The Pulp and paper industry is historically an industry that boosts production by increasing operational utilization rates. Need more output? Buy more wood, put in more machines and vats and presses, add another work shift – and repeat as needed.
The challenge with this approach is that the processes being used have a lot of variability, and machines degrade and wear out quickly. While digital technology, automation, and analytics can move P&P away from this “brute-force” roots, like many manufacturing fields, P&P faces new and additional challenges when incorporating IT into its operational technology (OT). - Elliott Bell
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