A typical example of a continuous operation is a petrochemical refinery, running 24/7, and often including “campaigns” when production switches between different streams. Batch operations are discrete and finite production units (blending, mixing, etc) where material is treated according to a specific recipe and then sent on down the production line. .
For continuous operations Umetrics offers the combination of off-line software,
SIMCA-P+, and real-time execution,
SIMCA-4000
or
SIMCA-QP. For batch operations Umetrics offers the combination of off-line software
SIMCA-P+
and real-time monitoring
SIMCA-Batch On-Line
or
SIMCA-QP+.
In either case, ROI can be rapidly achieved by first building off-line models and subsequently deploying these on-line for real-time fault detection. Using contribution plots, the user (operator, engineer) can quickly go from fault detected to fault understood. Remedial action can be taken, process upsets averted and a bunch of money saved.
