A team of process control PhDs in your back pocket.
Consulting Services
Engineering Services to Help You Achieve Peak Performance
The toughest process control challenges require specialized knowledge and skills. Our team of engineers and PhDs brings 40 years of expertise to help evaluate your system, reduce manual work, increase stability and provide proactive advice. Let our team help solve your process control challenges and discover the power of the ControlSoft advantage.
Manage operational difficulties in your plant
- Lower high-maintenance costs
- Lessen quantity of off-spec product
- Minimize plant disruptions
- Reduce variability in product quality
Maximize performance from existing assets
- Gain more production out of existing plant assets
- Shorten product changeover times
- Reduce energy costs per production unit
- Improve your plant’s agility and responsiveness to changes in demand
Continuously monitor your process control system
- Identify optimal operating conditions
- Pinpoint root cause of operational problems
- Take preventive actions before disruption occurs
- Monitor control valve performance for hysteresis and stiction
Whether you are experiencing severe operational difficulties in your plant, want to extract the maximum performance from your existing plant assets or want to continuously monitor the health of your process control system, ControlSoft offers experienced engineering services and field-proven results to help you get the job done.
Our Services
Process Control Troubleshooting
We will perform in-plant troubleshooting to determine if the root cause of your operational difficulties are related to your process control system. If the difficulties are the result of sub-optimal performance of your process controls, we can provide the following solutions:
- Tune your process controllers
- Redesign process control logic and commission new controls
- Design and implement model-based controls (if needed for optimal operation)
- Develop and implement inferential property prediction algorithms (when required for the application)
Our engineers have experience with most commercially available DCS and PLCs and will customize the most cost-effective application for your specific situation.
Process Control Optimization
We will perform feasibility studies to determine whether your plant operations can be optimized by the deployment of new control and optimization techniques.
- Identify the suite of tests required to develop an accurate feasibility study
- Recommend instrument/actuator calibration, repair and replacement
- Design and implement the advanced control and optimization algorithms which will achieve the operational goals of the client
- Commission and document the new controls and optimization algorithms
- Train your personnel on how to tune the algorithms if business conditions change
We also offer packaged application solutions for customers with similar operational and business targets, tailored to each customer’s situation.
Performance Monitoring
We can help you design and implement a Control Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) system in your plant that will provide you with the information necessary to take action before your process controls and control valves become a detractor from the performance of your plant. We can also help you define a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and provide you with a Dashboard view of your overall plant operations.
Our goal is to improve the operation of your plant to its optimal state and keep it there. We’ll provide plant engineering personnel the necessary tools and knowledge to maintain the process control system long after we have left the plant.
Technical Support
Once your control system is commissioned, we will be there to advise you on what steps you need to take to understand, maintain, and enhance your control system. We are proud of our track record of total customer satisfaction.
Training
We offer instructor-led, on-site and web-based training to help you understand how to operate your plants in the most cost-efficient manner.