What is Off-site & Terminal Management?
Off-site Movement, Blending, and Terminal Management Solution
A terminal or large depot is a storage area where Oil, Gas, or Chemical products are received through cross-country pipelines, tanker trucks and/or marine vessels, which are then stored in a tank farm. These products are re-distributed by truck, barge, rail car, or other means. Yokogawa has accumulated more than 2 decades of experience in terminal automation and offers comprehensive knowledge and expertise in improving your logistic operations.
"Refining" is a process to produce various oil products from crude oil, to blend them into the final products and to ship to the decided destinations. In the refinery, process units called "on-site facilities". The other facilities in the refinery is called "off-site facilities" including storage facilities, oil movement facilities and blending facilities, etc. Yokogawa proposes the solutions for automating and optimizing the off-site operations.
Customer Challenge
Shipping Customer Orders Within the Quality, Safely, Efficiently, and Accurately is a Perennial Problem in Terminal Operations
A typical medium size terminal has more than 1,500 transfer operations a day, and countless sub-operations (line clearances, heating, circulation, etc.)
- Every transfer and sub-operation needs to be tracked and recorded in detail, so that it can be charged to the client
- Contamination & Demurrage caused by operation mistakes and equipment
- Complexity due to multiple clients sharing resources
- Uncertainty caused by shipping schedule, assets availability, parcel availability, etc
- Gain/Loss accounting
- Identification of shrinkage
- Traffic Management
- Blending
Our Solutions
Terminal Logistics Suite VP (TLSVP)Helps You Overcome Your Challenges
Improve Safety: Interlock procedures to avoid mis-operations, and integrated smart-alarm management to help reduce operator load, improving overall safety
Improve Efficiency: Enabled by automated equipment scheduling, flexible route optimization, and blend recipe optimization. Together, these three ensure minimized turnaround time with optimized inventory usage
Improve Availability: Due to the inbuilt intelligence, TLSVP automatically re-route operations around failed equipment ensuring optimum terminal operations. TLSVP is able to provide this capability due to its integration with leading edge Plant Asset Management systems.
Improve Human Reliability: Simulated operations allow operators to learn in a safe environment - Advanced Operating Graphics supports the trained operators by making complex operations clear and simple, focusing on the most important tasks at hand - but when mistakes do happen, we catch them... the system will then track equipment services to avoid contamination
Customer Benefits
Increased Profit & Increased Availability by Overcoming Logistic Challenges
Reduce Demmurage for Vessel, Just in-time Delivery
- Precise and speedy operation result in less demmurate
Tracability of Operation, Materials, Products, Quality
- Event and operation is recorded sot
Support the Business Process from Purchase Order to Payment
- Seamless connectivity to ERP, business process and control process integration help operation more efficient and robust
Support to Keep Operation Safety, to Keep Quality Correct, to Keep Turn-around Time Short
- Precise instruction and accurate control results in improving turn-around time
- Procedural operational support improve safety without making mis-operation
Increase Profit
- Real-time Loading/Unloading information and inventory data helps to optimize operation
- Speed-up operations precisely
- Operational assists by the system lead to less mis-operation
- Optimization in logistics by using most efficient route, reducing line flushes
- Eliminate contamination
- Real-time terminal data ensures business sustainability
- Data tracking ensures quality throughout the whole process
Increase Availability
- Real-time inventory data ensures loading and delivery
- Equipment run-time monitoring provides maintenance timing to keep equipment functioning properly
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