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Schneider Electric announced availability of its SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities, a new platform designed to help manage how processes are engineered across their lifecycle. With this platform, users can better streamline process utility design, collaborate for process improvement and further simplify modeling complexity. Benefits include reduced time and costs, an enhanced user experience for the next generation of engineers, and accelerated process simulation and design.
Simulation tools used by process engineers in the Oil & Gas, Refining, Utility, and Chemical industries trace their origins to legacy architectures, operating systems and user interfaces. Global competition, pricing pressure and energy alternatives are driving the need for a new approach. The next generation of workers expect modern, scalable and easier to use solutions with technology they now take for granted, such as high-speed Internet access, mobile devices, touch screens and virtual reality.
SimCentral for Process Utilities has a process simulator that it built from the ground up. Its new platform is designed to leverage current web and cloud technologies. SimCentral delivers a more modern and intuitive user experience that helps to embrace the expectations of the next generation of workers, helping to accelerate adoption, usage and time-to-value.
SimCentral for Process Utilities is utilized by process design engineers working at Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) firms, Operating companies, and Process Licensor organizations. WorleyParsons, an EPC professional services company, was an early adopter, having recognized an acute need for a better process simulation work environment.
Key new features and functionalities of SimSci’s SimCentral for Process Utilities include:
- Unified lifecycle simulation – a model can be taken through all stages of the plant lifecycle, including across design, training and operations
- Easier use – a modern user interface showing relevant features and libraries; role-based library views help to ease navigation, equation views are easier to see and change
- Expanded problem solving – a more intuitive model writing environment helps to unlock new operations and equations modeling to help solve difficult simulation challenges
- Enhanced interactivity & control – a “Continuously Solved” approach is possible whereby changes to input variables can directly update all output variables
- Faster calculation speed – designed to accommodate public or private cloud computing environments to scale performance speed as needed
- Collaborative engineering – as a productivity feature, users can concurrently work on the same model across regional time zones, departments or other organizations
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Process Engineering Lifecycle, Simulation, Collaborative Engineering, ARC Advisory Group.