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News Release from: Pavilion Technologies | Subject: Florida Rock
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 April 2007
Florida rock selects Pavilion cement
solution
Florida Rock Industries, one of America's leading producers of construction aggregates and ready mixed concrete, has chosen the Pavilion Cement Solution to improve production processes
Florida Rock will deploy the Pavilion Model Predictive Control (MPC)-based cement grinding application to increase production at its plant in Newberry, Florida, while reducing energy consumption and quality variability Florida Rock is the ninth cement manufacturer in the last 12 months to choose the Pavilion industry-leading Cement Solution to meet plant performance goals
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Pavilion ValueFirst satisfaction guarantee, coupled with its excellent track record in helping leading cement manufacturers reach operational goals, was instrumental in the decision making process in our selection of Pavilion," said the Florida Rock Industries Newberry Plant Manager, Chris Horner.
"Pavilion technology will give us more control of our processes which will result in higher quality products, increased operational efficiencies and increased profitability".
With Pavilion Cement Solution, Florida Rock will be able to maintain product quality specifications, reduce variability of product quality and maximise production subject to equipment constraints.
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Based on its ValueFirst methodology, Pavilion estimates that Florida Rock will:.
* Increase production by five percent.
* Reduce specific power consumption by two percent.
* Reduce Blaine standard deviation by 15-30 percent.
"With the Florida Rock Industries deployment of the Pavilion industry-leading Cement Solution demonstrates the Pavilion commitment to improve our customer competitiveness in a very demanding market," said Pavilion Technologies, CEO, Ralph Carter: "We look forward to our joint success in accomplishing their operational objectives".
The Pavilion Cement Solution addresses the most difficult challenges facing cement manufacturers including increased customer demands, high energy costs, strict environmental limits and the use of secondary fuels.
Based on innovative and proven model predictive control technology, the Pavilion Cement Solution delivers optimisation across key areas of the production process including raw material preparation, pyroprocessing and cement grinding.
In addition, Pavilion provides environmental compliance monitoring and reporting and production performance management.
These applications leverage the strong domain expertise and the powerful Pavilion8 software platform for modeling, control, monitoring, analysis, visualisation, warehousing and integration.
As a result, customers achieve faster time-to-value and greater long-term value than alternative solutions.
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