Why install an Optimizing Control System ?
As we enter the 21st century, the industry is under pressure to continuously operate plants at unprecedented peak economic performance, in a highly competitive world. Product quality, high throughputs, minimized costs must be achieved every minute.
Advanced process control techniques are among the most cost- and time-effective methods of improving metallurgical plant performance. Annual Returns on Investment typically range from 100 to 5000 %.
What does a Metso Minerals Optimizing Control System do ?
| Optimizing Controls supplement conventional DCS or PLC controls and continuously maximize the profitability of plant operation. Metso Minerals Cisa Optimizing Control projects usually have pay back times of one to a few weeks. |  |
Metso Minerals Cisa OCS© continuously determines and implements optimized set points that reflect a selected control strategy. It maintains a required product quality and targets a technical and economical objective. This results in an increase in capacity, product quality and value and/or a decrease in production costs.
Plant-wide and Enterprise-wide Control
The Metso Minerals Cisa OCS© software, with its modular object-oriented structure can be networked and expanded to the whole plant. OCS© Software algorithms then continuously and automatically set quantified objectives for each section of the plant, based on on-line plant-wide analysis.
The Metso Minerals solution is also your solution
We first analyze your process, your objectives, your existing controls and instrumentation. Together, we decide if anything should be done to upgrade your conventional controls. Together, we determine which modules of OCS© advanced control software are needed for your application.
We listen to you and establish a control strategy which reflects both your expertise and ours. We lcan involve your team in system configuration as much as possible but we can also deliver a "turn key" system.
Because you need to be in a position to independently maintain your optimizing control system and modify it whenever your objectives or your process are modified, education and specific training services are an essential part of the Metso solution.
Because OCS© software is designed for plant applications, no specific knowledge in computer programming or artificial intelligence is required.
Finally we make sure you have an easy access to our support services through a direct contact with our engineers, as well as your usual Metso Minerals local support structure, and a remote maintenance channel via modem or remote networking.
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