For what the Russian oil industry workers create "industrial Android"

The digit does sales

Modern marketing specialists ceased to rely on digits of classical opinion polls, having trusted in digit electronic. At the head of a corner now formation of the offer under individual "whims" of the specific client. With development of technologies "Industries 4.0" producers of goods make whole "libraries" of specific requirements of data on former and potential buyers.

When the push-notification on a bonus action which as if it is created for you, is not present any magic comes to the smartphone – it the program classified you and carried to one of types of users, based on your history of purchases, movements, the visited sites, age, social communications and issued a "personal" discount for desired goods.

Oil industry workers in Russia went further away and in addition to the programs robots predicting demand for oil products announced creation of a single digital platform of production management, transportation and sale of the products.

Gazprom Neft develops the Android with applications for the industry

Platform of Santa Claus

In the world of IT several years the competition left from the area of products to the area of platforms: iOS and Android in phones and tablets, Windows and Mac OS on computers, Amazon and Alibaba – in retail. The platform of management of continued production first in own way should join this list. Develop it in the Center of digital innovations of Gazprom Neft.

The principle of work of the platform can be understood, having provided online purchase of the smartphone instead of oil products. The client orders a certain model via the website of the producer. The system of the producer of gadgets processes thousands of requests of the same clients worldwide and in real time rebuilds production. Conditional "plant" adapts to the prevailing demand, increasing release of specific models of gadgets. The delivery plan of component parts and the consumption map of the electric power are automatically adjusted, under each delivery the courier is armored at once.

Influence work of production not only operational orders, but also predictive analytics. For example, several months prior to New year the neuronet does the exact forecast for sales of each model of smartphones and builds production so that in warehouses by a holiday the sufficient stock was formed.

Some programs robots make, others sell, the third direct transport, the fourth predict demand and build optimal operation modes of all business chain. All these systems work at one universal "language" that allows to synchronize their opportunities and to achieve the best result.

From different programs and digital components a peculiar platform for production and the goods delivery which guesses and realizes desires of buyers better than Father Frost or Santa Claus turns out. Only, in case of Gazprom Neft, it is about release and supply of gasoline, aviation fuel, ship fuel, bitumen and other oil products. Offer the specific client a "personal" discount, for example, for engine oils, so necessary for his machine, this system can too.

"Android" from Russia

In the market there is no system which is initially designed under a full production cycle from intake of raw materials before implementation of finished goods is always a set of separate ready-made solutions which need to be coordinated.

Creation of the digital platform of production management is intended to make a uniform picture of different business chains. Earlier preference was given to the average or maximum mode of loading of the equipment, it gives more final goods. But it as well as to squeeze out a maximum of the car – it is not always effective. On average "turnovers" it is possible to make less products, but to save on the electric power, wear of the equipment – and at the expense of it to win on the end result.

The problem is that at each Russian plant the specific equipment with the protocol of management is installed. Also there is no such platform which will allow the programmer (despite of that what equipment of the producer should) be written on an object a certain universal program code for management of fixed function at all oil, petroleum or steel works.

The digital platform of Gazprom Neft is designed to create universal layers of connection to the different systems. Such program code can be transferred to the equipment of different producers, from one plant – to others.

Creators of the platform compare it to an industrial analog of the Android operating system which works on phone, regardless of model, the size of the screen and the processor. The developer of mobile application for the smartphone does not know what specifically the camera and what producer it is installed in the user's phone. Abstract "camera" is given the universal command "make a photo", and it issues the photo also in a universal format.

Also the platform for management of continued production will work. Any developer will be able to get access to initial data and a set of fixed functions of management of technology processes. At the same time all work "level below" with the specific equipment of each plant will be performed by the platform.

The first gas station on a blockchain

Pilot projects based on the new digital platform already appeared. Gazprom Neft developed and implemented smart contracts (Aviation fuel smart contracts — AFSC) founded on a blockchain. The project will increase the speed and efficiency of settlement when refueling airplanes and also automates planning and accounting of supply of fuel.

For the world market of aviation fuel supply it is the first experience of use of technologies of the distributed registers (blockchain). Airlines had an opportunity to instantly pay fuel and services in refueling airplanes directly at its implementation without prepayment, bank guarantees and financial risks for participants of the transaction. It many times increases efficiency of financial transactions and multiply reduces labor costs.

In day of gas station the commander of the aircraft sends to the supplier of fuel through a system the specified volume of required fuel. As a result the smart contract calculates the cost of gas station and sends to the bank servicing airline, order for reservation of the necessary amount on the account. Instant confirmation from bank gives start to gas station. After rendering service of means are written off, and information on closing of the request for gas station with reporting documents is transferred to commercial service of the supplier of fuel and fuel service of airline.

Programmers will earn from the plants

The platform of production management of Gazprom Neft, by analogy with Android, is promised to be made available to all technology world. As a storage system, for example, Apache Cassandra is selected, and protocols under which "sensors" and actuators of the plants exchange data with a system, initially are open. When a system earns, it can be extended to any other industrial enterprises of Russia quickly.

Thanks to it any student's startup or the IT company will be able to write the proprietary application on optimization of this or that business function. And further the large industrial player will be able to purchase this solution, or the application can be monetized in a marketplace.

Development of applied functional applications, libraries of artificial intelligence for enterprise management as in the oil and gas industry, and other fields of the industry, is very perspective.

Here only one small example of a prize from transfer of production to a single platform. According to the acting practice, the power engineering specialist should report to electricity provider the forecast of consumption of electricity at the enterprise in advance. Further he risks to receive penalties for an overexpenditure of energy or, on the contrary, for the fact that he requested more than the volumes and under it in vain reserved capacities.

To precisely calculate how many it will be required to energy – for the person very difficult task. Still on many productions it becomes specialists in tables of Excel. But at the person forecasts turn out always approximate. Robots can make what people cannot make. Having loaded historical data of consumption of electricity of one of the plants into a neuronet, Gazprom Neft already increased the accuracy of prediction of electricity consumption on production.

In Russia the companies spend for implementation of new IT solution for 5-10 years, hundreds of millions rubles, and in 3 years understand that this solution became already outdated. "Industrial Android" will allow, as well as on phone, it is easy to set and delete applications, to implement new technologies quicker, to change business models.