MOSCOW (MRC) -- AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software announced BASF selected AVEVA to accelerate their strategic Smart Manufacturing programme. BASF will implement AVEVA’s Enterprise Asset Performance Management (APM) solution to improve connectivity of people, processes, and equipment, creating additional value for their customers through greater asset availability and workforce efficiency, according to Hydrocarbonprocessing.
Several aspects of BASF’s Smart Manufacturing programme will be supported by AVEVA’s flexible, easy to use the platform, including Augmented Reality and Predictive Maintenance applications. BASF will leverage these solutions to empower their workforce and monitor critical assets on a global scale to predict equipment failures before they occur.
"Our Smart Manufacturing programme targets to increase the effectiveness of our plants and the efficiency of our production processes using digital technologies and data," said Uwe Hinsen, Vice President, Smart Manufacturing at BASF, "AVEVA’s Predictive Maintenance and Augmented Reality solutions help us to achieve our target of an overall digital plant."
"In an industry with high-value assets producing quality products under heavy regulatory scrutiny, chemical companies can benefit greatly from digitalizing their business," said Dr. Tobias Scheele, Head of Global Accounts at AVEVA. "We are excited to collaborate with BASF on their digital transformation journey to achieve optimal manufacturing efficiency."
As MRC informed previously, within the next five years, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) plans to invest globally more than EUR200 million in its plastic additives business, approximately half of which in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence, said the producer on its site in November 2016.
BASF is the largest diversified chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries.
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