Improving process efficiency
Change is practically constant within energy and process industry processes. The results as difference between realized process efficiency and process specific optimum, and the difference varies in time. The effect to business profitability is reverse and powerful. This difference can be minimized, and thus profitability improved, with the help of digitalization.
The improvement activities are based on continuous monitoring of process efficiency and analysis of its relative goodness. Realized efficiency is compared to the best realized efficiency of similar process circumstances in history. This comparison provides operations with all the process experience in history databases to maximize process efficiency
Components of improvement of efficiency
This procedure can be applied to improving all the critical factors of process efficiency. This procedure can be applied to improving all the critical factors of process efficiency. For example:
- Energy efficiency improvement
- Availability improvement
- Raw material efficiency improvement
Digitalization can also be used to support and speed up change management