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The industrial revolution 4.0 is in sight, bringing Pertamina—one of the biggest state-owned companies in Indonesia, to start carrying out digital transformation in the company. Pertamina carried out digitization in several of its operations. One of them is the use of a digital refinery maintenance scheduling system. The digital refinery maintenance scheduling system developed to prevent the unplanned shutdown. Two of Pertamina refinery unit has adopted this digital system; it is in Pertamina Dumai Refinery Unit and Pertamina Balongan Refinery Unit.

The uses of this digital system in the refinery maintenance schedule will be implemented in several other refinery units owned by Pertamina, such as Paju Refinery Unit, Cilacap Refinery Unit, and Balikpapan Refinery Unit. As quoted from kompas.com, Fajriyah Usman, as the VP Corporate Communications PT Pertamina (Persero), explained the positive effect on the use of this digital system.

He said that national energy needs would be achieved through the excellent maintenance system. If an unplanned shutdown can be prevented, the company operations will run smoothly, and it will be easy to achieve targets.

Digital transformation in Pertamina

It is interesting things to know about digitization in Pertamina. Until now, Pertamina has carried out six digitization programs. They are; Loyalty Program, Digital Refinery, Knowledge Management & Best Practice in Upstream, Digital Procurement, Corporate Digitization, SPBU digitization, and BBM Terminal.

1. SPBU & BBM Terminal Digitization: for easy checking on national distribution and stock management 
2. Digital Procurement: digitization to cut costs up to 1,5 – 2 trillion per year.
3. Upstream Cloud & Big Data Analytics: Optimization on the utilization of Petrotechnical Application.

With digital transformation, Pertamina can have an efficient, fast, and low-cost operating system. This step is considered to be the right path seeing that digital transformation is now carried out in various businesses. With digitization, Pertamina can better serve the Indonesian community.

Reference: bisnis.tempo.co