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SIMTO® Industry Solutions

M3 provides solutions for helping you improve your business planning and scheduling. To this end, M3 offers enterprise, integrated solutions for oil, gas/LNG, petrochemical, and terminal industries for both plant level and enterprise wide operations. SIMTO plant level solutions include asset scheduling and optimization (i.e., multi- blend optimization). SIMTO enterprise solutions include visualization tools, rolling-up multi-site schedule data, distribution optimization, and planning.
  • Oil Refining industry solutions support a full range of refinery scheduling activities such as optimizing blends, generating unit operations, arranging crude receipts, handling feed stock run-out, updating baselines, managing unit yields, schedule reporting, and powerful modeling capabilities.
  • Petrochemical industry solutions are tailored for the petrochemical industry. It tracks inventory, property, and composition across a petrochemical plant. It optimizes unit feeds, calculates unit yields, and manages product lifting. Petrochemical solution provides powerful tools for schedulers to react quickly to unexpected events, handle what-if analysis, and automate whole scheduling processes.
  • Natural Gas LNG industry solution for liquefaction and revaporization includes special features for vaporization and boil-off management. The SIMTO solution can simulate years of shipper activities in seconds.
  • Dock & Terminal solution provides an integrated scheduling solution for terminal operations. It links shippers and schedulers, and provides powerful tools to schedule and optimize terminal operations.

 
 

Opportunities

Opportunities exist in planning and scheduling business process to improve customer services and profit margins. Accurately scheduling product shipments and predicting product qualities enhance customer services and relations. Optimally planning product distribution and efficiently scheduling operational activities increase the utilization of available assets and resources and reduce unfavorable outcomes such as tank overflow or underflow, demurrage, and late shipment. Increasing visibility and comprehension of plans and schedules promotes coordination and cooperation among refineries and their enterprise. A user-friendly solution encourages personnel's involvement and contribution to margin improvement.
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