Digital Operational Excellence for Manufacturing

We bring deep industry experience in digital and AI-enabled manufacturing operations.
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Manufacturing organizations operate in environments defined by tight margins, complex constraints, and continuous operational risk. We help manufacturing teams embed digital and AI into planning, operations, optimization, and safety so decisions are faster, execution is consistent, and performance is sustained every day.

Our work spans the operational lifecycle, from planning and scheduling to real-time optimization, operations management, energy efficiency, and safety.

Production Planning and Scheduling

Effective production planning and scheduling sits at the core of manufacturing and refinery performance. We help organizations improve plan quality, execution adherence, and operational coordination by aligning planning models with real operating constraints.

Our approach focuses on improving visibility, synchronizing planning assumptions with operations, and creating clear, actionable instructions for execution teams.

What we support

  • Planning and scheduling process design
  • Planning model development and validation
  • Scheduling model configuration and refinement
  • Crude and feedstock data management
  • Master data governance and maintenance
  • Reporting and planning performance visibility
  • Model audits, upgrades, and migrations

The result is planning that reflects reality and schedules that operations can execute with confidence.

Performance Monitoring

Performance monitoring is not just about dashboards—it is about creating a shared operational view of what is working, what is drifting, and where action is required.

We help manufacturing organizations define meaningful performance frameworks and implement monitoring systems that provide actionable insights to operators, engineers, and leadership.

What we support

  • KPI framework definition aligned to business goals
  • Performance reporting and dashboard implementation
  • Integration of operational, planning, and analytics data
  • Role-based visibility for plant, area, and enterprise teams

This enables teams to track performance consistently and intervene early, before small deviations become losses.

Advance Process Control (APC)

Advanced Process Control improves stability, efficiency, and product quality by continuously adjusting process variables in response to changing operating conditions.

We design and implement APC solutions that are tightly aligned with process behavior, operational objectives, and operator workflows—ensuring that control strategies are trusted and sustained.

What we support

  • APC opportunity identification and objective definition
  • Model development and tuning
  • Multivariable and predictive control implementation
  • Integration with existing control and optimization layers
  • Commissioning, testing, and operator training

Our focus is not just APC deployment, but sustained performance and adoption.

Real-Time Optimization (RTO)

Real-Time Optimization enables manufacturing units to operate closer to their true economic and operational limits by continuously optimizing decisions under changing constraints.

We help organizations design and implement RTO solutions that work in harmony with planning systems and APC layers, providing consistent economic guidance to operations.

What we support

  • RTO architecture and design
  • Process and economic model development
  • Constraint and objective definition
  • Integration with APC and planning systems
  • Deployment, testing, and sustainment

The outcome is improved margins, better constraint management, and more resilient operations.

Operations Management

Operations management requires coordination across people, processes, systems, and data. We help manufacturing organizations strengthen day-to-day operational execution through digital systems that support visibility, coordination, and accountability.

Our work focuses on improving how operations are planned, monitored, and executed on the plant floor and across shifts.

What we support

  • Operations workflows and execution systems
  • Shift coordination, task management, and logbooks
  • Real-time operational visibility and historians
  • Decision support and operational analytics
  • Continuous improvement enablement

This ensures operations teams can focus on running the plant safely and efficiently, not managing disconnected tools.

Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)

Safety and environmental performance are inseparable from operational excellence. We help organizations digitize and strengthen EHS processes to improve compliance, risk management, and operational discipline.

Our approach focuses on building reliable systems that support both immediate risk mitigation and long-term capability development.

What we support

  • EHS process assessment and maturity benchmarking
  • Digital EHS system design and implementation
  • Incident, permit, and risk management workflows
  • Process safety and environmental performance tracking
  • Data-driven EHS reporting and analysis

The result is stronger safety culture, improved compliance, and better operational awareness.

Data Validation and Reconciliation

With our extensive industry experience in Plant Operations, we understand the common challenges faced in the manufacturing industry, particularly related to uncertainty of measurement and unaccounted losses. Implementing a Mass Balance System for Production Accounting and Loss Management empowers Plant operators to tackle these issues.

The Mass Balance solution facilitates a multi-tiered analysis, offering sophisticated, adaptable, and continuous mass balance capabilities. It not only enhances throughput and yield measurement but also detects and rectifies metering inaccuracies, leading to improved work efficiency and more informed decision-making.

Our capabilities include:

  • Business Process Design
  • Definition of functional & non-functional requirement
  • Fit-Gap analysis and Vendor selection support
  • Integration & architecture requirements for data automation
  • Complex-wide and unit level mass balance model
  • Utility network balance and accounting
  • Receipts, Shipment, Tank and Blending balance
  • Production and Loss Accounting
  • Data Validation and Reconciliation
  • Report and Dashboards development
  • Model Maintenance
  • Tools: Belsim Vali, Aspen Operations Reconciliation and Accounting (AORA), Sigmafine, ErrorSolver, Honeywell PAR

Energy Management

Energy is one of the largest controllable cost drivers in asset-intensive operations. We help organizations improve energy visibility, accountability, and optimization across generation, distribution, and consumption.

What we support

  • Energy performance assessment and benchmarking
  • Energy accounting and reporting
  • Demand planning and optimization models
  • Integration with operational and planning systems

The outcome is better energy efficiency, lower operating costs, and improved sustainability performance.

Production Accounting, Mass Balance & Loss Management

Unaccounted losses and measurement uncertainty directly impact margins and decision quality. We help manufacturing organizations implement mass balance and production accounting systems that improve data confidence and operational insight.

What we support

  • Production accounting and loss management design
  • Plant-wide and unit-level mass balance models
  • Utility and network balancing
  • Data validation and reconciliation
  • Reporting and performance analysis

This enables operators and engineers to identify losses early and act with confidence.

How We Work

Across all manufacturing engagements, our focus remains consistent:

  • Ground solutions in real operating conditions
  • Align digital systems with how teams actually work
  • Prioritize adoption, reliability, and sustained performance

We don’t deliver technology in isolation. We help manufacturing organizations build digital and AI capabilities that operations teams trust and use every day.