AVEVA uses power of artificial intelligence to elevate refinery scheduling

AVEVA, a global provider of industrial software that drives digital transformation and sustainability, has improved refinery scheduling with the addition of the AVEVA Unified Supply Chain, Schedule AI Assistant. Schedule AI Assistant analyzes hundreds of scenarios in seconds to provide a choice of optimized schedules, eliminating the need to manually run repetitive tasks.

“Schedulers’ strategic capabilities will be transformed by the latest offering as they will be supported by an AI-powered system that recommends the most practical course of action, saving time and enhancing productivity by allowing schedulers to focus on value-added tasks and encouraging them to exceed objectives. This can be a huge enabler of enterprise agility, allowing operations to respond faster to market changes or disruptions in the supply chain,” said Harpreet Gulati, Senior Vice President, Planning, Simulation and Optimization Business, AVEVA.

Scenarios ranked for efficiency, profitability, and emissions

AVEVA Unified Supply Chain, Schedule AI Assistant, is a cloud-based optimization and AI-infused solution. The offer is intended to allow operational schedulers at refineries and petrochemical plants to investigate and rank various efficiency, profitability, and emissions scenarios. The new solution completes days of work in seconds, improving decision-making and increasing business agility.

Analytics automatically generate and assess multiple schedules and anticipated events across the entire supply chain, providing planners with a variety of options for optimized schedules. The Schedule AI Assistant from AVEVA then suggests a scheduling strategy that best meets the organization’s safety, sustainability, and value chain optimization goals.

Refineries strive to improve their planning and scheduling operations in order to boost productivity and stabilize production flows. By optimizing schedules, management teams can take responsibility and prepare for changing situations. A production scheduler coordinates the flow of crude oil through a refinery, from unloading to storage tank transfer.

They create charging schedules for distillation units, perform tank maintenance, and manage end-product delivery to maximize spot market profitability while taking unit capacity, flow, and compositions into account. Human fallibility and time constraints can

stymie efficiency along the way. The multi-step procedure and numerous variables can lead to errors, making overall optimization difficult.

Customers can now use AVEVA Unified Supply Chain, Schedule AI Assistant to easily make scheduling decisions while capitalizing on economic opportunities and unlocking additional value throughout the manufacturing process.