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Solution Brief
Smart manufacturing
for chemicals and
petroleum
Chemicals and petroleum companies are faced with one of the most
Highlights challenging business climates in history. At the same time, performance
and output expectations have never been greater. Failure to respond to
● Maximize employee, asset and facility this new state has far reaching implications in today’s global market-
performance
place. That’s why connecting operations and leveraging advanced ana-
● Gain visibility into manufacturing lytics are more critical than ever to achieve superior performance in
operations
the volatile refining and chemicals business.
● Enable better collaboration and
communication The smart manufacturing solution for chemicals and petroleum from
IBM can help you gather, consolidate and use data from across your
enterprise to develop actionable insights that help you maximize per-
formance of your facilities, assets and global workforce. To achieve this
goal, our solution is designed to help you develop a strategy and imple-
ment an infrastructure that:
technologies come on line, they must be able to work seamlessly with IBM Corporation
existing operations. Route 100
Somers, NY 10589
The smart manufacturing solution offers a customizable strategy and Produced in the United States of America
April 2010
breakthrough technology based on an integrated information frame- All Rights Reserved
work that allows you to connect aging and newer facilities, allowing for
IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks or
visibility across the entire fleet of refineries or chemicals plants. By
registered trademarks of International Business Machines
linking facilities, systems, equipment and people, you can improve col- Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. If
laboration and communication to optimize your entire business with these and other IBM trademarked terms are marked on their
first occurrence in this information with a trademark symbol
smarter processes that allow you to:
(® or ™), these symbols indicate U.S. registered or common
law trademarks owned by IBM at the time this information
● Act as events occur with alerts and events triggered or activated by was published. Such trademarks may also be registered or
common law trademarks in other countries. A current list of
key metrics. IBM trademarks is available on the Web at “Copyright and
● Collaborate with experts on problems and solutions for smarter, trademark information” at ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml
more effective resource management.
Other product, company or service names may be
● Instantly access key data concerning plant assets, measurements and trademarks or service marks of others.
documents in a consistent and intuitive format.
● Drive more predictable performance of manufacturing and mainte-
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nance processes.
● Analyze and optimize manufacturing results for alignment with key
performance indicators.
● Enhance decision making across your enterprise.
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