Transforming PID Health Into Acid Gas Removal Profit
Tuning the PID loops on eight control valves at a 120,000 barrel/day NGL plant cut valve travel 66% and five-year downtime exposure from $1.8M to $600K.
Transforming PID Health Into Filler Line Profit
Cascading bowl level to beer flow on a high-speed canning line cut the reject rate from 1.0% to 0.07%, validated at more than $1.8 million a year.
Transforming PID Health Into Paper Machine Profit
On a typical 300 ton/day paper machine, a 10-point gain in average loop performance is worth roughly $600K a year in fibre, dryer energy and broke. See where those losses
Fouling Cools Your Exchanger While Heating Up Your Costs
A nitrogen heat exchanger held Setpoint for 99 days while it fouled, but its OCE fell from 97.4% to 8.0%. See how OCE flagged the problem weeks early and what
Improved Evaporator Efficiency Delivers Sizeable Utility Gains
A pectin producer added feed-forward control to its MVR evaporator, cutting density error 88% and steam and power use per ton by about a third, for an estimated $343,000 a
Opening Up Production Margins by Closing the Loop on Heat Transfer
A boiler makeup water level loop was running at 8.6% OCE. One tuning fix lifted it to 91.6% and cut makeup flow by 29.3%, worth about $47,500 a year in
Adaptable Automation Using State-Based Control
An edible oil processing company struggled to run various products with unique characteristics until they applied state-based control loop performance monitoring software to handle the differences.
A Stable Process is a Profitable Process
Engineers in the Basic Materials market understand the value of Set Point tracking as a means of controlling business-critical production processes. Simply put – better Set Point tracking results in
Automating Control and Reducing the Cost of Manual Intervention
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Watering Down Production for Increased Profits
Tightening control around Set Point will improve the performance and profitability of most every production process. This is especially true of drying processes applied by ethanol manufacturers to control moisture