Operational Excellence seems an elusive goal for Oil and Gas operating companies. Growing mounds of data, equipment reliability issues and overwhelmed operations personnel create risks that may prevent equipment from running as designed, ultimately standing in the way of achieving desired production goals. The presentation will address how to reduce production downtime risks caused by complex graphics, excessively enthusiastic alarming strategies and lack of live data for subject matter experts in the organization. It will also be presented approaches to deploy affordable subject matter oversight through carrying automation concepts to cloud computing. In addition, it will be highlighted some example projects and share our experience