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Advanced Process Control optimises operations

Advanced Process Control (APC) tools and methodologies have been developed to help maximise process capacity, yield and product quality, to save energy and raw materials, and to reduce process variations and human interventions.



Embracing the APC approach can help users obtain additional process knowledge, understand interactions between process variables, explain non-linear relationships and handle multi-parameter systems.

The solutions include model predictive control, dynamic simulation and modelling, real-time optimisation, fuzzy logic and control. These solutions are added to enhance performance of existing controllers and designed for increased production throughput and productivity, utility monitoring and cost reduction, enhanced preventive maintenance procedures, improved process control and operational performance.

The goal of the Rockwell Automation APC team is to provide a customised solution, based on user objectives and areas of focus. In most cases, the final solution is the result of Rockwell Automation industrial automation experience and know-how, an understanding and detailed audit of your specific process operation, and close cooperation and teamwork between you and Rockwell Automation.

Rockwell Automation customises APC solutions to help you realise significant operational and quality benefits and a rapid return on your investment. The Rockwell Automation Advanced Process Control team designs solutions to help optimise performance of your processes. The solutions are designed for specific process control and operational performance goals set prior to commissioning.

Economic benefits of APC solutions, as measured by our clients have included a throughput increase of 7%, an energy usage reduction of 8%, a variation reduction by 40%, and batch time reduction of 13.5%. The control technologies applied in each of these cases were carefully chosen and industrially proven to maximise economical and operational benefits.

Industries served
Food, Life Sciences, Water, Glass, Chemical, Mining and minerals.

Application examples
• Sugar cooker control
• Cheese cooker control
• Cream cheese yield maximisation
• Dryer control
• Critical process parameter determination
• Water distribution modelling
• Water chlorination control
• Water chlorination modelling
• PH control
• Glass melting temperature control
• Glass melting modelling
• Separation process control
• Temperature control and composition control

Contact us to learn how our advanced process control solutions can help improve the performance of your manufacturing plants.

For more information:
Send us an e-mail with ref. to [‘Process Control’], at: info_eNews@ra.rockwell.com