Real-time survival

摘要

Like every other company in its industry, chemical giant Atofina needs to wring every last dollar and whiff of inefficiency out of its operations. A few years ago, the $19.3 billion company previously known as Elf Atochem, began to implement a system that collected data from its manufacturing plants for analysis by plant-floor personnel. Today, that system has evolved into a real-time performance management (RTPM) platform that lets business managers view valve pressures, temperatures, flows and other data generated from the petrochemical-manufacture process.