Improve plant performance

摘要

Ron Barksfield, director of Premier Controls, considers the need to have up-to-date process control systems in place. In recent years marketplace and commercial considerations have made additional demands on plants to be both more flexible and more efficient. Operating companies and plant managers are therefore under pressure to deliver ever better efficiencies, while ensuring that quality and safety aspects are not neglected. The means to achieve improvements comes with better measurement and monitoring of data and then the ability to make adjustments to individual equipment, lines or across the plant itself. Better monitoring also has a major role to play in batch auditing and the forecasting of maintenance requirements.