OR Soft - Industry Solutions
Oil and Petrochemicals

LUBE&BLEND is a SCHEDULE++ Industry Solution Package for Detailed Scheduling and Execution Monitoring for the Production (Refinery), Blending and Filling departments of companies producing Lube Oil products and specialist chemical and pharmaceutical products.

Target Industries

Typical Production Scenarios:

• semi-continuous joint production
• flexible, restricted tank storage
• subsequent blending and filling
• large range of master recipes, but only a few structural variants
• higher level balance optimization systems for strategic planning

Typical Industries for these Scenarios:

• lube oil refining
• blending and filling of liquid products
• chemical processing of vegetable oil

Purpose

Advanced Planning and Scheduling

          LUBE supports the detailed production scheduling over a longer time-scale based on strategic monthly planning figures.

Manufacturing Execution System

          BLEND is used for short-term scheduling and rescheduling and to monitor the production execution progress of the blending and filling.

LUBE&BLEND Modules

LUBE Model

          enhanced SCHEDULE++ data model

BLEND Model

          enhanced SCHEDULE++ data model

LUBE Generator

          Generator for master recipes and monthly planned orders for production (EXCEL, PIMS integration)

LUBE Config Package

          User interface and procedures for the planning of the production (refining)

BLEND Config Package

          User interface and procedures for the planning and monitoring of blending and filling orders

User Interface Elements

The following user interface elements are provided by SCHEDULE++:

Views combine various time-phased graphical displays for selected resources and materials, the standard includes:

• Gantt chart (displays bar graphs for the allocation of operations to resources on a horizontal time scale, enhanced with color coding and auxiliary text display for relevant data)
• Histogram (displays the stock changes of materials, tanks and containers on a horizontal time scale, with the ability to take into account the storage capacity restrictions)

Browsers display most important fields of master data or transactional data in a grid-based, spreadsheet-type window with:

• editable text cells
• calculated text or graphic interpretation cells
• functions for sorting, searching, filtering and selection of data objects

Special elements that are used in specific LUBE&BLEND browsers:

• tree navigation aid (used for order details and in supply-chain related browsers)
• graphic interpretation cells (e.g. used for alerts)
• embedded view columns (used for order details)

Some LUBE&BLEND modules use specialized Microsoft Excel sheets.