This major Southeast Asian paper manufacturer, known for using leading edge technology to produce a wide range of high quality pulp and paper products, chose ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations to optimize operations, increase equipment availability and reduce paper quality variation. These improvements lead to better product quality and consistency, fewer rejects and more sales.
ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations connects people in production facilities and enterprise headquarters to ABB’s technology and expertise. It sets up both customers and ABB with remote monitoring and predictive analysis technologies to ensure safety and security, increase productivity and improve operational efficiency
Automating production requires processing large amounts of data. As complexity increases, so does the volume of data. Collaborative Operations helps paper producers make productive use of this data to identify and address production, quality and cost issues that can inhibit peak performance. This improves return on capital.
Collaborative Operations helps to maximize business value by turning data insights into direct action. At the mill, Collaborative Operations is reducing cycle times on product grade changes, resulting in higher production. It is also stabilizing moisture as well as additive levels using multivariable predictive controls. Specific improvements include increased production due to higher equipment availability, fewer sheet breaks, lower chemical costs and reduced paper quality variation.
Because of ABB Ability™ Collaborative Operations, the mill was able to reduce time to complete bump tests by 70% and reduce overall loop tuning effort by 75%.
