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Case study

Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals. Smart P&IDs and asset information in production.

How a 3M TPA ammonia–urea complex in Sub-Saharan Africa connected ten units of drawings, documents, and records around its tags — 10,000+ documents, 1,000+ users across operations, maintenance, HSE, and procurement.

IndustryFertilizer & Chemicals
Scale3M TPA ammonia–urea
RegionSub-Saharan Africa
Indorama — 3M TPA ammonia–urea complex
Indorama · 3M TPA ammonia–urea complex
Deployed in production
IndoramaPetrochemicals
IndoramaFertilizers
About the customer

Overview

At a glance
Client

Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd.

Facility

3M tonne/year ammonia–urea complex

Location

Sub-Saharan Africa

Scope

10 units · 10,000+ documents · 1,000+ users

Indorama runs one of the largest fertilizer complexes in Africa. Raven runs there in production: smart P&IDs and asset information — ten units of drawings, documents, and records connected around the plant's tags, with agents preparing isolation, investigation, and knowledge work for review.

Before Raven

The challenge

01

Operators lost time looking for the right SOPs, alarms, or procedures.

02

Permit writers manually assembled isolation points from multi-sheet P&IDs.

03

Safety engineers spent days compiling near-miss data, historian trends, and reports.

04

Training relied on tribal knowledge in binders or senior minds.

05

Maintenance teams cross-checked hundreds of BOMs and vendor PDFs to find parts.

What Raven deployed

Raven's solution

The foundation — the product, in production
01

Smart P&IDs

Scanned drawings for ten units converted into clickable, validated P&IDs — every pump, valve, line, and instrument extracted, connected, and navigable across sheets.

Result

Every tag on the drawing opens its full record in one click.

02

Asset information — one page per tag

Datasheets, SOPs, manuals, BOMs, vendor files, and maintenance records — 10,000+ documents linked into the equipment hierarchy, each link traceable to its source.

Result

Spares identified 5× faster; fewer wrong parts ordered.

03

Cited answers across the plant

Operators and engineers ask in plain language and get answers from SOPs, incidents, P&IDs, and manuals — cited, tied to tags and units, the same answer regardless of who asks.

Result

75% faster document access; onboarding to independent work 2× faster.

Applications built with the plant's teams
04

Isolation and permit preparation

Isolation points from the P&ID, LOTO steps, checklists, and similar past jobs assembled per request — exported with full traceability for review.

Result

Permit prep time cut by 60%, standardization improved across units.

05

Near-miss and incident investigation

Reports captured and classified to the site taxonomy, similar cases pulled in, and a structured RCA drafted with sources for the safety team to edit and approve.

Result

Investigations completed 3× faster, with consistent quality across RCAs.

Measurable impact

Key results

In production
10 units of P&IDs converted & validated·10,000+ documents connected to assets·1,000+ users across four functions
What changed for the teams
6 hrs/wk
Returned per engineer
75% faster
Document access
40% less
Senior-staff time
3× faster
Investigations
5× faster
Spare-part identification

"Raven helps us make correct decisions much faster. It gives us instant, reliable answers with citations. It's how our teams work now."

Sr. Manager

Ammonia Plant
Indorama
What's next

Future growth

The contract is expanding to multiple Indorama sites, on the same validated asset base.

More workflows on the converted drawings — HAZOP and MOC preparation, shutdown readiness.

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