Total Partners with Tata to Create
Digital Innovation Center in India
Total and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have signed a partnership
agreement to create a digital innovation center in India. Based in Pune in the
State of Maharashtra, the center is intended to explore disruptive technologies
and solutions.
Paris/France; Mumbay/India — In a statement published by the
French company, Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Senior Vice President and Group Chief
Technology Officer at Total, said that after having integrated digital
solutions within the group, her company now wants to invent the solutions of
tomorrow by combining Total know-how with the agility of TCS.
The partnership will initially focus on refining. Due to the intensive
use of digital technology, the various building blocks of refining (production
units, processes, the supply chain and petroleum product markets) will be
driven in a wide-ranging way to improve refinery performance. Real-time data
analytics, the Internet of Things, automation, artificial intelligence and
agile methodology will be used to improve industrial efficiency, energy
performance and availability rates.
Based on the TCS concept of “entrepreneurship-in-residence,” Total
will work with TCS technology and domains experts. TCS will also contribute its
network, its structured co-innovation approach and its Business 4.0 cooperation
framework.
The energy and resources sector is one of TCS’ fastest growing
business units. Debashish Ghosh, President of Energy, Resources and EPC
Business at TCS, said that his company would leverage their Business 4.0 framework, with a
focus on agile, intelligent automation, internet of things, analytics and
cloud-based solutions.
The digital innovation center in India will build on the
industrial digital technology initiatives already deployed at Total’s
production sites. The aim of industrial digital technology was to make
operations safer and more efficient, by making better decisions faster,
simplifying operators’ day-to-day work to enhance their efficiency, and
reducing their costs, the company said.
07/17/2018 | Editor: Alexander
Stark PROCESS WORLDWIDE
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