# How NOVA Chemicals uses Cognite

**a minute**: “locate that data within a minute versus it taking hours”

As published on [cognite.com](https://www.cognite.com/en/customers/nova-chemicals). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-08.

- Company: [NOVA Chemicals](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/nova-chemicals.md)
- Tool: [Cognite](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/cognite.md)
- Teams: Operations, Maintenance

## What the story says

NOVA Chemicals uses Cognite Data Fusion to unify fragmented legacy and siloed operational data into a contextualized single source of truth. This supports smart maintenance management, isolation planning, troubleshooting and operations support, and the company is exploring AI to automate routine inspections.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Cognite and NOVA Chemicals, not ours.

> The immediate value has already been seen as we focused on one plant when we ingested the data into Cognite and built a relationship between them. Now, what we can do is locate that data within a minute versus it taking hours, calling SMEs, calling people to say where is this file, where is that file...

> The immediate value has already been seen as we focused on one plant when we ingested the data into Cognite and built a relationship between them. Now, what we can do is locate that data within a minute versus it taking hours, calling SMEs, calling people to say where is this file, where is that file... This is part of one of our product lines called smart maintenance management.
>
> Ahmed Musa, Manager of Digital Transformation

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-08.

- Checked: the figure a minute is printed word for word on the page, near the name of NOVA Chemicals.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of NOVA Chemicals.
- Checked: NOVA Chemicals uses Cognite. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-08.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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