2018 OSIsoft Kuwait Regional Seminar Coming to you!
 
Want to learn more about the PI System, OSIsoft’s technology direction and how customers like you are digitally transforming? Our free Regional Seminars are designed to keep you up-to-date. This year, We are coming to Kuwait on April 17th to bring you the latest! Each year, over 2,000 customers attend our regional seminars to:
 
  • Present their stories
  • Network with peers and partners
  • Hear about industry trends
  • See the latest from OSIsoft
  • Attend our PI 101 Workshop for PI System newcomers
 
This year our regional seminars focus on digital agility. From engineers to data analysts, we are seeing a rapid evolution of digital technologies and analytics. With this evolution comes opportunity for new solutions, as well as their associated challenges. Talks from OSIsoft, our customers and our partners will cover rapid configurations of the PI System to deliver solutions to industrial needs,  out-of-the-box uses of the PI System, as well as how a data infrastructure that extends  from the edge to cloud supports digital agility towards operational excellence.
 
 

The PI System in the Digital Enterprise

Are you ready for your Digital transformation? Today, data drives our world. It's all around us. Operational Data is all around us. The challenge is getting the data we need, at the right time, to the right people to make a difference. With the PI System, you can Transform Your World with Data. 

Agenda

Tuesday, April 17, 2018
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
 
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
PI 101 Workshop
Attendees to the OSIsoft Regional Seminar are also welcome to join an optional OSIsoft PI System 101 Overview session. This optional session will cover the fundamentals of the PI System and is tailored for those that are either new to the PI System and would like an introduction to the technology or wishing to update and refresh their knowledge.
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Break
 
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM
Introduction- Seminar begins
 
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Keynote: Digital Agility in the Evolving World of Industry 4.0 and IIoT
Automation, IIoT, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Reality – the next decade promises to be the digital revolution of the industrial world. Our challenge is integrating legacy systems and assets with new technologies to harness the explosion of data to drive new opportunities without risking existing operations. This keynote will cover the challenges of the digital revolution and best practices for success and highlights how a data infrastructure strategy can support organizations invest in an agile ecosystem of edge, enterprise and cloud technologies.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Digital Transformation – Realising the full value of your Operational Data
In the present competitive climate there is a growing pressure on Oil & Gas companies to further maximize productivity, lower costs and extend the lifespan of their assets and to achieve this companies are increasingly looking to further embrace digital technologies across many more areas of their business by means of Digital Transformation. Industry leaders, including Saudi Aramco, Shell, BP, Chevron and Total have implemented an enterprise real-time data platform to centrally manage all their operational real-time data, whether it’s coming from traditional process control networks, IoT devices, data historians or cloud-based SaaS offerings.   
Russell will attempt to clarify some of the confusion and mis-communication that we have seen around this topic and simplify the most important things that should be considered when building a real-time data strategy for a modern Oil & Gas operation. Russell will cover how people are successfully embracing emerging IoT technologies and the data they provide within their operations and I will also discuss how Oil & Gas companies can best manage their real-time data to make the most effective use of ‘Big Data’ analytics. 
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Soft Sensors: A Data Science Application in industry
Various data streams are collected and historized for audit purposes. But they are not essential for the operation. Soft Sensors are a way to statistically infer the process variables those are hard to be measured in real time from the other correlated variables in the data set. As the PI System is our featured Real time infrastructure, it can be the base to build soft sensors on top of by using our Integrators framework and Asset Analytics capabilities. 
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch & Networking
 
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Integrated Mass and Energy Balance of olefin plants with PI System and Sigmafine -PIMSOFT
Achieving higher data quality contributes to the creation of value by critically assessing productions and consumptions of both materials and energy. An infrastructure based on OSIsoft PI system and leveraging Pimsoft Sigmafine allowed contextualizing all the data collected from the three olefin plants. PI System daily data are aggregated and then analyzed by a set of AF-based Sigmafine models. Sigmafine solves the mass and energy balance minimizing the measurement errors and returning a set of reconciled data that are exported in web reports and posted to SAP as official accounting figures. Furthermore, the detailed Sigmafine models allow getting reliable KPIs based on reconciled values, such as duty and efficiency of cracking furnaces, work and efficiency of compressors and steam turbines, etc. In the end, one comprehensive solution based on PI System and Sigmafine enables achieving “one version of the true” performing consistent production accounting, performance monitoring and energy management.
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Analytics and Data Lake: It’s what you do with the data that counts
Industrial Analytics is the buzz of the day. Big data, data lakes, machine learning and artificial intelligence are offering the allure of new insights and answers to efficiencies.  However sometimes the first big win comes from a small improvement and the data your already own.  Learn how you can break down seemingly complex big data problems into a manageable sequence of steps with the PI System.  Even without waiting for completion of a full-blown statistical model, your operational experts can often spot anomalous patterns with little more than a few events captured by PI System event frames and compiled in a report.  And when you are ready to push data to advanced machine learning (ML) tools, the PI Integrator line is available to jump-start your data science initiative with clean, ready-to-consume, reliable data. 
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
CBM: Just Right, Just-in-Time Maintenance
We are being asked to run equipment longer, faster and harder with less resources while minimizing failures. Condition based maintenance takes a data driven approach to maximizing the performance of your assets and maintenance schedules.  Discover through drag and drop configuration how the PI System can be used for condition based maintenance. Configure digital representations of your assets, calculate key performance indicators (KPIs), and even send notifications or kick off maintenance work flows based on the real condition of your assets.  Kick-starting your CBM project has never been easier with the modern PI System.
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Partner show & refreshment
 

Hotel/Event Location

FOUR POINTS BY SHERATON KUWAIT
Fahd Al Salem Street, P.O. Box 5902 Safat, Kuwait City, 13060, Kuwait
Phone: (965) 2242 2055 
 
 
 

Why Join Us?

Whether you are a newcomer to OSIsoft technology and interested in learning about improving your company's operations or a PI System expert looking for ways to better leverage your data infrastructure, this event will have value for you.

This seminar will feature presentations from OSIsoft experts and users of the PI System, demonstrating how they are achieving data-driven decision making in real-time.