Control-loop diagnostics undergo software system integration
Control Station has entered into a strategic technology partnership with Dimension Software, provider of industrial operations management platforms. The collaboration connects Control Station’s PlantESP control loop performance monitoring (CLPM) platform with Dimension Software’s Asset Intellect operations intelligence environment, enabling manufacturers to operationalize control performance insights across their organizations.
Industrial control loops operating below optimal performance can contribute to lost production throughput, increased energy consumption and inconsistent product quality. While analytics tools can identify these issues, organizations can struggle to translate diagnostic insights into coordinated operational improvements. The partnership between Control Station and Dimension Software is designed to address this challenge by aligning complementary technologies that help engineering and operations teams move more quickly from issue identification to corrective action.
Control Station’s PlantESP platform leverages a production facility’s existing historical process data to proactively identify poorly performing control loops, oscillations, valve issues and tuning deficiencies that undermine regulatory control. These issues can contribute to process instability and production inefficiencies across continuous and batch manufacturing environments. In complimentary fashion, Dimension Software’s Asset Intellect platform provides a unified, browser-based operations management environment that aggregates, integrates, contextualizes and visualizes operational and business data in real time. It is designed to enable organizations to create a “single source of truth” for operations by integrating data from enterprise systems such as AVEVA PI, SAP/Maximo, Power BI and other operational technologies such as process alarms, IIoT and geo-spatial systems. Through the collaboration, PlantESP diagnostics identifying poorly performing control loops can be surfaced within Asset Intellect dashboards alongside production, maintenance and operational data. Engineering and operations teams can then evaluate control performance issues within the broader operational context and initiate corrective workflows directly from the Asset
“By partnering with Dimension Software, we are expanding our ecosystem of world-class technology partners while making it easier for manufacturers to translate control performance insights into operational improvements,” stated Damien Munroe, vice president of partner development at Control Station. “The collaboration aligns with our ongoing mission of making process optimization simpler and more accessible for industrial organizations.”
Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New Zealand, Dimension Software develops operational intelligence platforms that are designed to help industrial organizations unlock value from their existing data infrastructure. The company supports more than 15,000 enterprise users, spanning process industries including chemicals, mining, oil and gas, and pulp and paper.
“We have first-hand experience with control loop performance monitoring and recognize both the importance of optimizing regulatory control and the complexity involved in analyzing process data,” said Yong The, director of business development and global sales at Dimension Software. “Through our partnership with Control Station, we are able to offer customers a fully integrated and market-leading CLPM capability while continuing our mission of unlocking operational value from existing data and systems.”
The companies will introduce the collaboration to the industry in April. In June, Control Station will participate in Dimension Software’s inaugural user conference where both organizations will showcase how the partnership supports data-driven manufacturing operations.
