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News Release from: Curvaceous Software | Subject: GPC Forum
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 May 2006
Conference hears of GPC success in many
industries
GPC users presented a review of their activities over the last year at the recent TAP (Technology Application Programme) forum, a discussion forum held to discuss geometric process control
Curvaceous Software GPC users presented a review of their activities over the last year at the recent TAP-Technology Application Programme, a user Forum held near their offices in Gerrard's Cross Users of Geometric Process Control (GPC) from a varied industrial base assembled to swap experience and techniques with colleagues, and to learn about the latest developments in the technology
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Through presentations made in award ceremonies, and to various meetings such as those of the IMC, IChemE, and user group conferences in Advanced Process Control organised by collaborating companies like Emerson Process Management and Invensys Foxboro, new customers have started applying GPC in their processes.
These span the whole of the process industry, from building products, polymers, elastomers, vinyl chloride, oil refining, gas processing, medical research and pharmaceuticals.
Generally the new customers apply GPC to solve a particular fire-fighting type problem, but then the wider applications are developed to provide better optimisation and process understanding across the business.
The presentations from established users of Curvaceous Visual Explorer software at the TAP Forum presented news of the success with their investigations, from industries as diverse as building products, pharmaceuticals, composite production and metal forming processes.
Inevitably there was one report that the final conclusion deduced that weather conditions adversely and unexpectedly affected an indoor chemical process, where the solvent storage tank was eventually located as open to the elements, outside! So in the winter processes were different to similar process values in the Summer! The main message was that the process operators frequently surprised themselves at how easily they could understand the information plotted in the CVE presentations, quickly being able to relate their knowledge and experience of the process with the graphical data. Request a free brochure from Curvaceous Software ...
With new alliance partners in the UK, Germany and the USA, there are more applications and more processes being understood using Curvaceous Software: why not make your plant the next to discover what can be made so obvious?.
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