JM-LEVO Formaldehyde
Making formaldehyde production simpler
Through our FORMOXTM brand we have been providing reporting and insight services to formaldehyde producers for decades. Continuing to build on this, the JM-LEVOTM Formaldehyde portal is the first of our plant analytics and communication tools, helping you to effectively manage your formaldehyde production. It strengthens our support offer and provides a new and more efficient method of working and communicating with JM.
The online platform provides a centralised interface for sharing and viewing your plant data, visualising key metrics, monitoring formaldehyde production and communicating with JM. System-generated guidance can be obtained, helping to mitigate any risks to operation and facilitate key decisions.
All analysis and recommendations are based on 60+ years of experience in the formaldehyde market and backed by our technical experts. JM-LEVO Formaldehyde has been developed with direct customer input and offers a unique digital solution to support your formaldehyde production.
Clear advantages
Improved performance
- Receive targeted performance advice from our machine learning and proprietary analytical models
- Stay agile and make rapid, informed adjustments as conditions change
- Optimise production and hit your objectives, whether yield, catalyst life, cost or capacity
Simplified production
- Simplified data capture process, reducing the effort required for manipulating and sharing data with JM
- Get immediate reports and insights from your uploaded data via the various dashboards
- Make planning simpler with clear forecasts on optimal time-to-reload
- Benchmark and compare across loads and reactors, as well as monitor performance over multiple sites and plants
Access to JM expertise
- Troubleshoot problems and find solutions quickly with expert support
- Share data and collaborate with JM’s technical experts
- Utilise our historic knowledge to reduce operational risk and improve time to reload planning
- Get 24/7 access to Johnson Matthey’s comprehensive library of technical information
Customer-centric digital solution
JM‑LEVO Formaldehyde was designed putting our customers in the focus, using regular feedback and testing sessions to identify which features were of most value and how we could make this new service as easy to use as possible.
- Simple data submission - An efficient process is key to minimise the effort needed in sharing data
- Instant reports - Gain access to a dashboard of auto generated visuals, including cross-plant or cross-site comparisons as well as loads
- Planning tools - Reloading forecast and cost monitoring enable a more accurate production planning and activities scheduling
- Machine learning model - Combined with process design and catalyst expertise generates optimisation advices
- Technical Library - Online access to key information and JM's expertise when desired
- Technical support - The portal is a platform for the customer and JM to efficiently collaborate on various production aspects
Not only does this tool allow you to store and compare your plant data, it also provides you with the capabilities to better manage your day-to-day operations, reduce any risk to your production and achieve new levels of plant performance. All analysis and recommendations are backed by our technical experts; they can access the dashboards and other reports, assisting you with any necessary improvements. This new feature helps you to adapt you plant operations as the conditions change while maintaining an optimised performance.
Benefits matrix
| Users | Area | Included | Premium |
| One plant manager access | Access | Yes | Yes |
| One site manager access | Access | Yes | Yes |
| One site manager access with multiple site access | Access | Yes | |
| Global manager role with multiple site access | Access | Yes | |
| Flexible roles and number of users (up to 10 users) | Access | Yes |
| Features | Area | Included | Premium |
| Site dashboard with key performance indicator charts | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Plants pages with key performance indicator charts | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Analytics optimisation tool | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | |
| Time-to-reload forecasting | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | |
| Overall production cost display | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Production cost development and breakdown | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | |
| Load comparison - access to historical data | Visuals/Analytics | Yes | |
| Data upload management tool (process data template) | Data management | Yes | Yes |
| Upload history | Data management | Yes | Yes |
| Service and information | Area | Included | Premium |
| Comments and recommendations within < 2 days | Service | Yes | |
| Comments and recommendations within < 5 days | Service | Yes | |
| Technical information library | Information | Yes | Yes |
| Upload template for process data | Information | Yes | Yes |
