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Integrated Annual Report 2020-21 Focussing on Operational 60-146 147-300
Excellence and Quality
Leadership
Meeting the needs of
customer with white silica Improvement
Agri sciences IIoT application in equipment
Silicone rubber companies demand Plans underway to expand product portfolio predictability and
pure white products due to application IIoT application is being implemented in carbonation towers productivity
demand. TCL team collaborated with Continue with digital interventions for better access to production and boilers. This comprises creating digital twin of the
a potential customer. With sustained information, upgrading MIS and reporting process using AI/ML techniques.
efforts, a new grade of Silica – TAVERSIL dashboards, digitising Seeds production Benefit: Prescriptive analytics and generation of online
120F – was introduced. Having optimal management and supply advisories to run the operations more efficiently Digital Real-time
granulometry and being much whiter chain forecasting Enterprise visibility of KPIs
than existing products, it meets the Develop upcoming Dahej
need of the industry. We have placed manufacturing plant at Gujarat
it as a premium grade product. We as a Digital Smart Factory
continue to further improve the product Predictive analytics Reduction
alongside approaching similar Silicone Benefit: Better equipment health by reducing unplanned in costs and
compound manufacturers for horizontal downtime and enabling a shift to predictive maintenance environmental
business growth. footprint
status:
satellite image analytics Automation of all major critical operations in Soda Ash and Salt
manufacturing and power plant operations is either completed or
Digitalising manufacturing at Mithapur plant Benefit: Improving predictability and efficiency of solar Salt under different stages of implementation.
operations
The Mithapur plant has embarked on a journey
to become a world-class, smart factory. It is
implementing the Digital Enterprise – the Delivering industrial scale carbon capture and utilisation
connected plant concept – in collaboration with a
globally reputed organisation. With this, systems, Tata Chemicals Europe is nearing completion of its Industrial Scale Carbon Capture
processes and functions are being connected and Utilisation (CCU) Plant. Already having one of the most efficient CHP plants in the
using ‘data’ as an enabler by employing world- UK, the CCU plant will significantly reduce carbon footprint of its Northwich unit. It
class technologies such as Analytics, IIoT, AI/ML will be first industrial CCU plant in UK capturing and utilising CO , a key raw material to
2
algorithms, etc. produce Sodium Bicarbonate
On completion, TCE will be making a net zero carbon footprint Sodium Bicarbonate
The system integrates data from multiple
applications (distributed control / production and Sodium Carbonate products.
systems / ERP / supply chain management / Plant highlights
customer relationship management systems)
into integrated analytics dashboards for real- First industrial scale CCU 40,000 tonnes
time monitoring of plant operations, supply
chain optimisation and inventory control. in the UK CO2 capture and production capacity
capturing and purifying CO2 from CHP
emissions for using it as a key raw material in
manufacturing high purity Sodium Bicarbonate
1,20,000 tonnes 99.99%
annual production of over 1,20,000 pure CO2 meeting EIG (European
tonnes of high purity Sodium Industrial Gases) standards
Bicarbonate
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