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lnitzschkeEmployee

published in Use Cases

Reducing product loss with golden batch fingerprint monitoring

BackgroundIn our batch process, ensuring optimal operating conditions is critical for maintaining production, product quality and worker safety. Monitoring various process parameters such as low average temperature, constant pressure, high end- concentration and low energy consumption in real-time is essential to maintain consistency and quality across batches. ChallengeOur challenge was to implement a comprehensive system for monitoring operating conditions in a batch process with 7 regularly changing recipes. Over the past month, we have experienced problems with parameters deviating from optimal process conditions, resulting in poor product quality. We needed a solution that would accurately monitor the trend profiles at each step of the process and alert operators when these deviations occurred. The alert should provide actionable insight for operators and supervisors to optimize production processes and minimize product loss. Solution1. Visualizing the trendsA list of tags was add

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Usman I.Employee

published in Success Best Practices

Nouryon: TrendMiner Global Implementation – A Phased Approach

During TrendMiner’s 2023 annual user event, Si Hu highlighted the phased approach taken by Nouryon to implement TrendMiner. Here are some of the key items mentioned. Establish the vision of a global data source starting with a proof of concept. Establish the TrendMiner foundation through secure implementation at each plant for a global roll out. Systems integration with TrendMiner including Single-Sign-On (SSO). Drive business value through feature implementation and adoption. Continuous enablement of existing users to drive digital transformation.

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Natasha NeeseEmployee

published in Use Cases

Calculations of hourly average consumption values

BackgroundIn the chemical industry, calculating e.g. hourly consumption rates of critical resources such as energy, steam, electricity, and others is important. Accurate calculations enable efficient resource utilization and optimal process control. Continuous monitoring of these consumption rates allows for early detection of potential bottlenecks and facilitates proactive measures to enhance efficiency. ChallengeConsumption can be calculated both as rolling hourly averages and as fixed hourly values. Subsequently, the derived consumption values serve as the foundation for resource utilization monitoring, identifying efficiency potentials, and implementing targeted measures for process optimization. SolutionCalculating rolling hourly averagesThe rolling hourly average consumption is calculated using aggregation in the tag builder menu. We select our tag of interest, choose the average as the operator, set the direction to backward, and specify a one-hour aggregation window. With the

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PabloEmployee

published in Use Cases

Reducing low weight complaints

BackgroundThe final product dosing process relies on a tank with rotors, maintaining a constant level and rotors speed during production, but level drops significantly when changing products. This drop in tank weight slightly reduces dosage, potentially leading to customer complaints about low product weight.Operators manually increase rotor speed during tank emptying to compensate, but monitoring this action is crucial. ChallengeAutomatically keep track of the number of times and dates when emptying happens and whether or not the speed of the rotors was increased, for traceability purposes. Create a daily dashboard to be used during operating meetings Only emptying events of more than 15mins are relevant. SolutionCreate aggregations: Range of the rotors and Max of the tank level in the last 20m. Value Based Search for good and bad emptying periods of at least 15m: max level>60 & current level<50 + (rotors range>0/range=0). This search will find periods where the tank used

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KevinEmployee

published in Use Cases

Creating a soft sensor to predict key process values

BackgroundSoft sensors, also known as inferentials, play a crucial role in industrial processes by predicting important lab values or other slow-sampled variables. In many manufacturing environments, the process involves monitoring various parameters that are critical for quality control or process optimization. However, some of these parameters, such as lab values, are slow to sample due to the time required for testing. This delay can hinder real-time decision-making and potentially lead to inefficiencies or quality issues. Soft sensors offer a solution to this challenge by using fast-sampled inputs as inputs to a machine learning model. This model can then predict the slow-sampled variables, providing real-time insights without the need to wait for hours for the next lab sample to be tested. Operators can monitor these predictions and make timely adjustments to the process, optimizing operations and ensuring quality standards are met. ChallengeOur primary challenge is to develop a

