About Haverly Systems, Inc.

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The Haverly Organization has four related business operations in the United States and Europe specializing in applying Operations Research and mathematical optimization technology for industrial operations and business planning. Specifically, HSI develops optimization, scheduling, simulation, model generation, and application-specific systems and models; consults in all aspects of optimization, scheduling, simulation, and modeling; and provides training in the theory, technique and applications of economic optimization in industry.

In the 1960's, HSI pioneered the development of optimization/modeling software for business and industrial applications, and played a major role in the introduction and implementation of optimization technology in the petroleum refining industry. Since then, through its routine use of optimization technology, this industry has clearly demonstrated increased operation cost-effectiveness, coped with major business and regulatory changes, and saved many billions of dollars, because of the economic optimization of its operations.

Principal application products include a number of generalized LP-based planning systems oriented toward petroleum refining, petrochemical processing, supply, transportation, marketing, pipeline and utility system optimization. These include GRTMPS (Generalized Refining Transportation Marketing Planning System), H/ROSS (Refinery Optimization Scheduling System), H/COSS (Crude Oil Scheduling System), and H/BOSS (Blending Optimization Scheduling System). Other oil-industry systems include the H/CAMS Crude-Oil analysis library and software and the iCDM laboratory assay system. Other services include LP data-base design and development, training courses in linear programming, OMNI and refinery modeling, and custom scientific and commercial software design and programming. The principal modeling language tool is OMNI, a universal LP model and report generating language pioneered and developed by HSI.

Continuity in its ownership and management for over 30 years has led to stability at all levels of our organization, promoted the highest level of expertise, and resulted in the continued patronage and good-will of its many customers. HSI optimization/modeling software is used by petroleum, chemical, pipeline, government agencies, and general industrial companies on all types of modern computers and operating systems. In 1983, President Reagan and United States Department of Commerce awarded HSI the "E Flag" for Excellence in Export.

HSI's planning and scheduling software is used at 100's of locations worldwide. A sample of companies that rely on HSI software includes Amerada Hess, British Petroleum, Caltex, Chevron, Chinese Petroleum, Conoco, Elf, Exxon, Hyundai, J.R. Simplot, Koch, Marathon, Mobil, Nova, Nynas, Petrofina, Petro-Canada, Pertamina, Shell Oil, Sinopec, Statoil, Texaco, Tosco, Total Petroleum, Ultramar, Unocal, Veba Oel, and many others.

Chronological Items

HSI

At HSI we don't strive for Bigness but rather for Bestness. We are big enough and focused enough to deliver service effectively and treat our clients as individuals and to stay in the forefront of technology. We hope we are meeting the needs of our friends and clients and invite new users who have needs for Bestness in our areas of Refinery Planning, Scheduling, Crude Assays and Model Management. (6/15/98)

Larry Haverly to be Published

Larry was invited to write a chapter on "Practical Modeling" for a new book in Operations Research. The chapter includes an example of use of MIP for Scheduling and other topics. Final copy has been submitted and the book is expected to be published later this year.(6/18/98)

Commitment to Service

At HSI, we not only try to bring you the best, but we are committed to being there to help when you have question or problems. We work to help you succeed. (6/20/98)

HSI completed 36th Profitable Year

At HSI, we have just completed our fiscal year. This year was the 36th consecutive one in which we made a profit. A profitable company means users can count on us to deliver our commitments. We thank all our many loyal friends and clients and hard working, skilled employees because without you we would not have been successful.

We have lost count of the number of times we have reinvented ourselves to keep current and in the forefront of technology. Major changes seem to happen ever five years or so. That is why we maintain a strong Research and Development effort. We couldn't keep bringing you the best if we didn't do this.

Currently we are setting the technology pace in Refinery and Crude Scheduling, in Crude Assay Systems and Libraries, in Refinery Planning, and in the integration of these. We hope and dedicate ourselves so that in the coming year we can serve our existing clients well and add satisfied new ones. (7/1/98)

Staying Current in Operations Research at HSI

Operations Research (OR) is important to our systems and we are active in the OR field. We subscribe to many OR technical journals, attend meetings and have given numerous talks.

Currently we have a new paper submitted for inclusion in an OR publication. In additions we are occasionally invited to referee technical papers submitted by academic writers.

HSI is pleased to be a long term Sponsor of the Journal on Computing (JOC) published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. JOC focuses on the computation aspects of OR.

