Process Solutions
Product Information Note
Production Balance
Better Balances, Better Analysis, Better Production Management
Honeywell’s Production Balance features advanced yield accounting capabilities for
improved production management, providing plant personnel with the knowledge to
make better production decisions.
Production Balance is a yield accounting application designed for
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Upstream oil and gas
rapid generation of an accurate and approved material or energy
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Oil refining
balance around an entire facility, as well as individual processing
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Petrochemicals and chemicals
units, resulting in true production and inventory statistics or
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Mining, metals and minerals
official allocated production figures. Production Balance lets
plants track and reconcile production data for individual
components, as well as the total mass or volume of material.
Benefits
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Know the true state of production and inventory (free of
gross errors)
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Accurately report and review production results in a
timely manner
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Identify both real and apparent (accounting) losses
(enabling actions to prevent them)
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Improve production planning and analysis
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Reduce uncertainty around production decisions
Successfully operated companies rely on the best possible
information in order to make decisions and respond to changes
rapidly. A yield accounting system that gathers and develops
accurate information is essential to profitability. A thorough yield
accounting system must provide the ability to:
Production Balance is designed to improve production in the process
industries.
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Close the books on a daily basis in order to reduce
uncertainty and improve both financial and planning
analyses
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Track key performance indicators, such as daily or
monthly unexplained material gain or loss, or physical
losses compared to plan or historical best
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Identify (and help to remove) missing or erroneous data,
including those associated with flow meters, late or
missing materials, movement records or problem
analyzers
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Calculate allocated production quantities and/or
approved inventory and production figures to feed
financial reporting
Production Balance has successfully been deployed in a number
of industries and offers capabilities to support unique industry
requirements. The product is intended for use in:
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Only Production Balance Meets the Entire Yield
Accounting Challenge
Production Balance is easy to use and maintain. Production
Balance gives users the speed to perform interactive balancing,
offers the best-in- class statistical data reconciliation (SDR)
algorithm for identifying problems and provides the integration
manufacturers need to interface with corporate financial systems.
Production Balance allows yield accountants to close the books
rapidly every day, and to view balance results according to
product, inventory and unit. The SDR algorithm identifies
problems such as gross errors and missing movements every
time it calculates a balance. The Production Balance user
interface allows analysts to correct errors and immediately see
the resulting improvement in the balance.
Graphical model building
Features
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Best-in-class statistical data reconciliation (SDR)
algorithm (linear or bilinear)
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Bilinear, iterative solver that allows adjustments to both
quantities and qualities
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Support for simultaneous component balances (e.g.
total ore, copper, zinc and water)
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Calculation of unmeasured flows or qualities, from
redundant measurements
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Production allocation solver (e.g. allocate total
production back to individual well heads)
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Unique capability to solve with either SDR or production
allocation
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View the results of SDR and production allocation sideby- side
Complex statistics are expressed in simple terms, guiding
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Supports API standard inventory calculations
management has access to raw data, data with corrections and
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State-of-the-art user interface
reconciled balance results, offering the flexibility to choose which
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Web reports for information sharing across organization
(user configurable)
values are used for official reporting purposes.
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Easy-to-use graphical configuration tool
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Superior handling of all materials movements
unmeasured flows. Production Balance customers have used this
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Automated balancing and data reconciliation
capability to provide balance results to operations with results
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Integration with plant historians (such as Uniformance®
PHD)
being updated as frequently as every 15 minutes. (Gross errors
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Available integration with enterprise resource planning
(ERP) systems (such as SAP R/3)
Balance Summary
analysts to an appropriate balance. Furthermore, plant
Production Balance also supports automated balance generation
and automated reconciliation, including calculation of
are not removed by automated reconciliation.)
SDR Algorithm Offers Speed and Performance
Better Balances, Better Analysis, Better Production Management
The Production Balance SDR algorithm employs superior
technology to solve complex yield accounting problems. Its
unparalleled speed allows users to:
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Update the balance as gross errors are corrected and
the balance envelope is adjusted
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Run the SDR solver or the production allocation solver
or both
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Scheduled automatic reconciliation allows frequent
generation of balance results to support operational
decision making (e.g. hourly balances)
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Search for and identify potential missing movements,
ranked in order of how they improve the balance
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Solve balances for multiple component flows/inventories
(e.g. oil, gas and water) simultaneously and consistently
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Calculate unmeasured flows or qualities
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Calculate measurement adjustments and the likelihood
of measurement errors for each measured flow
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Provide accurate feedback to operations and
maintenance on the fidelity and reliability of the process
and quality measurements
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Capitalizing on the speed of the SDR algorithm, the
Production Balance user interface allows the user to
review, modify and accept changes and balance
calculations as needed. This interactive balancing
capability lets analysts run tests to determine what kinds
of changes improve the balance.
Balances for Production/Operations
Because Production Balance integrates with real time historians,
the time scale of the reconciliations is selectable, and can span
operational and accounting boundaries. Thus the same tools and
data structures can be used for the whole range of applications
that ensure the quality of production data, from hourly/shift/daily
to month end and ad hoc. Higher frequency reconciliations allow
operations staff to be alerted to instrumentation drifts and other
measurement problems almost immediately whereas other
solutions do so only at month’s end.
Reporting
Production Balance offers a standard set of web reports for
consistent, timely access to balance results by a wide audience.
Reports are rendered using the Crystal Reports engine, which
can be used to reconfigure the standard reports or add new
reports to meet customer or site-specific requirements.
