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Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: Perceptive Engineering
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2004
Integration of Control and Process
Monitoring
Perceptive Engineering, based in Lymm, Cheshire, has been awarded a DTI Smart award to help fund a feasibility study into the "Integration of Control and Process Monitoring Technologies".
Perceptive Engineering Ltd, based in Lymm, Cheshire, has been awarded a DTI Smart award to help fund a feasibility study into the "Integration of Control and Process Monitoring Technologies" Since their formation, in January 2003 Perceptive Engineering has been progressing rapidly with the development of its industrial process monitoring solutions
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Having already achieved a variety of online applications in key industrial sectors, Perceptive now plans to extend the scope of these solutions into the control arena.
The use of Multivariate Statistical Process Monitoring (MVSPM) techniques to detect and amplify abnormal process conditions has proved extremely effective at reducing production downtime, achieving improved product quality and consequently reducing costs.
However, until now process condition monitoring has typically been considered a separate entity to the installed process control system.
The integration of these systems should reap greater benefits due to the natural synergy between the two technologies.
The Smart Award enables investigation, using their flagship product, MonitorMV, of new ways to visualize and interpret the behaviour of the production process and the health of the underlying control system, before informing the operator or controller of appropriate actions.
David Lovett, Perceptive Engineering's Managing Director, said "We intend to demonstrate that the techniques readily used for MVSPM are able to bring significant advantages in the implementation of Advanced Process Control systems.
The unique skills of the people within Perceptive Engineering will enable us to progress the merger of these technologies from concept to prototype over the coming months, giving us a unique position in the marketplace.".
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