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fvandaelEmployee

published in Use Cases

Reporting daily specific resource consumption

BackgroundThis use case shows how to report the daily specific consumption of a resource and make a comparison between them on a daily basis. At this point we have no way of comparing or keeping track of the specific consumption of a resource. If we would have a tag for this it would be a big help in terms of process and resources optimization, as well as bring economic value. The daily specific consumption will be reported as spikes at the end of each day. As a starting point we have a tag containing our specific consumption of the last 24h. By being able to have an overview of the spikes of all days we can optimize our process. Challenge1. Get a spike at the end of each day with the 24h of total consumption.2. Get the value of different days to compare them. SolutionCreating daily consumption spikesThe daily consumption spikes tag is created by using the formula tagbuilder, we use an if statement where the check is day1=day2 with day 1 current time tag (day) and day 2 1m delayed time

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5 months ago

TamiaEmployee

published in Use Cases

Keep plant managers informed with a Unit Overview Dashboard

BackgroundIn any industry, It is not uncommon for plant managers to have questions about the status and efficiency of manufacturing units. There can be several hundred or even thousand tags for a single process depending on its complexity. Creating a dashboard allows users to centralize the trends for those tags in a digestible format. ChallengeOftentimes, production questions from management can be time-consuming and even intimidating to address. When a plant manager inquired about the status of a unit in the morning, a dashboard was created to ease their concerns within hours. SolutionIdentify relevant tags Consider what KPIs and parameters are important to management. Some examples are: flow rates for high-cost reactants extrusion rates (if applicable) expensive or shared utilities quality data production rates safety valve positions flaring All of these have financial, environmental, or safety implications.Create views and monitors Create TrendHub views and group r

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Admin Corner

[Recording] TrendMiner 2024.R1.0 admin webinar

On April 9th, 2024 we hosted an exclusive webinar to discuss relevant topics for TrendMiner admins related to the 2024.R1.0 and upcoming releases (recording below).The following topics were covered:What’s new in 2024.R1.0?A quick overview of functional updates and newly available connectivity options. In 2024.R1.0, we added connectivity for Eschbach Shiftconnector, Wonderware 2020 and 2023 and Aspen APRM v14. A complete overview of supported connectivity options is available here.Admin roles comparedTrendMiner 2024.R1.0 introduces a new admin layer to better separate Infrastructure, System and Application administration tasks. Refer to this topic for a complete overview.About the upgradeThe 2024.R1.0 release introduces some major security improvements in ConfigHub and the way you can access ConfigHub. Refer to this documentation article to learn how to access ConfigHub after the upgrade by resetting the admin user password via Edge Manager. It is advised to only use the admin user for

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David MerschhoffEmployee

published in Success Best Practices

Assess and develop your TrendMiner skills using the TrendMiner Skill Matrix

Increase TrendMiner usage and improve user skills by applying a skills matrix that provides key users with a structured path for skills development, providing a clear roadmap to progress from someone who is not aware to beginner, advanced, expert and finally to TrendMiner Coach level. Embark on the journey and reach the summit to become a TrendMiner coach! Follow these three steps to get started and benefit from the TrendMiner Skill Matrix yourself by improving your Skill Level: Take our TrendMiner Quiz and see how many points you have scored. Download the TrendMiner Skill Matrix, open the Excel sheet "Key User questionnaire", evaluate your skill level based on the points you have achieved in the quiz and the definitions of the Key Value Streams (General, Monitoring, Reporting, Dashboarding & Troubleshooting) given for each skill level (Not aware, Beginner, Advanced, Expert, Coach). Refer to the second sheet of the Excel file "Trainingsmaterial per Key Value" for relevant t

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6 months ago

ThomasEmployee

published in Functional Tips & Tricks

Using the least used features to your advantage!

In this article, we present 4 of our least used but valuable features which you can use to your advantage. We also show some concrete examples. 1 - Operating Area Search Empowers users to intuitively identify optimal and suboptimal operating conditions through a visual interface. Helps users detect process irregularities early by analyzing correlations between parameters. Provides preventive maintenance warnings using the operating area search in a combination with monitors. In the example shown below, the power a conveyor belt is consuming is plotted versus the specific power consumption, which takes into account the mass the conveyor belt is transporting. The scatter plot itself shows that there is an optimal point of operation looking only at energy consumption. Now, this area is selected as area of good operation and is used in the operating area search to look for periods when this correlation is changing, indicating a change in the operating conditions of the belt which me

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ThomasEmployee

published in Success Best Practices

How to create an Adoption Plan for your organization?