Integration
Production Balance is part of Business FLEX®, a family of more
than 20 Honeywell advanced applications that may be installed
individually or together. Business FLEX applications are
designed to serve process plants in the areas of planning,
scheduling, monitoring, production management, metrics
Node Summary
calculation and analysis, and follow-up. All of the applications in
this suite utilize a shared Plant Reference Model, so common
A Real-World User Interface for Interactive Balancing
equipment or material items only need to be built once.
The Production Balance user interface reflects the way
production accountants and balance engineers really work and
Additionally, the applications are pre-integrated, so information
delivers results in an easy-to-understand, rational format that
flows automatically across the system without the need for
allows users to:
custom interfaces.
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Significantly reduce the analysis time required to
generate a satisfactory balance
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Develop a more structured and automated yield
accounting function that reduces the risk of having only
a few personnel who know how to close the balance
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Complementary Products
Automated Movement Capture
Honeywell’s Blending and Movement Management (BMM)
System communicates planned material movement and blending
Assess at a glance the quality of the materials balance
and distinguish between gross errors and normal
variations in the balance
activities to operators, supports the execution of those activities
View production allocation results side-by-side with
reconciled balance results, allowing users to identify and
remove gross measurement errors prior to publishing
the allocated production figures
Production Balance to automatically receive the actual movement
and ensures that actual movement quantities are captured.
Production Balance and BMM are pre-integrated, enabling
quantities. This helps to eliminate one of the most common
problems with balance closure – missing movement information.
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Well Test Results
Well Test Manager enables and manages the capture,
historization and analysis of well test data. It will lead the
operator through the well testing process and provide continual
test status feedback. It provides extensive displays in a web
browser for offshore data analysis and validation. The application
also displays calibration curves and well test constants and offers
on-screen trending of the operating curve, as well as providing
on-line comparison with previous tests to help operators
determine the current well performance.
Missing Movements
Tracking Inventory by Component
Production Balance draws upon the information captured by Well
Test Manager to drive the material balance and production
allocation calculations.
Honeywell’s Tank Composition Tracking application works in
conjunction with Production Balance to track the components
ERP System/Supply Chain Integration
within a given storage location. For example, Tank Composition
Honeywell’s Business Hiway XML Service provides a robust,
Tracking can be used to track the composition of crude tanks
configurable mechanism for integration of ERP systems (such as
(percentage of each grade in the tank) and to calculate material
SAP R/3) with the manufacturing environment. Production
transfer quantities for each grade.
Balance provides validated material movement and inventory
Plan vs. Actual Analysis
information to these higher level business systems and can
optionally import material movements (such as shipments or
Production Analyst provides comprehensive capabilities for
receipts).
comparison of planned production results with actual production
results from Production Balance. In addition to standard, and ad-
KPI Reporting
hoc plan vs. actual reports, Production Analyst also supports
KPI Manager provides a common platform to consistently track
backcasting, enabling the planners to continuously improve the
and measure performance across an organization. By
underlying planning model(s).
automating the generation and collection of key performance
Graphically View Production Data
indicators (KPIs) from a variety of sources, including Production
Balance, KPI Manager offers a simple way to summarize and
Honeywell Workcenter provides all the tools needed to configure
analyze production performance through a standard, web-based
flow-sheet style displays of raw, reconciled or allocated
application that can be reviewed by management and plant
production data.
personnel on a daily basis.
Continuous Improvement
Honeywell is committed to continuously improve its offerings and
ensure that our installed base customers continue to reap the
benefits of their investments. The following highlights of
Production Balance enhancements in successive releases since
R200 are testimony to this pursuit of excellence:
View results with Workcenter
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Extend support to collect data from non-Honeywell
historians via OPC HDA
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Performance enhancement in areas of DB upgrade,
Case Reprocessing, Background processes and
Inventory Calculations
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Resolved PB Client crash scenario.
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Resolved Data Integrity issues in DB upgrade process
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Support Multiple Missing Movements in the same route
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Support for VCF calculation method as per Japanese
standards
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Propagate Crude Composition results to subsequent
periods
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Enhanced Platform support to meet our customer’s
evolving IT policies (see table alongside)
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Automatic Writeback of balance group results to
Historian
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Support cross-firewall integration for receiving data from
Movement Management system (Honeywell’s BMM)
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Internet
Explorer
IE 8.0 and 9.0 versions, 32-bit are
supported
IE 10 32 bit (Compatibility Mode)
Platform Requirements
Microsoft
Office
Microsoft Office 2013; 2010, SP1;
2007, SP3
Oracle
Oracle Server 10.2.0.5 or 11.2.0.3.0,
Standard Edition One, Standard Edition,
and Enterprise Edition, 32-bit and 64-bit
Crystal
Reports
Crystal Reports Server 2008 V1 SP5
Uniformance
PHD 215; PHD 300; PHD310
The Production Balance user interface runs on Microsoft
Windows. Production Balance requires Honeywell’s Uniformance
System. Supported platforms are:
Windows Version
With this technology refresh, Production Balance is poised to
enter into a new era of next generation of innovative products
Client
Server
Windows 7 SP1, Professional &
Enterprise Editions, 32-bit and 64-bit
X
Windows XP SP3, 32-bit
X
Windows Vista, Business, Enterprise,
and Ultimate Edition SP2, 32-bit
X
Windows Server 2008 SP2, Standard
Edition, 32-bit & 64-bit Enterprise
Edition, 64-bit
X
X
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1,
Standard and Enterprise Edition, 64-bit
X
X
For More Information
Learn more about how Honeywell’s Production
Balance can help improve your Production
Management, visit our websitewww.honeywellprocess.com/software or contact
your Honeywell account manager.
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November 2013
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