As a key supplier for this mega project, the Scallon Controls and Emerson team recently helped commemorate the groundbreaking event for this $8.5 billion integrated polymers facility located in Orange, Texas—the largest greenfield project to be built in this region in decades. Things are moving quickly and Scallon Controls is intimately involved with the preliminary consulting and ongoing implementation during the initial planning phase to ensure that all key suppliers and project assets are properly defined and integrated into the Emerson Catapult® platform, a vital Planning and Reliability tool central to this project.
To give this some perspective, Scallon Controls will eventually have all 315,000 facility components, as well as an associated library of intellectual property, in the Catapult database. We’re helping build the plant—literally from the ground up—and will have detailed data for every part, pump, piping loop, and valve included and available for use by their maintenance teams for decades to come.
Emerson’s taxonomy is the fundamental dictionary for organizing and structuring data sets so that they can be turned into meaningful information that can be reported consistently across the plant, business unit, and/or enterprise. This taxonomy has been developed over the last 25 years from implementing EAM and Inventory Standardization Solutions which act as the foundational base for describing, organizing, and classifying equipment—thus creating the foundation for consistent, standardized, and cleansed master data that can be leveraged to make smart business decisions.
During the strategy planning phase of your project, Catapult is much like having a sketch pad prior to designing something—a place to create your Bill of Materials, Equipment, Inventory/Materials, and Preventative Maintenance strategies, prior to integrating with SAP or any other enterprise business system. If you are concerned about taking the time—and risk—to enter all of this data into SAP, Catapult does this for you—seamlessly!