A key part of Operational Excellence (OpEx) is implementing a business culture that uses appropriate leading and lagging Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive business objectives. Leading KPIs are used to inform real-time operations, and poor KPIs that are contradictory or don’t contribute to lagging KPI achievement are common, and impair, rather than enabling, the execution of business strategy.
Operating Envelopes, the full multi-dimensional relationship between process variables links the process, leading, and lagging KPIs. By using this envelope based on historic operation, potential KPIs can be identified and evaluated for consistency, both with one another, but also in driving lagging KPIs and business targets. Geometric Process Control (GPC), pioneered by PPCL, makes this possible and should be part of any process-based Operational Excellence program.
In this webinar delivered in December 2020, we will show you how the full feed-to-product process operating envelope can be visualized along with current and potential KPI targets. This allows the suitability and consistency of leading and lagging KPIs to be evaluated and improved, providing the link missing today.
Many continuous processes have just one Normal Operating Mode (other than StartUp and Shutdown) and thus just one Normal Operating Envelope. But some processes have more than one normal Operating Mode or Phase and thus have to have more than one Normal Operating Envelope and have to be able to switch Operations between them.
In this webinar I will show you how easy it is with GPC (Geometric Process Control) to separate the individual multi-variable operating envelopes for each Mode, Phase or Transition and then have GPC automatically build linked real-time Operating Envelope models for each one for much better operator alarms, open-loop operator guidance, fault prediction and closed-loop control. No maths or equations or advanced maths qualifications needed and designed for use by the front-line process, control and automation engineers who have the best knowledge of their process and its actual operating limitations and practices. It's no more difficult than creating a single-Envelope model for a continuous process, as you have seen demonstrated in many of our other webinars. It just takes a little longer.
How does GPC compare to other methods of modelling multi-envelope processes? We think the odds are heavily stacked in favour of GPC but that’s our opinion and is something that is really for you to decide. So view this webinar from November 2020 and decide!
You already have the data for enormous potential in improving plant operation through making operational changes to capture, repeat, and improve best historic operation. Understanding your process behavior is key to unlocking benefits such as higher throughput, better product, lowest costs, less waste, and more uptime.
This webinar, as presented by Dr Alan Mahoney, will show you visual tools that engineering and operations can use to extract and exploit the wealth of information available. Thus demonstrating a straightforward visual method of quickly finding consistent limits for operating windows that capture desired performance for many variables at once.
How well do you understand and avoid faults and disruptions in your plant? Are you stopped by the typical barriers of cost and engineering time?
Events which follow from unrecognized process disturbances and equipment faults are responsible for huge costs in process plants through downtime and degraded production. Identifying and understanding these causes is hampered by the resources available and the complex datasets involvedTake a concrete step towards improving the stability, efficiency and availability of your process by registering now for a webinar. There’s no charge and you are welcome to invite colleagues to attend.
Implementing Operational Excellence in process plants involves driving process operations to best achieve the business’s strategic objectives. Key to success are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Poor KPI performance, as demonstrated in reports and dashboards, often indicates the existence of a problem, but rarely conveys the cause, giving no guidance to the process operator to make improvements.
Defining leading KPIs that are consistent with each other, and which drive achievement of the lagging KPIs, is essential for Operational Excellence to work, but how can it be done? Often KPI targets have been set by different, geographically distributed departments staffed by different disciplines and with different business focuses. Does improving KPIs really improve business strategy? Or are they contradictory, unrealistic or even impossible? It is straightforward to address these questions with a coordinated approach based around the full feed-to-product process operating envelope.
Geometric Process Control, an innovative new technology developed here at PPCL provides the way to quickly and easily see such operating envelopes across hundreds of variables. Potential KPIs and targets can immediately be evaluated and compared, and contradictions or difficulties are immediately visible. Performance monitoring and reporting become clear and consistent for everyone involved, allowing process refinement and increasing understanding of how KPIs interact.
In this webinar first delivered in July 2020, you’ll discover more about our fast, practical, no-math approach to extracting the information and insight buried in your process history data.
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