Services & solutions
Unlocking real-time operational data
At Optimate, we specialise in transforming raw data into meaningful and transformative business insights. By leveraging our extensive expertise, we help organisations achieve operational excellence. Our services span the entire Operational Data Value Chain, ensuring your data is captured, processed, and analysed effectively to drive growth and efficiency.
Raw data to actionable insights
The operational data value chain
Our data chain approach takes you from data acquisition to impactful business insights, turning raw data into strategic information that enhances efficiency and drives growth. Explore how our end-to-end solutions can harness transformative power of data in driving your operational success.
Decoding the chain
Acquisition
Utilize advanced technologies such as DCS, SCADA, HMI, and PLCs for precise, real-time data capture and control. Collect, filter, and format data from various sensors, logs, and machines for further processing.
Ingestion
Safely store collected data in secure databases, cloud storage, or data lakes, ensuring seamless data flow while maintaining integrity and availability.
Storage
Manage and maintain data repositories to ensure security, availability, and proper formatting, providing robust storage solutions and the right infrastructure for large volumes of data.
Integration
Combine data from multiple sources, addressing any inconsistencies or errors by integrating IT and OT into IIoT technologies, maintaining data integrity and comprehensive insights.
Transformation
Structure, aggregate, and transform raw data into a usable format by applying advanced processing techniques to enhance data quality and prepare it for detailed analysis.
Analysis
Use cutting-edge tools and techniques to identify trends, patterns, and insights from transformed data, with our data analytics team deeply analyzing your data to derive actionable insights for operational improvements.
Insights
Convert analytical insights into actionable recommendations for improved decision-making, delivering insights to strengthen security, optimize production, and anticipate maintenance needs.
Impact
Implement recommendations to optimize operations, enhance efficiency, and drive growth by helping organizations optimize infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance overall operations using data-driven insights.
Engage with Optimate
Our services
Unlock the true value of your operational data with Optimate. Engage with us to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and make data-driven decisions that propel your business forward.
Expert Consulting and Support
Our team of experts is ready to assist you in every step of your data value chain journey. From initial audits to ongoing consulting and support, we provide tailored solutions that meet your specific business needs.
IoT & Analytics Expertise
Leverage our deep understanding of IoT and data analytics to harness and evaluate data from various sources. We empower businesses to stay agile and make informed decisions using intelligent data analysis.
Comprehensive solutions
Whether you need plant automation, process control, or customised data displays, Optimate offers a comprehensive suite of services. We ensure the right information is available at the right time and in the right context.
Cybersecurity
Implement robust cybersecurity measures across all processes to safeguard your data and infrastructure from potential threats and breaches. Ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your critical information and systems.
Client success
Expertise that delivers
Don’t take our word for it — our proven track record speaks for itself.
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25+ years in industry
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Certified engineers
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Diverse skillsets
Alinta Energy
“The significant improvements we have made and continue to make, in our operational data would not have been possible without Optimate’s collaborative approach to solution design. We have appreciated Optimate’s ability to quickly understand our requirements, as well as their flexibility through the delivery stages which kept our program on track despite a diverse set of resourcing and technological challenges across our generation assets.”
— Buzby Kuramoto, General Manager, Merchant Energy Operations
Key impacts
- Delivered PI System upgrades, PI-AF Development, Dispatch & Trading Visualisation Displays.
- Central PI archive available to every Alinta employee, at any time from any location.
- Optimates IT support and system monitoring reduced unplanned downtime of the PI ecosystem to nearly 0% over the course of 9 months.
Origin
“We chose to work with Optimate as they understood our requirements and were willing to work cohesively with our team. Optimate proved to be flexible and agile during the feasibility, design and implementation of the MSC Project, giving them the edge over competitors. Their expertise in Solution Architecture and Systems Integration ensured that our Generation sites were brought together into a functional fleet management system for our operations.”
— Jim Cooley, Asset Intelligence & Information Manager
Key impacts
- Design and integration of the Monitoring and Support Centre (MSC) systems for high availability, real time, consistent access to all data, across 9 sites, with their generation portfolio.
- Significant reduction in time to respond to production critical events.
- Centralised operations streamlined workforce and reduced errors.
- Centre of excellence for operational improvement of generation assets.
Large Australian Mining Co.
We partnered with a leading Australian mining company to enhance operational efficiency and safety. Our comprehensive approach focused on minimizing operational wastes, emissions, and discharges while ensuring accurate production allocation. We also optimized the performance of Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) and improved safety system shutdown activations, resulting in a more resilient and environmentally responsible operation.
Key impacts
- Operations Wastes, Emissions and Discharges
- Production Allocation
- Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) Performance
- Safety System Shutdown Activations
Major Australian Energy Co.
We worked with a major Australian energy company to develop new PI AF databases. These databases provided a robust and reliable way to extract necessary data for reporting and business operations, including building complex calculations needed to feed business logic using the PI Analysis component. The solution was built to be resilient to the data latency and data quality problems that are common with diverse and disparate systems from many different plants.
Key impacts
- Created AF databases for reliable data extraction.
- Implemented complex calculations using PI Analysis.
- Ensured resilience to data latency and quality issues.
- Integrated diverse systems from multiple plants.
New Zealand Electric Power Transmission Co.
To streamline data management and ensure centralized accessibility, we implemented PI to PI replication to transfer data from four remote site PI Data Archive servers to a centralized corporate PI Data Archive. Additionally, we utilized PI Auto Point Sync to automatically create new PI Points from upstream systems in the corporate data system. This process involved the management of approximately 500,000 PI Tags.
Key impacts
- Implemented PI to PI replication for data transfer.
- Centralized data from four remote site PI Data Archive servers.
- Used PI Auto Point Sync for automatic PI Point creation.
- Integrated new PI Points from upstream systems.
- Managed approximately 500,000 PI Tags.