Implementing new software or technologies requires an investment of time, effort and resources. A well-designed adoption plan ensures that your organization fully utilizes these tools, maximizing the return on investment (ROI). This is no different for a platform like TrendMiner. Below, some hints are shared on what to consider when making such a plan: Begin by understanding your organization’s specific needs, challenges, objectives, and long-term goals What problem does the software solve? How will it align with your business objectives? For example: too many batches are being rejected and the goal is to reduce this amount by 40% by detecting quality deviations. Engage key stakeholders from different departments (such as IT, operations, and end-users) in the planning process Their insights and perspectives are invaluable for creating a comprehensive adoption strategy. For example, when new connections are configured or new functionality is released and timely TrendMiner upgrades are

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Trainings

[Recording] Is Tag Builder only for experts? Wrong!

This training showcases some use cases everybody can apply to get value from TrendMiner's Tag Builder when reporting on the number of occurrences of a specific event:In a first exercise, we count the number of events using a Formula tag and the Statistics table The second exercise shows how to count the number of events within another event, for example, the number of pressure drops that occur per batch Finally, the third exercise explains how to determine the number of events per month Original training date: March 12 & 13, 2024Recordings:English German Spanish

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Wouter DanielsEmployee

published in Use Cases

Crystallization issues root cause analysis

BackgroundThis use case is centered on a mixing tank, where the streams of two distinct products are joined. The intermediate products are continuously added to the mixing tank until it reaches a certain level. At that point, a sample is taken for analysis, and the tank is emptied into a larger storage tank. ChallengeOver the span of a few weeks, there have been crystallization issues with one of the two products. This undesired crystallization interferes with sensors leading to unreliable measurements, which can lead to quality issues as the mixture is processed further.We needed to find the root cause of these crystallization issues. SolutionVisualizing the problem The composition of the samples from the mixing tank was displayed in TrendMiner. Here we could clearly see the concentration of the solvent product decreasing, which is an obvious cause of the other product crystallizing. The question thus becomes: why are we receiving less solvent from our production process? Hypothesis

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Trainings

Getting started with TrendMiner

New to TrendMiner? Ready to start analyzing your process data more easily and faster than ever before? Here's a learning path to quickly reach first value with our platform and to gradually build your TrendMiner knowledge and ability:Check the Getting Started page in our user guide A four-step onboarding journey will teach you about the basic functionalities of the platform. In under 20 minutes, you will learn how to add your tags (measurements) to a view, to perform a value-based search and to set up your first monitor. Walk through the TrendMiner Basic Guides The Basic Guides help you understand how to use TrendMiner in your daily work by focussing on practical use cases, such as creating your own KPIs, getting alerted for process anomalies, setting up your first dashboard and troubleshooting process issues. Join our TrendMiner Fundamentals webinars Every month, we are hosting the TrendMiner Fundamentals webinars: a 2-day, 3.5-hour webinar series, perfect for new users. Covering

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Trainings

Intermediate/Expert trainings repository

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Trainings

[Recording] Data preprocessing - Get your data ready for analysis

This training highlights some techniques to preprocess your data in TrendMiner via 5 exercises.The first 2 exercises dive into data filtering via both static and dynamic filters. Applying filters lets you perform any further analysis on a specific part of your data, for example those periods where you are producing a specific product grade Exercises 3 to 5 show how to modify your data via the Tag Builder in several ways to, for example, compensate for disrupted sensor measurements or historian disconnections: Adding limits of a process value, removing outliers Filling in periods with most recent data instead of limiting the data Removing data and interpolating over the removed periods Original training date: February 6 & 7, 2024Recordings:English German Spanish

