Achieve business outcomes that matter
Measure, manage, and operationalize your sustainability goals – including decarbonization, energy resources management, and reduced WAGES.
Achieve operations visibility and AI-based optimization, linking plant-floor actions to your enterprise sustainability initiatives.
A system of record to automate accurate GHG data collection, provide valuable insights, and identify ways to reduce carbon emissions
One modular solution to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Reduced operational costs and risks using Digital Twins, machine learning and predictive models
Increased network reliability
Advanced analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability and improved operations
Optimized asset performance to reduce risk and improve safety, reliability, compliance, and efficiency
Optimize assets and processes – from plant-level operations to the enterprise – with self-service process analytics software.
Minimized potential impact of anomalies
Comprehensive visibility of asset health for rapid situational adjustments with quality information
Streamlined mechanical integrity solution to reduce risk, maintain compliance and optimize resources
Develop, implement, maintain, and optimize asset strategies to effectively balance cost and risk
Operational visibility and analysis to reduce asset failures, control costs and increase availability
Performance Intelligence with APM Reliability is your partner in meeting your plant and fleet performance goals.
Predictive analytics software, helps prevent equipment downtime by detecting, diagnosing, forecasting & preventing emerging failures.
The AI-powered product automatically explores the space of operation of gas turbines, builds a machine learning model, and continuously finds the optimal flame temperatures and fuel splits to minimize emissions
BoilerOpt works within existing plant technology to improve boiler productivity and air-fuel ratios in a closed-loop system
Pre-built templates for equipment health monitoring, asset strategies, and process workflows
Operator rounds efficiency and operational impact
Secure and scalable data connectivity, analytics, and application services
End-to-end digital solutions reducing costs, empowering crews, and improving the passenger experience
Addressing fuel usage, carbon emissions, airspace efficiency, predictive maintenance, and more
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Early detection of aircraft and component degradation
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Visualizations and analytics to help airline decision makers identify waste in an airspace
Fuel efficiency reports, helping airlines operate at peak safety and efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint
Operational excellence and improved safety
Outcomes that move your business forward in fuel, safety, and predictive maintenance
Analysis of multiple flights, routes, and assets across years
Reduced environmental footprint
Services and solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect
Turnkey solutions to reduce vulnerability and identify, detect, prevent and protect assets and systems
A globally recognized benchmark for procurement of OT secure products.
Strengthened device security across the development lifecycle
Informed decision making with data and insights from across the enterprise
Native cloud service for a data historian.
Safe and secure management and orchestration of the distribution grid
Network-level optimization with high-performing distribution power applications
Overcome foreseeable load variations
Minimized disruption of service even in extreme weather conditions
Effective management and orchestration to unlock the power of renewables and DERs
AI/ML energy market recommendations to improve profit for renewables and thermal generation assets
Increased output and energy production at times of highest demand
A common network view to ensure electrical integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Accurately model your asset network, support traceability, help assure data completeness, & support integrity management
End-to-end network connectivity modeling and data workflow management
Software designed to help grid operators orchestrate the grid
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Full visualization and control seamlessly across devices, including phones, tablets and desktops
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In-depth understanding of how GE Digital software can help your operations
Holistic performance management for today’s connected enterprise
Management of fast-moving processes as well as slower moving, labor-intensive jobs
Cost savings with improved manufacturing overall equipment effectiveness
Batch automation, regardless of the underlying equipment
Data analysis for quick identification of defects and better optimization of processes
Unified manufacturing data from disparate systems to better meet changing consumer demands
Procedures managed in an electronic format for consistency and predictability
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Materials to help you better understand GE Digital software and its robust functionality
Integrated solutions for improved efficiency and sustainability while supporting business growth
Energy management for the zero carbon grid
Reliable mobilization of network assets to ensure maximum transmission of energy from multiple sources
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Decentralized data collection, data volume handling, and remote management
Getting the most benefit out of digitization and industrial IoT
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Rapid digital transformation wins based on industry-proven value cases and ROI
Best practices for your industrial processes to help build and maintain operational resilience
GE Digital’s expert service and support teams create value and deliver on business objectives
Expert service and support teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
Improved efficiencies, optimized production and quality and reduced unplanned downtime
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Facilitate documentation between airlines and lessors
Reduced costs related to disruptions with real-time visibility
The cornerstone of your journey to operational excellence
Operational excellence including improved reliability, reduced costs and managed risk
GridOS, the first grid software portfolio designed for grid orchestration
Reduced operational costs and risks using predictive models
Enhanced overall situational awareness
Field-connected operations and management
One modular solution that enables grid operators to connect, see, control, and optimize DERs from a technical and an economic standpoint
Operational efficiency and reduction in build costs while meeting regulatory regulations
Reduced operational and new build costs and improved field inspection productivity
A holistic picture of the grid, reducing cost and complexity from traditional inspection approaches
Optimized operations to best meet changing consumer needs
Reduced variability and improved operations.
