Case Study: Drax Biomass achieves faster data access and superior root-cause analysis with dataPARC

Immediately saw benefits after implementing dataPARC as a data management and sharing solution

Drax Biomass, a manufacturer of compressed wood pellets with operations in the US and the UK, faced disconnected plants, limited corporate visibility, slow historians, single-user data systems, poor downtime tracking, and difficulty tracking OEE. To address these issues they implemented dataPARC as a data management and sharing solution (including PARCdesigner displays) to centralize and share operational data.

dataPARC delivered a fast, multi-user historian and remote access, giving all personnel from operators to the COO timely visibility (most data now loads in 1–3 seconds) and enabling remote work during COVID when staff were out up to six weeks. The solution improved root cause analysis, reduced downtime, made OEE management more proactive, drove full user adoption, added notifications and unified data from plants worldwide—resulting in increased production and faster response to problems.

Drax Biomass

Doug Harvey

Corporate Technical Manager