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AVEVA APC ™

Model Predictive Control to Improve Your Process Economics

In today’s economic environment, capital budgets and overhead are constantly being cut.
Companies are faced with rising manufacturing costs, global competition, and soaring
energy costs. To meet these challenges, companies are forced to optimize manufacturing
operations and make performance improvements that will positively affect their bottom
line. AVEVA APC is engineered for enhanced usability.
 Summary
Maximize Your Profits
AVEVA APC is comprehensive, Model Predictive Control software that improves process profitability by
enhancing quality, increasing throughput, and reducing energy usage. It uses modern, state-of-the-art
technology to provide automatic control systems that are capable of releasing process potential.

Predictive control helps process operations realize their full potential by moving the process closer to active
constraints — resulting in reduced process variability and increased profits.

AVEVA provides unique strategic solutions based on improving economics and process operation. Other
vendors may propose partial solutions to optimize a process, but AVEVA teams with its clients to execute
an integrated solution that employs sophisticated control strategies to reduce costs, streamline operations,
and ultimately, increase shareholder value.

Process Control and Optimization Immediate Quality Improvements Lead to

AVEVA APC, connects directly to a wide variety of Economic Benefits
automation systems and uses both real-time and Implementing AVEVA APC results in immediate quality
historical data to analyze, identify, and model the improvements. This is confirmed by a significant
significant cause-and-effect relationships in a process. reduction in the standard deviation of key product
Identification and verification of cause-and-effect parameters from target specification, which leads to
relationships are powerful analytical tools that provide increases in throughput and significant reductions in
an engineer with valuable insight into process behavior material and/or energy consumption. The end result is
and understanding of process characteristics. measurable economic performance improvement.

AVEVA APC – Maximizing Economic AVEVA APC manages a number of process parameters
Performance and orchestrates them to maintain the product within
precise specifications and reduces standard deviations
y Move the process toward multiple operating in product quality by a factor of two or more.
constraints to realize maximum profit
y Reduce the standard deviation of key product
qualities and parameters resulting in a more stable Maximum Limit
process operation
y Improve process efficiency, reducing rework/recycling
and saving both material and energy with AVEVA APC

y Deliver faster, more stable grade changes with

virtually no overshoot
without AVEVA APC

Reducing Variability for Quality Control Time

AVEVA APC simultaneously controls a number of process
parameters that maintain the product within specification.
Taking into account process dynamics, interactions,
constraints, and economics, AVEVA APC predicts future
process behavior and takes control actions before product
measurements are out of specification.

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Increase Your Throughput
Standard Deviation
AVEVA APC enables the process to be driven closer to
active constraints. It provides a more stable process
operation with less disruption and down-time. With
tighter quality control, there is less recirculation and
material going to waste. These benefits contribute to
increasing process yields. Typical increases range from
1-5%, however, some applications have increased
yields by 10% or more.

Integrated Design Environment

y Identifies and quantifies integral cause-
and-effect relationships, offering insight into
process characteristics
y Incorporates a dynamic process model to provide with AVEVA APC without AVEVA APC
tighter quality control
y Enables real-time, adaptive control to manage
changing process conditions online
y Operates within physical constraints
y Maximizes process economic performance
y Includes an executive supervisory program that
enables almost any special process condition to be
accounted for to maintain the highest possible on upper limit
stream factor Target
lower limit
y Includes a highly unique option for ARx models
which are proven to have superior performance to
unmeasured dynamic load changes. Since these are without AVEVA APC with AVEVA APC
the primary type of disturbance found in operating
Time
plants, then AVEVA APC will consistently deliver
the highest possible performance of any available
Provide a more stable process operation with less
technology as measured by the IAE, Integrated
disruption and increased process utilization. Every
Absolute Error, method
installation of AVEVA APC pays for itself quickly. Pay
back periods vary by industry, but typically range from
Improve Your Economic Performance
a short 3-6 months.
Deliver significant savings with reductions in energy
consumption. For example, by reducing the standard y Reduce standard deviation, usually by a factor of
deviation and moving the process closer to constraints two or greater
most processes will deliver a significant reduction in y Increase throughput by as much as 5%
energy usage per unit of feed.
y Increase process yields from 2-10%
Anticipate the consequences of both disturbances and y Reduce specific energy consumption by 3-10%
control actions to maintain a superior quality product.
y Reduce waste, reworking, and recycling costs
Supplementing the benefits of improved quality, are
increases in process yield and savings in waste and
energy consumption.

