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. 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, customers and field engineers.

February 14: Control performance in pulp and paper

Achieve a step change in mill performance. Uncover where the opportunities are in your mill. How to be proactive with the mill's business directives. Steps to achieving directives.

March 7: Manage risk and improve production

When handling dangerous energy, chemical, and mechanical hazards, the automated control system is the first layer of safety. It can respond more quickly, predictably, and repeatedly than a human operator. Yet few plants are measuring the performance of the control system and its resulting effect on safety.

Webinar: Profits and reliability from improved controls: 5 easy steps

Watch our webinar on finding the right way to ensure production reliability and efficiency through improving your controls.

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Webinar: Valve performance management – reducing the cost of valve ownership

Reducing the cost of valve ownership: creating a foundation for efficient maintenance planning and action prioritization.

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Webinar: 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.

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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: 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: PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorbtion) valve monitoring

Valves on pressure swing adsorbers (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. This webinar explains Neles’ approach to monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing performance of PSA valves.

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Webinar: 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.

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Webinar: Valve performance management – reducing the cost of valve ownership 2021

Reducing the cost of valve ownership: creating a foundation for efficient maintenance planning and action prioritization.

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Webinar: Digital twins and valve diagnostics

Find meaningful insights which help to improve valve performance and increase the useful life of your valves. Watch the webinar.

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Webinar: Improving sustainability with better controls in flow control

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.

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Webinar: Maximizing benefits from Industry 4.0 revolution

How will your company benefit from new technology, real-time information, reliability concepts, and vendor partnerships? Watch our webinar.

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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

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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

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

How to achieve better control system reliability?

The control system is a considerable investment for any large process plant. It can represent up to 10% of the total facility cost.

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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

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

Industry insights and Q&As

LNG processing and intelligent valves for a demanding service

The demand for natural gas is increasing globally due to its clean-burning characteristics, which is especially true for producing electricity and many industries are looking into LNG as an alternative, cleaner source of energy. For LNG producers the difference between running safe, profitable plants often comes down to choosing flow control partners with the experience and knowledge to get the job done right.

The diverse role valves play in the chemical industry

The chemical industry is extremely diverse with more than 60,000 known products. Chemicals are typically split into basic categories including petrochemicals, agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and bio-chemicals, and consumer products. Like all process industries, the chemical industry needs valves designed for safe, efficient and reliable process operation.

What's new in the latest version of Neles Expertune PlantTriage software?

We have just released the latest version of Neles Expertune PlantTriage software. Read the QA with our expert Cristian Moraes, Head of Digital Services business, to learn the key improvements.

Leveraging vendor partnerships

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

Driving OEE improvements

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

What should you look for in a partner for valves in oxygen service?

To many of us oxygen is the air we breathe to sustain life. But many of our industrial customers know that it is a volatile gas that requires extra care and knowhow when dealing with it in a process environment. We in Valmet’s flow control business have the needed experience to help you select and maintain the best possible valve solutions for oxygen service.

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.

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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