AUTOMATION LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT.

Shanghai,(2009), highlighted that they were satisfied with honey well life cycle management solution which enabled them controllable and predictive future costs, this life management guarantees how their system could be kept running in good working condition .Also their future systems upgrades could be done as part of their strategical plan hence would avoid complicated negotiation process.As one the largest modern petrochemical enterprise in China, shanghai petrochemical maintains the industry leadership by driving technology to suites it needs., in order to find the most cost effective way to manage assets and maintain its technological innovation . Shanghai petrochemical implemented the life cycle management LCM program from honey well solution, a pheonex based process automation vendor. The LCM had proven to a comprehensive cost effective solution,to manage and export shanghai petrochemical existing asset as it undergoes a three years technology migration and expansion project, prior to using the honey-well LCM solution. Shanghai petrochemical faced major challenges in managing assets,keeping technology current, avoiding obsolescence, and controlling maintenance and support costs.the benefit expected with the new LCM solution includes numerous cost saving and performance improvement,such as :
upgrading all global solution(GUS) and application measuring platform,
processing platform (APP) stations resulting in improved performance reliability and risk avoidance .
Controlling predictive cost for maintenance upgrading and expanding the system for the next three years.
planning work scope to suit plant schedules in a more flexible manner.
Mitigating the risk of obsolescence and enhancing safety of plant operation.
Increasing deficiency and costs saving by having a single contract to cover all upgrades and expansion to avoid complicated contract negotiations, The petrochemical is located in Sinshannwei in the Jinshan District of shanghai, SINOPEC Shanghai petrochemical company Ltd. It maintains highly integrated production and operations of petroleum products, petrochemical synthetic fibres and plastics.The Shanghai petrochemical has more than 60 production plants with operation including oil refining petrochemical processes and manufacturing of plastics and synthetic fibres. The company has total assets of approximately US $5 Billion with a work force of more than 23,000.the modern large scale complex has its own utilities to supply waters,electricity,steam and gas,and environmental protection system, ocean and inland water way, rail road and road transportation facilities.The shanghai petrochemical need to upgrade its existing distributed control systems ( DCS ) to the latest technology,and to maintain the leadership as one of the premier petrochemical plant in China. The shanghai petrochemical was looking for an asset management system that will help it remain current in technological changes while maintaining the investment of its legacy systems. It also needed a cost effective solution that will looked at their systems throughout the expected life span.Though prior to using honey well LCM solution, They had a major challenges to manage the asset and more importantly to prevent the system from becoming obsolete. In so doing however,it realized that it has  to look at the impact that the upgrading the technology would have on maintenance and support costs (Shanghai , 2009) .
Shanghai petrochemical turned to honey well to help managed such asset as GUS and APP node computers,history module, advanced process manager (APM), controller and plant cape servers and stations.In view of the impact of the upgrading effects on the Plant maintenance and support of the hardware and software assets, Shanghai petrochemical implemented the Honeywell LCM, and with the life cycle management (LCM) implementation shanghai petrochemical could now manage cost to guarantee continue system operations and ensure that the upgrades are completed according to the company strategical plans (shanghai, 2009) .