The ProSimulator OTS systems offered to IOCL are custom developed, high fidelity training systems and will enable IOCL to provide continuous training and development of operator and engineers. By using the OTS systems, IOCL will be able to:
- Improve operating experience, confidence and accuracy in normal and abnormal plant operations
- Normal operations
- Cold and Warm start-up
- Normal shutdown and Emergency shutdown
- Unit throughput changes
- Communication with field operators
- Operator skills developed and sustained in handling emergencies, upsets, alarm management, feedstock changeover & product grade change over
- Communications with field operation via field panel emulation
- Improve understanding of general plant theory and concepts
- Increase knowledge of plant systems and their function and interaction with other systems
- Enhance understanding of plant control theory and operation
- Demonstrate recovery from various upsets and malfunctions
- Evaluate the level of knowledge acquired by a trainee
- Improve Operator confidence
- Faster training of new and replacement staff
- Develop deeper process understanding
- Control and operability studies
- Early identification of design problems & avoid costly corrections
- DCS configuration checkout and validation
- Checkout emergency shutdown systems
- Validation of equipment sizing
- Alarm system validation and assessment
- Rigorous verification of standard operating procedures
- Confirmation of DCS graphics
- Process engineering studies
- Control improvement studies
- De-bottlenecking studies
- Development of improved operating procedures
- Develop Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
- Documented step towards achieving OSHA compliance
