Measure process-improvement impacts with this software
System Health Monitoring (SHM) is a tiered service that leverages intelligence captured by this company’s PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring solution (photo). The service enables proactive monitoring of PlantESP deployments, facilitating rapid response to system-resource issues and guidance for achieving world-class control. The PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring platform capitalizes on a facility’s existing historical process data to assess process and instrumentation diagram (PID) controller performance on a plant- or an enterprise-wide basis. The software uncovers a range of common mechanical, tuning and process interaction issues that undermine productivity and that contribute to unplanned downtime. PlantESP’s library of metrics automates the identification of controller-related performance issues, and its portfolio of advanced forensic tools simplifies the isolation of root-causes. Intelligence derived by PlantESP is transmitted daily via a compact and encrypted machine-readable file. SHM utilizes a variety of metrics and other intelligence to calculate an Overall Controller Effectiveness™ (OCE) value. OCE is a normalized measure for control-loop operations based on the methodology for calculating overall equipment effectiveness. OCE provides a simple, quantitative means for benchmarking various levels of control within a plant. — Control Station Inc., Manchester, Conn.