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Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: ExperTune | Subject: Equation Builder
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2005
PlantTriage measures profit and
performance
The new ExperTune addition to PlantTriage allows users to develop real-time profit and performance measures from process plant operating data
The new ExperTune addition to PlantTriage allows users to develop real-time profit and performance measures from process plant operating data Equation Builder makes calculations on real-time data to generate profit measures from plant data in real time
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This PlantTriage Equation Builder reads plant data from anywhere in your enterprise via OPC.
Your own profit measures such as energy usage and plant throughput are then calculated from the plant data.
The calculations can be simple or extremely involved and use a library of math functions.
The calculation results are made available by a built-in OPC server for archiving or further analysis, including PlantTriage assessments.
"Energy usage can be continually assessed within PlantTriage," stated John Gerry, CEO and Founder, ExperTune.
He continued, "Equation Builder combined with PlantTriage diagnoses poorly performing batch processes".
For example, it is possible to determine energy usage by combining temperature and flow mathematically in Equation Builder.
The process engineer can continually assess energy usage within PlantTriage so that any unusual disturbances are flagged by email.
Another example is asset management.
All PlantTriage performance assessments are available via an OPC server.
These assessments can be fed into Equation Builder and combined with other plant parameters to automatically trigger work orders when the plant is performing poorly.
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