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Aveva PI is the gold standard in operational data management, providing industries with the power to harness real-time insights & drive impactful business decisions. Trusted by thousands of organizations globally, Aveva PI integrates seamlessly with your existing systems, helping you unlock the true potential of your data

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Unlock the Future of Industrial Automation
and Data Management

In today’s competitive industrial landscape, operational efficiency is paramount. Downtime, inefficiencies, and reactive problem-solving are costly. You need a solution that provides a clear, comprehensive view of your entire operation, enabling proactive decision-making and continuous improvement. PCS Global, in partnership with AVEVA, delivers that solution with the AVEVA PI System.

We empower industrial leaders like you to transform raw data into actionable insights, driving operational excellence across your enterprise.

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Unique Value Proposition

PCS Global delivers more than just the AVEVA PI System; we provide a comprehensive solution tailored to your specific needs. Our expertise in industrial automation and data management ensures a smooth implementation, ongoing support, and optimization of the platform to maximize its value to your organization. We empower you to proactively address operational challenges, make data-driven decisions, and achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency.

Key Features & Benefits

Real-Time Data Collection:

  • Continuous Monitoring: Capture data instantaneously for enhanced operational awareness.
  • Rapid Response: Allow swift adjustments and informed decision-making.

Advanced Data Visualization and Analytics:

  • Intuitive Tools: Simplify complex data sets, making insights accessible to all stakeholders.
  • User-Friendly Dashboards: Customized views tailored to departmental needs.

Seamless Integration:

  • Legacy System Compatibility: Ensure flawless integration with both modern and existing technology.
  • Enhanced Utility: Maximize the value of your existing investments.

Predictive Analytics Capabilities:

  • Data-Driven Forecasting: Preemptively address potential issues to reduce downtime.
  • Efficiency Maximization: Optimize resource allocation and enhance operational efficiency.

Scalability and Adaptability:

  • Growth-Supportive: From small operations to large enterprises, our platform grows with your data demands.
  • Performance Optimization: Maintain seamless operations amidst increasing data complexity.

Enhanced Collaboration:

  • Centralized Platform: Foster teamwork and unified efforts towards achieving business objectives.

Why Choose Us

Industry-Leading Reliability

Our robust platform is engineered for continuous uptime and unwavering data integrity.

Flexible Integration

Seamlessly connect with existing systems and IoT devices, ensuring an optimized data flow.

Enhanced Productivity

Empower teams with data visibility and access that supports smarter decision-making and efficiency.

Customer Success Stories

Proven Results Across Industries

PCS Global delivers more than just the AVEVA PI System; we provide a comprehensive solution tailored to your specific needs. Our expertise in industrial automation and data management ensures a smooth implementation, ongoing support, and optimization of the platform to maximize its value to your organization. We empower you to proactively address operational challenges, make data-driven decisions, and achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency.

An ounce of (downtime) prevention

ComEd provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across northern Illinois. ComEd has been using the PI System to store their SCADA data since 1998. 

Comed-SM

Challenges

  • Flood of new data from intelligent relays
  • Monitoring hundreds of grid components
  • Providing data to various roles

Solutions

  • Used Asset Framework to create substation models to improve visualisation and compare assets quickly
  • Created notifications and alarms

Benefits

  • Discovered voltage fluctuation signature that foreshadowed failure
  • Prevented several transformer outages 
  • Other departments can see SCADA data securely in real time

Condition-Based Maintenance

Alectra Utilities, the second largest municipally owned distribution company in Ontario, Canada, has been leveraging the PI System since 2012 to improve the operation and management of its Operations division.

Challenges

  • Operational data not readily available to other business units
  • Increasing volumes of data

Solutions

  • PI System makes operational data accessible across enterprise
  • Notifications provide critical alerts 

Benefits

  • Improved overall equipment reliability
  • Shifted from time-based to condition-based maintenance

CEMEX achieves enterprise intelligence

CEMEX is a global building materials company that provides high-quality products and reliable service to customers and communities in more than 50 countries throughout the world. Productivity improvement.

