Great Article in DOWNSTREAMTODAY

Great Article in DOWNSTREAMTODAY highlighting the aging workforce

Mindful that "50 percent of today's 10 million oil and gas workers are eligible to retire in 2015", GE Oil & Gas CEO Daniel Heintzelman said that the entire industry faces a “human resources challenge".

Read the full article on DOWNSTREAMTODAY!

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How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?

OK, here is the contest question:
"How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?" 

According to Dr. Rachel McCarthy, which of the following are requirements for making good decisions when it comes to choosing crudes?

A. Accurate Data
B. Consistent Data
C. Ability to Share Expertise & Experience
D. Real-Time Information & Results
E. All of the Above

The first 2 people to post the correct answer as a comment to THIS post with the question will win an 4GB USB memory stick!

A 3rd 4GB USB memory stick will be raffled off on Tuesday morning (February 5th) to everyone that guessed an answer as a comment to THIS post but didn't win the original contest.

Remember, you must post your answer as a comment to this post in order to be considered.

Rules:

• ONLY RESPONSES IN THE BLOG COMMENT FIELD ARE ELIGIBLE TO WIN - any replies  via email or LinkedIn are not eligible unless they are also posted in the blog comment section of this post
• Sorry Invensys employees, you are not eligible for this contest, but feel free to contact me with your guess.

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One more chance today for the free webinar & contest: "How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?"

One more chance to register and view the live webinar today entitled entitled "How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?" 


Register and view the webinar and then immediately after the presentation, I will post a question on the blog about the content from the webinar- the first 2 people to post the correct answer as a comment to the post with the question will win an 4GB USB memory stick!

A 3rd 4GB USB memory stick will be raffled off on Tuesday morning (February 5th) to everyone that guessed an answer but didn't win.

Rules:

• ONLY RESPONSES IN THE BLOG COMMENT FIELD ARE ELIGIBLE TO WIN - any replies  via email or LinkedIn are not eligible unless they are also posted in the blog comment section of this post
• Sorry Invensys employees, you are not eligible for this contest, but feel free to contact me with your guess.
• Time that I got the stats for the most popular post and search term was 7:02 eastern on 1/4/2013
• Contest ends at 5:00 pm eastern on 1/11/13 or when the first person answers correctly for each question. 
• The same person can not win both prizes
• Correction - they are 4 GB USB drives, not 6 GB as previously posted.

GOOD LUCK

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Invensys Yield Accounting Solution

http://iom.invensys.com/EN/Pages/Solutions_InvensysYieldAccountingSolution.aspx

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Sorry for the technical difficulties during the webinar today

We will record tomorrow's webinar and use that for the on-demand webinar. Anyone who registered will also get a copy of the slides.

I will post the contest question shortly after tomorrow's webinar.

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Repost: Want to work for Invensys? - We Are Hiring!

Visit us on Facebook to learn more!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Invensys-Operations-Management-Careers/160516690754565

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Win a 4GB Memory Stick: Register and view the webinar and answer a question

So, if you didn't already know where have webinars scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday entitled "How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?"

Register and view the webinar and then on Thursday after the second presentation, I will ask a question about the content - the first 2 people to post the correct answer as a comment to the post with the question will win an 4GB USB memory stick! A 3rd 4GB USB memory stick will be raffled off on Tuesday morning to everyone that guessed an answer but didn't win.

Rules:

• ONLY RESPONSES IN THE BLOG COMMENT FIELD ARE ELIGIBLE TO WIN - any replies  via email or LinkedIn are not eligible unless they are also posted in the blog comment section of this post
• Sorry Invensys employees, you are not eligible for this contest, but feel free to contact me with your guess.
• Time that I got the stats for the most popular post and search term was 7:02 eastern on 1/4/2013
• Contest ends at 5:00 pm eastern on 1/11/13 or when the first person answers correctly for each question. 
• The same person can not win both prizes
• Correction - they are 4 GB USB drives, not 6 GB as previously posted.

GOOD LUCK

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What is assay knowledge management?

Guest Blogger, Emma Price, Customer Relationship Manager for Spiral Software

Spiral was founded with a vision to transform the oil industry’s use of software, helping to maximise the value of every drop of crude oil. The inspiration behind this was twofold.

