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Name:
Rafael Truan-Cacho, Technology Manager
Energy Technology Team, Solvay Soda Ash
Country: Belgium
Organization: Solvay
Solvay is a Belgian science company founded in 1863 whose technologies benefit many aspects of daily life. Our purpose—we bond people, ideas, and elements to reinvent progress—is a call to go beyond, to reinvent future forms of progress, and to create sustainable shared value for all through the power of science. In a world facing an ever-growing population and quest for resources, we aim to be the driving force triggering the next breakthroughs to enable humanity to advance while protecting the planet we all share. Solvay is a global leader in Soda Solvay® sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate production. These products are present in a wide range of applications: glass industry, detergent, metallurgical processes, pulp and paper, and supplements in pharma. It is an important part of the company’s activities and an energy-intensive process with complex configurations for energy management.
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Several soda ash production plants are distributed in the world to be able to supply clients in different geographical areas. The production plan for the plants is decided by the central S&OP team, and production allocation is determined based on the projection of the variable cost of each plant along with the logistic constraints. Anyway, there’s the need to follow up in real-time on the variable cost to be compared with the plan.
The asset management team wants to minimize the soda ash production costs by taking into account all meaningful parameters. This project enables the team to follow up on the real soda ash variable production costs and CO2 emissions on an hourly basis and compare it with an optimized planned scenario.
Technical challenges:
Collaboration challenges:
Dashboard samples
How was the project developed?
Extract of the Dataiku workflows
Architecture: Overall architecture of the project
Business area enhanced: Manufacturing/Supply-chain/Supplier Management/Service Delivery
Use case stage: In Production
Value Generated:
Solvay has determined an improvement program for this solution to better structure the process and onboard more plants in the process.
With this replicable project built in Dataiku, Solvay soda ash is setting the foundations to embed AI in transformations across the group. In line with the G.R.OW. strategy, it paves the way for a growing and sustainable business.
The Energy Technology team used Dataiku to improve soda ash production in line with the strategy: reduce production costs and energy consumption to pave the way for a growing and sustainable business.
Value type:
Great use case, impressive!