Solid Enterprise Planning, Scheduling, and Compliance Management
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM)
Applicable Industries
- Cement
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
Use Cases
- Asset Lifecycle Management
The Challenge
Ash Grove Cement would like to find a solution in automate maintenance data collection at each facility for a well-defined enterprise asset management process to support equipment performance reliability.
The Customer
Ash Grove Cement Company
About The Customer
Ash Grove Cement Company is a cement manufacturer based in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. It is the sixth largest cement manufacturer in North America, and the largest US-owned cement company.
The Solution
Avantis provides the solution which improves the availability and utilization balance of production assets and develops a standardized solution for each of its nine separate production facilities,while maintaining production.
Data Collected
Maintenance Records, Temperature, Parts and material pricing, Reorder activities
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
System 800xA at Indian Cement Plants
Chettinad Cement recognized that further efficiencies could be achieved in its cement manufacturing process. It looked to investing in comprehensive operational and control technologies to manage and derive productivity and energy efficiency gains from the assets on Line 2, their second plant in India.
Case Study
Building Custom Industrial Applications
Power a revolutionary software platform regardless of network connectivityGE Digital’s software team developed an innovative solution to address these data challenges head-on. The team’s Predix cloud-based platform allows organizations to build tailored mobile apps that help field personnel collect and analyze data from intelligent machines.The initial release of Predix was a great step toward helping field workers monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot equipment. But the GE Digital team also learned that Predix required a data platform that could provide strong stability without relying on internet connectivity
Case Study
JSW Tracked and Caught Errors Across Multiple Factory Floors in Real-time
JSW’s steel manufacturing is spread over multiple manufacturing plants, each home to dozens of machines of various types. Each machine has numerous sensors tracking multiple data points and supplying event data every 2-3 seconds. Types of data include field maintenance, material consumption, and machine usage. The data is saved in each machine’s database, in a proprietary manufacturer format. Then, each machine transfers data to the central Oracle databases.Although the process works, error reporting and handling are lacking. Because each machine uses its own data protocols, the data transfer processes are “closed” and there’s no standard way of reporting errors as they occur or passing error codes to other systems. Therefore some errors go unnoticed for a very long time. An example is the production of metal with incorrect dimensions. When this error goes unnoticed for a while, it results in financial losses.
Case Study
Digitalising QC records
Ready-mix concrete batching plant with seasonal demand 6,000 to 12,000 cu.metre per month.Batch-cycle records for each truck is stored in paper format. 1000 to 2000 truck loads per month, generating ~2000 to 6000 paper records.QC anomaly detection in chemical batch-mixing is manual & time consuming.
Case Study
Slovenian Smart Factory manages Electricity Consumption
Salonit also has a strong environmental regulation compliance strategy and it is dedicated to optimizing and reducing energy consumption. The goal was to reach the top 10 % of the most energy-efficient cement factories in the European Union. But producing clinker is energy-intensive: its electricity consumption averages 85 GWh, with 2500 Tera Joules of energy used for clinker burning. In the past years, Salonit’s energy bills went up to 9 million EUR per year, mainly for electricity. Salonit needed to comply with European energy regulations. The company could leverage a co-financing mechanism to invest in equipment and monitoring solutions that help meet the energy consumption reduction target.
Case Study
Conveyor Belt Monitoring
In a smart environment of management, control and industrial automation, one of the key elements to anticipate failures and increase productivity is to be able to monitor the status and use of conveyor belts of any kind of sector, whether it is for logistics or manufacturing.
