Beyond Limits Operations Advisor
Optimize Operations to Capture the Full Refinery Margin
Product Overview
Product Overview

Operations Advisor is an AI-driven decision support system that maintains a holistic view of the entire site and makes timely, transparent recommendations that enable operators to close the profitability gap in real-time and maximize operational efficiency.

Industry problems addressed

Employ an Advisor that helps you overcome your refinery’s most critical challenges

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  • Crude Variability
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  • Reduced Margin from Market Oversupply
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Workforce turnover is driving the need to transfer knowledge and ensure aptitude.

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Driven by cost savings and availability on the market.

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Middle Eastern and Asia Pacific refineries are adding capacity while older plants in the west need to gain greater economies of scale.

Benefits

Employ the Operations Advisor to gain a crucial competitive edge

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  • Equip to Meet Profitability Plans
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  • Increase Crude Purchasing Options
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  • Codify Experience
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Remove the barriers between planning, engineering, and operator communications regarding how to optimize the facility to meet your changing operating plans.

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Provide your operations teams with an even better ability to consistently meet profitability plans, using intuitive guidance and specific instructions.

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Enable more tactical purchasing to increase crude options, including more economical heavy crude, while still meeting production expectations.

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Capture the knowledge and expertise of the most highly skilled operators and engineers before your best people retire.

Main features

Streamlined adoption for transparent recommendations, providing visibility into operations on a global scale

  • Digitized Plan
  • Live View Scorecards
  • Cognitive Trace
  • Retrospective Analysis

Digitized Plan


Engineers can configure through a GUI for symbolic inputs, using human-understandable representations of operational plans and constraints.

Live View Scorecards


An easy-to-use, tailored view provides a quick assessment of how your operating area is performing commercially and advises on mitigation steps for bringing operations back to plan, within safety and environmental limits and guidelines.

Cognitive Trace


Understand how and why a recommendation was provided by the Advisor with transparent and interactive audit trails for the remedial actions. Cognitive Trace is a computer operating system using Cognitive Artificial Intelligence for use in providing management, control, information, support, and answers to queries for complex data characterization, analytics, and decision support.

Retrospective Analysis


Get unparalleled insights into how operations are performing within the refinery, allowing for continuous improvements around mitigations and employee training.

  • Digitized Plan
  • Live View Scorecards
  • Cognitive Trace
  • Retrospective Analysis
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Digitized Plan


Engineers can configure through a GUI for symbolic inputs, using human-understandable representations of operational plans and constraints.

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Live View Scorecards


An easy-to-use, tailored view provides a quick assessment of how your operating area is performing commercially and advises on mitigation steps for bringing operations back to plan, within safety and environmental limits and guidelines.

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Cognitive Trace


Understand how and why a recommendation was provided by the Advisor with transparent and interactive audit trails for the remedial actions. Cognitive Trace is a computer operating system using Cognitive Artificial Intelligence for use in providing management, control, information, support, and answers to queries for complex data characterization, analytics, and decision support.

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Retrospective Analysis


Get unparalleled insights into how operations are performing within the refinery, allowing for continuous improvements around mitigations and employee training.

Customer Success Stories

 

Operations Advisor removes communication barriers between planning, engineering, and operations to meet ever-changing commercial plans. The Advisor is a no-code tool with fast operator adoption that expands crude selection options and optimizes across varying feedstocks. Consistently meet profitability plans using intuitive guidance and specific instructions.

  • BOOST EFFICIENCY WITH 17% GREATER TIME OPERATING ON PLAN
  • INCREASE HEAVY FEEDSTOCK UTILIZATION
  • ACCELERATE OPERATOR ADOPTION TIMETABLES
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