This advanced energy efficiency software integrates functions ranging from combustion control and steam pressure control, to plant monitoring, plant performance optimization and tie-line control.

Aspen Technology's Elinor Price describes how advanced process control modeling and simulation can become part of the modern control room.

Generically, APCs consist of three components: a computer-simulation model that integrates process knowledge and historical data; control and optimization algorithms; and current, real-time process ...

Advanced controls and modeling can help plants optimize steam temperature, drum level, coordinated ramp rates and sequence control.

The refining and petrochemical industry is reliant on improving return on assets and lowering operating costs to be competitive. In these challenging times, doing more with less is essential to ...

The ability of the process control engineer to recognize opportunities for, and apply, advanced regulatory control techniques remains a key step to improving the economics of process control. What ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

The relationship among core advanced process control developments, enabling technologies, and management practices is having the greatest impact on technology progression in this area.

Virtual Fabrication And Advanced Process Control Improve Yield For SAQP Process Assessment With 16nm Half-Pitch Technical challenges in achieving defect-free M2 lines with SAQP.

Manufacturers with complex processes leverage model-based, multivariable control to maximize uptime, reduce variability and control closer to performance-limiting constraints. When a process has ...

With these new capabilities and its widened operating window, the Paramount HFi provides advanced process control, high repeatability, a common exciter mode to synchronize multiple systems in ...

The use of AI-driven process control also is becoming increasingly important in advanced packaging. These systems can analyze real-time data from metrology tools to detect and correct process ...