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Introduction to Visa 
VISA is a suite of software applications designed to optimize operations, delivering
timely and accurate information to operational and management staff. This helps
decision making, improving efficiency and profits.
Business Benefits
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Reduced Unplanned Downtime |
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Improved Decision Making |
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Optimized Performance |
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Improved Yield |
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Empowerment of Operators |
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Improved Operator Response |
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Improved Plant Utilization |
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Effective Emissions Management |
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Optimized Planning/Scheduling Cycles |
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Better Stock Control |
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Integrated Planning Cycles |
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| Operational Benefits |
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Improved Maintenance Scheduling |
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Faster Response To Failures |
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Timely, Accurate Information |
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Reconciled Balances |
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KPI Analysis, Reports & Alarms |
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Business Driven Plant Control |
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Business Performance Indices |
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Open Access Log-Book Allows Shorter Shift Handovers |
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Improved Environmental Control |
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Functional Overview
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VISA provides a suite of applications that facilitate
user-contextual presentation and management of operational information.
These applications include, but are not limited to:
Laboratory Information Management (LIMS) |
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Providing a structured solution to entry, management and storage
of LIMS data. Plant Information Management System (PIMS)
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| Plant Information Management System (PIMS) |
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Providing business intelligent pre-processing, long
term data storage and presentation of data from process control systems.
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| Environmental Monitoring |
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Providing real-time monitoring, calculation, alarming
and reporting for all emissions, reducing risk of legislative non-compliance
and demonstrating due diligence in emissions management strategies.
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| Mass Balancing |
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Providing hourly, shift and daily mass or energy balances
based on volume, mass or mole at plant or unit level.
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| Production Accounting |
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Expands on the validated balance data to provide a suite of production
reports relating to inventories, utilizations, consumptions, receipt,
sales etc.
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| Performance Monitoring |
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The combination of balance data with additional operational
data to calculate key performance indicators such as yields and efficiencies,
which are then presented in actual versus plan reports.
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| Data Reconciliation |
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Providing process data validation and measurement inference
to guarantee the accuracy and quality of data. |
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Key Features
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Easy access to current and historic data |
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Retrospective calculations for closing and reclosing accounting
periods |
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Manual inputs such as process data, operator notes and instructions
are controlled via e-Logbook |
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Simple report selection tools allow users to save and reuse
reports |
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Powerful trended history access, including easy to use built-in
correlation and regression functions |
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Standardized environmental pollution measurement and reporting |
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Standardized performance monitoring reports |
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Business performance alarming through email and SMS |
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Mass or energy balancing at run time to infer missing values |
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Automatic mass balance reports available, shown by volume
or mole component |
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Macro-scale mall balance reports using data reconciliation
with no additional configuration |
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Automatic Production Accounting reports including data closure
functionality |
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Web enabled data access tools |
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