GRTMPS, Version 4 (G4) is Haverly Systems' newly updated planning tool that utilizes the latest in Object-oriented Relational Database Modeling technology.

GRTMPS is an easy-to-use, technically rich planning system designed to meet all the economic optimization needs of today's businesses. It is used in tight coordination with scheduling and crude assay applications such as H/Sched and H/CAMS, as a component of large integrated systems, and as a powerful stand-alone planning application. Used on a daily basis, G4 is used to find optimal solutions in refining, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries.

Click here to view the online demonstration of H/Sched.

Continual development of new technology is a strong tradition at Haverly Systems. Shortly after its introduction, the GRTMPS list of features included:

• multi-period and multi-location
• specification blending, recipe blending
• transportation, inventory, investment
• distributive recursion, delta-base structures

Ongoing improvements are a vital part of the Haverly culture. Important technologies have been developed recently that have changed the planning community, including:

Adherent Recursion brings true non-linear modeling to LP optimization. This technique is more accurate, more convergent and fast. Intelligent design has harnessed this powerful idea making it easy to setup and understand. Adherent Recursion is unique to GRTMPS.

Process Simulator Interface (PSI) provides an efficient method to incorporate external simulators as an integral part of the LP system. These can be user created Excel simulators or 3rd party simulators. Utilizing Adherent Recursion, GRTMPS PSI, is stable, fast, accurate and easy to configure.

Cut-Point Optimization (CPO) provides the solution to the age old problem of accurately determining optimal distillation cutpoints. CPO is accomplished by combining Adherent Recursion and PSI with the H/CAMS Crude Assay Management system. CPO is also unique to Haverly Systems.

G4 introduces an entirely new way of developing, maintaining and running planning models. Beginning with Version 4, GRTMPS models can be maintained in a relational database and the benefits are many:

Easy to Learn, Easy to Support

• Free from the constraints of spreadsheet files and table structures, data is organized by the way you work. Data and options are easy to find and understand. Tree navigation and intuitive panels provide an easy-to-learn modeling environment.
• The user-interface leads the G4 user to valid choices, which prevents syntax errors. Automatic validation virtually eliminates runs that fail because a new user doesn't remember the correct syntax for a data table or misspells a code. Messages are displayed in plain language advising the user when improper data has been entered and how to correct it.
• Modelers responsible for the original data can distribute G4 models to users who can make copies of the base data objects. Without changing the base case data, G4 users can freely modify these copied structures then have a very high level of flexibility. They have great freedom in what they can create but can always return to the base case to compare results.
• Configure user-defined buttons to open a customized help file, a report on your corporate intranet or to run a simulator. This makes documentation and tools unique to your company available to your users without leaving G4.

Productive

• Complicated tasks no longer require a comprehensive knowledge of data tables and their proper structure. With G4, creating a functioning copy of a process unit or specification blend product requires only few clicks on one panel.
• Easily refer to and view crude-specific data.
• The new hyper linking Block Diagram view allows provides for intuitive navigation through the model database.

Robust

• The relational database format supports all of the same features supported by the original GRTMPS tables including Adherent Recursion, PSI, Cutpoint Optimization, sophisticated constraints and limits, etc.
• Import purchase and sales data to the relational database from spreadsheets.
• Use the Evaluation Wizard to quickly setup a series of runs to study sensitivities.
• Full integration with the H/CAMS relational crude database.
• Create and customize Excel-based reports without programming.
  

The benefits of the new user interface extend to those running traditional GRTMPS spreadsheet models.

• Run existing spreadsheet models without changing, or reformatting any model data.
• Create the same matrix and solve to the same solution.
• Use the G4 Navigation Tree to view and edit model data in spreadsheets.
• Use the new G4 panels to easily set runtime options.
  

From its very beginning, GRTMPS, Version 4 (G4) was designed to integrate with other applications and information systems. GRTMPS model data can be stored in Excel spreadsheets or in the new G4 relational database format. In addition, G4 model data and solution values can also be accessed using industry-standard SQL or ActiveX.

Using the industry-standard ActiveX programming interface, user-created programs (Visual Basic, VBScript, Excel macros, java, etc.) can configure and operate the G4 system.

Haverly Support Agreements are among the most cost-effective in the industry.

Benefits to clients with a Support Agreement include:

• Two days on-site consulting or training each year.
• Technical support from Haverly staff by telephone, fax and email.
• Email requests for technical support are automatically forwarded to staff in Europe, North America and Asia. It is not unusual to submit a question in the evening and find that the response is waiting for you the next morning.
• Software updates are posted to our website as they are completed and are available immediately for downloading.
  Licensing

Since its founding in 1961, Haverly has taken a unique approach to developing and licensing software.

• Haverly develops and supports only one version of GRTMPS.
• Every GRTMPS user has access to all GRTMPS features and enhancements without payment of additional license fees.
• Third-party optimizers can be purchased which offer additional capability.
• GRTMPS licenses are perpetual with a one time up- front license fee.
• Annual Support Fees are optional.
• GRTMPS licenses are sold by site, not by seat. There is no limit on the number of people that can use the software at a licensed site.
• Flexible short-term rental or lease agreements are available.

GRTMPS, Version 4, is truly a remarkable advance in LP Modeling Technology. Please contact us for more details.

Related topics:
Refinery Technology Database
Optimizers
H/CAMS
Template

Return to the top of page.

Haverly Systems, Inc.  - Copyright 2003