Reduce cost, time and risk of capital project engineering and execution by applying integrated engineering and design solutions.

Be certain that your people are prepared for the real world – safely and efficiently – with innovative Cloud-based simulation and training solutions.

Achieve superior visibility and analysis of real-time operations and production processes while simultaneously eliminating inefficiency – and driving performance.

Digital Workflow management facilitates the automation of operational processes and the proliferation of best practices. In doing so, it eliminates paperwork and manual, error-prone procedures, effectively accomplishing both simple and complex tasks.

Notifications, as well as easy-to-use data entry forms through multiple secure communication channels, speed up decision-making and task responses in mission-critical processes.

Measure and document processes for continuous improvement opportunities using a model-driven approach. This empowers business stakeholders, as well as non-IT users to visually compose processes, monitor and measure performance, quickly improve processes as well as to adapt changes.

A platform-neutral Web interface and applications for mobile devices ensure that more of your mobile workforce remains connected with mission-critical processes. Workflow forms offer automatic, responsive layout adoption and form previews for multiple mobile devices.

The Work Tasks app supports users who are on the move, ensuring their interactions either with or without network connectivity. Work Tasks for Android, iOS and Windows offers enhanced collaboration and enterprise mobility among stakeholders.

The Workflow Forms Designer is a web-based design tool used for creating complex layouts through the use of smart controls.

Its design-friendly canvas aids the configuring and sustaining of custom forms for the collection and/or visualisation of data at any particular step in the process. This includes scripting for more advanced tasks, as well as individual security applied to different fields, with electronic signature support. Automatic responsive layout adoption and form previews, offer out-of-the-box support for desktop screens and multiple mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones.

Out-of-the-box connectors for both industrial and business applications offer you the flexibility to integrate your enterprise. It also has the capacity to respond to events that originated in MS SQL Server and Oracle databases, in XML messages, Web services as well as in other generic interfaces.

It integrates with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Exchange. Connectivity to automated production processes through MES, System Platform and APM integration, as well as through third-party manufacturing operations applications, allows for a true, end-to-end operational process management. It also enables the standardisation of processes spanning industrial enterprises.

Integrated business activity reporting and activity-monitoring tools empower you to build customisable KPIs, associate workflows with BAM events, conduct performance analyses, as well as receiving proactive alerts of Business Exceptions and KPIs. BAM includes a dashboard highlighting both workflow status and workflow instances, allowing for at-a-glance process management.

VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design can handle the most challenging single- and multi-phase fluid-flow systems, through the use of point-by-point thermodynamics and pressure-drop calculations. Robust flow models of utility networks ensure reduced capital costs, as well as improved plant operation.

Using point-and-click access to data entry menus, a simple flow diagram describes the overall system structure. Complex piping isometrics can be defined through the use of the interactive drawing tool. Users are also able to import streams directly from PRO/II Process Engineering.

VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design offers a comprehensive model of the plant’s flare relief systems, including full documentation of the network structure, control systems and strategy, as well as maximum relief-rate capacities. Additionally, VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design is DIERS compliant, achieving results within tolerance on all DIERS benchmark cases.

It is possible for VISUAL FLARE Safety Relief Design simulations to be controlled and modified via an Excel interface constructed through a drag-and-drop interface. This enables the simulation to be used by anyone, even individuals unfamiliar with constructing a model. This expands usage and enhances the return on investment.

Design distillation columns with just one simulation for design, relief and controls.

Substitute complex spreadsheets with an easily specified, maintainable flow sheet.

Predict the pressure surge in piping and low-pressure equipment.

Unite process dynamic simulation and flare network analysis, for the proper sizing of flare systems.

The steady-state process design simulation can be applied for dynamic flare relief without the need for creating another, separate model.

Utilise only one, integrated model for both dynamics and steam balances.

Use a consistent platform for performing water hammer and pressure surge analyses.

Use a consistent platform for performing water hammer and pressure surge analyses.

Simulate compressors for process design, transient operations and equipment rating.

Designed specifically to address the need for real-time, non-linear optimisation of continuous processes, Process Optimisation utilises real-time process and economic data to determine setpoints that guarantee a maximum operating profit, while achieving all regulatory requirements.

Process Optimisation uses first-principle simulation techniques with proven data reconciliation and optimisation technologies, in order to provide maximum, sustainable plant performance, as well as increased return on investment.

Making use of precise models representing your plant’s actual operating conditions, Process Optimisation provides a Microsoft Excel- and flowsheet-based interface to enable offline “what-if?” scenarios. Additionally, Process Optimisation models can be utilised for procurement planning, as well as for the evaluation of the benefits of process changes.