Firstly, the evolving industry context creates new challenges and opportunities. Refiners are seeing a more diverse feedstock market than ever before—diverse in both quality and pricing. There are now many crude oils available which present some processing challenges in return for a discounted market price. At the same time, product specifications are becoming more stringent and legislation is tightening around safer operational limits. Put together, this makes a confident understanding of feedstock refining behaviour more important than it has ever been.

Secondly, the new capabilities of information technology enable effective collaboration, even across huge global organisations. It is perfectly realistic to gather real-time information from operating sites and provide meaningful analytics that help users collaborate to make the best possible decisions. This is the step from looking at assay data as simply a set of laboratory measurements to seeing it as “assay knowledge”: bringing together assay measurement with operational data, refinery models, past experience, market information and even news feeds.

This is what we mean by “assay knowledge management” and since 1998, our tools span this whole space: from traditional implementations at laboratories that help them validate and work-up assay data, through to oil major implementations with over 2,500 users in a single enterprise, spanning every area of the business, across upstream exploration, feedstock trading, strategy and operations.

This pushes well outside the bounds of legacy assay management software. For example, some of the largest commodity trading companies use our tools to run thousands of cases to understand how markets would react to feedstock and refining capacity changes. In parallel, engineering and consulting companies use our tools to analyse strategic investments, understanding the future value and risk of capital investments and green field developments.

Look for the upcoming webinar!

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Free Webinar tomorrow or Thursday; How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?

IT ISN'T TOO LATE TO REGISTER!

How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil? Make better business decisions about feedstocks in real-time with Assay Knowledge Management Join us for the next webinar. Wed, Jan 30 2 p.m. EST [19:00 GMT] Thu, Jan 31 13:00 GMT [8 a.m. EST] Who should attendPlant Managers, Engineers, Operations Managers, Planners, Supply Traders Why attend Make informed decisions when sourcing and refining crude oil Track the quality of feedstocks and share crude oil data across an enterprise Evaluate the impact of variations in crude quality on your refinery operating plan See how other refiners are effectively using Assay Knowledge Management Adequately understanding the properties of available feedstocks is essential for making business decisions that affect refinery profitability. Assay Knowledge Management is a powerful toolset that enables refiners to understand and evaluate feedstocks and make better, more profitable decisions given a refinery's constraints. Assay Knowledge Management brings together assay measurements, refinery data and models, past refining experience, and market information enabling optimal feedstock selection for a given set of variables. Effective Assay Knowledge Management can increase margins by 50 cents/barrel by enabling a wider crude diet. Register now and learn how you can measurably improve your refinery's profitability!		Speakers Samuel Duby, Solutions Consultant Rachel McCarthy, Solutions Consultant Spiral software, an Invensys company.
Copyright © 2013 Invensys Inc. All rights reserved. 10900 Equity Drive | Houston, TX 77041 USA | 1.713.329.1600

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Win a 4GB Memory Stick: Notes: Register and view the webinar and answer a question

So, if you didn't already know where have webinars scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday entitled "How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?"

Register and view the webinar and then on Thursday after the second presentation, I will ask a question about the content - the first 2 people to post the correct answer as a comment to the post with the question will win an 4GB USB memory stick! A 3rd 4GB USB memory stick will be raffled off on Tuesday morning to everyone that guessed an answer but didn't win.

Rules:

• ONLY RESPONSES IN THE BLOG COMMENT FIELD ARE ELIGIBLE TO WIN - any replies  via email or LinkedIn are not eligible unless they are also posted in the blog comment section of this post
• Sorry Invensys employees, you are not eligible for this contest, but feel free to contact me with your guess.
• Time that I got the stats for the most popular post and search term was 7:02 eastern on 1/4/2013
• Contest ends at 5:00 pm eastern on 1/11/13 or when the first person answers correctly for each question. 
• The same person can not win both prizes
• Correction - they are 4 GB USB drives, not 6 GB as previously posted.

