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Control Loop Performance Monitoring Solution

When performance issues are found, PlantESP provides guidance for timely and effective resolution.

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Take The Right Corrective Actions

Sometimes the answer to a performance issue isn’t obvious. Control loop performance monitoring software can help. To equip you with the right answer PlantESP combines analysis from the solution’s many KPIs with advanced process heuristics. PlantESP’s recommendations for corrective action take numerous factors into account. They simplify the steps needed to first verify the root-cause and then to reestablish effective control.

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Corrective Actions

Knowing you have a process control problem isn’t enough and determining how to correct that problem isn’t always obvious. When examining data, it can be difficult to determine the true cause of deteriorated control. Important details can be overlooked, and dynamics within the process data can be mistaken for everyday noise. PlantESP is a control loop performance monitoring solution that applies a portfolio of KPIs and advanced heuristics to take key elements into consideration. It points you in the right direction.

PlantESP leverages metric data and employs heuristics to generate recommendations for Corrective Action. Recommendations provide simple steps for confirming control loop performance problems and for isolating their root-cause. Examples of PlantESP’s Corrective Actions include the following:

  • Tuning Deviation
  • Output Saturated
  • Normal Mode
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TuneVue

Everything you need to tune controllers and optimize plant-wide process performance is already at your fingertips. Everyday process changes – whether a correction to Set Point, mode change, or adjustment to valve position – provide the necessary data for tuning PID control loops. Until now taking advantage of those everyday changes has been the challenge.

TuneVue is a unique feature within our PlantESP control loop performance monitoring solution that applies Control Station’s proprietary Non-Steady State (NSS) Modeling Innovation to the real-time and plant-wide modeling of process changes. TuneVue automatically identifies each change, calculates model and tuning parameters, and alerts users when performance gains can be realized.  Unique attributes of TuneVue include:

  • Accurately models process data even under noisy, oscillatory conditions
  • Supports open-loop as well as closed-loop process changes
  • Handles the dynamics of both integrating and non-integrating processes
  • Automatically filters changes involving disturbance-driven data
SUCCESS STORIES

What customers and partners are saying about Control Station

3M

"I had a temperature differential that was low and a flow that was high. So high in fact that it required 2 chillers to run. We used LOOP-PRO to tune the process. After tuning 75 loops, the temperature differential was at an industry standard and the flow was lower. It saved us maintenance time, energy, and productivity."

Jason Rumpza
Process Control Engineer

Bigelow Liptak

"Optimizing controller performance was a breeze with LOOP-PRO. A single bump test was all that we needed to accurately model the complex dynamics of each control loop. The software’s graphics made it easy to finely tune parameters for optimal responsiveness and control. It easily reduced the time we budgeted for tuning by over 80%. It’s a truly remarkable product."

Neil Gordon
Engineering Manager

Rockwell Automation

"TUNER has proven to be an integral and valuable optimization technology for many of our process customers. Its ease-of-use and high return on investment directly align with our goals for the PlantPAx system."

Greg Hood
Business Development Manager

OSIsoft

"PlantESP is a great example of advanced diagnostic technology that enables manufacturers to capture hidden value."

Timothy Johnson
Director of Partners and Strategic Alliances

YOKOGAWA

"PlantESP includes a loop monitoring capability that delves deeply into the health and performance of PID controllers. The insight that it provides is essential to our customer’s ability to maintain profitable production."

Jorge Pinto
Manager of Advanced Solution Sales

Haverhill Chemicals

"I am consistently amazed by the flexibility and power of LOOP-PRO. With the improvements in performance we clearly understand the benefit of well-tuned control loops. This software works magic."

Michael Hagans
Process Engineer

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