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7 months ago

Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Admin Corner

Edge Manager vs. ConfigHub

Since TrendMiner version 2023.R3.0 configuration settings have been split up between Edge Manager and ConfigHub. This way, tasks specific to infrastructure admins and system admins are clearly separated and access permissions can be aligned with your organizational structure.Edge Manager is the TrendMiner interface for infrastructure admins. It mainly contains functionality to keep your TrendMiner installation healthy and up-to-date. Edge Manager is not available to SaaS customers as infrastructure administration is taken care of by the TrendMiner team. On virtual appliances, some additional menus for virtual appliance configuration will be available, which do not appear on self-managed single node or private cloud setups. The following tasks can be done from Edge Manager:Checking the health status of TrendMiner services Downloading appliance logs for troubleshooting purposes Gaining insights into memory usage, disk usage (including adding more disk space), CPU usage and time settings

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Admin Corner

TrendMiner admin roles compared

The TrendMiner setup knows 3 different administrator roles:Infrastructure administrator (taken care of by TrendMiner for SaaS setups) System administrator Application administratorThe table below provides an overview of these roles, required skills and access permissions, example tasks and where to perform these tasks in the TrendMiner User Interface.Obviously, one person can take up multiple admin roles, but as different types of tasks are typically distributed over multiple people or teams, these roles permit to match TrendMiner administration to your organizational structure. Infrastructure administrator System administrator Application administrator TrendMiner UI Edge Manager ConfigHub TrendHub, ContextHub, TrendMiner API Description The infrastructure admin is responsible for installation and maintenance of the TrendMiner servers on infrastructure, network and security l

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Success Best Practices

Arkema: streamlined communication within and across plants

How do you streamline communications around TrendMiner in a large organization? At TrendLab 2021, Nina Mas Soler and Laurent Baseilhac discussed how they use a community strategy to make sure end-users can find and share all information they needed.Some pointers:Survey your end-users to discover how they use the platform and the value this brings Create an internal community website, containing for example: self-paced training videos invitations to online trainings for new users a live chat to internal TrendMiner experts a tool to identify interesting use cases from across the whole organization easy to find contact details of key users in all plants Watch the full presentation here and discover Arkema's priorities for digital manufacturing, what their community strategy entails and what their end-users are saying about TrendMiner.How do you streamline communications in your company? What resources have you created to enable TrendMiner users to generate more value for your compan

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Success Best Practices

LANXESS: learnings from a global roll-out

Nils Erwes from Lanxess recently presented their learnings from rolling out TrendMiner globally. Some key success factors he mentioned are:A central cross-functional roll-out team consisting of people from IT, Production and Engineering, collaborating closely with TrendMiner Easy access to training, focussing not only on how to use functionality but also on hands-on practical use cases Establishing an internal community to share experiences and successes, including in-person events and TrendMiner Coaches in every plant Watch the full presentation via this link and discover how TrendMiner fits Lanxess' digital landscape, how they tackled the challenges of a global roll-out and brought TrendMiner to their individual plants, what were they keys to success and how they are continuously building on the value they achieve with TrendMiner.Share your learnings from this presentation below...

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Use Cases

Share your own use caseHow To

To continue to inspire you, the TrendMiner team will regularly add new (general) use cases to this Community. At the same time, we invite all TrendMiner users to share your own use cases.Why share your use case?By sharing your own use case, you …… showcase your TrendMiner knowledge to the wider analytics community 👑… may receive feedback and ideas to further expand your case and generate even more value for your company 💸… inspire other users to make the most out of TrendMiner 📈… help the TrendMiner team understand how our product helps you and further develop it towards your needs 💪How to share your use case?To share your use case, create a new topic in the Use Cases category of this Community. Pick Conversation as the topic type. Feel free to use the template below to include all relevant information.NoteMake sure you are registered and logged into the Community first. Create your account or log in via the LOGIN button top right or the links in the previous sentence. BackgroundP

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Jef VanlaerCommunity Manager

published in Use Cases

Use case repositoryUse Case

While we will be sharing use cases in this Community category on a regular basis, our TrendMiner website also contains many use case one-pagers and videos to draw inspiration from, filterable by topic, industry, role and analytics maturity. Check them out via https://www.trendminer.com/industrial-analytics-use-cases/.

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