Marine Terminal Management

There's never been an efficient way to standardize the automation of marine terminals -- until now.

The FUEL-FACS+ Marine Application is an off-the-shelf system with so much flexibility that you'll think it was designed to meet your company's automation specifications.

Here are just some of the features this system offers:

Business Management

Nomination entry, dispatching, activation, completion, and booking for in-takes, out-takes, tank-to-tank transfers, and administrative movements.
Quantity tolerance control
Unit of measure conversions
Blend calculations for multi-component out-takes and tank transfers
Ullage calculations for oil and LPG ships and barges
Ability to declare final values based on tank levels, metering, ship's figures, or ship's bill of lading
Comprehensive time sheet record keeping
Document generation
Pipeline batch processing for product receipt
Full road tanker order processing for product load out and additive/dye receipts
Physical inventory management through automatic gauging or manual tank level entry and tank strapping tables
Tank book inventory and supplier inventory management based on product receipt and disposal transactions
Automated parcel administration based on product ownership, type, country of origin, and fiscal status
Automated entitlement transfer administration based on user-configurable products and percentages
Product inventory fiscal status, tax group, and warehouse administration

Operations Management

An integrated UCOS HMI with graphical monitoring and control screens, command windows, group displays, alarm logging, reporting, trending/archiving, and device status and diagnostics
Real-time industrial controller functionality
Automatic or manual equipment reservation and line-up with full interlocking
Automatic batch execution and batch data capture via tank snapshots and flow computers.
Interfaces through standard PLC I/O modules to a wide variety of valves, pumps, flow controllers and transmitters, mixers, level controllers and transmitters, pressure controllers and transmitters, temperature transmitters, etc.

Centralized Management

Consolidates and standardizes management of business data and hardware configurations
Quickly and automatically distributes transaction information to all appropriate members of the supply chain through web-enabled, thin-client connections
Communicates simultaneously with multiple types of host systems, such as SAP r/3, Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Limited Internet Ships Register, etc.
... and all the other functionality available through the FUEL-FACS+ Central Business System