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7 ways model predictive control benefits your food and beverage operation?

Control Engineering

The food and beverage (F&B) industry is characterized by a highly competitive landscape, ever-changing consumer demands and stringent regulations, and attention to advanced process controls can help. One innovative solution is model predictive control (MPC), a control strategy that can help achieve operational excellence.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Of course, the DCS will continue to be important in how plants operate, but the next horizon of value in the DCS domain is in open platform architectures – for example O-PAS (Open Process Automation Standard) and MTP (Module Type Packages) – and less in the DCS technologies themselves.

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How to integrate process, digital technologies to increase petrochemical factory output

Control Engineering

Digitalization, process control insights Shenghong Petrochemical and Honeywell collaborate on integrating digitalization and plant optimization control technologies, reducing manual operation more than 50% and increasing propylene yield more than 0.1%.

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More sensors, despite strained supply chain

Control Engineering

Courtesy: Endress+Hauser Sustainability, environment, leadership planning With 76 out of 100 points, Endress+Hauser again occupied a leading position in the 2022 EcoVadis sustainability benchmark and placed in the top percentile of the comparison group.

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Is Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing working for you?

Control Engineering

These allow companies to benchmark performances against industry standards and best practices, often times including a holistic evaluation of the company. These gains are all publicized and can be used as a benchmark for realistic KPI improvements. such as Acatech’s Industry 4.0 initiatives to measure progress.

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Taking control of your control system

Control Engineering

Understand the costs and challenges process manufacturing plants face due to running legacy control systems. Learn about the benefits of modernizing a control system beyond improved operational efficiency. Today’s process manufacturing plants are under a lot of pressure. Eliminate control system roadblocks.

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Improving sustainability with advanced analytics applications

Control Engineering

Analytics insights Sustainability has been recognized as an area of significant importance in the process industries, but many organizations face challenges accessing and connecting data from siloed systems. Benchmarking is invaluable when identifying performance targets, which are often derived from plant models, simulators and optimizers.