new refining operations management · 2018. 4. 24. · technology evolution: ai, cloud, industry...

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Refining Operations Management

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Yasser Ahmed

Senior Technical Consultant

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Challenges & Trends

Onboard with Refinery Operations

Management

Success Customer Cases

Conclusion

Refineries are Facing Internal and External Challenges

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Profit Margin Pressure

Utilization &

Availability Challenges

Workforce

Demographics

Advanced Analytics

Lean Management

Proactive Operations

DIG

ITA

LIZ

AT

ION

Supply risk,

price, availabilityEconomic cycles

Demand

weakens

growth

Environmental

Regulations

Competition

in margin, time

to market,

quality

Technology

evolution:

AI, Cloud,

Industry 4.0

New

generation of

workforce

External

• Communication silos

• Fragmented processes

• Lagging performance

management

• Delayed decision making

• Reactive in Culture

• Workforce gaps

Internal

Transforming the enterprise

• Incremental and innovative improvements are required

• Lessons learned: it takes more than technology

• Eliminate wasted work

– Data gathering

– Data transformation

• Standardize work

• Transform work – change

combinations of when,

where, which persons and

how work is performed


Innovative

Improvement

Incremental

Improvement

Both are

needed

“Knowledge” and “Wisdom”

Refining Operations ManagementDelivers value to the people, process

and assets of your business.

Driving speed and

data

Situationally aware of

direction and which

freeway, location

Early awareness of

traffic delay on my

route, so I can take

action

Alternative routes to

take actions based on

getting to destination

on time.

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Context

Experience

Judgement

Data brings:

Historized, operational performance

baseline from your people, process, assets

Information brings:

Contextualized process and asset

data for improved decision support

Knowledge brings:

Higher degree of process analysis,

optimization and experience

Wisdom brings:

Closed loop operational

efficiency across the enterprise

Assimilation

Connect & Collect brings:

Connectivity and intelligence to store and

process disparate data

WISDOM

KNOWLEDGE

INFORMATION

DATA

CONNECT & COLLECT

Effectively store and process disparate data

Historized, operational performance baseline

Contextualized understanding

Optimization Improvement

Sustained

Operational

excellence

DATA INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE WISDOMCONNECT &

COLLECT

Supply risk,

price,

availability

Demand

weakens

growth

Environmental

Regulations

Competition

in margin, time

to market,

quality

Technology

evolution:

AI, Cloud,

Industry 4.0

New

generation of

workforce

External

• Communication silos

• Fragmented processes

• Lagging performance

management

• Delayed decision making

• Workforce gaps

Internal

How Refining Operations Management enables Operational Excellence


• Eliminate wasted work

• Improve info usefulness

• Automate work

• Transform work

Refining Operations

Management

Economic

cycles

Refining Operations Management Key Features:

• Application-driven information using industry-

leading specialized applications trusted by

refining leaders

• Automated data processing and transformation

embedded in market-leading solutions with

advanced analytics

• Self-service, intuitive operations-focused portal

to improve refinery business performance

• Cross-domain collaboration console for all

functional teams to manage operational

decision-making lifecycle; to facilitate & remedy

actions, and to sustain best practices and

operational knowledge


• Dashboards

• Reports

• KPIs

• Workflows

• Excel export

• Trends

• Application Views

• Data Warehouse

• Decision Management

• Calculations

Performance

Manager

• Service Oriented

Architecture/Web

Services

• Enterprise Service Bus

• Orchestration

• Semantic TranslationApplication

Integration

Unit & Utilities

Optimization

Plan &

Schedule

Offsites

Optimization

Balancing Yield

Accounting

Predictive

Analytics

Operator

Rounds

LIMS

Logbook

Etc.

PeopleEmail, SMS

Performance ManagerAccelerated path to Balanced Process & Asset Performance


ProcessLIMS, DCS, Historian

ERP, Spreadsheets,

Optimization, Offsites

AssetPredictive Analytics

Condition monitoring

Enterprise Asset Management

Industry Operations Console

KPI

ManagerDecision

Manager

Master

Asset

Model

Event

Manager

CONNECT

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Industry Operations Console (home page) CONNECT

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KPI Manager (Data Sources)



KPI Manager



Event Manager



Decision Manager


Example User Experience

Refining Operations Management User

Experience - Heat Exchanger Performance

Management

• Efficiency and “remaining useful life” parameters are

automatically & frequently calculated and estimated

• Automated workflow triggers on thresholds

of efficiency or remaining useful life

• Operations teams make early and informed decisions

• Performance indicators and actions are logged

for benchmarking and continuous improvement

Traditional User Experience

Heat Exchanger Performance Management

• Symptoms of deteriorating performance after months

of operation is observed manually by operators or schedulers

• Process engineers perform occasional calculations among

other work requirements

• Operations teams make decisions at the last minute

on modifying schedules or targets

• No consistent logging of performance and actions


On-Line Rigorous

Simulation

Knowledge

Calculations

Human

Workflow

Logging and Case

Management

KPI

Calculations

A leading energy

company in

Gulf Coast, USA

Customer Success Stories


• Customer Coordination

• Planning and Scheduling

• Ship Unloading and Database

• Data Reconciliation, Mass and Energy Balance, Production

Accounting, Inventory Management

• Performance Management

• Operations Management (e-LogBook, Tank Information

Management)

• Maintenance Management

• Compliance Management

• Operator Training

• Real-time Database

• Enterprise-wide Visualization

• Integration (incl. ERP)

A leading

refinery in

Jubail,

Saudi Arabia

• Scheduling

• Data Reconciliation, Mass and Energy Balance, Production

Accounting



Management and Oil Movement)

• KPI & Boundary Management

• Laboratory Information Management System

• Logbook

• Health, Safety, & Environmental



• Integration

A leading

refinery in

Rabigh,

Saudi Arabia

• Planning and Scheduling (Integration only)

• Data Reconciliation, Mass and Energy Balance,

Production Accounting




• Alarm Management


• Logbook



• Integration

A leading

refinery in

Danquat,

Vietnam

• Planning and Scheduling

• Data Reconciliation, Mass and Energy Balance,

Production Accounting


• Operations Management (Tank Information




• CMMS

• EDMS (Documentum)

• Integration

• Multiple Unit Optimization @ Several Refineries

• Offsites @ Several RefineriesLeading refinery at

multiple sites across

globe

Takeaway


Refineries are challenged to sustain and improve margins, and retain knowledge

from a retiring workforce.1

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Refining Operations Management can be part of your business strategy to drive higher

profitability.

With a holistic approach, Refining Operations Management helps customers to

improve revenue by up to 5% and lower operation costs by up to 10%.

Refining Operations Management from Schneider Electric focuses on

transforming refinery operations’ business processes and workflows to address

the challenges.

Embarking on a journey of transformation based on Refinery Digitization is an

imperative for improved profitability and sustainability.

Questions?


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