MOSCOW (MRC) -- A framework agreement between ABB and one of China’s leading coal producers, the Yitai Group, will bring deeper cooperation in applying digital technologies, solutions, services and expertise to improve performance across Yitai’s plants, as per Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Additionally, the two companies have agreed to form a consortium to explore, develop and exploit opportunities presented by intelligent, digitally-empowered plants, more generally, within the coal chemical industry at home and abroad.
"Yitai Group is committed to making the modern coal chemical industry bigger, stronger and better by utilizing advanced science and technology. At the same time, we also face the challenge to improve economic return and fierce market competition," says Mrs. Zhang DaiHua, Project Manager of Yitai’s intelligent coal chemical plant and Deputy General Manager of Yitai’s Coal Chemical Management Department. "Yitai looks forward to using ABB's digital solutions and services to achieve the intelligent control and management optimization of our plants, thereby reducing production costs, ensuring safety and improving productivity and information. We’d like to truly accomplish the integration of informatization and industrialization as well as intelligent upgrading."
The arrangement gives the Yitai Group access to the ABB Ability TM technology platform: an integrated industrial Internet offering and cloud infrastructure based on ABB's leading expertise across a wide range of technologies and industries. It enables businesses to harness the power of industrial data to enhance decision-making.
ABB’s digital and traditional technologies in the electrical, control, instrumentation and telecommunications (ECIT) areas will be used to upgrade Yitai’s brownfield sites and optimize greenfield opportunities. Yitai will also benefit from ABB’s collaborative operations approach which connects people in production facilities with those at headquarters and ABB’s centers of expertise. This real-time information sharing ensures data insights drive optimum decision-making. Such integrated digitalization improves coordination by breaking down functional silos. Opening data flow between various plant systems, departments and experts provides greater visibility that helps improve asset availability, operational efficiency and profitability.
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