INDUSTRY 4.0 HOW TO WIN THE INDUSTRIAL DATA GAME

ESTONIA • • • • • • UAE • U.S • Data-powered progress

On the verge of the fourth industrial revolution, the importance and value of data are increasing for each and every organization. The Economist has declared data the most valuable resource in the world; data is the new oil. Data can give your company the next boost in turnover by helping you fi nd ways to optimize your workfl ow and raw materials usage. Nortal helps industries win at the industrial data game.

NORTAL GROUP 2 Nortal is building a seamless society globally

Nortal is a global digital transformation company with more than 30 years of experience with some of the leading Nordic industries.

Nortal has helped influential enterprises to optimize their industrial processes through the introduction of machine intelligence, the industrial Internet of Things, cloud computing, automation and more.

Industries must respond to changes in the business environment faster than ever. Our solutions will Operating in the Nordics, , U.S. and in the GCC ensure that your enterprise keeps pace, using next- region, Nortal doesn’t just provide IT services, but generation technologies to make your operations actual structural reforms, focusing on the underlying smarter, safer and more sustainable. impact on the target organization.

OUR SUCCESS STORY Almost 20 years of smooth production

Since 1999, Nortal has helped a leading European facilitating the work of the drivers. The order book oil company to increase productivity by building and can be viewed directly from the vehicle almost in real maintaining different key systems for the company’s time, and products that are left in the load can be operations. delivered to new customers by retrieving open orders from the system while on the road. The most important systems Nortal has provided for the oil company include the reception of raw Systems form a part of the process that begins materials, and managing product flows and deliveries when the raw materials are received and ends when by ship and train. Also, for the deliveries and the the final product is delivered to the customer. Along management of tanker loading, delivery information with skilled professionals, the supply chain requires and freight declarations. information systems that specialize in meeting the needs of customers and function flawlessly, Another important system is the vehicle information reliably and efficiently. By ensuring that these central system used to speed up the management of targets are met, Nortal can significantly boost the delivery information and invoicing, verifying data and competitiveness of its clients.

3 NORTAL.COM CASE STUDY Process understanding is a key

Boliden is a leading metals company with a commitment to sustainable development. The company’s core competence is within the fi elds of exploration, mining, smelting and metals recycling. Their challenge was to rise the effi ciency of the business. A new planning system delivered by Nortal, optimized the entire supply chain from production to delivery.

15+ 6B€ 100% YEARS NORTAL WORTH OF TRANSPARENCY and control of end- AS TRUSTED MATERIALPLANNED to-end integrated Supply Chain PARTNER ANNUALLY Planning

The solution The result

2 substantial process planning and optimization SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING projects were integrated: supply chain planning and • Total cost optimization material logistics optimization (inbound). • Finite capacity planning • Integrated master planning and factory scheduling • Delivery promise for sales • Delivery address level routings • Includes Zn, Cu, Pb, SO2 and Sulphuric acid ~300 000 TONS • Ongoing deployment OF PRODUCED ZN METAL • is planned by Nortal solutions MATERIAL LOGISTICS OPTIMIZATION (INBOUND) • Ship ETA and content in one system • Planning and scheduling of trains • Identifi cation of trains and wagons • Automated scaling and data flow • Warehouse management ~140 000 TONS • Professional recipe management OF PRODUCED CU METAL is planned by Nortal solutions • Improved concentrate feed planning

NORTAL GROUP 4 CASE STUDY Casting perfect steel is about the timing

Outokumpu, a world leader in stainless steel, competes with 15+ their ability to create the most streamlined process to cast YEARS NORTAL steel. Nortal took them one step further. AS TRUSTED PARTNER

The solution Nortal created a scheduling system for steel casting, with a predictive model of the different smelting phases.

The system was designed to serve line control operators by creating a one-glance view of the complicated steel production process.

The result The system allowed users to see a real-time view of the overall smelting and hot rolling process 24/7, the present situation, historical progress and a prediction of how the next phase of the process will go. It was easier to pinpoint maintenance needs and errors. Optimizing the casting process boosted production, decreased lead times and extra buffer phases weren’t needed anymore. All in all, planning ahead was simpler and the company was made more resilient, like their product.

+116 TONS 7.3% 24/7 STEEL PER YEAR SHORTER PROCESS OVERVIEW: A VISUALISED More steel per year with the same The smelting process was shortened by PROCESS manufacturing capacity. 7.3%, a huge effi ciency increase in steel Outokumpu now has a 24/7 real-time 129 cars’ worth of steel was added to smelting. This 7.3% meant reducing every overall view of the smelting and hot annual production. The only change was smelting process by 38 minutes. rolling processes. the upgraded system.

5 NORTAL.COM OFFERING Harnessing the full potential of industrial data

An organization that has a full overview improve production, decrease waste and of their data can turn this information even find new business models. to their advantage — it gives them an opportunity to understand their business For Nortal, Industry 4.0 is a crucial part and manufacturing better. Comparable data of our overall offering to help clients with from different stages of production can their digital business strategy. Nortal be used in predictive analytics that help makes business smarter, safer, and more factories stay two steps ahead of the game, sustainable and profitable than ever. With and their competitors. a data-driven approach, we help clients integrate and redesign their processes and Having top quality well-organized data operations from shop-floor to top-floor. allows an enterprise to understand how to

Building a consistent delivery model

• Extensible and configurable cloud connectivity INTERNET OPTIONS OF THINGS solution for OT (operational technology) FOR EDGE DEVICES systems

• Solution for both real-time, historical, event and EDGE ON-PREM metadata • PLC, DCS, HMI/SCADA • MES-systems • Process Historians EVENT STERAMING • Files (XML, CSV, etc) HUB ANALYTICS

“HOT PATH” “COLD PATH” • Supports multiple protocols:

• 150+ Automation Drivers (PLC) REPORTING DATA • OPC DA, OPC UA AND BI STORAGE • ODBC / JDBC • FTP, FTPS, SFTP, NFS DATA TRANSFOR- • REST, MQTT, SOAP 3rd PARTY MATION AND APPS ANALYTICS • Crafted from rock-solid edge components

NORTAL GROUP 6 The Edge Layer - for offline Cloud computing enables to capability, low latency and accelerate business and redefine cost savings business models

We are at a point in time, where Edge Computing Industrial organizations are increasingly incorporating systems are packing more compute, storage and cloud into their operations to glean insights from analytic power to consume and act on the data at the large volumes of data. This has become the hygiene machine location. This capability of Edge Computing factor in achieving key business outcomes such is becoming more than valuable for industrial as reduced unplanned downtime, higher production organizations. efficiency and lower energy consumption.

The competitive Edge supports: Cloud is the key to fast, scalable and elastic • IoT Architecture applications with hard infrastructure that encompasses: requirement for offline capability, i.e. applications • Highly observable modular components; that need to be available for users in all scenarios, • Composability and portability (at both the even without access to cloud resources; software and infrastructure levels); • Software applications that include requirements • Self-healing systems; for low latency and near real-time analysis for • Fully automated and governed self-service- control-loop interaction (e.g. setting machine based systems. parameters or alarming users with minimal delay).

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