Schneider Electric SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities

Schneider Electric has announced the availability of SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities, a software platform to manage how processes are engineered across their entire lifecycle.

Simulation tools used by process engineers in the oil and gas, refining, utility and chemical industries trace their origins to legacy architectures, operating systems and user interfaces, but the next generation of workers expects modern, scalable and easy-to-use solutions with technology they now take for granted — high-speed internet access, mobile devices, touch screens and virtual reality.

SimCentral for Process Utilities is a process simulator built from the ground up. Claimed to be the first platform designed to take full advantage of current web and cloud technologies, SimCentral delivers a modern user experience that embraces the expectations of the next generation of workers, helping to accelerate adoption.

Key features of SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities include unified lifecycle simulation — in which a model can be taken through all stages of the plant lifecycle, including across design, training and operations — and improved ease of use. Expanded problem-solving is afforded by an intuitive model writing environment that unlocks new operations and equations.

With SimSci SimCentral for Process Utilities, a ‘continuously solved’ approach is possible whereby changes to input variables can directly update all output variables. An advanced design accommodates public or private cloud computing environments to scale performance speed as needed, providing faster calculation speed.

Collaborative engineering has also been enhanced — users can concurrently work on the same model across regional time zones, departments or other organisations.