We appreciate the importance of Operations Research and Management Science to our field and the value it brings to our planning and scheduling systems. (7/27/98)

Denville player wins "Best Bowler" in Cricket match

This is a news item because Cricket is not widely played in the USA. Nevertheless the township of Denville has an annual challenge match against a New York area Cricket team. David Alexander manages the H/CAMS team at HSI and is known to many of you. He is also a good cricket player and, as part of the Denville team, won a trophy as "Best Bowler". So you cricket players everywhere can know that Cricket (as well as advanced technology) is alive and well in Denville New Jersey, USA. (8/11/98)

People ahead of Processes

At HSI, we consider people more important than processes.

From our long experience in developing practical, sophisticated computer software, we know that this works best. Individuals create new ideas, build quality into our software, and work hard to support and help our clients. Individuals, cooperating voluntarily, achieve the benefits that come from teamwork.

Seeing "people as the key" is why we keep our organizational structure simple and keep our focus on results. That is why our people "own" their projects and receive credit for successes as well as have the responsibility to fix any problems, with support and guidance as needed.

So when you are looking for the best technology and a successful application in planning, scheduling, or crude assay data management; we are here to serve you and help you succeed with our proven software and dedicated people. (11/30/98)

HSI Experts on the Go

This time of year the GRTMPS team is on the go making on-site visits to users. They provide that extra service which helps makes use of our software so effective. They bring the new developments and current system versions directly to the users and deal face-to-face with user questions. While on trips, the team members try to stay in touch but your normal GRTMPS support contact may take longer to get back to you. But someone else usually can help. (10/26/98)

Thanks

As 1998 draws to a close and the last year of the 1900's begins, we want to say thank you to our many clients around the world.

We appreciate your support. You give us many interesting things to do and we pledge to keep working hard and doing our best to meet your needs.

We add an extra thanks to the new clients who have recently commissioned us to deliver refinery scheduling systems in the new year. Thank you for entrusting us with this important work.

1998 has been a year of major accomplishments for HSI. Our web site services were greatly expanded. We developed OmniSuite™ to integrate database, refinery planning and scheduling, and crude assay functions. Major new advances were made in our GRTMPS® planning, our H/SCHED™ scheduling and our H/CAMS™ crude assay systems. Our technology of Schedule Generation continues to chart new ground. Generalized OmniGraphics™ was built to handle the user interfaces for scheduling applications.

Many more new ideas crowd our brains and we have much challenging work for the new year. We will be focused on delivering further advanced technology to you, our clients and friends. Thank you and have a wonderful holiday and prosperous New Year. (12/21/98)

HSI profitable

HSI concluded a profitable six months in December and employees participated in cash bonuses.

Continued profitability assures our clients of long term support and funds our substantial ongoing R&D efforts. (1/6/99)

HSI Sales and Profits up

In spite of some cutbacks in the Refining industry and in Asia, HSI is
experiencing higher sales and profits. All of the lines of business we are in are doing well.

We thank the clients who are supporting our new ideas and software with their business and have made the higher sales happen. We are proud of our employees who with their hard, efficient and effective work have made the profits happen. For the future, we dedicate ourselves to your successful future knowing it will make a successful future for us too. (3/29/99)

Profile of Larry Haverly

Larry is an owner, Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of HSI. He continues to work a 50+ hour week and expects to continue to do so for many years. However he adds that when the grandchildren are around they get priority. So do the sailing races in summer. He and his wife Angie also find time for things they like to do together and Angie often travels with him.

Larry has degrees in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration and substantial experience in Operations Research, Computer Science and Refining. His experience in these go back over 40 years beginning at Esso when optimization was first being applied to refinery situations.

Larry says he remains fascinated and challenged by HSI's application areas. He especially enjoys providing new and better solutions to users and in sharing his knowledge with newer staff.

Refinery and Crude Schedule optimization has a lot of his attention these days. "Generating optimal schedules by computers is definitely a new and exciting field with great benefits to the users." says Larry.

Larry says he thanks God for his many blessings and the continued good health of him and his wife. He thanks the many clients who have supported HSI over the years. He appreciates the staff, including his son Victor, whose hard, creative, competent work has made good things happen.

We plan more profiles in future news items. (5/10/99)

HSI Ends 37th Fiscal Year on Positive Note

At the end of June, HSI completed another successful year. Sales and profits were up. Cash bonuses and maximum profit sharing contributions were paid to the employees.

