{"id":29381,"date":"2025-11-06T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scroll.media\/2025\/11\/06\/keel-solution-digitizes-plants-the-challenges-behind-this-work\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:51:07","slug":"keel-solution-digitizes-plants-the-challenges-behind-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scroll.media\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/keel-solution-digitizes-plants-the-challenges-behind-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Keel Solution Digitizes Plants: The Challenges Behind This Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We met with the Keel Solution<\/a> team several times to write this article. The reason is simple: the company operates in a niche that\u2019s quite unusual for the Ukrainian IT industry. So, to make it clearer, let\u2019s start with an easy example \u2014 one that anyone can visualize.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yaroslav Zherebetskyy, partner and COO of Keel Solution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One of their clients is a large international conglomerate that brings together several major oil companies from Asia and the Middle East. If you watch Formula 1, you\u2019ve definitely seen their logos among the main sponsors of the races. They are building a massive, brand-new oil refinery complex. Such a complex consists of roughly 300,000 pieces of equipment, each containing an immeasurable number of parts \u2014 millions, in total. Imagine buying a Lego set with 2,000 pieces \u2014 only now, multiply that by tens of millions, coming from a thousand different contractors.<\/p>\n\n

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Keel Solution\u2019s task sounds deceptively simple: collect all the information on all the equipment from all the contractors. In total, that\u2019s about four terabytes of project documentation. Then, all this data must be sorted, verified, and grouped so that a spare parts warehouse can be built. The goal is to ensure that when something breaks, the team can quickly locate the right part in the warehouse and replace it immediately.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

But even that\u2019s not straightforward. Keeping a warehouse with millions of spare parts isn\u2019t an option. It\u2019s far too expensive and takes up enormous space. The solution is to find commonalities. Imagine you have all Siemens appliances at home \u2014 a dishwasher, a washing machine, a dryer, and more. Many of their parts \u2014 legs, tubes, electric motors \u2014 are identical. There\u2019s no point in storing three electric motors if one can fit all three appliances.\r\n<\/p>\n\n

That\u2019s exactly what Keel Solution<\/a> does: analyze all available parts, group them, identify the critical ones, and help form an optimized warehouse that won\u2019t cost a fortune. At the same time, the team must know the nuances: for example, that some bearings can be interchanged, while others cannot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The result? For one client, the company reduced warehouse size by almost 40%. Before Keel Solution\u2019s work, there were $25 million worth of parts; after optimization, the amount was reduced to $14 million. That\u2019s $11 million freed up for business development instead of being frozen in inventory.<\/p>\n\n

\u00abNow you understand how difficult it is for me to explain what we do,\u00bb says Yaroslav Zherebetskyy, partner and COO of Keel Solution.\r\nIt\u2019s understandable. If you ask what his company does, he can either tell the long but fascinating story above or tailor his answer to whoever\u2019s asking.\r\n<\/p>\n\n

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