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|  PlantESP Simplifies Issue Awareness and Process Optimization with New InnovationsGrowing Base of World-Class Process Manufacturers Contributes to Summer 2016 Release
The latest release of PlantESP includes functional enhancements that simplify the identification of control loop performance issues and architectural improvements that speed PlantESP's processing. Its new analytical capabilities include both PriorityVue™ The PlantESP KPI library has been expanded and refined. In particular more thorough assessments of operator intervention have been simplified through the addition of the Set Point Changes metric. The metric calculates the number of changes performed on a daily basis, and it complements other KPIs that focus on a given control loop's mode. Refinements to PlantESP's analytical capabilities include linking of the solution's advanced forensic utilities. Users can now toggle easily between PlantESP's Power Spectrum and Cross-Correlation utilities, viewing both the frequency and lead-lag relationships between each of the PID loops selected. Architectural improvements to PlantESP double the solution's processing speed to provide users with faster loop analysis and reporting. The Summer 2016 release replaces the previous processing framework based on multithreaded calculations with one that leverages the more efficient Task Parallel Library. KPI calculations within this new release were benchmarked at speeds three times faster than previous releases. Model calculations associated with PlantESP's TuneVue™ feature were recorded at rates that were six times faster. "This release includes numerous enhancements and it highlights the close working relationship that we establish with our customers," shared Bob Rice, Control Station's Vice President of Engineering. "With the direct input of our PlantESP customers we've successfully augmented the technology's core capabilities and amplified its value." PlantESP has quickly become established as the leading, most intuitive CLPM platform. Since its original release in 2010 PlantESP has grown steadily and is now deployed on five continents. As a technology for optimizing a production facility's regulatory control systems, PlantESP is enabling manufacturers from across the process industries to proactively identify and resolve performance issues. Significant gains in performance from improved production quality and throughput to decreased energy consumption and unplanned downtime have been documented. PlantESP leverages process information that is stored within a production facility's existing data historian. As such it readily complements both regulatory and supervisory control solutions from other automation suppliers such as ABB, Emerson, Honeywell, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Yokogawa. Through the application of advanced analytics PlantESP identifies negative trends related to control loop performance. In particular PlantESP simplifies the identification of common mechanical issues such as Stiction and reoccurring loop interaction and PID controller tuning challenges. Widely noted for its intuitive design and ease-of-use PlantESP simplifies the optimization of controller performance on a plant-wide basis. Unique capabilities within PlantESP such as TuneVue enable process manufacturers to optimize PID control loop performance using everyday Set Point changes. TuneVue is based on Control Station's proprietary NSS Modeling Innovation that eliminates the need for a steady-state condition when modeling oscillatory and noisy process data, making it ideal for use in plant-wide control loop monitoring. The Summer 2016 release has been made available to Control Station's growing base of process manufacturers. http://controlstation.com/ End
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