OPTIMIZING PUNT PERFORMANCE USING PREDICTIVE DIAGNOSTICS VIA A DIGITAL VALVE CONTROLLER ON A CONTROL VALVE

摘要

Digital valve controls can feed data back to those running a plant to help them optimize plant performance and set valve maintenance priorities. Historically, traditional control systems used in process control provided little to no access to equipment health. These traditional systems do not provide a systematic way to monitor, diagnose and improve performance of field instruments because traditional pneumatic or electro-pneumatic devices cannot communicate back information.