AUSTIN, Texas / OSLO, Norway / CALGARY, Alberta – September 24, 2024—Cognite, a globally recognized leader in industrial software, and NOVA Chemicals Corporation (“NOVA Chemicals”), a leading North American producer of polyethylene, announced the launch of a multi-site manufacturing data connectivity initiative to accelerate and scale digital transformation solutions across NOVA Chemicals’ organization.
NOVA Chemicals will leverage Cognite's Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, to consolidate data from multiple source systems, such as SAP, Hexagon, and Aspen IP21, into a real-time industrial knowledge graph. This open, flexible, and scalable digital representation of NOVA Chemicals' operations would enable seamless data flow from source systems to enterprise technology solutions, improving access and trust in their data and reducing time spent on data discovery.
"At NOVA, we manage asset information in multiple independent systems, which can make the process of getting all of the right information to the right people highly complex and time-consuming,” said David Lyford, Operational Excellence Leader at NOVA Chemicals. “The Cognite data platform would enable us to view and utilize our siloed industrial data in a contextualized manner. This improves timely access to critical information, strengthens our core operations, and deepens our understanding of our processes. As a key element of our digital transformation strategy, an enterprise contextualization platform empowers us to enhance decision-making and secure a competitive business advantage."
NOVA Chemicals aims to be a leading North American polyethylene producer by delivering innovative solutions that help make everyday life healthier and safer. NOVA Chemicals will support this by scaling its manufacturing data connectivity initiatives across 11 manufacturing assets, addressing critical business challenges that will create net recurring value within the manufacturing organization, such as:
- Improved access to data in the field and for operations experts, reducing time spent on data discovery
- Efficiency gains across isolation planning, maintenance planning for routine and turnaround, troubleshooting, and operations support
- Increased equipment insights to prevent failures and reduce costs while improving safety, process consistency, and empowering frontline workers
- Improved scalability of enterprise technology solutions that help maintain competitiveness via lower operating costs through improved efficiency and accelerating sustainability initiatives
Join NOVA at IMPACT 2024, the world’s largest industrial user conference, October 14-15 in Houston, Texas, to learn more about the unmatched data management and comprehensive AI capabilities of Cognite Data Fusion. Register here:.cognite.com/en/impact-conference
About Cognite
Cognite makes Generative AI work for industry. Leading energy, manufacturing, and power & renewables enterprises choose Cognite to deliver secure, trustworthy, and real-time data to transform their asset-heavy operations to be safer, more sustainable, and more profitable. Cognite provides a user-friendly, secure, and scalable platform that makes it easy for all decision-makers, from the field to remote operations centers, to access and understand complex industrial data, collaborate in real-time, and build a better tomorrow. Visit us at www.cognite.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About NOVA Chemicals Corporation
At NOVA Chemicals, our driving purpose is to reshape plastics for a better world by delivering innovative solutions that make everyday life healthier, safer, and more efficient. With a focus on outstanding research and development, our diverse portfolio enables our customers and their brands to create monomaterial products and packaging that are suitable for circular applications, including food packaging, heavy duty sacks, hygiene films, shrink and stretch wrap, e-commerce protective packaging, household bags and wrap, and trash bags and liners. Our employees work every day to ensure decisions and actions are made under our commitment to Responsible Care®, developing innovative solutions that enable the circular economy while being a responsible steward of the environment.
NOVA Chemicals, headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has 2,600 employees worldwide and is wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Learn more at www.novachem.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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Michelle Holford
Vice President, Global PR, Cognite
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