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News Release from: Emerson Process Management | Subject: ACTC advanced control
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2005
Collaboration with ACTC over advanced
control
Emerson and the Applied Control Technology Consortium are developing the latest advanced control technologies to enable throughput improvements and cost reductions by process industry manufacturers
Emerson and the Applied Control Technology Consortium are developing and transferring the very latest control technologies to enable throughput improvements and cost reductions by process industry manufacturers ACTC helps its member companies pursue a policy of understanding and application of appropriate control technologies
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The consortium has attracted a worldwide membership of companies wishing to share the benefits of their innovative expertise, such as Alstom, Boeing, BP, Ford Motor Company, GlaxoSmithKline and Huntsman Tioxide, as well as Emerson.
For the cooperative business improvement approach, Emerson is contributing innovative tools in the form of new technology that provides far more capability for monitoring and managing the manufacturing process than previously has been considered possible, and this is enabling the use of new advanced control techniques, such as those developed by ACTC.
The Emerson PlantWeb digital plant architecture uses pervasive intelligence based on predictive diagnostics running continuously in intelligent instruments throughout the plant, and the DeltaV digital automation system has made such advanced control easy to apply.
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ACTC complements this Emerson technology.
Often through links with industrially relevant projects within the Industrial Control Centre (ICC) at the University of Strathclyde, ACTC has developed prototype process diagnostic software tools to take advantage of the new predictive technology and the modern process information that it delivers, giving companies a competitive advantage.
ACTC and Emerson in the UK are now cooperating to expand the use of PlantWeb intelligent instrumentation for machinery condition monitoring, and by applying the AMS Suite of predictive maintenance software for asset management.
This will be demonstrated in cooperation with a major UK pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant to illustrate the capabilities and benefits that arise by minimising unnecessary maintenance.
The wider ACTC membership will benefit from this by getting firsthand details through a published case study report.
Further software developed by ACTC uses new algorithms that automatically assess the performance of control loops and compare performance against a practically attainable "best in practice" controller.
This is one of the tools developed by the University and disseminated through the ACTC to their members for the benefit of the industry.
In providing a service of plant performance assessment and optimization to their customers, such tools are invaluable to Emerson Asset Optimisation in identifying process efficiency failures, to improve plant performance.
At the outset of the cooperative project, ACTC presented process control and technology awareness training to the Emerson project and software design engineers working on DeltaV control applications, such as those for the major automation engineering projects managed by Emerson.
ACTC also organized a similar training course for interested participants at the Manufacturing Excellence Conference in Coventry in June 2004.
"We were delighted to have the ACTC involvement with a full training session at the Manufacturing Excellence conference this year," commented Professor Grimble of ACTC.
"We are planning another similar joint event with Emerson at Leicester later this year, as a part of the Manufacturing Excellence series." The cooperation between Emerson and the ACTC on training and technology transfer and with the ICC on research projects is providing a sound basis for the future delivery of improved customer services.
Emerson will be able to call on the ACTC to provide additional expertise when clients have particularly difficult problems or when future applications require the use of the latest control technologies. Request a free brochure from Emerson Process Management ...
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