_ OSIsoft
SmartSignal and OSIsoft ® work hand-in-hand as strategic partners; we seamlessly integrate the SmartSignal solution with OSIsoft PI—and increase the value of your PI investment. SmartSignal works on top of PI—to add predictive analytics and eliminate equipment failure. SmartSignal optimizes PI by analyzing, in real-time, your mountains of PI sensor data to detect early signs of equipment problems. We identify the “needles in the haystack” in the PI data—the impending problems—and notify you of these issues only. This saves you untold hours of searching data for problems and reacting to false alarms, and it increases the productivity of your maintenance staff. With OSIsoft PI and SmartSignal, you no longer analyze the past; you predict the future.
"We’re happy to have SmartSignal as a partner. They take advantage of our infrastructure. We handle the plumbing…and then they deliver this high-value application. SmartSignal is a great partner because their application saves customers millions of dollars. For us to be successful, we need to have partners in our ecosystem who can add high-value applications. That’s what SmartSignal does."
Ron Kolz
Vice President
OSIsoft
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_ Caterpillar
Technology is fast becoming the key to staying competitive in today’s marketplace. Caterpillar is using technology to revolutionize our customers’ businesses with state-of-the-art tools for monitoring equipment health. In order to achieve this vision, we are working with SmartSignal to develop an advanced condition-monitoring service. This sophisticated, proactive equipment-health monitoring and maintenance forecasting service will take advantage of SmartSignal’s market-leading technology and Caterpillar’s product knowledge to deliver bottom line results for our customers.
"Applying SmartSignal technologies to our customers’ condition-monitoring needs will make them more competitive and successful and enhance Caterpillar’s image as a differentiated solution provider."
Jon Greiner
Caterpillar
_ Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 176,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009. Its home page is www.accenture.com
_ Management Resources Group, Inc.
Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG) is a professional services firm dedicated to the optimization of physical asset performance. MRG's highly experienced engineers help clients optimize maintenance strategies that direct corrective actions before failures affect operations.
MRG is working with SmartSignal's predictive analytics to reengineer the maintenance work management process for its clients, significantly lowering maintenance costs, protecting against critical asset failures and improving the commercial availability of assets.
"We strongly believe that the combination of SmartSignal predictive analytics with MRG's expertise in maintenance will take top performers to the next level and allow laggards to make huge improvements. Our respective customer bases will benefit by optimizing preventive maintenance programs. We are excited about the opportunity to work with SmartSignal and jointly will deliver on our commitment to advance asset performance."
Will Goetz
CMO
MRG
_ Changgeng
Shanghai Changgeng delivers a unique information-technology solution to the China power industry for improving performance, safety, reliability, and availability and reducing operational and maintenance costs. Our existing installations cover representative units in both the fossil-fuel and CCGT generation areas, which belong to industry-leading power companies in China. A core part of the solution is EPI*Center software developed by SmartSignal Corporation, which is the world’s leading supplier in the predictive-analytic area.
"It has been widely accepted that equipment and fuel costs are the major parts of a power plant’s costs. Safety, reliability, and availability are critical for a power plant for both economic and social-responsibility reasons. Like power companies in the rest of the world, Chinese power companies have been struggling for a reliable solution which can monitor the units 24 hours a day and alert them early enough if there’s any problem with the units related to the above areas, to allow proactive actions. The response from Chinese power companies to SmartSignal has been very positive. We are expecting the SmartSignal product to bring great value to the China power industry.”"
Grace Li
Shanghai Changgeng Information Technology Co., Ltd
_ Marubeni
Marubeni Utility Services provides information services, hardware, software, and reports mainly related to nuclear power generation in Japan. It offers advanced technologies that are implemented in the US to contribute to effective operations and maintenance, particularly those technologies accepted as the de-facto standard or one and only.
"SmartSignal is definitely the leading company in early fault detection, which can provide enormous solutions to Japanese industries that are starting to shift toward CBM. SmartSignal’s unique technology, known as Similarity Based Modeling(SBM), has surprised lots of Japanese major companies in its failure prediction, high accuracy, and rapid deployment. It can monitor many related sensors at the same time, which Japanese companies and OEMs are still doing visually. Marubeni Utility Services strongly believes that SBM will be recognized as the de-facto standard in the Japanese market in the near future."
Masaru Julien Hirata
Marubeni Utility Services, Ltd.
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_ General Physics Corporation
General Physics is a global performance-improvement company and a leader in sales and technical training, e-learning solutions, management consulting, and engineering services.
General Physics works with SmartSignal to combine the advantages of its technologies with those of SmartSignal. Whereas SmartSignal detects, diagnoses, and prioritizes equipment and process failures, General Physics quantifies the impact of failures on capacity and heat rate. General Physics eliminates losses and SmartSignal eliminates failures.
_ AID Corporation
AID has been in the plant information business since 1993, with a focus on providing world-class industrial automation and information-management solutions for the Korean oil refining, petrochemical, and power industries. A longtime OSIsoft partner, AID offers SmartSignal’s predictive analytics to extend the value of the PI infrastructure.
"We have implemented projects with SmartSignal, and the customers are getting value… We believe most of our customers will appreciate our providing good technology with which they can reduce the unexpected shutdown of the plant. The most important thing a CEO does not want is unexpected problems with the plant. This causes not only the loss of operation, but also reflects poorly on his reputation as being socially responsible."
Huh Hyung-Hoe
AID Corporation
_ Transpara
Transpara’s Visual KPI is an operational intelligence and data visualization solution that enables businesses to extend the value of their existing investments for improved operations and business performance. The only solution custom-built for delivering data to users on any mobile device or PC without any additional programming, Visual KPI gives customers instant access to their most important KPIs, scorecards and trends. Visual KPI’s lightweight analytics turn the massive amounts of operations, financial and infrastructure data generated from disparate sources – such as OSIsoft PI System, Rockwell FactoryTalk Historian, Invensys InSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Excel Spreadsheets, SmartSignal, OLE DB and Web Services – into meaningful, actionable information.
"Eliminating failure means responding to events as soon as possible. Transpara’s Visual KPI adds significant value to our SmartSignal system by delivering KPIs and Alerts based on real-time WatchList data to our executives and stakeholders everywhere. Transpara allows our analyst and support personnel to be much more effective. Our analyst can keep an eye on the WatchList and check on the underlying plant data even though he is away from his desk."
Tracy Harper
Constellation Power Generation
Customer of Transpara and SmartSignal
_ Indra
Indra is a SmartSignal partner in Europe and Latin America.
Indra and SmartSignal have created a solid group that provides customers in the Power Generation and Oil & Gas industries with the leading tools and services for valuable management of their Operations and Maintenance. The Energy Technology area of Indra, from its headquarters in Madrid, Spain, is working on the implementation of SmartSignal’s applications, supporting customers in plant monitoring and model maintenance and delivering training and consultant services.
"SmartSignal is a unique tool that increases the value of a plant’s information available through its control system, historians, and other performance tools. SmartSignal is proving to be an excellent solution for improving maintenance, engineering, and planning."
Ana Isabel Gálvéz Perez
Predictive Monitoring Manager
Indra