Making sure that a business is empowered to meet all of its requirements means the availability of advanced decision-support tools for end-users.

Plan, forming a part of Spiral Suite, assists users in making long- and short-term decisions, so enabling them to make the best use of available assets and resources with confidence. Teams can also confidently plan for operational and market changes – even with real-world data that is rapidly changing. Spiral Suite’s unified supply chain environment allows users to better comprehend the implications of their decisions on the business as a whole, so enabling users to concentrate on economics and engineering.

Simple to learn and easy to use, Plan’s flowsheet modelling eliminates the need for traditional application experts, as it significantly simplifies the model-building process. Fast workflows, used in conjunction with user-configurable visualisation and reporting tools, allow the impact of uncertainties and data changes to be understood and evaluated in real-time – across multiple time scales and multiple plants.

Forming part of a control room management (CRM) programme, training managers aim to ensure that their pipelines are operating safely, that new pipeline controllers are trained in all aspects quickly and effectively and that their training programme is compliant with industry regulations. Pipeline Trainer allows pipeline controllers to train on normal, as well as abnormal operating scenarios – in a safe, realistic environment. This approach encourages the capture and transfer of knowledge, improved safety, reduced risk and, ultimately, enhanced reliability and availability.

The greater a pipeline’s complexity, the more of a challenge it becomes to manage problems impacting the bottom line. This issue has the potential for exposing companies to regulatory scrutiny and potentially damaging publicity. Leading pipeline operators acknowledge that the best defence is a good offence. It is crucial to establish the best-possible predictive, preventative and protective measures. Then, having highly trained pipeline controllers in place to implement those measures is also of critical importance.

In the competitive transportation market, it is crucial for pipeline companies to effectively and efficiently operate their pipelines in real-time. At the same time, they have to ensure that pipeline controllers possess a strong situational awareness. Pipeline companies must be certain that the plan for moving the product through the pipeline is being maintained. They also have to ensure that all information is being logged appropriately, for both business and regulatory requirements. This is where our Liquids and Gas versions of Pipeline Operations is of assistance.

A pipeline company possessing only a generic SCADA system has only a few tools with which to assist the pipeline controller in operating the pipeline in real-time. As a result, the pipeline controller must perform many tasks manually, which can jeopardise safety, productivity, as well as customer satisfaction.

Pipeline Operations equip users with everything they require in order to efficiently manage real-time control room operations. It also provides liquids and gas operations visibility that is not possible when using a generic SCADA system. Pipeline Operations solves this challenge by bringing pipeline visibility to the control room. It gives pipeline controllers the operational awareness they require in order to manage their pipeline with greater efficiency.

Combined with state-of-the-art operations applications under the Operations Management framework, Performance Manager empowers users to achieve greater operational excellence.

It enables this through improved visibility into contextualised, actionable data – from the operations layer to the enterprise business-system layer. The Performance Manager modules include an Operational Console, KPI Manager, Event Manager, Decision Manager, as well as Operational Data Manager.

Performance Manager increases operating profits by supplying closed-loop, enterprise-wide performance monitoring tools for the optimisation of assets and operations. Improved visibility into contextualised, actionable data offers the key to unlocking business values from big data and analytics. The result is an optimised value chain and improved asset utilisation.

PRO/II Process Engineering optimises plant performance through the enhancement of process design and operational analysis, as well as the performance of engineering studies. PRO/II Process Engineering offers a wide range of thermodynamic models to virtually every industry, as it was designed to carry out rigorous heat and material balance calculations for a wide range of chemical processes.

AVEVA Connect – the Key to Your Digital Transformation

Pipeline Network Design has the ability to model applications ranging from single-well sensitivity analyses of key parameters to a multi-year planning study for an entire production field. 

Process Optimisation offers a complete solution for optimising and controlling processes with real-time information from the plant floor, in combination with updated economic parameters. Monitor performance, retain tight control and achieve peak performance, so reaping maximum benefit in large and complex process plants, where the scale and complexity of operations demand formal solutions.

Optimisation is where operations and economics meet. AVEVA’s tools make use of first-principle simulation in order to achieve real-time operational excellence in your process.

They deliver maximum, sustainable plant performance – with an increased return on investment.

Operator Training Simulators (OTS) are advanced computer-based training tools. These tools assist in giving operators the skills they require in order to run a process or plant.

Through the use of a DYNSIM Dynamic Simulation model that controls the plant responses, operators learn how to manage a refinery in a virtual control room. This offers trainees the opportunity to learn how to react appropriately, should a similar event take place in the actual plant.

By applying AVEVA OTS solutions, companies are empowered to address challenges before they occur in reality. This helps them to remain competitive in the global economy.

Streamline order flow and production execution while tracking the transformation of products from raw materials to finished goods. Evaluate and analyse yield, quality, and plant resource utilisation.

Improve your business’ operational efficiencies by minimising production costs and losses with visibility into manufacturing execution. A model-driven MES approach makes possible the standardisation of operational processes, equipment and activities for faster gains in productivity, quality as well as cost savings in multi-site operations.

Digital manufacturing execution reduces production costs by maximising throughput, reducing scrap and rework as well as providing higher-quality products. Increased transparency in order fulfilment, together with reduced variance in product quality increases customer satisfaction. Simultaneously, increased responsiveness to unforeseen events or product quarantine/recalls ensures brand equity as well as consumer safety.

Unique data collection and execution capabilities on automated plant equipment make our integrated manufacturing execution solution a first choice for automated production or the manufacturing of fast-moving goods (FMG). Synchronise human and machine actions dynamically. Manage human processes by applying our sophisticated workflow management capabilities.

Access to accurate, timely and relevant information is necessary in the process industries in order to ensure peak performance, as well as meet operational requirements. Our solutions for the process industries smoothly integrate with plant, business and process information to ensure value chain visibility, as well as bringing real-time data into the decision-making process. This creates the maximum level of efficiency possible for both plant asset and personnel.

Andrew Michelmore, Chief Executive Officer, MMG Limited