GOOD LUCK

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Interesting quote on brand and perception

"Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room" - Jeff Bezos

I saw this quote on a LinkedIn feed yesterday, and it got me thinking about how correct Jeff Bezos is.

What do you say about SimSci-Esscor products when we aren't in the room? 

Would you want to tell me? I would be happy to listen if you want to share. 

Maybe together we can change that perception about SimSci-Esscor for everyone. 

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Line Sizing using PRO/II

Line Sizing using PRO/II

1.       Place a Pipe unit-op on the flowsheet and attach it with inlet and outlet stream.

2.       Select the units of measure, components and thermodynamics as required.

3.       Input the stream data.

4.       Double click on the Pipe unit-op to open its Data Entry Window and select the Line Sizing – Forward Calculation radio button.



5.       Click on Line/Fitting Data and enter the line or fitting data

         Click OK.

6.       Click on Line Sizing data and enter the required information

        The primary sizing criterion is based on pressure so enter either a maximum pressure drop or minimum outlet pressure. User can also change the Pipe Diameters that are used in sizing search and the maximum Average Fluid Velocity.

7.      Run the simulation and view results. There are many ways of viewing the results the below is a snapshot of results in html format.

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Automation World Readers Name Invensys a “First Team” Supplier

Check this out!

Automation World Readers Name Invensys a “First Team” Supplier

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ROMeo Intelligence: Successfully Synergizing Technologies

Invensys introduces new integrated technology, ROMeo Intelligence, for optimal plant performance. 

When investing in SimSci-Esscor ROMeo, customers are aiming to optimize performance at their plant. ROMeo results, however, are not always the easiest to interpret, making optimization more difficult. Not anymore.

ROMeo customers now have the option to implement a new Invensys solution, ROMeo Intelligence, a powerful combination of Wonderware Intelligence and ROMeo software. ROMeo provides the real-time information needed to improve profitability and performance, while Wonderware Intelligence presents this information in a clear and concise manner.

Key information made easy 

At the request of many ROMeo customers, ROMeo Intelligence is born. Making the information as clear as possible is imperative for optimizing performance. Wonderware Intelligence is user friendly and offers a real-time graphical display of important operations information or key performance indicators that will aid users in making timely business and operating decisions.

A highlighted benefit of Wonderware Intelligence is the ability to view data in various formats, such as personalized dashboards, SharePoint sites or custom portals. The user friendly Wonderware Intelligence Dashboard, for instance, allows for key data derived from ROMeo to be viewed and interpreted quickly via a color-coding system. Any operator, no matter the experience level, will be able to analyze the data. Furthermore, Wonderware Intelligence’s Sensitivity Analysis feature explains how changes to the system will affect operation, and will also help train a less experienced workforce, an overwhelming issue in many of today’s refineries. In essence, Wonderware Intelligence software tracks refinery performance so personnel can actually view the progress being made with ROMeo. 

ROMeo Intelligence: The Ultimate Package Deal

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Free Webinar; How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?

How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil? Make better business decisions about feedstocks in real-time with Assay Knowledge Management Join us for the next webinar. Wed, Jan 30 2 p.m. EST [19:00 GMT] Thu, Jan 31 13:00 GMT [8 a.m. EST] Who should attendPlant Managers, Engineers, Operations Managers, Planners, Supply Traders Why attend Make informed decisions when sourcing and refining crude oil Track the quality of feedstocks and share crude oil data across an enterprise Evaluate the impact of variations in crude quality on your refinery operating plan See how other refiners are effectively using Assay Knowledge Management Adequately understanding the properties of available feedstocks is essential for making business decisions that affect refinery profitability. Assay Knowledge Management is a powerful toolset that enables refiners to understand and evaluate feedstocks and make better, more profitable decisions given a refinery's constraints. Assay Knowledge Management brings together assay measurements, refinery data and models, past refining experience, and market information enabling optimal feedstock selection for a given set of variables. Effective Assay Knowledge Management can increase margins by 50 cents/barrel by enabling a wider crude diet. Register now and learn how you can measurably improve your refinery's profitability!		Speakers Samuel Duby, Solutions Consultant Rachel McCarthy, Solutions Consultant Spiral software, an Invensys company.
Copyright © 2013 Invensys Inc. All rights reserved. 10900 Equity Drive | Houston, TX 77041 USA | 1.713.329.1600

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repost: Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI? If so, we may have a job for you.

