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6TH ANNUAL
6TH ANNUAL
T
he
2022
Connected
Plant
Conference (CPC; www.
connectedplantconference.
com) will take place May 23-26
in Atlanta, Ga. The event offers a comprehensive
technical program, with
expert speakers providing insights on
the practical aspects of digitalization,
as well as updates on state-of-the-art
technologies. The event will also include
a Digital Arena, where technology
providers will showcase their digitalization
solutions. The following is a
small selection of the highlights that will
be showcased at CPC's Digital Arena.
Factory optimization software
for chemicals manufacturers
This company's software can help
businesses to continuously optimize
production in ever-changing conditions.
With fast, clear insights powered
by white-box machine learning,
users can increase sustainability and
profits across their entire enterprise,
without sacrificing quality. One unique
highlight of this platform is the ability
to virtually replicate multi-stage batch
processes within the software. With
this functionality, users can model
complex interactions between stages
of batch processes with a high degree
of accuracy, providing key data
for
decision-making. Booth 13 -
Fero Labs, New York, N.Y.
www.ferolabs.com
Merge APM with work execution
management and risk analysis
This company's Enterprise Suite delivers
next-level integration of assetperformance
management (APM)
tools
with
risk- and priority-driven
work management. The two flagship
modules within the suite are
Criticality Analyzer, which facilitates
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rapid and accurate cross-functional,
multi-variable risk analyses of an entire
operation; and InField Mobile, a
mobile work-management platform
available for both iOS and Android
devices. The cloud-based, true multitenant
suite is designed to help users
manage assets in the context of an
overall asset-management program.
It includes: integrated mobile work
management; detailed master-asset
libraries for failure modes and assetcondition
management; criticality and
risk analysis; and risk-based decisionmaking
tools - all connected by a
central intelligence-guidance system
that directs businesses to appropriate
asset strategies. The suite delivers effective
management of both vertical
(plant) and horizontal (network) assets
within a single platform and supports
an ISO 55000 asset-management
framework. Booth 16 - MentorAPM,
Phoenix, Ariz.
www.mentorapm.com
New process simulator includes
embedded sustainability metrics
This company has launched its nextgeneration
Process Simulation cloudenabled
software, which can optimize
existing processes and improve sustainability
through its modern architecture
and open modeling environment.
Process Simulation is a lifecycle simulation
platform that can help users
design new plants more sustainably
and optimize existing plants by using
embedded sustainability metrics. The
new simulation platform provides an
open modeling approach to shorten
the development time of new process
equipment models for wind and solar
power generation, water electrolysis
and biodiesel production. It has one
simulation model for steady-state
and dynamic process design that allows
users to quickly understand the
impact of variable wind and solar resources
on the process. Methods for
calculating greenhouse gas emissions
and sustainability metrics, such as energy
intensity, carbon efficiency, water
intensity and more, are also included,
as well as integrated tools for multiobjective
optimization of operating
cost and process sustainability. Booth
311 - Aveva plc, Cambridge, U.K.
www.aveva.com
New venture aims to close the
gap to zero unplanned downtime
Novity
mercialize
is a new venture to compredictive
maintenance
technology
that reduces unplanned
downtime in industrial manufacturing
operations using equipment sensors
and proprietary algorithms to visualize
the future health of production assets.
The Novity TruPrognostics engine
relies on a combination of machine
learning and physics-based models
of equipment. This allows Novity to
predict equipment failures with 90%
or better accuracy and lead times of
months, not weeks or days. In addition
to increasing the accuracy and
prediction horizons of the solution,
Novity's TruPrognostics engine also
reduces the need for large amounts
of data to deliver results. By leveraging
a library of pre-built physics-based
models, predictive maintenance is
accessible to users who lack the historical
data required by other solutions.
Booth 110 - PARC, a Xerox
company, Palo Alto, Calif.
www.novity.us
MTP integration leads to
more flexible production
This company's zenon software platform
incorporates the Module Type
Package (MTP), a manufacturer-independent
standard created by NAMUR
(www.namur.net). MTP is a convention
allowing a manufacturer-neutral
description of modular productionplant
equipment that includes a unified
representation of the information
regarding the individual modules, such
as which data objects are acquired,
or which services are meant to be
rendered and the related interfaces.
This aims to integrate different modules
with a common process-control
system to ease the creation of manufacturer-independent
automation
for modular production plants. The
zenon Engineering Studio platform
features an import interface for MTP
file
integration so that automation
designers can seamlessly integrate
them into overall zenon projects and
use them exactly like native objects.
Booth 2 - COPA-DATA USA Corp.,
Princeton Junction, N.J.
www.copadata.com
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Mary Page Bailey
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM MAY 2022
http://www.mentorapm.com http://www.novity.us http://www.namur.net http://www.ferolabs.com http://www.copadata.com http://www.aveva.com http://WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM
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