Advanced Process Control – a Chance to Adapt to Economic Changes

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Keeping the business in tune

By having a more agile and robust model based controller technology, companies can rapidly adapt their plant operations to changing economic or operational needs. The overall result means that the Smart Tune enhancement to Aspen DMC3 plays a major role in optimising energy usage, emissions and operational costs.

The ability for the software to manipulate the controller behaviour based on current business and plant conditions is essential to meet operational targets. With embedded automated maintenance, companies can eliminate complex controller revamp projects and also reduce new projects cost and increase benefits.

Innovations in plant control software are more intuitive to use and shorten the design through maintenance cycle. From the easier model-build phase, improving model quality and rationalising data into clear visual context, APC is significantly less disruptive to operations and less reliant on specialist expertise.

Engineers now have the ability to easily configure controller behaviour to address specific issues. Aspen DMC3 with its enhanced Smart Tune functionality gives users the ability to quickly adapt to changing economic situations while decreasing engineering time and effort, improving stability and performance, as well as meet business objectives faster.

With model based controller technology, manufacturers can push the frontiers of operational excellence with greater agility and increase profitability to remain competitive in a highly turbulent market.

* * The author is Business Consulting Director, Aspentech, Wiesbaden/Germany.

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