Software provides advanced process control.
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Delivering real-time adaptive control and online data handling, Connoisseur v15 enables plants to optimize manufacturing operations. Statistical techniques enable engineers to identify cause-and-effect relationships and analyze data for interactions. Nonlinear optimizing controller allows linear and nonlinear controlled variables to be mixed within single framework. Connoisseur operates with DCS- and PLC-based control systems and plant information system databases.
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SimSci-Esscor Launches Improved Advanced Process Control Solution
Connoisseur Suite to Provide New Optimizing Control and Enhanced On-Line Data Collection
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 23, 2004 -- SimSci-Esscor, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., today announced the launch of an improved version of its Connoisseur software, a comprehensive suite of advanced process control (APC) software. The next generation of the suite's 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.
Delivering real-time adaptive control and enhanced on-line data handling features, the Connoisseur solution enables plants to optimize 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 SimSci-Esscor's 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 a plant's process control strategies. Given a clearer understanding of how to optimize manufacturing processes, customers are capable of significantly enhancing quality, increasing throughput and reducing overall energy usage."
In recent studies by SimSci-Esscor's 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 modeling through enhanced on-line data collection and analysis tools. These statistical techniques enable engineers to identify cause-and-effect relationships and analyze data for these interactions. Using these tools along with operational experience, operators can accurately represent process behaviors 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 maximize process potential.
Version 15 of the Connoisseur suite also features a new non-linear optimizing 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 Connoisseur's 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.
About SimSci-Esscor
SimSci-Esscor, a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc., is a leader in the development and deployment of industrial process simulation software and systems for a variety of industries, including oil and gas production, petroleum refining, petrochemical and chemical manufacturing, electrical power generation, mining, pulp and paper, and engineering and construction. SimSci-Esscor solutions enable clients to minimize capital requirements, optimize facility performance, and maximize returns on investments in producing assets. SimSci-Esscor supports more than 750 client companies in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit the SimSci-Esscor Web site at www.simsciesscor.com.
About Invensys
Invensys is a global automation, controls and process solutions group. Products, services, expertise and ongoing support enable intelligent systems to monitor and control processes in many different environments. The businesses within Invensys help customers in a variety of industries perform with greater efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness. Industry areas of focus include hydrocarbons, chemicals, oil and gas, power and utilities, rail, telecommunications, paper, food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceuticals and personal care.
Process Systems provides products, services and solutions for the automation and optimization of plant operation in the process industries. Featuring industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware and Marcam, Process Systems occupies a top-tier position in the DCS, safety, simulation and HMI markets. Products are installed in more than 100,000 plants worldwide. Serving process and batch industries, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, power and utilities and metals and mining, and also the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors, Process Systems is at the forefront of technological innovation, with new award-winning products and technologies such as the ArchestrA architecture, Digital Coriolis flow meters and DolPhin pH sensors.
Also within the Invensys Group, APV specializes in process equipment engineered into systems and asset services for food, beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical and chemical clients. Eurotherm is a leading supplier of control and measurement instrumentation solutions and services to industrial and process customers. Rail Systems is a multinational leader in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of safety-related rail signaling and control systems. Climate Controls is a major provider of the components, systems and services used globally to make commercial and residential environments safer, more comfortable and more efficient. Appliance Controls has the broadest system and component offering for the appliance industry worldwide.
The Invensys Group is headquartered in the U.K. and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With 39,000 employees operating in 60 countries, Invensys helps customers to improve their performance and profitability, building value for end users and shareholders alike. For more information, visit www.invensys.com.