We are looking to contract with a market analyst, editor, or someone highly respected in industry to generate content that explains the value and benefits for  Optimization, Stimulation  Operator Training, Off-sites. It is always a better message if it comes from a 3^rd party – and we want you to help quantify the benefits. If we contract with you, we would publicize your content in various ways, including right here on this blog.

Please contact me if you are interested.

Regards,

Joe

Joseph.McMullen@Invensys.com

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Control Engineering: Challenges of offshore oil and gas production

The article below appeared in Control Engineering:

Challenges of offshore oil and gas production

Working in more extreme environments is driving improvements in networking, and standards development for subsea automation systems. Sophisticated equipment on the sea floor has to communicate topside.

by: John M. Gilmore, Jr. - Invensys Operations Management



Read the entire article on Control Engineering here

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Why Recovery is Imminent in US Manufacturing

Why Recovery is Imminent in US Manufacturing

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From Fuel Fix: Global refining boom could challenge U.S. exports

I found this extremely interesting - what do you think?

From Fuel Fix: Refinery expansion projects could add as much as 9 million barrels a day to the world’s transportation fuel supply over the next five years, according to a report from Hart Energy.

Read the rest of the article here

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Free Webinar; How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil?

How to maximize the value of every drop of crude oil? Make better business decisions about feedstocks in real-time with Assay Knowledge Management Join us for the next webinar. Wed, Jan 30 2 p.m. EST [19:00 GMT] Thu, Jan 31 13:00 GMT [8 a.m. EST] Who should attend Plant Managers, Engineers, Operations Managers, Planners, Supply Traders Why attend Make informed decisions when sourcing and refining crude oil Track the quality of feedstocks and share crude oil data across an enterprise Evaluate the impact of variations in crude quality on your refinery operating plan See how other refiners are effectively using Assay Knowledge Management Adequately understanding the properties of available feedstocks is essential for making business decisions that affect refinery profitability. Assay Knowledge Management is a powerful toolset that enables refiners to understand and evaluate feedstocks and make better, more profitable decisions given a refinery's constraints. Assay Knowledge Management brings together assay measurements, refinery data and models, past refining experience, and market information enabling optimal feedstock selection for a given set of variables. Effective Assay Knowledge Management can increase margins by 50 cents/barrel by enabling a wider crude diet. Register now and learn how you can measurably improve your refinery's profitability!		Speakers Samuel Duby, Solutions Consultant Rachel McCarthy, Solutions Consultant Spiral software, an Invensys company.
Copyright © 2013 Invensys Inc. All rights reserved. 10900 Equity Drive | Houston, TX 77041 USA | 1.713.329.1600

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Batch Processing Gets a Boost | Chemical Processing

Batch Processing Gets a Boost | Chemical Processing

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IOM Yield Accounting: Improving Customers’ Bottom Line

To remain profitable in a competitive marketplace, customers can trust Invensys’ Yield Accounting Solution for accurate financial assessments and tracking.

In the face of a tough economic climate, IOM customers in refining, petrochemicals and processing cannot afford giving material away and incurring monetary losses due to internal error. Even a small percentage of unaccounted for material adds up during the course of a year and is likely to have a negative impact on a plant’s bottom line. Yield accounting, which closes the material balance by ensuring accurate tracking and financial assessment of receipts and shipments, may increase profitability in a facility by USD $ 4-5 million annually.

A variety of yield accounting solutions on the market today provide the necessary assistance in closing the balances. However, primary issues such as data quality, data reconciliation, and integration with data sources, have been reported with many of these solutions. 

IOM Yield Accounting: Simplifying the Process 

To address the problems associated with many other solutions of its kind, IOM designed a robust Yield Accounting solution integrating ErrorSolver, a third party yield accounting software, with Invensys’ existing Off-sites solutions. The end result enables customers to reduce the work time in half associated with reconciling and closing the balances. Data does not have to be imported by multiple sources or manually entered. This direct integration thus lessens the implementation time and eliminates a source of errors that arise from manual entry of tank and movement data.

