Support apparatus, method and system for real time operations and maintenance

An apparatus for real time production process asset Management, comprising:

• (a) a distributed control system to receive readings from sensor devices of one of an oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility and transmit control signals to plant actuated elements to monitor and control the production process;
• (b) an historical database comprising process parameter data interfaced with the distributed control system;
• (c) an expert system interfaced with the historical database to generate and transmit expert status reports to a user interface device, and expert trend reports to a user via an access portal;
• (d) a work management system to schedule a corrective work procedure to equipment or system of the process in response to a request to resolve production loss via the access portal.

An apparatus for real time process asset management, comprising:

• (a) a distributed control system to receive readings from sensor devices of one of an oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility and transmit control signals to actuated elements to monitor and control the production process;
• (b) an historical database comprising process parameter data interfaced with the distributed control system;
• (c) an expert system interfaced with the historical database to generate and transmit variance reports to a user interface device, and optimization opportunity reports to an access portal;
• (d) a work management system to schedule an optimization procedure to equipment or system of the process in response to a request to adjust an operating parameter sent via the access portal.

A method of real time process asset management, comprising:

• (a) operating a process with a distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices and transmitting control signals to actuated elements to monitor and control the process comprising:
• operating the process with the distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices of one of an oil and gas or petrochemical and refining facility;
• and
• transmitting control signals to actuated elements of one of the oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility to monitor and control the process;
• (b) interfacing the distributed control system with an historical database comprising process parameter data;
• (c) exchanging process data between the historical database and an expert system for generating expert alerts to notify a user of alert status;
• (d) transmitting instructions to the distributed control system for initiating an automated corrective action in response to one or more of the expert alerts;
• (e) updating failure logic rules in the expert system;
• (f) transmitting a corrective action request to a work management system in response to one or more of the expert alerts;
• (g) performing a corrective work procedure on equipment or system of the process in response to the corrective action request;
• (h) repeating (a) through (g) on a real time basis.

A method of real time process asset management, comprising:

• (a) operating a process with a distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices and transmitting control signals to actuated elements to monitor and control the process comprises:
• operating the process with the distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices of one of an oil and gas or petrochemical and refining facility;
• and
• transmitting control signals to actuated elements of one of the oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility to monitor and control the process;
• (b) interfacing the distributed control system with an historical database comprising process parameter data;
• (c) exchanging process data between the historical database and an expert system for generating expert status and trend reports on uptime, production status, production loss, equipment loss, equipment performance, or any combination thereof;
• (d) updating equipment, system, operations loss, and process capacity data in the expert system;
• (e) transmitting a corrective action request to a work management system in response to one or more of the expert reports;
• (f) performing a corrective work procedure to equipment or system of the production process in response to the corrective action request;
• (g) repeating (a) through (f) on a real time basis.

A method of real time process asset management, comprising:

• (a) operating a process with a distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices and transmitting control signals to actuated elements to monitor and control the process comprises:
• operating a process with a distributed control system for receiving readings from facility sensor devices of one of an oil and gas or petrochemical and refining facility;
• and
• transmitting control signals to actuated elements of one of the oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility to monitor and control the process;
• (b) interfacing the distributed control system with an historical database comprising process parameter data;
• (c) exchanging process data between the historical database and an expert system for generating expert reports to notify a user of report status;
• (d) transmitting instructions to the distributed control system for initiating an automated corrective action in response to one or more of the expert reports;
• (e) updating logic rules for process optimization in the expert system;
• (f) transmitting an optimization action request to a work management system in response to one or more of the expert reports;
• (g) performing an optimization procedure to equipment or system of the process in response to the optimization action request;
• (h) repeating (a) through (g) on a real time basis.

A method of real time performance management, comprising:

• (a) interfacing an enterprise system database pertaining to one of an oil and gas facility or petrochemical and refining facility with one or more functional system databases and a user interface:
• (b) exchanging data between the enterprise system database and an expert system for calculating performance metrics of the enterprise functions;
• (c) exchanging data between the expert system and the one or more functional databases;
• (d) building a functional group performance model for use by the expert system;
• (e) sending status reports from the expert system to a user;
• (f) displaying trend reports via a line of sight access portal graphical user interface;
• (g) transmitting a request to resolve functional group performance issues via the access portal to a work flow engine for the respective functional group;
• (h) sending a corrective action request from the workflow engine to a work management system;
• (i) repeating (a) through (h) on a real time basis.