Challenges

The operation of controllers becomes increasingly challenging as the number of variables or process interactions increase. Operators often switch off controllers when they do not work how they would like them to work. The possible reasons for not being able to run a controller and getting sustainable benefits are:

• Controllers off
• Absence of direct and quick visibility into controller issues
• Lack of expertise, skilled manpower, time, and processes to ensure the upkeep of the controller and its benefits
• Dynamic changes in plant processes
• Lack of maintenance

Our Offering

TRACE is a proprietary software that helps the plant manager, engineers, and operators measure controller performance and objectives met. TRACE web viewer provides a browser-based monitoring and reporting interface to the database online, helping not only to find the bad actors but also to fix them with appropriate actionable steps to support control execution.

Some of the advantages of our system includes, but is not limited to:

• Cloud deployment option with multisite controllers
• Web-based solution to analyse events anywhere
• Identify controller performance and compare over time
• Benefit analysis on-the-fly

Benefits

Some of the common benefits which can be reaped from the system are:

• Identification of under-utilised controllers and loss of value as a consequence
• Troubleshooting actions and identification of bad actors
• Key metrics on both economic and non-economic variables
• Ensuring sustainable benefits over time and varying operating conditions
• Visualising real-time unit profitability
• Identifying limitations lowering profitability and recommending steps to improve the unit's performance
• Benefit analysis at your finger tips