Our solution leads the competition with its highly flexible and easy-to-use graphical modeling environment, automated gross error detection, composition tracking, and data reconciliation performance. Customers are now armed with the critical components to optimize performance in their workplace.

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Using MES in Your Centerlining Efforts

Using MES in Your Centerlining Efforts

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Want to work for Invensys? - We Are Hiring!

Visit us on Facebook to learn more!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Invensys-Operations-Management-Careers/160516690754565

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REPOST: OTS Speaker wanted for the ARC Meeting in Orlando in February

We are looking for a customer speaker for the OTS session at the ARC Forum in Orlando, FL. 

• Are you happy with your OTS from Invensys
• Has the OTS from Invensys helped your bottom line? 
• Has OTS from Invensys increased your efficiency in training operators?

If so, we would like you to share your experience on our behalf at the ARC’s World Industry Forum Transforming Manufacturing through New Processes and Technologies in Orlando, FL. February 11-14, 2013.

We invite you to speak for 20 minutes in the Operator Training Using Advanced Simulators session.

Session Description: In today’s business environment, companies are pushing their plants to the limits, while at the same time both processes and control systems are becoming increasingly more complex. Staffed largely with aging work forces, with many experienced workers getting ready to retire, companies need to ensure that they can continue to operate their plants in a safe, reliable, and profitable manner. Training such as operator training simulation systems (OTS), computer led training, mentor based training, gaming, 2D, 3D virtualization, and other methods are being used to train the new digital generation of workers. This session will include presentations and workshops that illustrate technologies, tools, and methodologies being used to train and develop today’s workers. We look forward to hearing how your customer addresses this.

Following the presentation an Invensys executive will join your customer for a Q&A Panel discussions on “Operator Training Using Advanced Simulators”, the session topic. These discussions will be moderated by an ARC Analyst and will feature your client speaker and your executive sponsor.

If you are interested, please let me know ASAP. I have to let the organizers know by Friday 1/18/2013.

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Repost: Technical Content vs Business content?

Technical Content vs Business content?

It’s a new year, the perfect time to consider the direction of the content for this blog.

Over the last 15 months or so, I have received over 51,000 blog views. I know that people are taking the time to read my postings but my goal is continually grow the readership and promote more conversation. 

1. What is the right amount of technical content for you?
2. Would you prefer to see posts on tips and tricks in various software programs, product releases, and sponsored events? (I would consider this technical content). 
3. Or would you prefer to see posts on higher level content such as industry trends or industry problems? (I would consider this business level content) .
4. If you would prefer a mixture, please let me know that too.

I value your feedback, so please take a minute to post a comment & let me know.  

Either way, I can’t position future post accordingly without feedback.

Take care and Happy New Year!

Joe

Please feel free to speak up. 
Here are some comments that I got with the original post: 

JImi BhattJanuary 12, 2013 at 1:33 AM

More Techical and More business level..
:)
There can never be too much of a good thing...

Rosmer ChirinoJanuary 12, 2013 at 12:49 PM

Hi. Well, My interest in this blog is because of the amount of tips, troubleshooting, simulating ideas, examples of how to simulate. Personally I prefer a 70% technical and 30% of information related to webinars, training and information about the business in the world. Something that has never been posted tips is about Hextran and Dynsim simulators. I like the blog and the Invensys suite. I am a regular user of the package SimSci in my company.

Best Regards,
Rosmer Chirino
Process Design and Simulation Spec.
The Palito Refinery.

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Repost: Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI? If so, we may have a job for you.

We are looking to contract with a market analyst, editor, or someone highly respected in industry to generate content that explains the value and benefits for  Optimization, Stimulation  Operator Training, Off-sites. It is always a better message if it comes from a 3^rd party – and we want you to help quantify the benefits. If we contract with you, we would publicize your content in various ways, including right here on this blog.

Please contact me if you are interested.

Regards,

Joe

Joseph.McMullen@Invensys.com

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OTS Speaker wanted for the ARC Meeting in Orlando in February

We are looking for a customer speaker for the OTS session at the ARC Forum in Orlando, FL. 

