过程控制与优化

A GSPC (Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation) Group company; GSPL is a pioneer in developing energy transportation infrastructure and connecting natural gas supply sources including LNG terminals to growing markets. The company transports over 22.99 MMSCMD of natural gas to around 133 Customers. Their customers include Refineries, Steel Plants, Fertilizer Plants, Petrochemical Plants, Power Plants, Glass industries, Textiles, Chemical, City Gas Distribution Companies and other miscellaneous industries. The major challenges GSPL was facing were: - Prohibitively High Energy Bills. - Lack of Monitoring Solutions to track energy consumption across the entire pipeline. - Inability to Gather Data from all 124 terminal stations into a central location. - Inability to do a Comprehensive Data Analysis to balance consumption. Requirements In addition to addressing the challenges, GSPL also had some additional requirements, such as: - Automated Data Collection. - Alarms and Alerts for specific electrical parameters that require special attention. - Actionable Insights for Proactive and Autonomous energy management. - Online Platform to monitor, analyze and act. - Centralized Remote Monitoring and Analysis.

Derek Madison, Leader of Business Financial Support at MasterCard, oversees the validation of transactions and cash between two systems, whether they’re MasterCard owned or not. He was charged with identifying new ways to increase efficiency and improve MasterCard processes. At the outset, the 13-person team had to manually reconcile system interfaces using reports that resided on the company’s mainframe. Their first order of business each day was to print 20-30 individual, multi-page reports. Using a ruler to keep their place within each report, they would then hand-key the relevant data, line by line, into Excel for validation. “We’re talking about a task that took 40-80 hours each week,” recalls Madison, “As a growing company with rapidly expanding product offerings, we had to find a better way to prepare this data for analysis.”

McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated security technology company, delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world. With over $600 million dollars of procurement per year, McAfee relies on its dynamic OEM appliance manufacturing partners to develop extremely reliable, high-performance new products quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, McAfee requires its suppliers to deliver the same high-quality engineering and support that its customers have come to expect. In any product lifecycle, flexibility is the key ingredient to a successful deployment. During McAfee’s development of a new turnkey solution, Intel announced the introduction of new processors, which would become generally available at the same time as the planned debut of the McAfee appliances. Being able to take advantage of these new processors without delaying the introduction of the new appliances introduced a new challenge and McAfee needed a partner to step up to remove the potential obstacle.