Whereas automation had clear applications in both manufacturing and processing industries, robotization was left behind when talking about the process industry.
Today, robotization is making a come back on the edge of the scene in the Oil and Gas world thanks to digital technologies.
09 Mar 2020
Robotization in the Oil&Gas sector
Augmented Reality and Virtual reality, often shortened as AR and VR, are two technologies which have been developped along the last decade with technological similarities but serving different purposes, especially for the industry
Read more 07 Oct 2019
Active and Passive Data
As reminder, a Digital Twin is a virtual model of an existing object, process or service.
To run this model efficently, the Digital Twin needs to be fed with data.
In the Large Industry, these data can be divided in two categories: Passive or Active.
01 Jul 2019
Sofware as a Service – SaaS
Software-as-a-Service (shorten as SaaS) is a distribution model for softwares, for which the producer offers clients the opportunity to use the solution he is fully hosting, from the servers to the application.
Read moreThe Independent companies of the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical market develop a new business model to award EPC contracts.
Read more 13 Aug 2018
Independent Companies
Independent companies definition. Independent companies refer to Oil & Gas and Petrochemical operators that are neither international oil companies (IOCs) nor national oil companies (NOCs).
Read more 04 May 2018
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the new directive adopted by the European Union to regulate data privacy between citizens and organizations.
This law will come into effect the 25 May 2018 and will apply to every company processing data from EU citizens, even if the organization is not EU-based. GDPR is a major breakthrough for privacy and security in an increasingly data-driven world.
This directive aims to give EU citizens control over their personnal data, while giving greater responsability to organizations data management.
03 May 2018
Blockchain
Blockchain is a technology allowing an ecosystem to store and share information without the supervision of a control center. In fact, it is a distributed data base where information are checked and arrange in blocks at regular time interval. Creating a « chain of blocks », these remote registers are able to secure all the transactions between users since the system was created.
Protected by cryptography, the blockchian makes it possible to establish a trust between users.
02 May 2018
Technology Readiness Level
Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a methodology to estimate the maturity of a technology. Based on observations, formulations, experimentations, and running feedbacks the TRL approach is used to position the progress of a technology on a scale ranging from observed concepts (1) to validated operating systems (9).
Read more 01 May 2018
Proof of Concept
A Proof of Concept, or mostly referred as “PoC”, is the earliest step of development of any Use Case within digital organisation. The PoC ambition is not to overwhelm the total Use Case but to prove the efficiency of the selected solution to tackle it. The PoC targets to explore the resolution of a pain point in a short time with little expense.
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