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Perstorp Develops KPI Production Portal to Focus Organization on Meeting Plant Production Targets
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Industries
- Chemicals
Applicable Functions
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Process Control & Optimization
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Perstorp, a global leader in the specialty chemicals market, wanted to visually understand in near real time how well their plants were meeting production goals relative to targets. They needed a system that could deliver important production KPIs, such as “Loss vs. Plan”, and allow the user to analyze production results in more detail. The company also wanted to implement features like automated emails and/or phone text messages that could be triggered either by events, such as plant shutdowns, or time-based (e.g. weekly reporting), which could be used for automatic ordering of some raw materials and predictive maintenance.
About The Customer
Perstorp is a global leader in several sectors of the specialty chemicals market. Their primary products are additives for paints and coatings, plasticizers, solvents, lubricants, bleach chemicals and oil-drilling applications. In addition, they also produce feed additives and biodiesel. Aspen InfoPlus.21 has been used globally by Perstorp since 2006 and is one of the five largest IT applications in the company. They have nine Aspen InfoPlus.21 servers covering 40 plants with 50,000 tags, a total of 500 users and four Aspen Production Record Manager installations.
The Solution
Perstorp built the key performance indicator (KPI) production portal application using standard Aspen InfoPlus.21 tools — Aspen Calc and Aspen SQLplus — along with Microsoft® SharePoint as the portal. The visual displays built, showing the performance of all their plants, were impressive. At a glance, users can see current performance levels and possible areas for improvement. The KPI production portal is displayed in conference and meeting rooms at each of the plants to create awareness and focus employees on the importance of meeting production goals. Daily meetings are started using the daily production indicators, which display colors that quickly visualize each plant’s production performance.
Operational Impact
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