MBS Fuel and Material Flow Management Software for Power Plants

• Fuel management (primary and substitute fuels)
• Management of fuel oil, ammonia, limestone and other materials
• Management of combustion by-products and waste
• Requirements planning, inventory and silo management
• Integrated lorry weighbridge systems and access control systems
• Interfaces to conveyor belt weighers
• Interfaces to digital control systems (DCS)
• Laboratory information systems
• Legal compliance
• Reporting
• Integration with 3rd party systems (material suppliers, hauliers etc.)

No matter whether you operate a single power plant or large number of generation assets — MBS Power Generation is scalable and equally suited for both situations. MBS Power Generation is a modular system — its flexible design can be tailored to meet your individual requirements. Your generating plant’s particular system environment can be configured and integrated into MBS. MBS provides a number of standard interfaces to exchange data, ranging from plant automation to ERP systems.

MBS Power Generation can be easily combined with other MBS software packages to form an integrated system. As a one-stop solution the MBS integrated system covers every step in the fuel management business process — from the trading desk to the plant operator.

• Use all available information and master data across all business units
• Access up-to-date information on contracts, stocks, shipments, material consumption, orders etc.
• Coordinate fuel supply and emissions between the trading and generation sectors
• Avoid data redundancies, errors or inconsistencies
• Improved reporting

Fuel costs account for approximately half of power generation costs. The processes associated with electricity production from hard coal, lignite, natural gas, oil and biomass determine the value added by each power plant. MBS Power Generation assists you in managing these important costs.
MBS captures load dispatch plans which will help you with your budgeting and scheduling of fuel procurements, taking into account current and projected stockyard inventories. The system captures logistics and deliveries with detailed quality grades such as calorific value or sulphur content. MBS automatically highlights deviation from planning data and indicates missing cargoes. Data acquisition is automated to a large extent as interfaces allow MBS to be connected to logistics systems, belt weighers, weighbridges, silo sensors and analytical laboratories.

MBS Power Generation provides detailed inventory control ensuring precise evaluations down to individual deliveries. The system also accurately registers fuel consumption and heat generation data. MBS offers detailed interfaces which break down stocks and consumption into various aspects such as fuel grade or costs.

MBS Power Generation offers both technical and commercial evaluations of all material movements. In addition to analyzing generating and fuel costs it also supports the invoicing
processes. MBS provides an interface to ERP systems such as SAP for accounts payable data and similar accounting information. The flexible reporting engine of MBS provides an unrivaled degree of transparency using standard and user-configured reports on commercial and technical aspects.