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New ways of doing business are key for survival. Intelligent industries are those who can adapt quickly to this knowledge and innovation era. However, this needs a complete mindset change. How we generate useful knowledge and integrate it with business decisions is the real challenge of today's CPI. A new look to the old problems is absolutely necessary. A new way to increase equipment reliability, novel methods for process data monitoring, and a new emphasis on real‐time optimization are what is now needed. How data and knowledge can be used to maximize profit is the real key driver and all the chapters of this book are dedicated to that. Companies took multi‐faceted a completely new advanced approach to deal with this challenge. Some of the common solutions Global good companies have implemented are as follows:

 Real‐time optimization (RTO) and advanced process control (APC) are implemented for real‐time optimization of plant. These tools ensure running the plant with simultaneous multiple constraints.

 Implementation of an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) base, online data monitoring, and fault diagnosis detect any abnormality of process equipment at its incipient stage.

 All these plants run 25–50% more capacity than their design capacity.

 Online equipment reliability monitoring systems are implemented.

 Risk‐based inspection systems are in place.

 Online supply chain management system.

 SAP‐based reliability centered maintenance practice.

 A management framework to encourage people participation and to tap their ideas for small improvements in the plant.