Using Digitalization for Motors and Drive to Improve Productivity in Process Industries

As operations in process industries (like oil & gas and utilities) are asked to “do more with less” each year, new digital technologies will need to play a larger role in enhancing operational productivity.  Technologies like big data analytics have made it possible to derive greater value from the data from operating assets and offer predictive insights into asset health.  In addition, process industries offer many opportunities for optimizing process efficiency across large operations using cloud analytics as the preferred tool.  We’ll examine a few examples and case studies of how digitalization is changing the game in providing improved productivity and lowering total cost of asset ownership for process industries, with a strong focus on large motor and drive systems (VFDs/ASDs).