This is the 37th consecutive year of profitable results. We thank our loyal customers and our hard working, skilled, creative employees. We look forward to a new year of serving the industry with state-of-the art software and services. (7/16/99)

New Book Published

Larry Haverly has a chapter titled "Practical Modeling" in the new book just published titled Operational Research in Industry. He includes some never before published material based on his many years of experience. He discusses understanding and using model behavior as an important aspect of achieving successful applications. An MIP example of scheduling is included.

There are 15 individual chapters by experts and the focus is on practical application. Many examples of modern successful use of integer and mixed integer programming and other non-linear representations are included. This is a good book for those with interest in the application area.

The book is edited by Tito A. Ciriani, Stefano Gliozzi, Ellis L. Johnson and Roberto Tadei. It is published by MacMillan Press Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England. (8/2/99)

Another successful year

HSI has completed another successful fiscal year ending June 30, 2000. We have continued to enhance our technology and deliver it to users. We now have the world-leading products in our areas of focus. These are refinery planning, refinery scheduling and crude assay data management. With OmniSuite ^® and a new alliance we now provide full scope Supply Chain Solutions from crude to customers.

Our fiscal year ended profitably and keeps our long record of profitable operations intact. Profit sharing bonuses were paid to the employees.

We thank our many loyal users and our many dedicated, talented employees. We invite others to join our ranks of favored users.(8/9/00)

Strong in R&D

In our fields of Refinery Planning, Scheduling and Crude Assay Data Management, HSI is THE strong R&D company. Our 40 years of success has come, in large part, from a continuing and highly successful R&D effort. We thank the many clients whose suggestions, ideas and encouragement have greatly helped us in achieving the best.

We have a long list of technology that we have pioneered starting with the first commercial optimization solver on the IBM 1401. We pioneered matrix generation and then model management systems - MaGen. We developed the first (and still only) optimizing compiler for model management - OMNI. OMNI was implemented in assembly language on the IBM 360 and currently in assembly language on the PC's for extreme speed and ease of use. It has been expanded to 16 character names for the new century.

We have extended generalized refinery planning - GRTMP - with one system for the full range of use. We pioneered spread sheet connections, data base connections and soon an object oriented approach. Our R&D has established the connectivity of planning, scheduling and crude assay data management in fact as well as theory.

We pioneered a new approach to crude assay data management with integrated, interactive data smoothing and now flash assay updating of older assays. All is implemented in the latest Microsoft Windows.

We pioneered new approaches to Refinery Scheduling to achieve optimal and feasible scheduling automatically. We integrate all aspects of the scheduling process to achieve practical, profitable and easy to use systems for our users.

Our R&D has a solid record of achievement in the engineering and optimization technology and also in the computer science technology to make systems easy and practical. Our software is continually being enhanced.

We would like to be your software supplier for refinery planning, scheduling and crude assay data management. We can provide you the best now. We will provide you the best for the future as we continue with a full and active R&D program.

For HSI, software products are not destinations but journeys into the future. (6/26/1)

HSI Completes 39th Consecutive Profitable Year.

HSI has been serving the petroleum industry for many years and is happy to report that our fiscal year ending June 30 was also a good success. We thank our users and our hard working, talented employees. We renew our pledge to continue the innovations that bring you the best in refinery planning, scheduling and crude assay data management. (7/31/01)

Year End 2001

HSI finished the year 2001 in strong shape, with good profits, and we look forward to a productive, successful 2002.

We thank our many clients for their encouragement and support. This strongly motivates us to work hard and creatively to provide the best solutions worldwide in the areas of Refinery Planning, Crude Data Management and Refinery Scheduling.

We are seeing a broad-based increase in demand for our products and services. Thus we have been adding some outstanding people to our staff in order to serve you better. We have new people in Singapore, Houston, Denville, Ventura and England and look ahead to providing top-of-the-line software and services to even more users.

We send you our hope that all will have a prosperous and Happy 2002. (1/2/02)

Larry Haverly Published

The newly published volume of the prestigious Annals of Operations Research includes a chapter written by Larry Haverly. The chapter is titled "Omni Model Management System".

The chapter includes an Introduction to practical model management, a brief history of Omni, the seven steps of the model development cycle for large applications, some details of OMNI and examples of practical applications in Omni. The chapter covers new developments including 16 character Omni and the Omni Graphics extension now widely used in refinery scheduling applications.

