02-04-2019

OSIsoft enters into enterprise agreement with Alizent-Asset Interactive

OSIsoft LLC, a leader in data infrastructure for critical operations, is proud to announce that it has entered into an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Alizent-Asset Interactive (Alizent), a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Liquide focused on digital transformation and the Industrial Internet of Things. The Enterprise Agreement Program will enable Alizent to deploy OSIsoft's PI System broadly across Air Liquide's operations to optimize production, minimize environmental impacts and improve logistics, among other services.
 
In 2015, Air Liquide launched the Smart and Innovative (SIO) program to improve the way the company serves its customers through the coordination of plant operations and centralized control centers.

Alizent, an Air Liquide entity dedicated to Industrial IoT, digitally connects its clients' workforce and customers with their assets to create efficiencies, generate new revenues and elevate customer satisfaction. Alizent, for instance, tracks over 22 million gas canisters, beer kegs and other mobile assets to reduce losses and optimize inventory. It also manages over 20,000 remote facilities such as bulk tanks for industrial gases to reduce service costs and supervises over 250 production facilities to improve their performance and maintenance.  

OSIsoft's PI System serves as the operational data infrastructure for the SIO program, collecting, visualizing and transforming critical asset data into insight for the teams of the SIO remote centers, notably in France, China and Kuala Lumpur, for real-time decision support and conducting analytics. Air Liquide's industrial operations generate over one billion data points per day.

“We work with OSIsoft because it has long been a leader in turning critical operations data into a true asset employees can use. By combining Big Data with human intelligence, the workflow of each Air Liquide production unit linked to an SIO center is adapted in real-time to the changing needs of customers,” explained Alexis Duret, CEO of Alizent. “Capable of controlling sites remotely, these SIO centers can optimize production unit energy efficiency and leverage predictive analytics to ensure continuous facility How do you access and learn from critical data that resides in multiple incompatible systems across the enterprise? It's a complex problem with a surprisingly simple solution - the PI System™. Quick and easy to install, collect data from and build upon, the PI System quickly reveals new ways to streamline processes and drive continuous improvements.