• Are you happy with your OTS from Invensys
• Has the OTS from Invensys helped your bottom line? 
• Has OTS from Invensys increased your efficiency in training operators?

If so, we would like you to share your experience on our behalf at the ARC’s World Industry Forum Transforming Manufacturing through New Processes and Technologies in Orlando, FL. February 11-14, 2013.

We invite you to speak for 20 minutes in the Operator Training Using Advanced Simulators session.

Session Description: In today’s business environment, companies are pushing their plants to the limits, while at the same time both processes and control systems are becoming increasingly more complex. Staffed largely with aging work forces, with many experienced workers getting ready to retire, companies need to ensure that they can continue to operate their plants in a safe, reliable, and profitable manner. Training such as operator training simulation systems (OTS), computer led training, mentor based training, gaming, 2D, 3D virtualization, and other methods are being used to train the new digital generation of workers. This session will include presentations and workshops that illustrate technologies, tools, and methodologies being used to train and develop today’s workers. We look forward to hearing how your customer addresses this.

Following the presentation an Invensys executive will join your customer for a Q&A Panel discussions on “Operator Training Using Advanced Simulators”, the session topic. These discussions will be moderated by an ARC Analyst and will feature your client speaker and your executive sponsor.

If you are interested, please let me know ASAP. I have to let the organizers know by Friday 1/18/2013.

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Better Yield Accounting Methods Improve Financial Results

Guest Blogger: Kaylen McMullen, Marketing Assistant, Invensys Operations Management

Better Yield Accounting Methods Improve Financial Results

Refineries, petrochemical plants, and other processing facilities cannot afford to be giving material away and incurring monetary losses due to internal error, especially in such tough economic times. In order to remain profitable in a competitive marketplace, these facilities must ensure accurate tracking and financial assessment of receipts and shipments. Even a small percentage of unaccounted for material adds up during the course of a year and is likely to have a negative impact on a plant’s profitability. Having the ability to accurately close the material balance, while also detecting faulty measurements, also signifies improved quality in performance. Closing the material balance may increase profitability in a facility by $4-5 million each year.

Implementing yield accounting practices and technology in processing facilities will allow for better tracking of material, closure of the material balance, reduced book losses, and proper assessment of the facility’s financial performance. Today’s yield accounting software solutions provide necessary assistance in closing the balances by identifying measurement and data entry errors, performing mathematical reconciliation of the plant measurements and accurately reporting reconciled consumption and production information to the financial systems. Primary issues associated with popular yield accounting solutions include data quality, data reconciliation, and integration with data sources.

A yield accounting solution was designed by Invensys Operations Management to address the problems associated with many other solutions of its kind. The Invensys Yield Accounting solution integrated ErrorSolver, a 3rd party yield accounting software, with Invensys’ existing Off-sites solutions so data does not have to be imported by multiple sources or be manually entered. This direct integration lessens the implementation time and eliminates a source of errors that arise from manual entry of tank and movement data. The solution leads the competition with its highly flexible and easy-to-use graphical modeling environment, automated gross error detection, composition tracking, and data reconciliation performance. ErrorSolver users have reported that the work time to reconcile and close the balances has been cut in half. The Invensys solution provides the critical components necessary to optimize performance in the workplace.

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Calgary Event Next Week - 22 Jan 2013 - Aging Workforce? Operator Training? Improve your bottom line with modern, efficient training techniques

Aging Workforce? Operator Training? Improve your bottom line with modern, efficient training techniques Join us on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire for a rare insight into how companies are using simulation and virtual reality technologies to optimize workforce performance – to dramatically reduce “time to experience” for their technical workforce. Learn how you can: Continuously improve workforce performance Measure proficiency and competency Attract the next generation of technical talent Improve retention of your best people Improve safety and avoid operational pitfalls Dr. Peter Martin, VP Business Value Solutions, Invensys, will discuss a new strategy for achieving workforce performance excellence.You’ll see a live demo and also learn from your peers as a special guest speaker, a simulator training expert in the field, will explain his company’s experience with this novel approach to training. Seating is limited. Please register now to reserve your seat.		Where Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire - 255 Barclay Parade Southwest Calgary, AB T2P 5C2, Canada, (403) 266-7200 When Tuesday, January 22, 2012, 2 to 4 p.m.; Drinks and appetizers 4-5 p.m. Who should attend? CEOs, CTOs, VPs, Plant Managers, Operations Managers, Human Resource Managers, Training Managers, Engineering ManagersSpeaker Peter Martin, Vice President, Business Value Solutions Peter is credited with leading the enterprise control movement toward converging real-time accounting measures with operational KPIs as the basis for driving measureable bottom line performance improvements.
Copyright © 2012-2013 Invensys Inc. All rights reserved. 10900 Equity Drive | Houston, TX 77041 USA | 1.713.329.1600

