There are several challenges faced by end users such as:

• Tracking operations and reducing operating/ energy/ utility/ raw material and wastages costs
• Improving plant availability
• Getting service as per SLAs from OEMs and O&Ms and tracking their performance
• Getting centralised information for expert analysis from multiple plants
• Aggregating information from multiple disparate control systems within the plant and connecting the same with enterprise applications such as ERP
• Plant performance comparison with benchmark data

Some of the biggest challenges for end users are to centrally coordinate proper working of their plants and benchmark them for improvement. Remote performance monitoring system, thus, becomes an effective tool for them.

Benefits:

• Integrated data from geographically dispersed multi-site plant operations
• Optimization of expert staff as they can centrally support multiple sites/ plants
• Auditing historical operations to derive benchmark indices for comparison across plants/ sites
Reduction in overall energy consumption by mapping, tracking and evaluating energy consumption
Monitor carbon footprint acrooss multiple plants
Integration with enterprise applications such as ERP