AAIMS - Advanced Analytical Instrument Management System- (O)

AAIMS provides many features to improve analyzer performance and efficiency in analyzer maintenance by reducing unnecessary checking and focusing on bad analyzers.

Features

Standard Human Machine Interface (HMI)

AAIMS provides top down overview of analyzers from plant or house/shelter showing real-time analyzer status such as normal, faulty, maintenance etc. One click operation to trigger validation or maintenance. Provides various tools like KPIs, SQC charts and reports to visualize analyzer performance

Support for various types of analyzers

AAIMS supports various types of analyzers ranging from simple to complex analyzers. Supported analyzers include GC , pH, conductivity, O2, NIR etc.

Support for various validation methods

AAIMS supports the following validations

• Reference Validation
• Line Sample Validation
• Reference Measurement Validation
• Filter Method
• Response Time Method

Support for various validation Execution modes

AAIMS supports Automatic Validation,Manual Validation,Schedule Validation and Line Sample Validation

Standardized Operations through Workflows

AAIMS provides standard workflows that can be used to standardize operations for various types of validations and procedures. New workflows can be added to the system if required with minimum effort.

Configurable user inerface through graphic templates

AAIMS provides basic templates for plant/house/analyzer user interface for various types of analyzers. New templates can be easily added to the system and configured according to the customer's needs with minimum effort.
Multilingual Support (English, and Chinese)Multilingual support enables standardizing the analyzer management operations globally. User can select the language at the time of login.

Functions

 

Functions		Description
Hierarchy management	Plant hierarchy	Plant layout configuration
System configuration	User configuration	Users and their access rights configuration
	Entire rule configuration	SQC Rule configuration for the entire plant
	Timeout setting	Configure timeout settings for validation/ maintenance/breakdown adhoc requests
	Activity Setting	Configure maintenance and breakdown activities
Views	Plant Overview	Displays plant view showing houses status
	House Overview	Displays house view showing analyzers status
	Analyser overview	Display detailed analyser status information and basic KPI information.
	Analyser details	View or set analyser basic information.
	LIMS data overview	View auto LIMS records.
	SQC chart	View SQC chart
	Trend	View the measure values trend chart.
Validation	Auto validation	Perform analyzer validation automatically.
	Manual validation	Perform analyser validation manually.
	Schedule auto validation	Configure auto validation schedule
	Validation record view	View or modify the validation records
	LIMS comparison	Perform validation with laboratorial data.
	Significant test record view	View the significant test records.
	SQC chart	View SQC chart
Alarms & Events	Alarms record view	View the alarm records
	Events record view	View the event records.
Maintenance	Switch to maintenance	Switch analyser to maintenance mode and record the maintenance information
	Maintenance record view	View the maintenance records.
Breakdown	Switch to breakdown	Switch analyser to breakdown mode and record the breakdown information
	Breakdown record view	View the breakdown records.
KPI	Basic KPI	Basic KPI details like availability rate, breakdown rate, checking rate and reproducibility rate
	Advanced KPI	Advanced KPIs like MTTR, MTTC, MTBF etc.
Rule Configuration	SQC rule configuration	View or set analyser SQC rule configuration.

Benefits for Management

Reduction in manpower

Reduction of man hours can be achieved through automatic data validation and the use of a statistical analysis tool to plot SQC charts

Lower costs

By maximizing plant operability substantial operational costs can be reduced.
Using the template based engineering approach, deployment and training costs can be lowered.
Reduced use of chemical e.g. the boiler feed water, blowdown etc
Reduction in energy consumption e.g. reduce excess O2 in furnace

Operational Benefits

Automatic statistical analysis of the analyser data

Automatic statistical analysis of the analyser data and plot the collected validity results and lab comparison results on statistical quality control (SQC) charts

Real-time data accquisition

Automatically collects real-time measured data and fault alarms from analyzers which minimizes manual data handling.

Improvement of analyser performance

Interpret and display analyzer KPIs such as availability,reproducibility, and problem frequency rates to improve analyzer performance.

Improvement in maintenance efficiency

AAIMS enables the following to improve maintenance efficiency

• Automatic data collection and data interpretation
• Documentation of analyser maintenance & validation activities
• Statistical analysis of validation results
• Analyser performance analysis (e.g. KPI,reports)
• Identify good practices and bad actors
• Reduction of unnecessary checking
• Proactive maintenance

Simplified operations interface

Simplified user inerface for analyzer management and monitoring. Drilldown navigation from Plant Overview to House/Shelter Overview and to Analzer Overview

Customizable operations interface

Customizable Interface for all types of analyzers to perform validity checks and maintenance.

Improves operator's confidence

By providing the transperancy of analyzer performance operator's confidence over analyzer performance can be improved

Applicable Industries

• Refinery
• Petrochemical
• Pharmaceutical
• Chemical
• Power
• Oother similar industries