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Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in the Hydrocarbon Processing Industry?

Interested in writing about refining? Are you an analyst, editor or highly respected in HPI? If so, we may have a job for you.

We are looking to contract with a market analyst, editor, or someone highly respected in industry to generate content that explains the value and benefits for  Optimization, Stimulation  Operator Training, Off-sites. It is always a better message if it comes from a 3^rdparty – and we want you to help quantify the benefits. If we contract with you, we would publicize your content in various ways, including right here on this blog.

Please contact me if you are interested.

Regards,

Joe

Joseph.McMullen@Invensys.com”

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Automation World Readers Name Invensys a “First Team” Supplier

Company recognized in several Leadership in Automation Program categories

JANUARY 08, 2013 / PLANO, TEXAS - Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the manufacturing and infrastructure operations industries, has been selected a First Team supplier in Automation World magazine’s recently completed Leadership in Automation 2012 program. Launched in January 2011, the annual program invites automation professionals to vote for their favorite automation vendors in aided and unaided-recall surveys.

Read the full release here: News Release

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Technical Content vs Business content?

Technical Content vs Business content?

It’s a new year, the perfect time to consider the direction of the content for this blog.

Over the last 15 months or so, I have received over 51,000 blog views. I know that people are taking the time to read my postings but my goal is continually grow the readership and promote more conversation. 

1. What is the right amount of technical content for you?
2. Would you prefer to see posts on tips and tricks in various software programs, product releases, and sponsored events? (I would consider this technical content). 
3. Or would you prefer to see posts on higher level content such as industry trends or industry problems? (I would consider this business level content) .
4. If you would prefer a mixture, please let me know that too.

I value your feedback, so please take a minute to post a comment & let me know.  

Either way, I can’t position future post accordingly without feedback.

Take care and Happy New Year!

Joe

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Calgary Event - 22 Jan 2013 - Aging Workforce? Operator Training? Improve your bottom line with modern, efficient training techniques

Aging Workforce? Operator Training? Improve your bottom line with modern, efficient training techniques Join us on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire for a rare insight into how companies are using simulation and virtual reality technologies to optimize workforce performance – to dramatically reduce “time to experience” for their technical workforce. Learn how you can: Continuously improve workforce performance Measure proficiency and competency Attract the next generation of technical talent Improve retention of your best people Improve safety and avoid operational pitfalls Dr. Peter Martin, VP Business Value Solutions, Invensys, will discuss a new strategy for achieving workforce performance excellence.You’ll see a live demo and also learn from your peers as a special guest speaker, a simulator training expert in the field, will explain his company’s experience with this novel approach to training. Seating is limited. Please register now to reserve your seat.		Where Sheraton Suites Calgary Eau Claire - 255 Barclay Parade Southwest Calgary, AB T2P 5C2, Canada, (403) 266-7200 When Tuesday, January 22, 2012, 2 to 4 p.m.; Drinks and appetizers 4-5 p.m. Who should attend? CEOs, CTOs, VPs, Plant Managers, Operations Managers, Human Resource Managers, Training Managers, Engineering ManagersSpeaker Peter Martin, Vice President, Business Value Solutions Peter is credited with leading the enterprise control movement toward converging real-time accounting measures with operational KPIs as the basis for driving measureable bottom line performance improvements.
Copyright © 2012-2013 Invensys Inc. All rights reserved. 10900 Equity Drive | Houston, TX 77041 USA | 1.713.329.1600

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