2024 Schedule

The “Perfect Plant” is something that everyone is working towards. Technology generally exists to support this model today. If that is the case, then, what is keeping this from becoming the new reality? It all starts with data. The issue, however, is that the typical SAP Plant Maintenance environment does not have the quality of data required in order to truly leverage IOT, Automation, and other tools that may lead to making good decisions and taking predictive action. Practically speaking there are barriers to achieving the “Perfect Plant” and these barriers can be viewed as evolutionary steps and begin with one thing: The elimination of paper (and other data gaps that are an extension of this). This, then extends into concepts of data integrity. The concept of having reliable and accurate data that can be leveraged by automated systems. This data integrity and elimination of paper require the same input: The “well” connected worker.