Performance solutions insights

In a typical plant, many controls and processes are not operating optimally, which can result in less stable production, higher raw material usage, increased energy consumption and lower yield. On this page, you will find all the support materials to optimize your production. Neles control performance experts have produced webinars, articles, podcasts and whitepapers for you to gain a full understanding.

Sign-up for one or all of the Performance Solutions live webinars. We have scheduled an assortment of material directed towards educating the process control field. This is presented by expert process control engineers with more than 20+ years of experience, as well as guest speakers, ranging from control valve experts and customers to field engineers.

September 14 at 9.00 am CDT Maximizing benefits from the Industry 4.0 revolution

How will your company benefit from new technology, real-time information, reliability concepts, and vendor partnerships? The panel discusses how to adapt daily routines, company culture and workflows to maximize your benefits of efficiency, predictability, and reliability. Learn from a group of Neles experts who have been applying these concepts at industrial plants around the world.

September 28 at 9.00 am CDT Improving sustainability with better controls

In this webinar, you will learn to use modern tools and approaches to improve sustainability. Sustainability helps you to meet today’s needs without sacrificing the future. Digital tools and services can be leveraged to reduce waste, save energy and chemicals, and to streamline the work for plant personnel. This webinar shows practical examples and case studies for sustainable improvement.

October 12 at 9.00 am CDT Digital twins and valve diagnostics

Digital twins bring together live information from the control valve with historical and engineering data. In this webinar, you will see how Neles is building out its capability for digital twins, to give you meaningful insights which help to improve valve performance and increase the useful life of your valves.

October 26 at 9.00 am CDT Valve performance management – reducing the cost of valve ownership

Neles’ Expertune valve performance management field service detects devices, such as valves and instruments, that disturb the process to create a foundation for efficient maintenance planning and action prioritization.

November 9 @ 6.00 am CST IIoT, digitalization and process control

Process Control Systems are uniquely positioned as one of the first industrial systems that can leverage the IIoT. Control systems are, by their very nature, already gathering and historizing massive quantities of data in real-time. Further, these systems typically have connectivity to office networks, intranet, and, in some cases, to the internet. Much of the talk about IIoT has been equipment-related, with monitoring of machines, turbines, compressors, and other large equipment.

November 16 at 9.00 am CST How to control a cascade system

What is the key to get control of the primary controller? There is a theory to faster recovery from a disturbance. Learn how to make sure your cascade controls are working properly.

December 7 at 6.00 am CST Neles digital services for the full valve lifecycle

Do you struggle to get visibility of valve reliability, performance, and lifecycle? Neles offers a full set of digital services to help plan shutdowns, optimize inventory, and improve process performance. Neles Digital Services help you to discover the most important issues, develop plans to resolve them, and track the costs and benefits for management. By evaluating your current plant situation, we can identify the biggest savings opportunities, and develop a plan to meet your most important business KPIs.

December 14 at 6.00 am CST PSA (Pressure Swing Absorber) valve monitoring

Valves on pressure swing absorbers (PSAs) are faced with some of the most demanding operating environments. These valves are subject to fast and frequent operation, with tight tolerances for leakage, coupled with split-second demands for operation. Automated monitoring of these valves can help your plant to achieve the highest levels of reliability and process performance. This webinar explains Neles’ approach to monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing performance of PSA valves.

Webinar: Condition monitoring for instruments, valves, and controls

Control Performance describes a structured approach to optimize industrial plant performance through systematic identification and resolution of issues with major aspects of the process control system. This webinar will cover how PlantTriage is implemented to execute a Control Performance program.

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Webinar: 7 Ways to monitor controller variability

The control system typically represents as much as 10% of the full cost of a new process plant. With such a big investment, you might like to know if the control system is doing its job. This webinar presents seven methods to analyze controller variability.

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Webinar: Workflows and KPIs for remote monitoring of valves and controls

When working remotely, you don’t always have access to all the resources of the plant facility. But you can have access to data streams that can measure valve performance, diagnose issues, and document improvements. This webinar teaches you to set up basic workflows for remote valve monitoring, as well as specific technical and business KPIs for reporting.

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Webinar: How to calculate the business value of control performance

Your plant can save millions with Control Performance. But, do you know how to measure and document those savings? This webinar presents several practical methods to identify, calculate, and document economic benefits from your control system. Use this information to show management the value of your work, to justify projects, and to improve your career.

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Webinar: Digital twins and valve diagnostics

How can you make sure the control system is performing, even when you are not able to be physically in the plant? This webinar shows you what and how to monitor critical KPIs and diagnostics for control system performance – remotely. You will learn how to evaluate and manage instruments, valves, and controls from afar, and know when to call for hands-on in-plant actions to resolve hardware issues.

