Crucial Solutions & Services

Solutions

Data Analytics
Solution

Collecting and storing raw process data has become an integral part of any plant operation. This raw data is an untapped potential for business insight. The challenges arise when transforming raw data into information ready for consumption.

At CSS, we are dedicated to transforming your business by bringing you the latest in technological advancements. We realize that data analytics is shaping to become a key part of business operations by allowing you to increase production, profit, and ultimately lead to more accurate and reliable decisions.
Seeq is the first application designed for process data analytics; offering the tools necessary to cleanse, search, and analyze your data.

Predictive
Maintenance Solution

Predictive maintenance is preferred over preventative maintenance for critical assets, but the correct application of advanced analytics is required to realize full value. Advancements in instrumentation have made it easy and cost effective to gather required measurements from plant assets. The struggle remains with gaining insight from these measurements to form a comprehensive maintenance solution.

Gaining insight requires advanced analysis of your data and this has mostly been done using spreadsheets. With sensors continuously measuring data; using spreadsheets for predictive maintenance becomes rapidly more challenging.

Seeq is a software specialized for process data analytics. This nature makes it simpler to use than a generalpurpose tool like a spreadsheet. Seeq has embedded advanced analytics technologies like big data and machine learning in the visualization experience, enabling engineers and other process experts to work in an interactive application.

Plant Information
Management System
(PIMS)

Plant Information Management System (PIMS) collects and integrates information about a production process from different sources.

One of our major solutions in this area is the PI Data Historian System. PI system can efficiently record data from process control systems (ex. DCS, PLC) into a compressed time series database.

You can connect your data sources to one or more PI Interface nodes. The interface nodes get the data from your data sources and send it
to the PI Server.

There are many ways in which you could access the data stored in your historian. OSIsoft offers an array of client tools to meet your
requirements. These include:

In addition to that, access from third-party applications is possible
through the following PI System Connection Tools:

TESLA Forecasting Solution

Benefits

“Accurate, Reliable, Comprehensive”

By using the TESLA Solution and Services, you will benefit from many years of experience and successes to provide fast, highly accurate load forecasts and weather effects analysis to the energy industry worldwide. The TESLA Solution is a leader in energy demand forecasting models. The TESLA models are available at all market levels including regions/ISOs, control zones, merchant loads and retail portfolios. The solution is a comprehensive suite of software products, all of which can be interfaced with client in-house systems.

Why TESLA?

For all companies involved in the energy prediction business, TESLA is the most comprehensive load forecasting provider available, offering accuracy, speed and assurance.

Only TESLA has the uniquely built and historically tested TESLA Model giving clients the highest levels of accuracy, quickest speed of response with the combination of real human involvement. This unique mix provides clients the greatest levels of confidence, minimizing their risk and delivering them better value results.

So, whatever your forecasting requirements, you can trust that TESLA will provide you with the most accurate load forecasting solutions for your individual needs, helping you deliver more reliable outcomes.

Why TESLA?

For all companies involved in the energy prediction business, TESLA is the most comprehensive load forecasting provider available, offering accuracy, speed and assurance.

Only TESLA has the uniquely built and historically tested TESLA Model giving clients the highest levels of accuracy, quickest speed of response with the combination of real human involvement. This unique mix provides clients the greatest levels of confidence, minimizing their risk and delivering them better value results.

So, whatever your forecasting requirements, you can trust that TESLA will provide you with the most accurate load forecasting solutions for your individual needs, helping you deliver more reliable outcomes.

The Solution

All of the TESLA forecasting solutions are built on the unique TESLA Model and backed by a dedicated team of analysts and engineers. The TESLA Model is an advanced regression based model that is designed to be responsive to weather, time and calendar variables and is particularly responsive to extreme weather events and holidays.

Every model is built and maintained by analysts with a comprehensive understanding of the area and the resource being modeled. In addition, the reliable and timely delivery of the forecasts generated by those models is ensured by a team of engineers spanning the globe.

