Mobility in Operations Intelligence Lessons Learned

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Mobility in Operations Intelligence

Lessons Learned

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Agenda

• Who we are and what we do 3

• Mobile initiative – WHY? 5

• Mobile Business Challenges 7

• Mobile Design and UX Challenges 8

• Mobile Design and UX Lessons Learned 10

• Mobile Technical Challenges 11

• Mobile Technical Lessons Learned 12

• Botas Energy Enterprise for XHQ 13

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Introduction

• 14 years XHQ experience

• Upstream and Downstream Oil & Gas implementations

• Other heavy industry experience

• Consulting & Project Management

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What We Do

• Botas Energy Enterprise mobility platform

• XHQ Data Visualization solutions

- Refining

- Drilling

- Mining

- Centralized monitoring

• Support the Siemens XHQ Product Center

• Integrating XHQ and custom .NET code via API’s

- .NET API

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Mobile initiative – WHY?

Mobility improves productivity and efficiency, allowing instant access to critical real-time operations intelligence without restriction to a specific UI device or location

Efficient access to critical real-time data Less restrictions on time and place to take action More engaged, efficient and productive users who drive improvements in productivity, efficiency and ROI

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Mobile initiative – WHY?

• Always on

• Within reach

• Familiar

• Technology allows innovation

- Bluetooth Beacons

- GPS

- Camera

- NFC

- QR codes

- Wearable technology on the rise

• Internet of Things (IoT) - by 2020 number of devices connected to the internet is expected to exceed 40 Billion

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Mobile initiative – Business challenges

• What is the use case?

• What business factors are contributing to this initiative?

• Who is the target user audience?

• Is mobile appropriate?

• Buy-in from leadership…

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Mobile initiative – Design and UX challenges

• How do people collaborate? How can that be enhanced with mobile?

• Workflow has to allow seamless transition between mobile and desktop

• Intuitive, consistent UX on mobile and desktop

• Screen real estate; balance complexity with necessity

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Mobile Initiative - Potential Use Cases

• KPI Overview

• Personalized Exception notification

• Basic tag browsing & Trending

• Quick data lookup

• Simplified to take into account user/location/time information

• Simplified data entry

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Design and Business Challenges – Lessons Learned

• Mobility compliments business process and existing desktop applications

• Keep use cases simple

• Make navigation and UI intuitive

• Personalize the UX by preserving user settings between sessions

• Simplify search

• Real estate is very valuable – scrolling is possible but not very effective

• Display graphics have to be simple and effective

• Same data on mobile and desktop

• Implement simple input mechanisms

- Simple Yes/No response

- Simple comment entry

- Simple forms

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Technical challenges

• Multiple mobile devices may require different programming techniques

• Existing business logic

• Limited screen real estate

• Network connectivity speed

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Mobile initiative – Technical challenges – Lessons Learned

• Multi-platform framework or specific devices to minimize the costs

• Native API’s have limited libraries and require experienced resources

• Traditional HTML pages may be too ‘heavy’ for data transfer

• Reuse existing business model and logic if possible

• Email notification sometimes works, but may not provide sufficient content to drive action due to security challenges

• Trending – need balance between ease of configuration and flexibility to be user friendly

• Work with IT on security infrastructure early in the process

• Network connectivity could be slow. Multiple mitigation strategies. Eliminate redundant data requests to the server as much as possible

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• Accelerate development and deployment of mobile industrial applications on a variety of mobile platforms

• Improve user adoption and satisfaction with a solution designed for the ultimate mobile user experience

• Amplify the investment in operations intelligence solutions by leveraging existing data models and functionality

• Reduce the cost of developing and maintaining mobility solutions

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Botas Energy Enterprise (BEE) for XHQ

• Toolkits for native application development (iOS & Android)

• Toolkit for web application development

• No need to rework backend & limited changes to front end

• Tight integration with XHQ backend via API

• Model-aware expressions

• Easy data display as Tables/Charts/Trends

• Integration with XHQ DB Writeback for data storage

• Predefined views/templates to display data

• Data transfer is optimized for slow connections

• Option for creating own views

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Technologies – BEE Road map

• Expand trending capabilities

• Implement condition monitoring and push notifications

• Prioritize and implement complete use cases

- Operator rounds

- Equipment monitoring

- Others per "Voice of the Customer" (XHQ Community)

• Design/build additional templates

• Integrate with wearable devices

- Google glass technology

- Watches

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Summary

Why?

• Improve operations & productivity while maintaining HSE metrics

• Users on the go can make better, faster decisions…right information, right time, right person without regard to location or device!

How?

• Leverage the existing XHQ investment (UX, data management, workflow, technical design)

• Leverage rapid application development tools

Who?

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Thank you for your attention! Andrius Vegelevicius President Botas Energy, LLC Alpharetta, Georgia Phone: +1 678 643 3475 E-mail: [email protected] www.botasenergy.com