Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Jayanth Balasubramanian

Gary Robert Kocis

Philip H Warrick

Joseph W Evans

Anantha Sundaram

Victor P DePaola

George E Friedrich

Eric A Winkler

Stephen R Bradshaw

Nicholas J Booker

Ahmet B Keha

A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform operational programming of the facility so that the analysis of specific operational events is flexible and 'on-demand.' This is achieved by allowing the user to set scope and timeframe of the analysis according to business needs. As a result, the organization can make better-informed judgments whether to add operational activities and how to adjust the ones already formulated in the program. The decision support tool can also allow for the application of strategies to communicate intent behind the programming instructions and to improve the quality of business decisions.

Operational programming of a facility

A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform planning and scheduling of the events within a facility so that established economic goals do not collide with feasibility of a schedule. This is achieved by flexible time modeling, which introduces a 'look-ahead' planning and scheduling technique. This technique analyzes several time periods of the schedule in light of upcoming dominant events, in order for each segment of the schedule to remain as consistent with the planning objectives as possible.

Flexible time modeling of a facility

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