Events News Contact us Search Menu English English (United States) Home Industry solutions Performance assurance < Industry solutions Performance assurance Organizations that perform at their best are able to adjust to changing dynamics without compromising competitiveness. KBC has proprietary methodologies and technologies to ensure you have the resilience to ride out internal and external turbulence, while continuing to deliver superior results with the resources and capabilities available. What we offer KBC is focused on delivering sustained enhancement of return on capital employed for our clients. We do this by ensuring your core operating assets – people, the technologies you use and the business processes you execute – perform at their very best. Our solutions are outcome-driven and designed to produce long-term, sustainable benefits. Our products and services Our performance assurance solutions span your business operations from end-to-end and include: The fundamental monitoring systems and capabilities required to understand the current state of your operations Technologies and services to help you analyze and optimize your choice of feedstocks Tools, expertise and cloud solutions to improve and optimize your operations including process units, energy production and usage and inbound and outbound supply chain Scheduling software to manage and optimize product slate blending and transportation logistics Best practices and technologies to assure the physical integrity of your assets Operations management Any data-driven approach for continuous improvement in manufacturing requires definition, ongoing tracking and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs) against targets. What cannot and is not measured cannot be improved. We offer deep industry and operations domain knowledge to ensure you focus on the right KPIs and set realistic operating targets. Many of our software applications include robust built-in data reconciliation algorithms to eliminate interpretation errors due to bad or missing data. We provide tools to steward operations conformance against targets and constraints, while building up a practical knowledge database. Feedstock optimization Feedstock is the biggest operating cost for most plants. A plant’s yield, reliability, energy efficiency and environmental performance can vary drastically depending on the processing of different feedstocks and associated plant processing constraints. We offer deep know-how of industry and production economics, coupled with high fidelity simulation models to allow accurate prediction and optimization of feedstock choices. Process optimization Sub-optimal process configurations and operating conditions can result in off-spec or inconsistent product, excessive energy costs, unintended losses and unplanned shutdowns – all of these have a significant impact on plant economics. We offer high fidelity simulation models of process facilities to faithfully represent reality, utilizing fundamental chemical and mechanical principles to create accurate digital twins of process facilities. Using these models, our subject matter experts provide advice and opinion, based on deep operating and engineering domain knowledge, on optimal plant configurations and operating conditions to enhance yield performance and throughput. Energy optimization Energy usage in process facilities can account for up to 50% of operating costs and is a major driver of CO₂, SOx and NOx emissions. Yet striving for improved energy performance alone can have a highly detrimental impact on yield performance. We offer industry-leading energy and utility system optimization technologies and consulting advice enabled to identify a multitude of cost, environmental and operating improvements that balance the yield-energy trade-off. Distribution and supply chain optimization Successfully fulfilling contracts and maximizing market opportunities requires highly visible, flexible and responsive distribution and supply chain management. We offer non-linear process simulation technologies that enable optimal feedstock selection, coupled with technologies that allow plant personnel to schedule and simulate operations on an integrated supply chain topological model, allowing quick identification of potential imbalances between interdependent operations. For suppliers to other producers we also offer cloud-based services to monitor product inventories and process operations in your customer’s facilities to extend the visibility of your supply chain beyond the plant. Production accounting Accurate accounting of feedstock inputs, product outputs and manufacturing losses is critical to maximizing operational and financial performance. A plant-wide production accounting system is the first step towards any loss control initiative. We offer state-of-the-art technology that enables production accounting and data reconciliation. In addition, we can provide loss studies which incorporate benchmarking performance against best practice, and development of product loss management programs. Asset integrity assurance Manufacturing facilities only generate value when they are running. Asset reliability is vital for achieving this. We offer consulting solutions focused on asset strategy, leadership alignment and governance model development, through to reliability assurance, online maintenance and shutdown maintenance support. Organizational competence and alignment High-performing businesses need operating models in which their people are aligned to strategic objectives. High-level performance is achieved through the optimal balance of centralization and empowerment, together with effective cross-functional cooperation between business units. We offer consulting solutions focused on achieving strategic leadership, delivering organizational change management and human performance improvement. Get the latest from KBC Register for updates About Careers Contact us Legal policies Modern Slavery Act Statement © Copyright 2017 KBC