Elkem
Elkem unifies its operations with AVEVA Unified Operations Center
Elkem, one of the world's leading suppliers of advanced silicon- and carbon-based materials, headquartered in Oslo, relied on a siloed patchwork of control rooms and systems to run its facilities. This fragmentation slowed progress toward sustainable product development and increased the manual work associated with independent control rooms coexisting. Already a user of AVEVA System Platform and AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System, the group strengthened its architecture by deploying AVEVA Unified Operations Center to build a truly unified approach to operations control and industrial monitoring. Operators now work side by side in a shared control room with a 20-meter video wall displaying the entire value chain. The benefits are concrete: safer, more efficient start-ups and shutdowns, reduced downtime, greater efficiency, and stronger collaboration and learning across departments. Elkem now has a fast, well-informed decision-making foundation supporting its global industrial and environmental ambitions.
Integrated AVEVA software
AVEVA System Platform
Elkem uses the AVEVA System Platform with the Unified Operations Center to centralize the supervision of its metallurgical plants. This platform allows a consolidated view of operations and an improvement in efficiency.
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AVEVA MES
Elkem deploys AVEVA MES to optimize its silicon and ferroalloy production operations. This solution ensures batch traceability and continuous improvement of metallurgical process performance.
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What is AVEVA Unified Operations Center and how does Elkem use it?
AVEVA Unified Operations Center is a solution that consolidates operational, business and value chain data on a single industrial supervision platform. Elkem, a global leader in silicon and carbon materials, uses it to break down its historically fragmented control rooms. Operators now share a 20-meter video wall displaying the company-wide view, which transforms decision-making by giving it full context. It is a benchmark in metallurgy for managing complex and sustainable operations.
How does a 20-meter video wall improve operational decision-making?
The 20-meter video wall deployed at Elkem with AVEVA Unified Operations Center provides a panoramic view of the entire value chain. Operations, maintenance, quality and logistics teams see the same contextualized information simultaneously. This visual unification speeds up cross-department collaboration, streamlines incident resolution and reveals previously invisible interdependencies. It is an infrastructure investment that gives concrete form to the digital transformation of a world-class control room.
How does AVEVA improve the safety of industrial startups and shutdowns?
Startups and shutdowns of metallurgical facilities are particularly risky phases: complex sequences, extreme temperatures, multi-equipment dependencies. AVEVA Unified Operations Center, combined with System Platform and MES at Elkem, gives operators centralized, coordinated monitoring during these critical phases. Visibility shared across departments makes it possible to anticipate blockages, synchronize actions and significantly reduce risks to people and equipment.
Why unify operations control to accelerate the development of sustainable products?
Elkem aims to accelerate the development of sustainable silicon and carbon products, which are essential to the energy transition (batteries, solar panels). AVEVA Unified Operations Center provides the fast, well-informed decision-making foundation this acceleration requires. When all teams share the same view of the value chain, trade-offs between quality, cost, energy and CO? become faster and more relevant. Unified industrial monitoring is thus a lever for sustainable innovation in heavy industry.
What concrete benefits does AVEVA Unified Operations Center bring to a metallurgy company?
For Elkem, AVEVA Unified Operations Center translates into safer, more efficient startups and shutdowns, reduced downtime, greater efficiency and stronger collaboration between departments. Beyond operational indicators, the company culture itself is changing: from silos to cross-functional work, from intuitive decisions to data-driven management. It is a strategic investment that aligns organization, technology and sustainability ambitions across the entire group worldwide.