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SCHEDULE++ PIPELINE&PORT

PIPELINE&PORT is a SCHEDULE++ Industry Solution Package for the Scheduling of Crude Oil Delivery and Unloading at a port, Multicomponent Batch Composition and Pipeline Batch Transportation Scheduling for Oil Refineries that receive their raw components via shared multi-purpose pipelines from multiple ports or companies that are operating those pipelines.

It supports the management of the most vital part of the oil industry supply chain - the just-in-time delivery of crude oil components to the processing refineries.


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Target Industries

Target Industries


Typical Production Scenarios:

  • crude oil delivered at ports
  • multi-component batches transported in pipeline
  • flexible, restricted tank storage at both ends of the pipeline
  • tanks holding multi-component mix with quality parameters
  • time-phased raw component requirements with quality parameters for the refinery production

Typical Industries for these Scenarios:

  • crude oil refinery
  • pipeline operators

Purpose


Advanced Planning and Scheduling

          PIPELINE supports the composition of multi-component transport batches based on quality and quantity requirements, detailed scheduling of pipeline transports and of the receiving tank farm at the refinery over a longer time range.


Supply Chain Management

          PORT is used to schedule the delivery of crude oil arrivals at multiple ports and the unloading into multi-component tanks at the port.

PIPELINE&PORT Modules

PIPELINE&PORT Modules


MULTIBATCH Model

enhanced SCHEDULE++ data model

PORT Editor

Port Editor interface for incoming crude oil tanker deliveries at multiple ports and distribution to port tanks

MULTIBATCH Composition Editor

Batch Editor interface for composition of pipeline transport batches from multiple components available in port tanks

PIPELINE Config Package

User interface and procedures for the scheduling of the pipelines and tanks

User Interface Elements

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)
  • Browser (displays 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 and functions for sorting, searching, filtering and selection of data objects).

Some PIPELINE&PORT modules use specialized dialog editors.
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