Introducing Honeywell’s Process Digital Twin
Published by Callum O'Reilly,
Senior Editor
Hydrocarbon Engineering,
A powerful, comprehensive, and end user focused software offering, Honeywell Process Digital Twin creates, maintains, and drives value out of online process models. The Process Digital Twin turns data into key performance indicators (KPIs), provides insights into process constraints, optimal operating points, and capabilities for in-depth monitoring, soft-sensing, and troubleshooting. It allows users to try out scenarios in a virtual environment before implementing the improvement in the actual plant. It expands the utilisation of simulation tool, and provides a consistent and up-to-date view of the plant capabilities across all functions and skill levels. It also unlocks significant value as a standalone solution and functions as the key enabler for plant wide optimisation.
The challenge: maintaining profitability in rapidly changing supply/demand/regulatory dynamics
In today’s world, a disruption in any location of the world may rapidly impact supply/demand in another location. When these market dynamics are coupled with constant regulatory changes, plants are put in a position to make decisions on production and investment plans in an agile way. Those decisions involve taking stock of incoming changes, optimising unit operations, minimising conservative and siloed sub-optimal operations, increasing workforce productivity and by democratising specialised tools.
The opportunity: unlocking the next level of value
Process Digital Twin plays a pivotal role in delivering operational excellence by providing granular insights on optimising unit operations, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs), monitoring true process capabilities/constraints, serving as a soft sensing solution, and breaking down organisational siloes that exist between planning, engineering, and operations. Using tuned and calibrated models, it also provides cross functional teams at all modeling skill levels the platform to run various scenarios analysis in a virtual representation of the manufacturing/industrial process. It provides an unparalleled view into the past (troubleshooting and diagnosis), present (KPIs and soft sensing) and future ('What-if', 'Look Ahead' and optimisation) of the process and associated assets, all in one virtual environment that does not risk costly downtime in real plant.
The solution: Honeywell Process Digital Twin
Honeywell Process Digital Twin is a comprehensive software solution that manages, contextualises and curates real-time data, utilises robust first principles-based models, calculations and analytics, and provides actionable insight for in-depth performance monitoring, troubleshooting, soft sensing, what-if analysis and updates to planning and advanced process control (APC).
The insights are delivered via a web browser-based interface with customisable graphics, flexible reporting, and role-based access. It can leverage existing simulations, models, and graphics for faster deployment. It is built with years of Honeywell domain experience in oil and gas, refining, mining and metals, petrochemicals, renewables, and industrial software.
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