OREANDA-NEWS. April 23, 2008. R. Minnikhanov-TR Premier and other attendees of "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" INC shareholders' conference took part in inaugurating a production process and energy consumption Monitoring Centre at the Company Supervisory Control Department, reported the press-centre of Nizhnekamskneftekhim.

As of May 2007, supervisory data at "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" INC are collected automatically from the subdivision record keeping units. Monthly production plans in the automated system of the supervisory on-line record keeping are re-planned subject to the production in-situ conditions daily. Supervisory data are added with the previous day finished product shipment information to be piled up from the beginning of the month. A production plan implementation information from the beginning of the month and for the year is presented not only in tables but graphically as well, which enables to implement a comprehensive analysis.

The next step of displaying production data and current information analysis was setting up a production process and energy consumption Monitoring Centre at the Company Supervisory Control Department with two video-walls installed.

One of them shows process flow diagrams to follow production loads, feed consumption, materials flow through storage facilities, real-time inventory. Reprocessing units can be monitored for the current day plan implementation with computation of current consumption indices for the basic feedstock and end products.

Soon, a Supervisory Control Department will be able to analyze on a real-time basis the outdoor air in the Company territory.

A real-time energy consumption video-wall demonstrates a general energy consumption scheme both for the Company as a whole and for the Plants enabling to track three-minutes loads. Steam, fuel gas, condensate consumption monitoring for the Plants, sections and reprocessing units is presented graphically and in tables.

Process and accounting information from record keeping units is available beginning from a Plant Control Room. Information users are process engineers, metrologists, specialists of production-technical and utilities sections of the Plants. The automated on-line record-keeping system data are relayed to the Company Management System SAP ERP 6.0. The number of the real-time information system (Suite Voyager) users for the company subdivisions has reached 400.

With the production process and energy consumption Monitoring Centre put into service, "Nizhnekamskneftekhim" INC production management system reached the standard of the world-reputed companies.