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The global management firm M/s Mckinsey has studied and reported that digital transformation is changing the entire chemical business in three major ways, as depicted in Figure 2.2 (Klei et al., 2017).

Table 2.1 Comparisons between smart and conventional chemical industries

Items	Conventional chemical industry	Intelligent chemical industry
Integration mode	Integration for processes	Integration of supply chain network
Optimization goals	Profit optimization on specific conditions	Profits optimization considering market demand, device status, energy conservation and emissions reduction
Optimization patterns	Serial mode conducted offline	Synchronous optimization of decision‐making and control adjustment employed online
Technical economic feature	Large‐scale	Equilibrium between large‐scale and necessary flexibility
Operation mode	Specialized manufacturing	Combination of manufacturing and service
Decision factors	Operational and technical factors	Users' requirements, products, quality standard, operating condition, resource, system reliability status
Control mode	Discrete control	Advanced process control
Intelligent degree	Low level	Artificial intelligence embedded in the process optimization control
Control platform	Discrete control system	Contemporary integrated process system
Flexibility	Limited flexibility, adaptive scope and function redundancy	More flexible configuration, adaptive to multiple optimization control modes
Data supporting	Local small data	Big data
Algorithm	Traditional statistical analysis	Statistical analysis, data mining, AI and visualization techniques

Figure 2.2 Three major ways digital transformation will impact the chemical industry