Cemex-SM

Challenges

  • Increase access to data and reduce data extraction and preparation time
  • Provide context to the data

Solutions

  • Implemented the PI System with AF and the PI Integrator for BA
  • Configured a cement operations data model

Benefits

  • Cut data extraction time from 1 month to 5 minutes with no development costs
  • More time spent on value-added activities

Unacem improved their grinding process

Peruvian company, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and USA produce Cement, Concrete and Energy. Needed to reduce their costs in order to remain competitive while maintaining quality. Process optimisation

Unacem-SM

Challenges

  • Increase access to data and reduce data extraction and preparation time
  • Provide context to the data

Solutions

  • Implemented the PI System with AF and the PI Integrator for BA
  • Configured a cement operations data model

Benefits

  • Cut data extraction time from 1 month to 5 minutes with no development costs
  • More time spent on value-added activities

Norsk Hydro improves reliability through cloud and digital twins

Using the OSIsoft PI System as a single operational data infrastructure and a combination of Microsoft Azure and SAP, the headquarter office received real-time data and notification from three separate mines. Process optimisation

Hydro-SM

Challenges

  • Absence of corporate  decision software
  • Difficulty consolidating relevant information 
  • Lack of critical  data analysis
  • Some operational areas  not monitored

Solutions

  • Corporate PI System with  Azure Cloud
  • Replacement of Paragominas plant historian system
  • Deploy PI System to corporate
  • Integrate servers of both mining plants

Benefits

  • Bauxite and alumina areas  moving toward the future  (digital transformation)
    • Azure analytics & services
    • 10% gain on  maintenance costs
    • 50% reduction of unplanned downtime during PoC

Wide area management system

To help TOPs more easily spot and resolve problems, Peak Reliability first entered into an Enterprise Agreement with OSIsoft in 2013 that allowed it to harmonize and consolidate device data. OSIsoft’s PI System collects, structures, stores, and visualizes sensor data in real time.  The PI System is used to consolidate and normalize all of this information. 

Peak-SM

Challenges

  • Severe weather and natural disasters disturbing the grid

Solutions

  • The PI System and proprietary Peak Visualization Platform (PVP) provide real-time situational awareness across the service territory

Benefits

  • Update 440,000 data streams every 10 seconds
  • Operators review anomalies before grid disruption
  • 5-minute ahead, what-if grid scenario displays

ArcelorMittal implements an integrated remote operations center

They implemented an integrated remote operations centre and are now able to collect their operational data from all their assets throughout the supply chain into their operational data infrastructure.  That data is then analysed and presented to their operations dispatcher who can take quick actions to stabilize the crusher feed and improve their efficiency again. Process productivity.

Arcelor-SM

Challenges

  • Increase productivity
  • Stabilize crusher feed
  • Plan the mine and mine the plan
  • Optimize logistics from pit‑to‑port

Solutions

  • Develop a data-driven approach
  • Allow the real-time identification of bottlenecks at the mine and within the value chain

Benefits

  • Conformity to plan >80%
  • High predictability
  • Real-time identification  of bottlenecks
  • Digital 4.0 transformation

Anglo American standardizes on PI System as single platform
for operations

Anglo had been a customer and had done a few projects, The goal this time was to improve at a much higher and faster rate. Productivity improvement.

Anglo-SM

Challenges

  • Single platform based on the PI System integrates all data from operations
  • One Anglo American culture with common systems

Solutions

  • Develop a data-driven approach
  • Allow the real-time identification of bottlenecks at the mine and within the value chain

Benefits

  • 0.2% increase  in availability 
  • 1% increase in energy efficiency
  • 1% decrease in  maintenance costs

Barrick Gold taps IIOT & AI to automate and improve maintenance

Barrick implemented condition based maintenance in their real time operational data infrastructure on Haul trucks years ago.  They have continued their Journey to implement Predictive Maintenance at their Cortez Mine. Started implementing IIOT wifi sensors sending 40 vibration information to their PI System. Predictive maintenance.

Barrick-SM

Challenges

  • Increased risk of  unplanned downtime
  • Increased cost of repairs
  • Unnecessary preventive maintenance

Solutions

  • Petasense asset reliability  and optimization system
  • Industrial IoT sensors  and ML software
  • Integrate with the PI System

Benefits

  • Saved $600K of potential downtime in just one instance
  • Reduced repair costs
  • Quick deployment and ROI

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