Success Stories

INEOS ChlorVinyls
2% immediate process KPI improvement, a reduction in false alarms from 49% to less than 1% and a reduction in start up time by a factor of 6. These combined to save the company over £775, 000 in the first year alone.

Mallinckrodt Chemical
"CVE cut our process losses by 40% and de-bottlenecked part of our process - all for zero capital cost."

Astra Zeneca, Senior Scientist
The technology simply "saves time by predicting optimum solutions without maths."

Gas to Liquids Plant, Plant Manager
"I spotted this software way back in 2006/7 and I thought it might be just the tool I needed to tease a fine (but very valuable) optimisation out of a noisy process. We knew simulation couldn’t do it - there’s a "black box" in the process that we can’t model with sufficient accuracy - but the answer was there in the data somewhere. We eventually convinced our organisation to try this tool in late 2009 and used it in the first half of 2010 to analyse our process. It worked! We expect that within 12 months we will have paid back the investment by over 100 fold!"

Biofuels Manufacturer
"I found CVE a really good way to quickly find answers to the plant managers' questions. It was especially good because we have many process variables with tight constraints to be met."

Ian Nimmo
"The first alarm management paper in the last 10 years that got me excited as [Robin Brooks] explained how alarms can achieve management objectives, how to understand alarm settings in a new light and how to change them correctly."
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Ethlene Plant
"CVE is simplicity at its best. I have trained engineers, occupational health people, associates, managers, even grade 8 students. Within 1/2 an hour everyone was using CVE to both understand and solve their problems."

Petrochemical Manufacturer
"Once your data has been collected, I like using the Sherlock Holmes method for data mining with CVE. Keep removing the variables that you know can cause similar symptoms until all you have left no matter how improbable, is the unknown cause of your problem."

Pharmaceutical Research and Development
"We use CVE because it is one of the best tools for dealing with incomplete data sets during development."