Webinars

This webinar dives into the transformative role of digital twin technology in reshaping batch production for the specialty chemical industry. Batch operations are inherently complex, requiring precision, flexibility, and consistency to meet dynamic market demands and stringent quality standards. Digital twins provide a powerful virtual representation of batch plants, offering plant managers and engineers a connected ecosystem to synchronize production planning, execution, and quality assurance. By bridging IT and OT systems, digital twins enable real-time data flow and insights, helping businesses optimize operations, minimize downtime, and enhance decision-making capabilities.

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how digital twin solutions address key industry challenges, such as rising energy costs, sustainability goals, and increasing demands for operational efficiency. The session will highlight the benefits of adopting a connected digital ecosystem, including accelerated innovation cycles, enhanced plant design for emissions reduction, and improved scalability to support business growth. Real-world use cases will illustrate how digital twins streamline recipe management, integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems, and enable modular design to adapt to changing production needs while maintaining high levels of precision.

Through expert insights and practical examples, this webinar will showcase how digital twins empower chemical manufacturers to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving industry. Attendees will learn how to harness digital transformation to achieve greater sustainability, reduce costs, and future-proof their operations. Whether you’re a plant manager, operations leader, or process engineer, this session offers actionable strategies to drive operational excellence and unlock the full potential of batch production.

Today, operators are under pressure to increase productivity and reduce costs with smarter, more productive ways of work. With executive leadership pushing for more data and AI capabilities to improve efficiency and bridge knowledge gaps, many digital operations teams are struggling to mature their practices fast enough to have material impact.

But what is the value potential of AI? Where can/should it be deployed? And most importantly, what do you need in order to trust it for critical workflows?
In this webinar, Cognite will discuss how to accelerate your data & AI journey, get ahead of potential missteps, and deliver future-proof capabilities with lessons learned from their work with Chemical manufacturers this year. Additionally, we’ll share key drivers of this success and a playbook that your digital operations team can also use to make faster progress and get some quick wins in 2025.

Calibration data in the chemical industry has the potential to drive significant efficiency and process improvements, but only if interpreted effectively. In our webinar, “What is Your Calibration Data Trying to Tell You? It’s More Than You Think,” we’ll guide you through best practices for analyzing calibration data to optimize performance without falling into the trap of over-analysis. You’ll discover how focusing on key parameters and streamlined calibration intervals can reduce data fatigue, control costs, and ultimately enhance decision-making.

This session begins with an overview of the risks of excessive data analysis, using real-life examples to demonstrate how over-analyzing calibration data can impact productivity and lead to unnecessary expenses. We’ll explore practical strategies to identify the most critical parameters, such as pH, conductivity, and temperature, and discuss the importance of setting analysis intervals that ensure relevant, actionable data. Attendees will also learn how digital tools and dashboards can simplify data management and improve response time, focusing only on insights that directly impact process quality.

Through a live demonstration of Beamex tools, we’ll show how to capture, trend, and log calibration data efficiently, allowing you to monitor only what matters most. We’ll also address specific challenges related to harsh conditions common in chemical environments, such as extreme pH levels, temperature fluctuations, and corrosive materials. This interactive session will conclude with a Q&A, where you can address your unique challenges.

In this session, you’ll learn how the conveyor’s fully enclosed design not only reduces contamination risks but also enhances operational safety and efficiency. With customizable configurations, low-energy consumption, and minimal maintenance requirements, it provides a reliable solution for a wide range of bulk material handling needs.

Whether you’re looking to improve product quality, reduce downtime, or boost operational safety, this webinar will offer valuable insights on how the tubular drag conveyor can optimize your processes and help you stay ahead in a competitive industry. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from Hapman’s decades of experience and expertise! Register now to secure your spot.

The demand for power has increased rapidly over the past decade due to economic growth, population expansion, and the industrialization of developing countries worldwide. Managing this demand can be difficult and often results in high levels of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, creating serious health and environmental concerns and elevating indirect costs on society. Industries such as power generation, manufacturing and transportation often rely on non-renewable resources, thus stressing the energy grid and accelerating pollution within the atmosphere. To combat this issue, there has been a shift to employ renewable power generation technologies such as hydro, wind and solar.

Renewables are well suited to meet the diverse energy demands of various industries by providing sustainable, clean, and efficient energy, free of harmful pollution or greenhouse gas emissions. However, the intermittent nature of renewable energy resources also is a limiting factor in terms of how much can be put on the grid. Energy storage eases intermittent power disruptions by storing excess power generated by renewable resources at times of low demand and distributing the power during periods of heightened demand. This helps to balance the load on the energy grid and reduce reliance on non-renewable resources. Combining grid intelligence with renewable resources and an energy storage solution provides a dependable, environmentally friendly and resilient supply of energy. Blazing the path for clean, reliable, and cost-effective energy storage is electrolysis technology, utilizing water and excess renewable energy to produce hydrogen. This can be distributed or stored for future use, essentially time shifting the energy supply to best align with cyclic and sometimes unpredictable power demands.

The green hydrogen enabled by electrolysis can be used for a variety of high value purposes. Biomethanization for example, uses hydrogen to convert CO2 into methane and can improve this conversion from 55% to 99%, reducing GHG emissions while producing biomethane that can be fed directly into the natural gas grid. Green hydrogen can also be used for “e-fuels”, which are chemically identical to fossil-based fuels but are essentially carbon neutral or even carbon negative in their production cycle. For example, hydrogen can be used to produce e-methanol, e-gasoline, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other “drop-in” replacements for existing fossil-based fuels. These green molecules leverage existing infrastructure for storage and distribution, thereby supporting commercial viability. In addition, when supplied to industrial applications, green hydrogen can be used to support various processes, including ammonia production, refining and hydrogenation. Green hydrogen from electrolysis is widely recognized as the only solution that is viable for true cross-sector decarbonization. This presentation will focus on the high value use cases for green hydrogen, and what is needed for commercial activation of these markets.

Handling powders and bulk solids can be considerably more challenging than dealing with liquids and gases. These difficulties often arise due to a lack of adequate training, leading to a reliance on trial-and-error methods. Bulk solids and powders frequently encounter various flow challenges, including bridging, ratholing, flooding, and inadequate flow rates, and more. Many of these flow issues can be traced back to improper discharger or feeder designs. Effective feeder design not only enhances the flow within bins, hoppers, and stockpiles but also positively influences product quality.

Join our webinar to gain valuable insights into common feeder-related flow problems and receive essential design recommendations that can significantly benefit your operations.

In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, industrial organizations have more data at their fingertips than ever, offering the promise of higher production rates, more consistent quality, and reduced costs through data-driven strategies.

Standing between many businesses and this promise of process optimization are questions surrounding the right tools to harness this data effectively – a choice complicated by the shifting status of longtime standard OSIsoft’s ProcessBook and PI Vision applications.