Knowledge hub

Base your design decisions on rigorous engineering calculation results:

• Check the design size of critical equipment
• Determine adequate protection systems
• Validate proposed control strategies and philosophies
• Design and test operational procedures
• Determine the operational envelop, check the safety limits and select piping material
• Use the digital plant as a process intelligence repository

Train operators earlier in their careers. Be independent of DCS database delivery:

• Detect operational limits of the system
• Familiarize operators with the processes in the plant-to-be
• Train operators to become accustomed to the designed Human Machine Interface
• lnvolve experienced operations personnel in testing and enhance initially proposed operational procedures, already under timing and transitions conditions

Ensure DCS database is error free before plant commissioning:

• Use the plant model to check out and debug the configuration of the logic in the Distributed Control System
• Also check out the logic implemented in the Emergency Shutdown system and the procedures in Automated Sequences
• Decide the values of the alarms against simulated plant responses
• Pre-tune control loops before commissioning
• Check operability of HMI screens configuration

Avoid delays in plant start-ups using the expertise of Inprocess' OTS engineers

• Establish the knowledge and know­-how requirements for the operations team; design a training program to fill the gaps, and then implement it
• Evaluate on-site alternative procedures for start-ups
• Troubleshoot potential issues with controllers tuning, alarms settings, start-up procedure, safety systems ...
• lntegrate the control room and the field operators into a single operations team

Train your operations staff with an exact replica of the control room configuration.

• Train your control room operators trained on start-up procedures sufficiently in advance
• Train operators on plant normal operation; on load changes; on emergency situations; on planned plant shutdowns and start-ups, from hot- and cold­- conditions
• Coach staff on how to react faced with equipment and instrumentation malfunctions
• lnvolve field operators with 3D lmmersive Training Simulators and Virtual Reality