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• To what extent do you see the deployment of digital approaches to maintain and operate facilities while leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in the restructured operations of the petrochemical industry?

  Mar-2023

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• Mark Fronek, Becht, mfronek@becht.com

  The hard lessons learned from large-scale, corporate, top down, digital transformation initiatives have put pressure on organizations and vendors to prove value before larger scale implementation is considered. As a result, we see widespread pilot project activity in maintenance and operations. Maintenance history data which has been digitized is driving initiatives in predictive, condition-based maintenance programs. In the field, many organizations are testing wearables, IIoT 4.0, and drones which are using Machine Vision AI. In the operator booth improved access to democratized, visualized data is enabling shorter time to action through leveraging AI to create soft sensors, eliminate false alarms, and more. Access to soft knowledge through natural language processing AI systems is lagging, but I expect the media attention to ChatGPT will motivate extended exploration of the potential in this area.

   

  Mar-2023