Chemical Industry

It is crucial for the petrochemical and bulk chemical industry that continuous processing facilities operate with maximum reliability and efficiency. Only highly available plants ensure competitiveness.

Flexibility, process efficiency, and product quality are game changers for your batch processes. Our integrated, scalable solutions make your intermittent production more productive.

With our integrated automation, resource and energy management solutions and services for auxiliary plants, you can increase the availability and supply reliability of your plants.

Process safety practitioners are increasingly concerned with the potential impact of security threats on implemented safety instrumented functions. Learn how security and functional safety can be addressed more effectively.

Independent research, Nov 15, 2018

Chemical Industry 4.0 - A Formula for Investment

A study of the UK chemical industry’s digital transformation and the building blocks of reliable return on investment from Industry 4.0

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Trends and Topics What are the current trends in the chemical industry? What drives the industry? What challenges are plant operators facing? We regularly provide insight into current topics.

Digitalization throughout the entire lifecycle along with corresponding services provide plant operators in the chemical industry with decisive competitive advantages.

Growth in figures

The chemical industry is growing. By 2035, the market is expected to reach around 5.6 billion euros, more than double what it is today. Shorter product lifecycles, difficult access to raw materials, and high customer demands pose tremendous challenges for chemical companies.

What drives the industry, drives us.

Decisive factors driving the chemical industry include more efficient processes for commissioning plants more quickly, high productivity, availability and security over long plant lifecycles, and flexible production management. To optimally prepare you to meet these challenges, we offer a wide range of products and solutions all along the value chain. Thanks to digitalization, we can take into account measures during the planning phase already that are relevance for the commissioning, operation and possibly even future modernizations. This creates investment security and reduces the total cost of ownership.

“We support chemical corporations in achieving more effective, cost-efficient, and sustainable operations with integrated Main Automation Vendor (MAV) and lifecycle management concepts.”
Miguel-Angel Fernandez, Head of Vertical Chemicals, Siemens AG.

How to ensure sustainable competitiveness

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What did we get when we asked chemical industry experts to describe the investment journey towards Industry 4.0?

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References Whether for the implementation of our systems in new plants or for the migration in current operations: Our solutions and services enable more efficient and more intelligent production throughout the world. In our references, you can learn about our comprehensive industry expertise and customized solutions.

DuluxGroup

Australia

Paint production

Any colour desired - in smallest charge

New Dulux plant in Merrifield has focused on the end-to-end digitalization of all processes for production of approximately 75 million liters of paint each year
New Dulux plant in Merrifield has focused on the end-to-end digitalization of all processes for production of approximately 75 million liters of paint each year
Paperless production, achieved through SIMATIC IT eBR software

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Solvay/Butachimie

France

SIMIT

Factory of the future

The Solvay/Butachimie chemical factory in Chalampé, France, is one of the world’s largest facilities specializing in the manufacture of polyamide 6.6 and its intermediary products.
Investments in future-proofing their facilities resulted in the changeover of all production facilities to SIMATIC PCS 7.
To simplify the migration and further optimization, the real plants were tested before their actual commissioning – as a sort of “virtual twin” – using SIMIT simulation software.

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Sedin Engineering

China

Reactor

King of Coal

Through the use of Comos engineering software with the Walkinsinde virtual-reality platform, the efficiency of a new crushed-coal pressurized gasification reactor increased by 20%.
The Simit simulation system helped reduce configuration time by one-fourth.
The Simatic PCS 7 process control system and XHQ operation intelligent software support safe operation of the plant and systems.