Total Creates a Digital Innovation Center in India in Partnership with Tata Consultancy Services
July 17 2018 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) and Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) have signed a partnership agreement to create a
digital innovation center in India. Based in Pune in the State of
Maharashtra, the center will explore disruptive technologies and
solutions.
“For a large industrial group like Total, it is essential to
always stay ahead of these topics”, said Marie-Noëlle Semeria,
Senior Vice President and Group Chief Technology Officer at Total.
“After having integrated digital solutions within the Group, we now
want to invent those of tomorrow by combining Total's know-how with
the agility of TCS.”
The partnership will initially focus on refining. Thanks to the
intensive use of digital technology, the various building blocks of
refining (production units, processes, the supply chain and
petroleum product markets) will be driven in a wide-ranging way to
improve refinery performance. Real-time data analytics, the
Internet of Things, automation, artificial intelligence and agile
methodology will be used to improve industrial efficiency, energy
performance and availability rates.
“With the digital innovation center, we are positioning
ourselves as a pioneer working to develop a smart, connected
refinery that will allow us to improve our industrial
competitiveness. We want to invent the Refinery 4.0” said Bernard
Pinatel, President, Refining & Chemicals at Total.
Based on the TCS concept of “entrepreneurship-in-residence,”
Total will work with TCS technology and domains experts. TCS will
also bring to Total its network, its structured co-innovation
approach and its unique Business 4.0 cooperation framework.
“The energy and resources sector is one of TCS’ fastest growing
business units. We are delighted to sign this strategic digital
innovation partnership with Total for which we will leverage our
Business 4.0 framework, with a focus on agile, intelligent
automation, internet of things, analytics and cloud-based
solutions” said Debashish Ghosh, President of Energy, Resources and
EPC Business at TCS.
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Industrial Digital Technology at
Total
The digital innovation center in India will build on the
industrial digital technology initiatives already deployed at
Total’s production sites.
The aim of industrial digital technology is to make
operations safer and more efficient, by making better decisions
faster, simplifying operators’ day-to-day work to enhance their
efficiency, and reducing our costs. Industrial digital technology
is a highly effective tool for improving industrial
competitiveness.
It can be divided into four main areas:
- Connected, augmented operators:
With the help of digital technology, such as mobile apps, drones
and robots, we can optimize the way operators work and improve
their safety. Applications have been developed to digitize certain
tasks, including field check reports, maintenance requests and the
consolidation of shift team reports, and drones and robots are now
used to carry out inspections in places that are difficult to
access, such as at height or inside equipment.
- Digital representation of our
plants: Virtual factories created using 3D imaging enable us to
access documentation or maintenance history at any time and to
prepare maintenance operations. This data improves efficiency from
the plant design stage to decommissioning.
- Data analytics: Thanks to the
analysis of data collected, notably by the numerous sensors
installed throughout our production sites (on pumps, turbines and
compressors, for example), we can anticipate operating incidents
before they occur. That means lower maintenance costs, greater
equipment availability and a safer environment for everyone.
- Collaboration environments:
These smart rooms make it possible for production sites to remotely
access the knowledge and skills of experts in various disciplines,
such as maintenance, operations and the supply chain, thereby
enhancing teams’ responsiveness in case of an unplanned event. In
some cases, they also enable equipment to be controlled remotely
and in real time.
About Total
Total is a global integrated energy producer and provider, a
leading international oil and gas company, and a major player in
low-carbon energies. Our 98,000 employees are committed to better
energy that is safer, cleaner, more efficient, more innovative and
accessible to as many people as possible. As a responsible
corporate citizen, we focus on ensuring that our operations in more
than 130 countries worldwide consistently deliver economic, social
and environmental benefits.
About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and
business solutions organization that has been partnering with many
of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys
for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, Cognitive
powered, integrated portfolio of IT, Business & Technology
Services, and engineering. This is delivered through its unique
Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a
benchmark of excellence in software development.
A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business
group, TCS has over 400,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants
in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US
$ 19.09 billion for year ended March 31, 2018 and is listed on the
BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) and the NSE (National Stock
Exchange) in India. TCS' proactive stance on climate change and
award winning work with communities across the world have earned it
a place in leading sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI), MSCI Global Sustainability Index and
the FTSE4Good Emerging Index. For more information, visit us at
www.tcs.com.
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