Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC), a fully integrated petrochemical and refinery business, has selected AWS as the preferred cloud provider for its data platform.
PTTGC’s teams shall use this platform to collaborate and securely share data worldwide to prototype new products, including a solution that can calculate the shelf life of raw materials in days instead of months.
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The fully integrated petrochemical and refinery business uses AWS services such as Amazon SageMaker and AWS Redshift to help monitor chemical plants and optimize production lines to reduce raw-material consumption.
These efforts have helped PTTGC earn the No. 1 global ranking in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) chemicals sector for four consecutive years.
PTTGC’s operational data across the group used to reside in disparate silos, which hindered collaboration and product innovation. The company, therefore, sought a scalable environment to experiment and aggregate data to drive its innovation and sustainability initiatives.
The company first built a data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), thus creating a centralized repository to store PTTGC data. The data lake allowed PTTGC scientists to share data and rapidly develop new compounds and products, such as the Bisphenol A (BPA) Catalyst Life Prediction solution.
These BPA Catalysts, which increase the rate of chemical reactions, improve the yield and quality of fuel. The BPA Catalyst Life Prediction solution analyzes the environmental conditions that impact a catalyst, including temperature and humidity. It can also determine optimal conditions to help extend its shelf life while saving petrochemical production costs.
PTTGC also uses Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud, to create a global dashboard for visualizing production information from their data lake, including machine cycles and raw-material stocks.
This dashboard provides real-time visibility into manufacturing processes, helping PTTGC reduce polymer waste. With Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, to build, train, and deploy machine learning models, PTTGC can forecast the price volatility of raw materials and predict required inventory levels to lower storage costs. The firm had also built the “YOUTURN” recycling app on AWS to encourage the public to recycle plastic products.
“AWS enables us to use our data to develop innovative new solutions that help our customers thrive rapidly,” said Nattapol Jongjatoonkiat, Head of Digital Transformation at PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited.
“Using AWS, our cloud data platform is highly agile and scalable, allowing us to save costs and lower energy consumption while reducing our time-to-market from months to days. Machine learning enables us to easily reduce raw-material waste and make our operations more sustainable,” he added.
For his part, Vatsun Thirapatarapong, country manager for AWS in Thailand, said, “Large manufacturing customers across Southeast Asia increasingly use cloud technology to become more efficient, and innovative. They are also expecting Cloud to play a larger role in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. By hosting its data platform on AWS, PTT Global Chemical is improving collaboration across the company by giving secure teams access to centralized data and compute power in the cloud.”