SIMSCI and Gensym bring intelligent decision support to process industries with Rigorous On-Line Modeling; SIMSCI's ROM product uses Gensym's G2 as intelligent front end.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 1995--Gensym Corp., leading provider of software for creating intelligent real-time solutions, and Simulation Sciences Inc., SIMSCI, a leading supplier of simulation technology for the process industries, today announced that SIMSCI has joined Gensym's Solution Partner program. SIMSCI's ROM (Rigorous On-line Model) uses Gensym's G2 real-time expert system as an intelligent user interface. SIMSCI and its clients are evaluating the use of G2 for enforcing standard operating procedures standard operating procedure Medtalk A technique, method or therapy performed 'by the book,' using a standard protocol meeting internally or externally defined criteria; a formal, written procedure that describes how specific lab operations are to be performed. (SOPs) and importing Computer-Aided Design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive (CAD) process drawings to create models for simulation and optimization. "Rigorous On-line Modeling combines real-time plant data with economic objectives. It allows users to precisely simulate plant operations, revolutionizing the way they make decisions about day-to-day plant operations," said Vic Rice, general manager of on-line operations at SIMSCI. "Of course, an intelligent operator interface is a vital part of the ROM solution. We chose to integrate Gensym's G2 because it offers an elegant, object-oriented graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) and capabilities far beyond traditional GUI tools. G2 is more than just pretty pictures. It offers a complete knowledge-base development environment. We plan to use G2's knowledge-base capability to bring SOPs on line to advise operators in real time. We are also exploring sending CAD drawings into G2 to create object-oriented graphics The representation of digital images as points, lines and other geometric entities. Object-oriented graphics is officially known as "vector graphics" and has nothing to do with object technology and object-oriented programming. See vector graphics. for use in process model design and simulation." A U.S. refinery has saved nearly $3.6 million running ROM for just over one year. The operations modeled in this 100,000 barrel per day refinery include crude desalting, crude distillation, vacuum distillation, and process operations in a gas plant. The refinery implemented ROM with the goal of optimizing crude unit operation and reducing overall energy costs. In one case, the model predicted that increasing kerosene kerosene or kerosine, colorless, thin mineral oil whose density is between 0.75 and 0.85 grams per cubic centimeter. A mixture of hydrocarbons, it is commonly obtained in the fractional distillation of petroleum as the portion boiling off production, at the expense of heavy naphtha naphtha (năp`thə, năf`–), term usually restricted to a class of colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. and resid re·sid n. Informal Residual oil. Noun 1. resid - oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled residual oil production, could be done without violating column flooding constraints or gas oil specs. As a result of this change, the total annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. benefit achieved was $3.1 million. Energy costs were also reduced by $500,000. ROM allows engineers to keep plants operating at peak efficiency, maximizing worker performance, product quality, and company profits. It enables distributed, real-time access to plant models, allowing operators to make more precise decisions. Operators can interact with the model to explore "what-if?" scenarios, determine optimum product distributions based on current economic conditions, calculate optimum performance setpoints, and determine where and why production problems are occurring. ROM is used in planning, production, training, and control and optimization. Simulation Sciences Inc. is the leading global supplier and pioneer of simulation technology for the process industries. With world headquarters in Brea, Calif., SIMSCI serves more than 1,000 clients at 3,500 sites in the oil and gas, chemical, and engineering and construction industries. SIMSCI regional offices are located in Denver, Houston, Newtown Square (Philadelphia), Bombay, Carcas, Dubai, Stockport (UK), and Tokyo. Founded in 1986, Gensym Corp., is the leading supplier of software products for developing and deploying intelligent real-time solutions for industrial, scientific, commercial, and government applications. With over 3,000 product licenses installed worldwide, Gensym serves 30 industrial sectors including the process industries, discrete manufacturing, telecommunications, environmental, power, and aerospace. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Gensym has regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Dortmund, Honk honk Pediatrics A widely-transmitted precordial whoop, described as a high-pitched, musical, late systolic murmur in some Pts with mitral valve prolapse–MVP, a sound attributed to resonation of the valve leaflets and chordae; non-honkers with MVP may be made Kong, Houston, Leiden, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seoul, Toronto, Uppsala, and Washington, D.C. CONTACT: Gensym Corp, Cambridge Betsy Gartner, 617/547-2500 or SIMSCI, Brea, Calif. Ann Knupp, 713/683-1710 |
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