Control Station announces PlantESP software for increasing plant production throughput and efficiency by leveraging historized data to optimize control loops. PlantESP proactively monitors control loop performance across a plant or even multiple sites. It helps users get to the root causes of common problems. Furthermore, it provides advanced warning of mechanical, tuning and interaction issues. The software communicates with all major historians including the AVEVA PI System, Aspen IP-21, Canary Labs and others using industry standard protocols.
PlantESP’s overarching functions include a calculation engine, visualization engine and system operations. The calculation engine handles KPI target metrics, analysis and setting thresholds, power spectrum, cross correlation and corrective action recommendations. A visualization engine provides alerts, trends and gauges, reports, and notes. System operations include historian communication and other application administration. Focusing on performance-driving metrics, PlantESP helps users sort out the myriad of information and focus on business and technical key performance indices (KPIs) that are actionable.
These include mechanical, PID tuning issues, PID-driven node interactions and more with a powerful user interface that focuses user attention on key issues—at a glance. PlantESP performs root-cause analysis by providing users with tools that let them go beyond identifying symptoms for their specific plant-wide operating conditions. The software takes this a step further by providing suggestions for corrective action to point users in the right direction to resolve issues. PlantESP automatically generates management, engineering operations and maintenance reports that document performance details, and support internal communications.