for new services: traceability … • Company image

  14. How to succeed in the project • As usual plus: • Strong involvement of the field • Field must be the first entity to get benefits • Dedicated IT entity - Investor and operator: Air Liquide Services - Integrator: (Canadian AL subsidiary) - Users: Air Liquide Tonnage Europe Organization - 20 Men * year project - 18 Months first sites - 26 Months total

  15. How to get the job done • Very powerful tool but high sophistication requires: • Top quality global architecture • Well adapted programming in order to avoid unacceptable response time • Good on-going support

  16. How to keep the system running • In our case, among other industrial IT people a dedicated team of 5 experts: • PI • Network • Windows • Hotline • Applications on-going improvements Last twelve months uptime was above 99.9%

  17. Conclusions • Project is a tool that brings a quantum leap in operation improvements • OSIsoft PI is a proven good choice • Flexibility of the system is tremendous • But building and operating such a complex project requires a high level of expertise

  18. Contact us Contacts Air Liquide Services: Jérôme Girard jerome.girard@airliquide.com North America: KEOPS:François Normand francois.normand@keops.com Nicolas Viard nicolas.viard@airliquide.com

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