Model Predictive Control - MAX APC Restech and Partner Pedersen Enterprise (PERT) team up with Cutler Technology Corp to help you capture the economic benefits of Charlie Cutler's next generation control solution. This breakthrough model predictive control solution was developed by Dr. Charles Cutler, one of the true pioneers in the development and application of dynamic matrix control (DMC) advanced control. Charlie is once again revolutionizing process control. MAX APC now makes it possible to adjust a DMC controller model  to a new regulatory control configuration without the time and expense of retesting the unit!

Change Regulatory Control Configuration Quickly. You can test the unit in one configuration and control the unit in another configuration. If you retune a loop or change the configuration of a PID controller, your model will change, sometimes quite drastically. In the past, reconfiguration required a retest to build a new model. The reconfiguration can now be performed in the ADMC software, sparing you the time and cost associated with an expensive plant test.

MAX APC is a stand alone advanced control solution. Options included a Universial Process Identification (UPID) toolset, and a fully integrated Operator Advisor (OA) and Operator Training Simulator (OTS).

• Compatible with most APC systems, this step change solution allows for a quick and easy transition.
• Adaptation of the controller's step response models done while on closed loop multivariable control
• Adaptive to ANY PID configuration such as Manual, Auto or Cascade                                                                                                
• Adaptive to controll tuning changes

Contact Restech when you need Results from your APC.

Process Performance Management

Restech offers you a very effective, economical and easy strategy to increase "as-built" process performance. This system is for those who believe in the power of statistical and probability analysis. In association with the Utlramax Corporation, Restech can help give you high resolution of the behaviour patterns of the processes you are controlling. You can control what you can understand. Increase profit from actionable observations and control advice is what Ultramax brings to the control room and to engineering. 

This solution is for established operations or new operations with a high fidelity Plant Simulator. 99% of all processes analyzed over the  last 25 years revealed incremental opportunities to capture process to profit benefits from existing operations. The other 1% were actually running at optimum!

Ultramax^® works  equally well in most  industrial and manufacturing environments, both  continuous and discrete processes, with or without Advanced Process Control and other   optimizing applications. The high resolution of your process behaviour provided by Ultramax allows you to incrementally optimize the Key Performance Indicators within safety boundaries.

Typically the operating safety margins established reflect the comfort zone of Operations. The comfort zone is typically based on a limited initial view and therefore understanding of site specific process behaviour. The Ultramax solution resets  the comfort zone by giving Operations a tool that learns about expected process response well before all other methods have sufficient data to even venture a guess. This accelerates understanding of current process behaviour. Ultramax provides on-going opportunities to capture incremental profits from quicker control moves that positively affect production, while maintaining mandated safety margins.

Here is the practical application:

The first step is a nonintrusive Ultramax Trial Run. This Try & Buy, low risk approach requires an initial investment (your time only) of 3 weeks. The Trial Run (Try) involves no downtime or off-spec production. Installation and configuration are typically a matter of days. Yep, days! Ultramax will then commence to learn how the process works with data from small moves inside normal operating boundaries. As the learning proceeds, the system rapidly gets smarter at predicting where the process is moving to if left alone or would move to, given a recommended control action. Ultramax provides advice on what move would have the largest positive balanced impact on your KPIs. This solution works equally well on both process and energy systems, providing a simultaneous solution for both process performance and energy conservation.

Within 3 weeks, your process performance improvements will be quite apparent. You will have all the information needed to justify your decision to move forward (Buy) with this incremental process to profit solution on a permanent basis.

Contact Restech when you need Results that reach your stretch goals from on-going operations. Get an Ultramax^® Trial Run going today.