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News Release from: Invensys SimSci Esscor | Subject: Connoisseur V15
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 August 2004
Improved Advanced Process Control
Solution
Delivering real-time adaptive control and enhanced on-line data handling, the new Connoisseur software solution enables plants to optimise manufacturing operations to generate performance improvements
SimSci-Esscor, a business unit of Invensys Systems, has announced the launch of version 15 of its Connoisseur software, a comprehensive suite of advanced process control (APC) software The next generation of the Connoisseur suite model predictive control delivers profit and quality improvement benefits to a wide range of processes in the oil refining, petrochemicals, power, pulp and paper, food processing, mineral and metallurgical processing and chemical industries
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 30 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Delivering real-time adaptive control and enhanced on-line data handling features, the Connoisseur solution enables plants to optimise manufacturing operations to generate performance improvements that positively affect the bottom line.
"As globally competitive companies face rising manufacturing and energy costs and decreased capital budgets, plants require new solutions that can help them manage their limited resources in a more efficient manner," said Alastair Fraser, vice president of the SimSci-Esscor simulation business line.
"The advanced technology in the Connoisseur suite provides customers with a comprehensive set of integrated engineering tools that give them new insights into the plant's process control strategies.
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Given a clearer understanding of how to optimise manufacturing processes, customers are capable of significantly enhancing quality, increasing throughput and reducing overall energy usage".
In recent studies by SimSci-Esscor customers, the Connoisseur APC solution has been shown to increase a plant's throughput up to 5 percent, improve process yields as much as 10 percent, and reduce specific energy consumption by 3 to 10 percent.
The new version of the solution includes improved process modelling through enhanced on-line data collection and analysis tools.
These statistical techniques enable engineers to identify cause and effect relationships and analyse data for these interactions.
Using these tools along with operational experience, operators can accurately represent process behaviour to better understand potential problems and identify solutions to control them.
Enhancements to the solution also provide improved real-time adaptive control, giving process control engineers the on-line capability to adjust the systems to the prevailing dynamic process conditions.
By simultaneously controlling a number of process parameters within the plant and orchestrating them to maintain the product within precise specifications, the software solution can maximise process potential.
Version 15 of the Connoisseur suite also features a new non-linear optimising controller that allows engineers to mix linear and non-linear controlled variables within a single framework, a new OPC client and improved functions to calculate steady-state gain from a model set.
Increased model editing capabilities and improvements to the Connoisseur user-friendly interface have also been implemented.
Connoisseur performs flawlessly with DCS- and PLC-based control systems and plant information system databases from all major suppliers.
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