This is volume 104 of the Annals which is devoted to "Modeling Languages and Systems". The Editor-in Chief is Dr. Peter L. Hammer and the other editors are Dr. Collette Coullard, Dr. Robert Fourer and Dr. Honathan H. Owens. The publisher is Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2/18/02)

Trierwiler and Tan published

HSI staff members Dean Trierwiler and Dr. Richard Tan were published in the Nov/Dec 2001 issue of Hydrocarbon Asia. The article is entitled "Advances in Crude Oil LP Modelling". It describes the advantages and details of the Adherent Recursion technique added to the GRTMPS optimization planning system. It also describes the success from close integration of GRTMPS and the H/CAMS crude assay data management system to achieve better non-linear cut point and crude selection optimization. These advances can result in substantial savings to users. (3/10/02)

HSI updates 5 to 10 year Plan

The board of directors have met to update the 5 to 10 year plan for HSI. Some of the key parts are:

1. Continue our strong focus on the successful areas of Refinery Planning, Refinery Scheduling and Crude Assay Data management where we already have the world-best software.

2. Continue to emphasize having the best technology and service and providing it at a fair, reasonable and attractive price.

3. Continue our strong R&D efforts to (a) enhance our products and (b) make sure we remain in the forefront of the evolving technology (including new operating systems and methods).

4. Add qualified staff as warranted by growth of sales and requirements of clients.

5. Reward our staff from the successes of our strong team and individual efforts.

6. Be alert for opportunities to expand our business in productive ways.

Various internal product groups have met at Summit meetings to do more detailed plans for their areas for the next year. The result is that we have lots of exciting new enhancements in the works. We hope all our existing and prospective clients will be pleased with the results and we welcome feedback, ideas and requests at all times. (6/20/02)

HSI has an Upbeat Year

Our fiscal year ending June 30 showed record sales and earnings. We thank our many loyal customers and friends. They have shown their astuteness at getting the best software and services at reasonable and attractive prices.

We thank our hard-working, focused and talented staff who have provided the best in software and services. All staff people have all received cash bonuses as well as the maximum amount to their profit sharing trust.

Our sales growth made possible the 20% increase in staff this year. We have added some outstanding employees. We welcome the new people and they are already making important contributions toward serving our clients.

We look forward to continuing to serve all of our existing clients during the new year and in the years to come. We look forward to providing our software and services to additional organizations. If you are not a client now, please consider us if you have needs for longevity and the world-best in refinery planning, scheduling and crude assay data systems.

For our part, we will continue to work hard to retain your confidence and support. Thank you from all the staff of HSI. (7/8/02)

Strong Fiscal Year Completed

HSI completed its fiscal year June 30 in good shape. We thank our many clients for your support, suggestions and help.

We continued to have strong sales and good profits. Employees received a major share of the profits. We are blessed with motivated, hard working, talented employees who continue to deliver high quality, world class software and services.

We have kept a strong Research and Development effort to maintain our technology lead. We continue to provide a flow of new and enhanced software. Our fiscal stability assures our clients of long term support from a stable staff of experienced professionals. (7/21/03)

Larry Haverly Published

Larry Haverly has had a chapter published in the Applied Optimization series of book. It is in a book on Modeling Languages. In the chapter, Larry describes the history and power of the OMNI modeling language and the new developments and future direction of support.Larry says, "I see OMNI as still one of the finest and most useful of modeling languages for large, commercial LP type applications. It plays a vital role in our advanced application systems for refinery planning and scheduling." The book is available from Kluwer Academic Publishers, 56 Industrial Park Drive, Pembroke, MA 02359 and lists for $280. (24 May 2004)

Thank You Clients for Another Good Year

We thank all our clients. Our mission is to serve you to the best of our ability while enjoying what we do. June 30 marked the 42nd consecutive year that we have made a profit. All the employees have received significant profit sharing bonuses for their fine work and a successful year.

We put emphasis on service and quality. We strive to have the world leading technology in the areas where we focus; namely, refinery planning (GRTMPS - G4), refinery scheduling (H/SCHED), crude assay management (H/CAMS) and OMNI SUITE.

Our morale is high and we are enthusiastic for the new fiscal year. For the coming year we will keep our active R&D effort going to continue to enhance all our products and services to keep our clients in the forefront of technology. We invite non-clients to become a part of our client family this year.(7/8/04)