Advanced Process Control Platform for Pulp & Paper

ANDRITZ offers a suite of Advanced Process Control solutions to enhance industrial operations

Advanced Process Control (APC) is an enhancement of the basic process control aimed at delivering value to our customers in terms of throughput, quality, and cost. APCs utilize various technologies to optimize the process in response to business drivers, utilizing minimal resources without compromising throughput, quality, and cost targets.

The ACE supervisory process management system autonomously optimizes the process area based on cost/value. ACE is an automated “expert operator” that works to fully optimize a process.

The expert operator in ACE is always fully attentive, never distracted, and achieves optimum conditions for the plant. ACE can be implemented to determine the optimal setpoints, enabling the process to operate at maximum efficiency.

Key characteristics

• ANDRITZ Know-how built into Metris X Advanced Process Control Libraries
• Efficient and consistent deployment of controls
• Embedded documentation of control functions – IT IS A GLASS BOX
• Available for final Customers’ deployment via a low-code development environment

What can be included in an ACE Project

• We can deliver a Complete Solution for any defined scope
• Deliver a solution with an ROI guarantee
• Can deliver (as required):
• Instruments,
• Upgraded controls
• Operator Training Simulators
• Equipment Services and Upgrades

Multiple deployment options

• Single APC;
• Multiple APCs in the same site;
• Multiple APCs in multiple sites (running in edge devices) are being managed centrally (the customer's enterprise or cloud).

Multiple benefits, depending on the process island

• Reduce process variability
• Reduction of chemical, energy, and fuel consumption
• Increase production, working closer to limits
• Reduction of production losses due to unstable process
• Etc.

Getting started with this solution

1. Contact us.
2. We will contact you to organize an online presentation.
3. If you liked it, you can try the application in a demo environment.
4. If you want to proceed, we will provide you with a proposal.
5. Let´s agree on the best business model for you.
6. We will deploy your environment, which you can connect to your data.