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Digitalisation at Pennsylvania Chemicals
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Title: Digitalisation at Pennsylvania Chemicals
Duration: 1:07 minutes
Description: A case study showing how Shell is using digitalisation to make construction more efficient.
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Construction of the Future
Interview with Ed Cadena
Technical Integration and Assurance Manager
Here at Pennsylvania Chemicals, we have the opportunity to be the plant of the future.
Continued panning aerial footage of the Pennsylvania Chemicals plant under construction.
Interview with Lauren Schwartz
Rotating Equipment Engineer
The more data we have, the smarter we have to get about managing it.
Lauren Schwartz Rotating Equipment Engineer
Interview with Ed Cadena continued
Everything at a site is located by an equipment tag.
Find’All uses that as the basis to connect all the different databases. We have complete accountability over three million documents and equipment tags on this site.
Interview with Lauren Schwartz continued
Now, I can go to the tag number for my equipment and immediately find exactly what I’m looking for.
Interview with Alejandro de Jong
Digital Twin uses drones to take construction project snapshots on a weekly basis.
High angle close-up of a drone carrying case being opened and the drone being lifted out. Low angle footage of a construction worker onsite placing the drone on a mini helipad on the ground. Low angle close-up of the drone controls held by the worker. Close-up of the camera attached to the drone swivelling above the mini helipad. Wide view of the drone lifting off the mini helipad.
And from these images, we create accurate 3D models of the entire construction site.
Interview with James Bouanchaud
CML Structural Engineer
This enables me to get a top-down view, to quickly determine what we need to do. It’s very effective.
Interview with Ed Cadena continued
Any reduction in time will mean literally waiting time that we’ll avoid, and we have a safer
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