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AVEVA APC Features Dynamically Model Your Process
y Intuitive and efficient user interface minimizes project AVEVA APC provides tighter control of key process
execution effort variables, which are based on a dynamic model. This
y Easier, case-based model identification effectively de-couples interactions that would occur if
the same loops were controlled independently by single
y Variable drag and drop for model building loop controllers. The result means a more economically-
y Multivariable Predictive Controller (MPC) design advantageous operating point.
and simulation
y Real-time adaptive control (Coming Soon) Multiple Model Sets and Gain Scheduling
y Constrained linear economic Optimization A unique feature permits the application of model
predictive control to processes that require multiple
y Director, supported by Python programming models. For example, in blending applications or
interface for implementation of application scripting seasonal production, AVEVA APC uses online gain
and special-purpose control functions scheduling and can switch automatically between
y Integrated OPC Client data interface multiple model sets without turning the controller off.
y Data historization and trending capability
Optimize Your Process
y Fully automated PRBS Testing
AVEVA APC manages process constraints such as
y ARX model option for superior unmeasured absolute limits on valve motion and rate-of-change
disturbance rejection performance limits on process variables. AVEVA APC’s capability in
y Online performance monitoring and controller this area includes the use of modern techniques such as
performance reporting through web quadratic programming.
y Separation of MPC and LP optimizing functions A linear programming technique, together with a
for more flexibility to address a wide range of steady-state model and an economic performance
application needs objective function, enables AVEVA APC to identify
y Composite LP providing global LP for multiple MPCs the optimum operating point based on maximum
for better coordination and constraint handling throughput, minimum energy consumption, or a balance
y MPC supported by a QP algorithm between these and other performance objectives.

y Ability to be seamlessly integrated into our award-

winning OTS offering
y Tablet-friendly display formats Benefit
y All configuration and process data consolidated into
a single project file

Data Collection and Analysis $ Cost

AVEVA APC performs a series of process response
tests, which collect dynamically-rich data with little or
no disruption to normal process operations. Statistical
tools, including cross correlation and power spectrum Price
density, allow an engineer to analyze signals for cause- Year Year Year Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . End of Life
and-effect interactions. These tools, coupled with 1 2 3 4

operational experience, identify significant relationships

that characterize process behavior.

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AVEVA APC easily integrates with DCS and PLC-
based control systems and plant information system
databases from all major suppliers. AVEVA APC is Analysis Process Analysis,
compliant with the latest industry standards for data and Modeling and Control
connectivity, such as OPC, allowing direct and efficient Design System Design
access to process data.

Process Applications
AVEVA APC can be used in any size process problem
including those which exhibit significant time delays
between the measured and controlled variables,
interactions between process variables, or unmeasured Multivariable
variables which affect process operations. Real Control Adaptive
Time Control Constrained
Industry Expertize Optimization
Significant cost and profit improvement from using
AVEVA APC are proven in industries such as oil
refining, petrochemical, food, metals and mining, power
generation, and pulp and paper. AVEVA has a global
team of highly experienced AVEVA APC engineers who
can work with your team to quickly realize significant
improvements to your bottom line.
Process
Instrumentation Process
Performance Teaming and Controls

To be certain that a solution is running at peak

performance, AVEVA teams with its clients to improve
control schemes as process needs evolve. Through
advanced modeling and simulation, continuous process
and equipment performance improvements are realized Performance Monitoring and Support
time and again. Besides providing personalized on-site assistance to
operators/engineers, AVEVA can establish automatic
Training and Support remote monitoring of a process, accompanied by
AVEVA provides an unbeatable combination of high- individual telephone, online, and/or email support.
level technical and business expertize for optimizing
plant performance. A complete training, support, and
teaming system is available on the beneficial use and For more information on AVEVA APC, please
application of AVEVA APC. visit: aveva.com/advanced-process-control

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