Innovation challenge looks for novel technologies for maintenance safety
November 2024
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Oil and gas company, YPF, together with Ennomotive, a company specialising in innovative engineering, challenges worldwide startups, companies, and other innovators to digitise the permit process for maintenance activities at their industrial facilities.
Maintenance operations in refineries and other industrial facilities are diverse and complex, and are often carried out in a hazardous environment. Such maintenance requires multiple controls and permits to ensure that processes are correct and safe. YPF aims to adopt novel technologies that improve the safety of the people and facilities in their day-to-day activities. The challenge is looking for digital solutions to automate and secure safety controls while enabling real-time data.
The solution might combine novel software with hardware such as wristbands, watches, equipment tags or cameras, and integration with current YPF systems. These include maintenance management systems, equipment monitoring systems, external maintenance personnel registration, and access cards.
Participation is open to engineering and tech companies, startups, specialists in digital technologies and processes for safety, maintenance or asset management, and also to companies from any sector, and tech centres willing to propose a solution to this challenge.
This is an opportunity to develop a disruptive innovation and become a supplier to one of the largest companies in Argentina, one of the most important oil companies in the region with three refineries in the country. The winner of the challenge would start with a validation project to test the proposed solution in one of YPF’s industrial facilities.
Those interested in participating should register at www.ennomotive.com, accept the challenge, and submit their solution before 11 November 2024.
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