The Premium Service Advanced Process Control is split into three complementary modules that can be ordered individually:
Module 1:
Determination of the APC optimization potential through analysis by experts
- One-day Workshop for analyzing the customer's production processes and process automation with the aim or determining process variables for the optimization by means of conventional and superior closed-loop control methods
- Participants: Siemens experts and representatives of the client with profound knowledge of the process and its automation
- Prior agreement of workshop details between client and contractor, e.g. on the basis of a target-oriented specification
- Where necessary, the client provides the required basic material for the workshop, e.g. flowcharts and descriptions of the production process
- Typical workshop content:
- Examination of the process engineering, focusing on economically relevant process variables that can be optimized
- Analysis of the basic automation
- Consideration of conventional closed-loop control procedures and potential APC methods
- Determining the customer benefit
- Result: Workshop documentation with evaluation of the APC potential and specific recommendations for further actions
Module 2:
Preparation of a feasibility study
- Approx. one week feasibility study for verification and detailing of the optimization potential identified in Module 1:
- Substantiated analysis of the identified optimization candidates
- Preparation of optimization options
- Participants: Siemens experts and representatives of the client
- Prerequisites:
- Basic automation, closed-loop control concept and instrumentation comply with the current state of the art
- Detailed information is available about the processes considered and their method of operation
- Access to the customer's process control system is possible, e.g. for recoding data of relevant process variables during operation
- Inclusive services:
- Preparation of process expertise, e.g. by tracking the reactions to targeted minimal interventions in the process or by exchanging experiences with the plant operators
- Examination of the current closed-loop control concept for optimization potential
- Presentation of suggestions for actual optimization measures
- Assessment of the suggested optimization measures
- Cost estimation of the implementation with an accuracy of ±25 %
- Basic deadlines for implementation of measures
- Result: Documentation of the feasibility study with qualitative and financial evaluation of possible optimization measures and specific recommendations for further actions
Module 3:
Implementation of the prepared feasibility study
- Implementation of the optimization measures recommended in Module 2
- Content is the subject of an individual agreement between client and contractor
- Typical service content:
- Plant tests and model creation
- APC implementation in the process control system
- Commissioning
- Training
- Involvement in the validation in a field regulated by GMP (good manufacturing practice)
- Basis for the individual agreement is a project-specific quotation provided by Siemens as the contractor
- Inquiries for production of a quotation should be directed to the address specified under "Further information"
Note:
The modules of the Premium Service "Advance Process Control" do not include any traveling expenses. Traveling expenses from the Hoechst Industrial Estate, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, will be invoiced separately.