In-depth understanding of our software and its functionality
A clear a path to operational transformation
Maintain consistent quality and reduce cost per ton
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GE Digital software is the backbone of modern plant operations
Improved reliability, increased availability, and reduced O&M costs
AI/ML to make your gas turbine's fuel and air controls smarter
Increase energy production at times of highest demand without costly maintenance adders or adversely impacting the maintenance interval
Inclusive outsourcing services that deliver best-in-class results
Achieve digital transformation
Expert service teams to maximize the benefits from your IIoT software
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Analytics to predict future asset and process performance for reduced variability & improved operations
A common network view to ensure integrity, network validity and infrastructure management
Mission critical software to better operate, optimize and analyze your work to deliver results
Locate the best partners to meet your needs
Digital transformation acceleration
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Product training, industry education, and rigorous certification programs
More efficient and secure electric grid, greater sustainability and waste reduction
Solutions for today, scale for tomorrow
Increased reliability and reduced reactive maintenance leading to higher efficiency and reduced costs
Using Digital Twin blueprints, GE's Industrial Managed Services team monitors 7,000+ global assets
Understanding of the latest thought leadership that can be applied to your operations
Understand how our software and services help our customers solve today's toughest challenges
Experienced team dedicated to customer success
Success stories and product updates from the world of Electrification Software
Analyst and third-party expert opinions of Electrification Software and our software and services
White papers, product overviews, and other content to help you put your industrial data to work
Experience in leading edge software development and business working with best-in-class leaders
Understand how Electrification software and services helps our customers solve today's toughest challenges
Operator errors
Failures caught
Access to real-time information
Enormous gains
Royal Agio Cigars
Food & Beverage, CPG, Manufacturing & Digital Plant
Proficy Plant Applications, CIMPLICITY, Proficy Workflow, ROB-EX Scheduler
Proficy Smart Factory - MES Solutions, Proficy Historian, Proficy HMI / SCADA
Royal Agio Cigars is one of Europe's largest cigar producers, known for brands such as Mehari's, Panter, Balmoral, and De Huifkar. The Westerlo factory in Belgium produces approximately 3,000 country-specific end product cigars with no fewer than 164 production lines.
Managing Director Johan Gebruers and Chief Operations Officer Koen van Hooft explain the role of MES and automation solutions from GE Digital partner Novotek and how they automate the data flow of the entire production process, while simultaneously responding to changing legislation.
We have made huge improvements in efficiency. Quality and data have improved. Production now has real-time information and the administrative activities of our employees are now completely automated. This data gives us insight into the production process with which we can further optimize.
Johan Gebruers, Managing Director and Koen van Hooft, Chief Operations Officer - Royal Agio Cigars
Johan Gebruers, Managing Director, and Koen van Hooft, Chief Operations Officer, Royal Agio Cigars
Digitizing processes at Royal Agio Cigars has resulted in tremendous gains in efficiency
The MES / automation solutions include:
“The entire automation operation has been rolled out in various phases and consists of a number of steps,” Johan begins. "The first step was to fully automate the data flow to and from the PLCs. Many of our machines were already equipped with PLCs, but they were still set manually. In addition, only global information was available.
At the start of the project, we only looked at the automation of production registration and some other simple things. By implementing the MES solution for operational excellence solution with Novotek, it now automates the entire data flow, including the data collection of all PLC failures. As a result, in the pilot alone, we uncovered an important difference in production. We had been working on these differences for years.”
“We have also made great strides in terms of functionality,” Johan continues.
We now see exactly which product will run on which machine because the data flow is now fully linked. Actually, our operators can no longer make mistakes.
Johan Gebruers, Managing Director - Royal Agio Cigars
Koen adds: “We have made a lot of progress in the processing and handling of complaints. Originally these were manual procedures. For example, a complaint came in about a coil (roll of net curtain-like fabric on which the tobacco leaves are stored) from Sri Lanka. In the past, the booking voucher had to be looked up first, then that voucher went to administration, and eventually the ignition coil could be booked, and the complaint passed on. In this new situation, the ignition coil is already scanned on the machine and logged automatically. Any remarks about quality will immediately be considered. It is now fully automated and traceable online.”
“Phase two included the RFID story,” says Johan. “Now if a container with bunches (semi-finished products) is placed on the wrong machine, the system will immediately display a message on the screen, and the machine is immediately stopped. In the past, the machines continued to run for a few more hours, with enormous consequences. Such an error produces 100% failure: the entire batch was then unusable. This occurred five to six times a year. That is now captured and errors prevented! Because there is a link between MES and RFIDs, we know exactly what is on the pallet and what goes into the machine."
Phase three is also currently running. Johan said “We have taken on the extra functionality that was not in the pilot, such as the Document Management System. All our procedures are included. Until recently, they were printed out and hung up on the shop floor. If something changed in the procedures, you had to restart all numbering and replace all versions. Now the HMI is linked to the document management system, allowing operators to immediately have access to the corrected versions."
Koen explains that Agio Cigars also immediately deployed the real-time scheduling and planning module, ROB-EX Scheduler, in view of changing legislation. “Until now, all products were packed in Westerlo. We then put it in the Netherlands in stock, where we labelled the products country-specifically. Due to new legislation, there will soon be so many stickers on packaging, that we will switch to country-specific packaging, and therefore have to plan across factories: from ‘single-site planning’ to ‘multi-site planning. ‘ We are also going from ‘make to stock’ to ‘make to order.’ Real-time planning is then a must.”
Novotek is the leading creator of innovative solutions for Automation and Industrial IT in the Nordic countries, Benelux, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Ireland. The foundation is a portfolio of great products from among others GE Digital. With a team of highly dedicated solution architects, we are able to deliver solutions that makes it possible for our customers to stay ahead with competition.
Reach manufacturing excellence through Industrial IoT insights and intelligence.
Powerful industrial time-series data collection for on-premise and cloud-based storage and analysis
Drive smarter operator decisions with model-based high performance HMI for faster response and development.