Process Optimisation’s Real-time System (RTS) offers an integrated, graphical scheduling environment. This enables users to automate optimisation and reporting. By making use of RTS, users can define complex event sequences for closed-loop optimisation with ease, without the need for user intervention.

Task sequences can be scheduled to run on a daily or weekly basis, or at any pre-set interval. Such sequences can also be dynamically controlled when specific conditions, such as reaching a steady-state, have been achieved.

Process Optimisation’s industry-proven results can be rapidly visualised through the use of embedded web page reporting, as well as via the Intelligence application for web-based dashboards. These dashboards display key performance indicators and other important operations information.

Process Optimisation is the only complete process optimisation solution to integrate heat and material balance rigorous simulation, economic optimisation, gross error detection, data reconciliation, as well as performance monitoring into a single user environment.

Its online modelling and optimisation capabilities make use of industry-proven thermodynamic methods and data in order to generate highly accurate operating information. This allows managers to rapidly and precisely react to changes in market pressures, energy costs, as well as the performance of equipment.

With its integrated interface and drag-and-drop functionality, Process Optimisation minimises the user’s learning curve while accelerating real economic benefits. In modelling large processes, Process Optimisation’s equation-based optimisation engine is unmatched.

Contributing to the development of our 10-module suite of tools for refinery off-sites and/or petrochemical terminal planning and operations, are hundreds of man-years of off-sites project engineering experience. The vast, wide-ranging offering includes inventory and movement management; accounting balance and tracking; as well as monitoring, optimising and blending.

Compliance with open industry standards makes possible the integration with existing plant and business systems, so maintaining – and enhancing – the return on investment in existing assets and systems.

Inventory management and movement automation enhance planning, scheduling, and operational efficiency. At the same time, it reduces the risk of contamination, reprocessing and demurrage. Mass balance reconciliation and inventory information facilitate increased accuracy in yield accounting and stock loss control.

Results include increased asset utilisation, lower cost of tank farm operations, increased accuracy in inventory accounting, enhanced cash flow management and increased customer satisfaction.

One-of-a-kind off-line/on-line multi-blend optimisation technology allows for the opportunity to maximise overall blend production profit against the refinery’s true, long-term operational constraints. On-line blend control and optimisation reduce the need for re-blends.

It also minimises giveaway and component costs while ensuring that products meet quality and regulatory agency specifications.

Refinery Operations Management is designed to enable greater agility and responsiveness. It facilitates this through the integration of complex, disparate software applications in both the supply chain and operations layers, so enabling collaborative work processes.

Refinery Operations Management integrates Refinery Off-sites with ROMeo Process Simulation, Yield Accounting, Enterprise Asset Management and Historian, as well as other applications.

For many manufacturing processes, the rapid and consistent set-up of equipment is the key to flexibility and consistent quality. Formula management has its focus on the management of formulas and equipment, for consistent parameter value transfer to control systems. Formulas are defined as independent of shop floor equipment. This enables users to centrally manage product definitions for use in multiple production locations, irrespective of each location’s automation system.

Formula download is simple, making use of the web-based user interface. Operators assign formulas by browsing and then making a selection from a list of available and approved formula instances for specific equipment. Operators are then able to review the assigned target values, adjust them within the supplied limits, then download the formula to the connected automation system.

Recipe management and execution enable users to create procedures which define the order of equipment execution. A recipe contains the defined procedure, as well as a mapped formula defining the making of a product, through the association of a formula and capability parameters.

Manual capabilities are at hand for manual data entry and acknowledgement. In order to execute a recipe, an operator simply assigns a recipe to the appropriate equipment. Then the operator starts, monitors and controls its execution. Operators can adjust parameter values within the defined limits. This can be done before the recipe start, or even just before the capability is executed.

Comprehensive reporting and history records enable users to view historical information relating to formulas and recipes that have been created, changed or executed. Equipment, formulas, as well as recipes, are all “versioned” items. This means that any configuration change increments the version number. Electronic records are automatically created for formula downloads documenting the parameter values, as well as for recipe execution.

Electronic records can be configured for electronic signatures as well. Electronic signatures (done by/check by), which include optional comment enforcement for actions, are available for the facilitation of implementations that comply with life science industry regulations. These include FDA 21 CFR Part 11, or cGMP guidelines (EudraLex Vol. 4 Annex 11).

It is possible to integrate the software with System Platform, or it can be used stand-alone with any control system, via the OPC UA Data Access specification. Using a state interface that can be configured to provide full alignment with ISA-88 standards, the recipe procedure is coordinated with the control system. The Recipe Management user interface can be accessed via a web browser on mobile devices, via a desktop or via HMI. Operators can access the execution web page in a browser, or by using a browser control within InTouch for System Platform, or by making use of other HMI software.