Digital Transformation of the Chemical Process Industry - A Practical Guide for Professionals

Digital transformation is an approach to improve industrial processes by employing digital technologies. This book describes the steps involved in planning and implementing a digital transformation process of chemical manufacturing organizations.
The book emphasizes that implementation of digital solutions requires a combination of information technology and data science and efficient workflows, and often, changes in organizational cultures. Practical guidelines and relevant examples and case studies help clarify the digital transformation approach and in so doing make this book useful.

List of contents

Introduction.- Process Industry Business and Operation Paradigms.- Manufacturing and Automation - The Path to Digital Transformation.- Building a Business Case for Digital Transformation.- Fast Track Digital Transformation - Technical Foundations.- Digital Transformation Fundamentals.- Digitization and Digitalization.- Baseline Digital Infrastructure in the Process Industry.- Information and Data Acquisition.- Implementing Decision Support Systems.- Implementing Decision Automation.- Implementation of Digital Transformation - A Playbook.- Case Studies.- Outlook for Digital Transformation of the Chemical Process Industry.

Product details

• Authors: Subir Bhattacharjee, Jimmy Yu
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9783031940538
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3194053-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Illustrations: Approx. 220 p.
• Series: Synthesis Lectures on Chemical Engineering and Biochemical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Regelungstechnik, Digitalization, Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, Industrielle Chemie und Chemietechnologie, decision support, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Chemistry, Control, Robotics, Automation, Biological and Physical Engineering, Digital Twins, Process Automation, Process Chemistry, Digitalization Implementation, Chemical Process Industry