S-TMS Production Accounting System | Petrochemical Production and Yield Accounting, Refinery Production Accounting

S-TMS provides a complete state of the art solution for production accounting and data reconciliation which supports mass loss detection initiatives in complex industrial environments. It serves as a:

·Productivity tool for the pumpers to log their activities while providing early error detection when reporting movements and inventories.

· Central data repository where inventories and movements are calculated, distributed, traced, stored and checked using a rigorous model of the entire plant or business unit.

S-TMS has been designed to support the implementation of Production/Yield Accounting and Data Reconciliation Best Practices. It is an auditable environment for the Yield Accountant to work in. In order to achieve this it has a series of capabilities that sets it apart from the rest of the software packages in the market:

Soteica Platform
S-TMS is part of the Soteica Platform which ensures integrity with future applications of Soteica or integrity now with our Scheduling and Operations Management System ( S-SOM).

S-TMS Software
Our software architecture ensures high adaptability, flexibility and integrity:

S-TMSSoftware architecture, based on configurable Plug-ins, avoids the need for ad-hoc development.
S-TMS has highly flexible exporting / importing capabilities.
S-TMS has configurable data entry screens which are automatically generated upon model configuration.

S-TMS Model
Some of our model capabilities:

S-TMS stores the complete history of the configuration of the model. When the model changes, which is a normal situation in a plant because new meters, tanks, etc., are installed, the user can still return to the previous periods and recall the valid configurations at that moment.
S-TMS Configuration module provides complete parametrization of the model as well as extending the objects.
S-TMS calculates movement quantities and tolerances using all available data sources (source tank inventory differences, destination tank inventory differences, weigh scale data, meters data) and stores all of them simultaneously.
S-TMS tracks material transfers and inventory reclassification (or regrading) even if they occur in the middle of the analysis period.
S-TMS discounts the BSW in flow meter calculations as well as in tank calculations.
S-TMS user permissions module allows to assign different access permissions for the system and for the model on a model and period status basis.

S-TMS reconciliation capabilities results in a much more precise location of gross errors.

S-TMS Tasks
S-TMS Tasks module schedules the execution of scripts at a given date and time (i.e.: run a report, a connector, create periods, run reconciliation, run database backups, etc).

Soteica Technical Support

We supply practically immediate and effective assistance as a standard procedure by:

Implementing support team continuity, that is, our support staff responsible for post start-up or commissioning technical support will include the staff which implemented the solution and includes degreed Chemical Engineers
Covering both the use of the software and assistance in matters referring to the modeling of the plant.

S-TMS Capabilities

S-TMS is an application that allows to model inventories and material movements typical of the process industry providing:

S-TMS Results Analyzer
Advanced dynamic graphical environment for gross error and reconciliation analysis.

Soteica S-TMS Production Yield Accounting and Data Reconciliation

Gross Error Detection engine. Use of color coding to alert the user of errors as well as calculation status.The S-SOLVER is an embedded engine for the statistical errors minimization algorithm for mass balance reconciliation. Both the traditional gross error identificationBoth the traditional gross error identification method and the successive error identification and simultaneous compensation method are available.

S-TMS MS Excel add-in Soteica S-TMS Production Yield Accounting and Data Reconciliation

S-TMS data retrieval into Excel spreadsheets.

S-TMS Connectors

Information import and / or export from / to other systems (Historian, LIMS, ERP, In house systems) via ODBC, OLEDB, JDBC, XML files, XLS files or formatted text files.

Extensible via plug-in development, fully data conversion and validation configuration. Web Services supported.

S-TMS Tracking Pack

Composition tracking module, tanks composition calculation.

Planning tracking module, “Planned vs. Real” comparison.

Pipeline tracking module, Pipeline batch tracking.

S-TMS Reports
Complete off-the-shelf set of standard reports.
Report Designer, customization of existing reports and creation of new reports.

S-TMS Audit Module

Detailed tracking of entire life-cycle of measures, movements and flows, data integrity assured by variable dependencies and automatic re-calculation.

S-TMS Calculations

Inventories, flows and movement quantities calculations.
Tracking of material changes in tanks (Reclassifications or Regradings).

Automatic re-calculation based on dependencies to ensure data consistency.

S-TMS Task Scheduler
Allows the scheduling of the execution of scripts at a given date and time (i.e.: run reports, connectors, create periods, run reconciliation, run database backups, etc).

S-TMS Command Processor

Allows to execute a set of commands defined in a text file of predefined format. This is used to import measures, movements, flows or planning specification from a file.

S-TMS Events Module

Allows to trigger automatic actions when a certain event or events occur.

S-TMS Campaign Studies

S-TMS allows a mass balance analysis around a process unit during a certain campaign or operation mode.

Soteica Platform

S-TMS is part of the Soteica Platformwhich ensures integrity with future applications of Soteica or integrity now with our Scheduling and Operations Management System (S-SOM).

S-TMS, focal point of your loss reduction iniciative

Sitewide Mass balance, yield accounting and data reconciliation will enable you to:

Implement a Loss Reduction initiative at your site.
Acquire a better and detailed knowledge of plant and tank farm operations and movements .
Improve data quality and operating procedures.
Detect gross errors in early stages (data entry errors, instrument failure, missing movements).
Systematically analyze plant measurement errors and custody transfer points, which results in managing and sustaining a more focused instrumentation maintenance program.
Have better information for Planning and ERP systems.

S-SOLVER

Embedded engine for statistical errors minimization algorithm for mass balance reconciliation.
Traditional gross error identification method and successive error identification and simultaneous compensation method are both available.
If multiple gross errors are present in the data (most frequent case), the traditional gross error identification method will spread the error making it very difficult to detect its origin. The successive error identification and simultaneous compensation method results in a much more precise location of gross errors (leaks, instruments bias, etc).
Reconciliation can be run for just one period, for several individual periods at the same time or for periods of variable length.

Economics - Testimonials

· “During the initial months after start-up, loss of product was identified. For example we were able to identify that a buried line of Jet Fuel had a leak between the tank and the truck loading rack. A similar situation with a buried line that received shipments was identified as well. Based on these 2 cases the Refinery replaced most of the buried lines and pressure tested the rest. In addition, two tanks were identified as having wrong strapping tables with the recurrent savings generated once they were recalibrated”.

· “Other benefits included the prioritization of the instruments that required calibration, the improved control of the receipts and shipments and that the information being generated by the accounting group is being used by all refinery personnel (unit engineers, planning group, management, etc.). With this validated information the refinery KPIs, such as energy index, volumetric expansion index, unit utilization index, etc., are being calculated. With these KPIs, the Refinery feeds a Balanced Scorecard that the Refinery use as a management tool”.

· "11th. ERTC Annual Meeting 13/14 November 2006".

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