CAMBRIDGE, UK, June 26, 2018 – AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, announced BASF selected AVEVA1 to accelerate their strategic Smart Manufacturing program. BASF will implement AVEVA’s Enterprise Asset Performance Management (APM) solution to improve connectivity of people, processes and equipment, creating additional value for their customers through greater asset availability and workforce efficiency.
AVEVA supports BASF smart manufacturing program with augmented reality and predictive maintenance solutions to improve workforce efficiency and asset availability. (PRNewsfoto/AVEVA)
Several aspects of BASF’s Smart Manufacturing program will be supported by AVEVA’s flexible, easy to use platform, including Augmented Reality and Predictive Maintenance applications. BASF will leverage these solutions to empower their workforce and monitor critical assets on a global scale to predict equipment failures before they occur.
“Our Smart Manufacturing program targets to increase the effectiveness of our plants and the efficiency of our production processes using digital technologies and data,” said Uwe Hinsen, vice president, Smart Manufacturing at BASF 4.0. “AVEVA’s Predictive Maintenance and Augmented Reality solutions help us to achieve our target of an overall digital plant.”
“In an industry with high-value assets producing quality products under heavy regulatory scrutiny, chemical companies can benefit greatly from digitalizing their business,” said Dr. Tobias Scheele, head of global accounts at AVEVA. “We are excited to collaborate with BASF on their digital transformation journey to achieve optimal manufacturing efficiency.”
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About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in engineering and industrial software, driving digital transformation across the entire asset and operational life cycle of capital-intensive industries. The company’s engineering, planning and operations, asset performance, and monitoring and control solutions deliver proven results to over 16,000 customers across the globe. Its customers are supported by the largest industrial software ecosystem, including 4,200 partners and 5,700 certified developers. AVEVA is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 4,400 employees at 80 locations in over 40 countries.
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1 On March 1, 2018, Schneider Electric’s industrial software business and AVEVA combined to create a new global leader in engineering and industrial software. Learn more here.