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Introduction to UReason

Achieving Operational Excellence

UReason is

Anglo-Dutch Company with offices in Leiden and Maidenhead

Delivers real-time applications and solutions in the area of Operational Excellence

Customers in Europe, North-America and Middle-East. Industries: Oil & Gas, (Petro)chemical, Traffic, Energy and Utilities

“We Combine our Expertise and Technology with that of our

customers to improve Operational Excellence”.


Customers of UReason

Operational Advisories:– Sabic– DSM– Remote Surveillance:

• Siemens Power Generation• Vestolit• Shell Global Solutions/NAM

Alarm Management:– BASF– BP– KPE– OMV– SAFCO– Siemens Oil & Gas– LyondellBasell– Total E&P– Anglian Water

Simulation:– WaterSpot: DZH/PWN/Waternet

/ABB/DHV/Vitens/TU-Delft– DISCONTO: PWN/DHV/TU-Delft/RIVM/

Vitens/Dunea/Brabant Water

Active Participant in:

• ANSI/ISA S18.02 Standard• ISA S18.02 TR Development• EEMUA 191 Guideline


Products of UReason

USE, OASYS-AM, UDesign : Based on Common Product Platform

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Engineering environment for companies wanting to create intelligent solutions

Engineers “Expert Toolbox”

USE – UReason Solution Environment


USE – USP / Benefits

Unique selling points:Out-of-the-box functionality– Interfaces – Data-storage – Rules– Explanation facility – Web access– Model based reasoning and

management– Structured approach– Generic (write once, reuse)

Customer (typical solution provider) benefits:– Reduced engineering time– Easy integration with a wide variety of underlying automation systems


OASYS-AM – Intelligent Alarm Management

Supports organisations in their alarm management, from reporting to dynamic reduction and intelligent predictive

alarming

– Play-back Incidents and upsets– Identify states, causes & effects– Induce rules from pattern mining– Intelligent Alarm engineering

– Reduction rules, cause-effect trees, – State detection diagrams, etc

– Provide advisories (alerts) – Reduce alarms in real-time– Tune operational advisories – Monitor operator actions – Generate EEMUA standard reports


OASYS-AM - USP / Benefits

Unique selling points- Solution covering full scope: from alarm management, over

engineering of logic to reduce and predict alarms to real-time alarm handling (hiding, diagnostics, early event detection)

- Out-of-the-box functionality results in reduced engineering (configuration), installation and interfacing efforts

- Supplier independent, works with all major DCS and SCADA systems

Customer benefits (typical end-user):- One-stop-shop for complete solution + required services if needed- Reduced alarm load enables reduced staffing (up to unmanned

operations)- Technology enables dealing with increasing complexity of

automation, control and safety systems- Best practices (procedures, diagnosis, predictions) put into action,

24x7- Reduced cost of ownership as the customer can maintain and

extend the application and some maintenance work can be automated

OASYS-AM has strong presence in Oil and Gas Markets, where costs of poor alarm management are high:

– Unplanned trip due to a missed alarm: €400.000– Trips about one a day on a new plant which could be prevented if

there were less nuisance alarms– Release of gas resulting in complaints– ARC ARC-Strategies April 2002 - “A CCM application can add 5% or

more to the profits of a manufacturing plant by detecting and avoiding critical conditions before they occur, thus reducing the need for emergency shutdowns.”

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Live Alarm Data

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Process Control Engineer/Technologist

New Rules Reduction Achieved

Alarms Configurations

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UDesign – Design Validation Environment

Combines the on-line rule engine and simulation capability of UReason’ intelligent platform, with the ability to capture and validate engineering designs

Functionality is especially focused on replacing legacy paper-based design workflow

Superior design tools – Huge increase in productivity when compared to

legacy computer or paper based systems – Better design, less mistakes– Complies with IEC 61131-3 definition for visual

definition of logic systemsOn-demand Simulation

– Validated design BEFORE handover, leads to huge reduction in rework and engineering time.

– Can easily be linked up to real-IO and alarm generation for end-to-end validation

Customized workflow– Matches customer needs, aids acceptance, leads

to roll-out adoption– Use UReason’s Product Platform so can be easily

adapted to customers workflow/design process


Common Product Benefits

Goal: Optimise production, reduction of process upsets & disturbances

ROI: Complying with state laws/regulations– Safety/security potential reduction of insurance premiums– Preventing upsets emission reductions, avoiding production losses– Reducing information overload less operator stress, avoiding burn out of

most valuable resources– Maintaining licence to operate avoid destruction of capital, avoid

equipment damage

ROI: Lower cost of ownership– Reduction engineering time– Ties into preventive maintenance– Ties into asset management

Contributes to operational excellence


Some Examples

Following slides contain some examples of applying UReason technology and services


Example: Northsea Gas producer

Scope of Supply:- Alarm Management Survey- Philosophy Development- Support Alarm Rationalization- Performance Auditing- Advanced Alarm Management System for Onshore Centralized Control Room

DCS: Foxboro IAA&E Historian: TiPS LogMateAlarm Reporting: OASYS-AMAdvanced Alarm Management: OASYS-AM

