Understanding the matrix for APC improvements
More agile tools are helping multivariable control become more effective for advanced process control and other applications than traditional model-based control (MPC) and real-time optimization. Process engineers, operations personnel, DCS and APC engineers, and other process operation and optimization stakeholders benefit from understanding the matrix.
Multivariable control as a core competency
A healthy multivariable advanced process control (APC) layer should be a core-competency of the process industries.
Feedforward: Not as popular as expected, again
Feedforward and feedback: Multivariable control, like single-loop control, can be accomplished primarily with feedback control and selective (not wholesale) use of feedforward.
Safety, reliability, and optimization are the main challenges facing the process industries today, and process control is one of the most important tools to these ends.
APC Performance LLC offers services designed to help clients rapidly achieve top quartile Basic Process Control (BPC) and Advanced Process Control (APC) core-competency.
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