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What Is Advanced Process Control (APC)

Advanced process control (APC) brings together control strategies and technologies to optimize industrial production processes. It aims to increase process performance, simplify production, reduce waste, and cut costs by providing constant multi-variable control over production loops. APC systems use techniques like multivariable control, multi-loop control, and advanced logic to monitor and adjust complex processes through links to distributed control systems (DCS).

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What Is Advanced Process Control (APC)

Advanced process control (APC) brings together control strategies and technologies to optimize industrial production processes. It aims to increase process performance, simplify production, reduce waste, and cut costs by providing constant multi-variable control over production loops. APC systems use techniques like multivariable control, multi-loop control, and advanced logic to monitor and adjust complex processes through links to distributed control systems (DCS).

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What is Advanced Process Control (APC)?

Advanced process control (APC) is a complex subject. Involvement of various


hardware and software clubbed to generate a system, can control the overall
requirement of the control loops. In other words, advanced process control brings
together a wide range of control strategies and types of technology.

Advanced Process Control

The goal of advanced process control (APC) is to increase the performance of control
over processes that contribute to production. Applying constant control over this
process not only helps to simplify the production process but also helps to make
production output results more predictable. Amending the production process also
helps get rid of the waste that occurs when processes have to be rerun. Eliminating
such waste further cut the total cost in the manufacturing process.

Objectives

The advanced process control (APC) device consists of a programmable


microcontroller and an advanced program using

•ladder logic,
•Multivariable control,
•Multi-loop control,
•Control optimization philosophies,
•Programmed gain control
•and advanced logic.
Advantages of Advanced Process Control

Hence, advanced process control refers to the implementation of control based on


computing technologies, obtaining the following advantages:

• Remarkable improvement in the profitability of the product.


• Reduction in energetic consumption.
• Equipment downtime minimization.
• Increase in the information that flows in the system.
• Much Improved quality and product consistency.
• Waste reduction.
• Increase in speed of systems response.
• Improved process safety.
• Reduction of emissions to the environment.
What exactly is Control Advanced?

Advanced Control is more than only the use of digital computers and their related
advanced software. It is also more than the use of complex control algorithms that help
to improve the fine regulation.
Advanced control describes the layout of an infrastructure of a system of engineering
that brings together elements of different disciplines, from control engineering, signal
processing, statistics, decision theories, engineering software, even intelligence
techniques artificial. The practice of advanced control lies in understanding the
process, control problems, the dynamics of the process, as well as tying it to the most
appropriate method and technology for control.

How Advanced Process Control becomes part of DCS?

Advanced process control (APC) is the application of a wide range of disciplines and
technologies to refine process control or discuss a peculiar problem related to a
process.

APC is interdisciplinary in nature. It extracts knowledge in its application of statistics,


decision theory, engineering, signal processing, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Link with DCS System

To accomplish the planned process control objectives, an APC technology is


generally linked to the distributed control system (DCS) that controls the process. Due
to its inherent tendencies to resolve problems that have multiple variables, advanced
process control is used in a variety of industries.

Generally, in process control, a distributed control system (DCS) is used to control a


process in a factory. Distributed control system means that the components of the
system are spread throughout the entire process, each with different degrees of
function.

An advanced process control (APC) tool generally connects to the distributed


control system through well-established communication protocols or a software
interface. During this communication exchange, APC will track all information
submitted to DCS regulatory controls to help isolate a problem or calculate the different
variables manifested in a problem.

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