Transforming the oil and gas industry
Changing demand patterns, complex initiatives, and exponentially increasing data volumes are just a few of the challenges facing the highly competitive oil and gas industry. HPE has a vision of next-generation plants that enable companies to compete at the highest level while delivering superior worker safety and production. This vision hinges on the emerging promise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) that combines advanced analytics software with sensored devices to generate real-time insights, provide full automation and oversight, and reduce the risk of human error.
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Texmark Chemicals, a Texas toll manufacturer, turned to HPE and Aruba to modernize its petrochemical plant and build a refinery of the future featuring advanced IIoT capabilities for improved process analytics, up-time, customer satisfaction, and worker safety.
A connected plant
With IIoT solutions from HPE, you can interconnect your entire plant to reduce production costs, increase profitability, prevent equipment failure before it happens, and keep the plant running at peak efficiency.
Automated worker safety
Respond to changing situations before workers or production are endangered with automated system monitoring and employee location tracking.
Facility condition monitoring
Gain visibility into your processes with instrumentation to obtain relevant data for assessing conditions and system performance.
Predictive maintenance
Reduce unplanned downtime by using data to monitor and optimize machine performance and predict when maintenance and inspections will be needed.
Designed to meet the specific demands of the oil and gas market, HPE IIoT architecture moves compute power and deep learning from the data center to the edge for real-time, actionable manufacturing and process insights.
Connectivity and location services
Aruba provides trusted wireless networking and location services, enabling edge-to-core connectivity and enhancing plant safety and security.
Rugged devices
HPE IIoT solutions include ruggedized equipment and technology that meets operational standards for safety in plant environments.
Partner ecosystem
HPE offers complete IIoT solutions that incorporate leading technology from a vast ecosystem of partners with proven oil and gas expertise.
Texmark deploys IIoT at the edge
Texmark Chemicals, a crucial provider in the petroleum product supply chain, implemented advanced IIoT technologies to achieve new levels of innovation, efficiency, and safety.
Challenge
For Texmark it is critical to stay safe, drive efficiency, satisfy customers and to monitor plants with advanced sensing equipment and distributed control systems. And be prepared to adapt to customer requirements, which can change with little advance warning
Solution
Build a Refinery of the Future featuring advanced IIoT capabilities.
"The types of products demanded by customers in the chemical industry can change on a dime, and each product must meet stringent quality requirements. That makes it critical to monitor plants with advanced sensing equipment and distributed control systems."
Result
Better process analytics, increased up-time, uninterrupted productivity, satisfied customers, and safer workers.
Industrial IoT solutions
Accelerate your responsiveness to new insights and monetize data from connected devices with solutions to help you transform to an IIoT-enabled, future-ready organization.
Internet of Things
Industrial Internet of Things
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