Adoption

Digital Awareness

This standard aims at building awareness of digital tools and solutions available within Solvay to address many challenges existing in solvay plants. The content allows its user to:

• Introduce digital tools applicable for Solvay
• Identify and align everybody on key areas for development
• Inspire site’s team to generate list of improvements based on tools/applications

More specifically, digital in plants allow to better serve customer while empowering our workforce and providing Solvay with a competitive advantage by acting on 5 specific levers:

• Asset Performance Management - Enhance performance (e.g., yield, energy consumption) through process control excellence (PCE) and advanced analytics (AA) (details here, use cases here)
• Plant asset Network Optimization - Maximize in-site asset profitability by applying dynamic optimization algorithms for production and planning scheduling (details here, use cases here)
• Asset Reliability / Maintenance - Prevent / predict equipment failure and optimize maintenance strategy by capturing more equipment data and applying data analytics
• Digital Ways of Working - Empower our employees on the shopfloor by implementing human-machine interface technology to streamline key processes (details here, use cases here)
• Robotics and Cobotics - Optimize plant fixed costs through robotization of key processes (cobotics involves technology assisting employees in their work) (details and use here)

The digital transformation roadmap follows a 5 phases process (see below, more details here)

Digital transformation project governance is organized along 5 different bodies (more details here):

1. Steering Committee (incl. Project sponsor, site project manager, plant manager, digital change agent)

GBU team responsible for the whole project:

2. Project director

3. Site project manager

Corporate team supporting execution within the frame of objectives agreed upon with GBU:

4. Corporate project manager 

5. Project team