Alarm reduction on 4 platforms, Visionary Approach for Centralized Control Room

Alarm reduction on 4 platforms, Visionary Approach for Centralized Control Room


Overview of the reduction realized, varying between 30% – 65%

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Next generation alarm management

Example: LyondellBasell

Scope of Supply:- Rule Discovery from Historical Data- Alarm Display Replacement- Alarm Predictions in Control Room

Corporate Agreement – Advanced Dynamic Alarm Management

DCS: Emerson DeltaVData: TiPS LogMateEmerson OPCAdvanced Alarm Management: OASYS-AM


Example: Chemical Plant Germany

Proactive 24x7 information on gas leaks

Vision/Smell & Sound Sensors Combined

Operators don’t have to do a 12 hours plant inspection

Important for keeping licence to operate

Operator Advisories

Interfaces: Emerson, ABB, Siemens


Example: Refinery Netherlands

Scope of Supply:

- Alarm & Event Historization- Alarm & Event Reporting- Alarm Awareness Workshops - Alarm Philosophy Development- Master Alarm Database- Alarm MOC

DCS: Honeywell TDC, Foxboro IA, Yokogawa CSHistorian: SQL Server


Example: Refinery Netherlands

Scope of Supply:

- Consultancy - Alarm Awareness Workshops - Alarm Philosophy Development- Setup Master Alarm Database- Vendor Selection

- A&E Historization- A&E Reporting- Master Alarm Database & MOC

DCS: Honeywell TDC, HIMA/MagLog ESD


Siemens – Process Real-Time Historian PIMAQ

SISOG PIMAQ System Embeds OASYS-AM

PIMAQ Examples:- Maersk Al-Shaheen FDP 2000- Maersk Al-Shaheen FDP 2005- Maersk Halfdan- Petrobas FPSO Piranema- Venture Oil FPSO Hummingbird- Statoil Snorre A, Snorre B- ConocoPhillips EldFiks- Hydro Njord A & B


Siemens - PIMAQ


Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) Monitoring

About 15 to 20 percent of almost one million wells worldwide are pumped with some form of artificial lift more and more employing electric submersible pumps

ESPs operate under varying working conditions: High temperature High pressure Scaling/Waxing

…and have a short lifeRuntime lifetime varies between 50

days avg to 1500 days.

Consequences of losing an ESP– Product Loss/Deferment– Expensive to Pull and Replace


Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP) Monitoring

Generic EED & RCA:– Sand Production– Surface Choke– Tubing Leak– Scaling

Specific EED & RCA:– Location Specific– Pump Configuration

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Early Event Detection (EED) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)Early Event Detection (EED) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)Generic Means:

The Same Solution can be applied over-and-over again

to 1 or Many ESPs


Proactive Asset Management (Water)

Achieved by highlighting variances in normal operating parameters e.g. pump flow, level, etc:

– E.g. Pump performance degradation, number of stop and starts of the pumps can be used in combination with the number of hours running during a day to determine if a pump is degrading

Inferential measurement and sensor validation which identifies drift on process plant requiring subsequent intervention

– difficult-to-measure parameters can be derived from existing instrumentation. This type of information can be used to track BOD, COD or bacteriological load on-line and so improve consent monitoring and remedial action to ensure consent compliance.

– E.g Inlet flow and suspended solids can be used as model inputs to predict BOD with reasonable accuracy


Drinking Water Purification Simulator

• Simulator– Object model– Hydraulic model – Water quality model– Control model


Water Purification Simulator USPs

Technologies: USE + external models from partners

Unique selling points:Developed in conjunction with water companies and other industrial partnersGeneric simulator provides Custom-off-the-shelve simulatorSpecific simulator can easily be tailored to customer’s processes¼ of the price of a simulator in chemical, oil & gas

Benefits for the customer (water company – engineering agency)Training of operators, regional managers

(off-line)On-line evaluationEducationVirtual commissioning of process

automation systemTesting of control strategiesProcess-control improvementWater quality improvement


Water Safety – Long Term NL Funded Study

Distribution, Control Training and Operations

– Understand the relevant chemical and microbiological processes in the distribution network.

– Develop water quality models to predict quality parameters

– Assess water quality in the whole network to prevent public health risks

– Develop a scenario based calamity simulation system to experiment and understand acute changes in water quality.

– Use calamity simulation to train and educate operators in handling events.

– Deploy real time state of the art water quality sensors.

– Use model integration between process automation system and simulator/models for consistency and efficiency.


Proactive Asset Management General

Using UReason’s Technology : General Statements– Generic Rules can be defined for each asset type

• i.e. implemented once but valid for all the sites using the same asset type

– Can easily integrate with DCS/SCADA, backend systems and alarm databases, etc to infer asset state from different data sources

– Rules filter bad data– Rules can apply state based reasoning;

• e.g. take into account site criticality, site location, time of the year, relation to other assets

– Integrate asset criticality register– Results can be pushed to extend alarm information and/or

influence Maintenance management systems


Contact Details:

UReason LeidenPompoenweg 92321DK Leiden071-5281700www.UReason.com