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At the OSIsoft EMEA Users Conference held last October in Berlin, Germany, Felix Hanisch of Covestro, gave a keynote on the meaning of Industrie 4.0 for the chemicals industry from Covestro’s perspective. Covestro, a specialty polymers company, was carved out from Bayer in 2015. Dr. Hanisch discussed what cloud, Big Data, and Industrie 4.0 mean for the process industry. The company aims to make the world “a brighter place," with smart ideas and smart products. Dr. Hanisch explained which aspects of Industrie 4.0 are new and how the chemical industry can take advantage of these. He laid out Covestro's digitalization roadmap.
Industrie 4.0: What the Hype Is All About
The goal of Industrie 4.0 is to produce intelligent products using intelligent methods and processes. Plattform Industrie 4.0 mentions that this is enabled through increased use of near-real-time data in the digital integration of value chains, seamless asset lifecycle information from plant concept to decommissioning, and business-to-plant production control.
The chemicals industry is torn between acting quickly to reap the benefits of Industrie 4.0 on the one hand, and remaining prudent by making small moves, and thus risk missing opportunities on the other.
A closer look reveals that the industry already has many Industrie 4.0 technologies in place. Some cyber-physical systems enabling the intelligent plant are mainstream in the process industry. For example, most valves are operated by actuators under control of an algorithm in a digital process control system. The IoT "vendor-managed inventory" concept of the household refrigerator sending orders to a grocery store when items reach a low threshold is commonly employed in the industry.
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Keywords: Industrie 4.0, Chemicals 4.0. Covestro, OSIsoft, Value Driver Map, Portfolio Management, Operational Data Model, Rapid Application Deployment, ARC Advisory Group.