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PROCESS AND BUSINESS DATABASES COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION
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Goals to be achieved Increasing visibility across the supply chain and utilizing advanced planning will transform islands of process and business data into valuable, collaborative information. Information Management products enable process organizations to share valuable knowledge with all stakeholders, facilitate and manage important data transformation tasks systematically and efficiently, and provide a common database and interface for that data. Supply Chain Management applications enable faster decision-making by making relevant knowledge easily accessible across the entire supply chain. A suite of Internet-enabled Supply Chain Management applications dynamically models the supply chain and improves profitability through measurable cost reductions and process optimization. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products integrate ERP systems, such is for example SAP system, with Honeywell’s Experion™ Process Knowledge System (PKS). This establishes a robust, bi-directional integration link to ERP systems to synchronize enterprise business systems, as is order entry and fiscal accounting, with process plant operations
The
valuable information derived from the knowledge-intense calculations is
crucial for every successful industrial operation in order to improve
operation efficiency, increase customer satisfaction, optimize business
profits, and conform to regulatory requirements. These tools facilitate
organization teamwork and collaboration through its common set of data
and shareable calculation capabilities. The solution is easy to learn
and can be deployed quickly. Productivity and decision-making are
improved with real-time collaboration and efficient troubleshooting and
data reconciliation.
Advanced Formula Manager (AFM) and BizCalc Manager (BCM) are
additional tools offered
to address the different data calculation requirements of a process
organization. Both calculation solutions are tailored to meet different
use cases of process facilities, and are designed to facilitate and
manage the important data transformation . AFM and BCM ensure timely calculation and organization of scattered
process data into insightful information via an automatic scheduling and
central management infrastructure. As an additional component to Process
History Database (PHD), these calculation solutions provide the user
with a streamlined process for distributing calculation results and
sharing underlying assumptions and logics in reusable, reliable and
traceable fashion. Advanced Formula Manager transforms disparate data into meaningful
information by providing a user-friendly environment for building,
managing, and scheduling large numbers of complex process engineering
calculations. The solution is ideal for calculation and logic
applications that need easy historical and near-real time data access,
high execution frequency and flexible programming capability.
Good example of such an implementation is
Honeywell Workcenter: a
configurable, Web Services-based
work center that transforms islands
of process and business data into
valuable, collaborative information.
It enables process organizations to
share valuable information with all
stakeholders of the organization and
promotes collaboration to achieve
key business objectives. Workcenter
integrates its business process
integration expertise with the
Experion™ Process Knowledge System (PKS)
architecture, allowing facilities to
easily manage vast amounts of
process information. Workcenter
provides process organizations
unsurpassed visibility and secure
interaction with their process and
business data through a configurable
Web Services framework. It embraces
and delivers the dream of all
process and business databases integrators, collaborative enabling
strategy—providing the latest Microsoft.NET technologies that
connect process operations to the
value chain, and link production
facilities to business
decision-makers. Using Workcenter, employees at
all levels are empowered with
immediate access to relevant
information to facilitate
collaborative decision-making and
teamwork across the value chain. It
delivers a highly dynamic Web
Services experience that increases
operational effectiveness and
productivity at all levels of the
complex organization.
Design work in progress for interconnection and
integration of process and business networks and databases in real-time
for one Refinery products truck and pipeline loading station, with
on-line processing of loaded quantities of products and issuing of the
Bills and Invoices for the Customers, with complete financial
transaction processing and Orders and deliveries follow-ups is depicted
on the following Figure:
Development and testing of the software for
such a complex application is requiring setup of
sophisticated Network and Internet wide integrated
development environment ( IDE ) that shall enable online
interactive and concurrent participation of all Project teams
developers, developing and testing their software modules, as well as
active and online participation of the Customer to give along the whole
design work his remarks and suggestions ( combining agile programming
and cloud computing techniques). The
following figure depicts the topology of such an IDE with
data flow paths and software modules creating all necessary
hardware and software means and tools to enable up to 6 remotely located
and Internet connected developing teams, to concurrently and
interactively work on their modules, in both isolated and, after
thorough testing, in integrated with other modules to test their
interplay and functional correctness at the whole Project
level. Owing to Internet broadband connections to central Server at
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, these 6 concurrent Project
participants are spread all over the Globe from Japan to Austria, Bosnia
and the End User in one Refinery in Libya.
For Project follow-up and current status go to
following link :
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