Real Time
Dashboards

Real-Time dashboards are data dashboards that visually track, analyze and display key performance indicators (KPIs). They automatically update with the most current data available which could be a combination of historic data and real-time information. Dashboards consist of trends, reports, graphics and tables which contain time-sensitive data.

Collecting process data is key for making critical business decisions as well as running day to day business operations. Expanding the reach of this data to the greatest number of users while providing the proper solution to make the most use out of the data will ultimately facilitate important business and operations decisions.

Crucial Solutions and Services develop web-based application with real-time dashboards. Our MIND application is a web-based application that provides the critical real-time and historical operational information to a wide range of users. The MIND Application will gather the required data from a myriad of repositories, analyze, and then display this information in a simple and smart fashion to facilitate key business and operations decisions.

Our solution provides an easy to use, all-encompassing application
that will have separate modules for:

Main attributes of our solution:

•  The solution is a single web-based application taking advantage of the latest advancements in software
technologies

•  The application relies heavily on proven business intelligence and data analytics, while keeping to a
minimum the amount of custom development required

•  The application boasts a User-friendly GUI allowing users access at their fingertips to the most valuable
information in real-time

•  The application is modular and will be designed to be easily enhanced or maintained in the future

Data Validation

In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring data have undergone data cleansing to ensure they have data quality, that is, that they are both correct and useful. It uses routines that check for correctness, meaningfulness, and security of data that are input to the system. The rules may be implemented through the automated facilities of a data dictionary, or by the inclusion of explicit application program validation logic.

One of our major solution and partner in this area is Pimsoft’s Sigmafine. Sigmafine is an enterprise-wide software platform that improves and sustains data quality for process and manufacturing industries.

Whether it’s called “Industry 4.0,” “Edge Computing,” “Big Data” or “IOT,” there is a rapid decline in the tolerance of people, applications and business processes to poor data quality in industrial plants. In order to achieve sustainable tangible company outcomes, the modern process industries flourish on easily accessible information and reliable data.

Business Intelligence:

What does Business Intelligence mean?

Business Intelligence is an umbrella term for a set of tools and technologies that allow individuals to gain greater insights into their operational data (data mining, cleansing, searching), perform advanced analyses on this data (simulation, machine learning, AI), consume this data in interactive, user-friendly visual components (gauges, trends, charts), and share this information with others if needed to take quick strategic business decisions that positively impact company operations.

Business Intelligence:

What does Business Intelligence mean?

Business Intelligence is an umbrella term for a set of tools and technologies that allow individuals to gain greater insights into their operational data (data mining, cleansing, searching), perform advanced analyses on this data (simulation, machine learning, AI), consume this data in interactive, user-friendly visual components (gauges, trends, charts), and share this information with others if needed to take quick strategic business decisions that positively impact company operations.

CSS is a pioneer in the BI domain having envisioned and developed the MIND platform to deliver BI applications to our customers. MIND encompasses custom-built graphics and a responsive, modular design in a sleek and simple GUI. Integrating with Seeq Data Analytics and PI Vision, MIND is one of the only platforms that allows you to view and analyze your data in your application of choice from a single portal. Available on the desktop or mobile device, MIND allows users to have access to Business Intelligence from anywhere.

Operational Logger:

Operations logbook and plant reporting software — Opralog is an industry leading operations management software tool which makes key plant data instantly accessible across your organization. Important plant events captured in dated control room paper logbooks and lost spreadsheets are a thing of the past as Opralog integrates everything into one easy to manage system giving you complete control and visibility of your plant operations. Opralog provides a configurable platform and works with you 24hrs a day 365 days a year ensuring shift handover, safety, commercial and environmental issues are instantly recorded. Opralog allows you to leverage data from common plant systems such as OSIsoft PI System, MRO Maximo and SAP meaning that capturing plant events can also be obtained automatically via standard interfaces.

• Improve Communications
• Reduce the risks of process safety incidents
• Increase productivity and performance
• Improve plant reliability