Assessing your competitors' application of CIM/CIP. [Computer Integrated Manufacturing/Processing]
- Whitehouse Consulting, Southampton (United Kingdom)
- Cygnus Business Solutions, Southampton (United Kingdom)
As part of the authors consulting assignments, they are frequently asked to describe what is best industry practice in the area of computer integrated manufacturing/processing (CIM/CIP). This might be specific to a particular piece, such as advanced controls or a laboratory system. Often it is in response to the enormous publicity given to CIM/CIP--begging the question, Who in the hydrocarbon industry is actually doing it '' Although much of this information is available to consultants, client confidentiality precludes its release. Instead, included is a questionnaire intended to be completed by representatives of manufacturing sites. The data gathered will be analyzed and reported in a future issue. The intent is to give anyone who has completed the questionnaire the opportunity to assess the position of his or her site with respect to the competition. To show how this might work a prototype study was completed. This included an estimate of the advanced control benefits achieved in 68 refineries in Western Europe. So that sites could be compared, these were expressed as a percentage of the maximum economically achievable.
- OSTI ID:
- 6372371
- Journal Information:
- Hydrocarbon Processing; (United States), Vol. 72:7; ISSN 0018-8190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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