Eastman Chemical Company is an American company primarily engaged in the chemical industry. Once a subsidiary of Kodak, today it is an independent global specialty materials company that produces a wide range of advanced materials, chemicals and fibers for everyday use. Founded in 1920 and headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, the company now has more than 50 manufacturing facilities worldwide and employs approximately 14,000 people.
Goals
- Monitoring task of 1300 process analyzers.
- It was not data-driven and reliability was suffering.
Solutions
- Using AVEVA PI System as a single source of truth, integrated with data sources and Power BI, for intuitive monitoring and alerting
Results
- Improved process analyzer uptime, increased plant safety and efficiency, and ability to track KPIs and move to predictive maintenance.
“Our cross-functional digital transformation has had a significant impact on the safety and reliability of our operations in Kingsport. These tools integrated with BI reports are a leap in continuous maintenance capacity for our team."
Ryan Simpson, senior process analysis engineer, Eastman Chemical
Drive circularity through your engineering and operations.
Goals
- Implement a data-centric platform to enable teams to share and compile engineering information within a single database.
- Improve collaboration between different teams in engineering, construction, operations and maintenance.
Solutions
- AVEVA™ Engineering.
- AVEVA™ E3D Design.
- AVEVA™ Asset Information Management.
- 30% reduction in engineering and design costs in 1 year and 3% reduction in ICT
- Drive circularity and the development of new sustainable technologies by optimizing Eastman's capital projects approach.
- Optimized data transfer between operational and engineering teams
- Single-platform engineering processes reduce engineering errors and rework to improve overall project efficiency and quality and enable seamless transfer of engineering information.