Model your plant
Units, streams, capacities and blend rules are written down as a linear programme that your team can read and challenge.
Operational & production analytics
Yield & blending optimization
The best mix of crudes or chemical feedstocks changes whenever prices, available components or product demand change. We build linear programming models that take your unit constraints, feedstock qualities and current market prices, and recommend the mix that earns the most while still meeting every product specification. Your planners stay in charge; the model shows them the options and the trade-offs.
Typical first version
8 – 12 weeks
Stated as a range. The two-week assessment narrows it.
The problem
Where it hurts today
- The planning model lives in one spreadsheet that only one person fully understands.
- Plans are refreshed monthly while prices change daily.
- It is hard to see what a cheaper feedstock would really do to yields and to specifications.
Data we bring together
- Crude assays and feedstock qualities
- Unit capacities and operating constraints
- Product specifications and blend rules
- Market prices and product cracks
- Inventory and available components
- Actual yields from the plant
How Azico builds it
Four stages, each one usable on its own
Feed it current data
Prices, inventories and qualities are refreshed automatically, so the recommendation reflects today rather than last month.
Optimise and explain
The solver returns the most profitable mix and the constraints that limit it, so planners see why, not only what.
Scenarios and back-checks
Planners can test a new crude or a price move in minutes, and actual yields are compared with the plan to keep the model calibrated.
What your team sees
- +Recommended feedstock slate and blend recipes
- +Margin by scenario, side by side
- +Binding constraints and the value of relaxing each one
- +Plan versus actual yields
Questions it answers
- “Is this discounted crude worth buying for our configuration?”
- “Which constraint is costing us the most margin?”
- “What is the cheapest blend that still meets the specification?”
What we need from you
- Your current planning model or spreadsheet
- Assays for the feedstocks you run or consider
- Unit constraints from operations
- A planner to validate results against experience
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