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Webinar: Remote troubleshooting of control systems

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Webinar: See how plants are monitoring valves remotely – case studies

How to monitor valves remotely and how do we customize a solution to maximum reliability, reduce risk and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Neles’ Expertune Valve Performance Management service helps you manage the performance of valves, actuators, and positioners. Extend the life of your valve assets and improve reliability.

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Webinar: How to monitor advanced regulatory control

Advanced regulatory controls (ARC): How to monitor your ARC strategies, to make sure they are delivering their best performance all the time. Watch our webinar by Vincent Morehead, Senior Process Control Engineer at Neles to learn more about ARC.

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Webinar: Loop tuning – What can you do remotely?

Often, PID tuning constants are developed quickly, by guessing, or with unreliable methods. The outcome is increased wear on valves, shortened valve life, poor control, and inconsistent results. In this webinar, we will show you how to tune remotely with Expertune PID Loop Optimizer which is a PID tuning software designed to eliminate the guesswork.

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Webinar: IIoT, Digitalization and Process Control

Process Control Systems are uniquely positioned as one of the first industrial systems that can leverage the IIoT. This presentation addresses the routine monitoring of industrial control systems themselves. This includes monitoring of the performance of not only basic equipment, such as instrumentation and valves, but also monitoring of control loops, control strategies, and process results.

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Webinar: Driving OEE improvements

Implementing modern condition monitoring methods can have a real positive impact on overall equipment effectiveness. Most industrial facilities are only leveraging a small fraction of the available process and equipment data, while many problems lie hidden in plain view. Large, expensive equipment can receive a lot of attention, while smaller, less expensive equipment is not monitored as closely.

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Webinar: Loop tuning - troubleshooting

Do you have loops to tune? Watch our webinar to learn more about troubleshooting in loop tuning. In the webinar, Vincent Morehead, Senior Process Control Engineer at Neles, tells about troubleshooting in loop tuning: what to do before you start tuning, the importance of testing, and a case study

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Well-presented process control whitepapers that address measure control, optimize and power your operations.

6 steps to better pulp & paper performance through consistency control

Consistency control has an immediate and direct effect on almost all aspects of the pulp and paper process. Problems with consistency control inevitably lead to quality problems, reliability problems, sheet breaks, lost production, and increased energy costs. These six steps can greatly improve the operation of consistency loops, bringing stability to quality to pulp and paper operations.

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9 steps to achieve energy savings in process plants

The industrial sector alone consumes more than 50% of all the energy used in the world in manufacturing and production. Saving energy is more important than ever, as costs to the environment and to the bottom line are getting more attention. Especially in process manufacturing, energy accounts for a significant share of the operating costs.

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Insights, blog posts and case studies about control performance and PID tuning.

Case studies

Klabin stabilizes its pulp mill production with Neles' solution

The Expertune PlantTriage software helped stabilize the operation and achieve chemical savings.

Neles supplied and installed a record-breaking number of valves and switches in Brazil

Large investments bring impressive benefits to local economy.

Industry insights

Leveraging vendor partnerships

Together, as partners, reliability, plant operation and equipment performance can be greatly improved.

Driving OEE improvements

Learn to leverage existing data

Condition monitoring drives reliability and process improvement

Condition monitoring is the science and practice of monitoring key information to alarm, predict and prevent problems.

Blog posts

How transparent collaboration leads to higher performance

Maintaining a plant is a challenge that requires deep knowledge and great listening abilities. When it comes to keeping valves at peak performance, we need to listen to plant personnel, suppliers and to the valve itself. When plant maintenance and reliability managers consider all sides, they get the full story and the best valve performance.

For loop tuning, do you need a bump test?

The short answer to the original question is: Yes, you do need a bump test. However, the bump test does not need to be a traditional one.

Improve efficiency by using your existing data streams

The more you know about control loops, the faster you can find and resolve issues, exploiting hidden potential – and raising production efficiency.

Identifying where process efficiency is created

Each and every pulp, paper and bioindustry customer is ultimately looking for the same thing; The ability to make more with less. Increasing the degree of automation and digitalization related to your process valves is a sure way to improve your mills efficiency and reliability.

Finding pulp & paper efficiency improvements through better flow control

Pulp & paper plant results are completely dependent on stable, accurate flow control of water, steam, pulp, and chemical additives.

Value for customers with different needs

Our expertise and service mentality compliment our product offering, providing true value to both EPC and end-user customers alike.

Podcasts

Our Performance solutions team provides a variety of avenues to access your favorite topics on control performance.

A typical plant is losing millions annually from poorly-performing control systems. Typically, 20-30% of controls are in manual mode. Up to 85% of control loops have sub-optimal settings. 20-40% of controllers are oscillating, adding to plant variability, and hurting reliability. With so many issues, it can be hard to monitor, prioritize, and resolve issues.

The control performance podcast is a diverse collection of topics for process control engineers. They include interviews with experts in the field, as well as, tips and tricks for the industry.

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