Control Performance Monitor

What Is It?
Control Performance Monitor is a vendor-independent software application that communicates with modern distributed control system (DCS) and Model Predictive Control technologies to provide monitoring, tuning and modeling capabilities in a single package. When paired with Honeywell’s loop and Model Predictive Control maintenance technologies, it provides real-time data collection and analysis, control loop tuning, modeling and multivariate step testing capabilities to help users not only sustain control performance but improve it as well.

The software continuously monitors all regulatory control assets and applications across remote facilities to detect problems and then notifies appropriate personnel. It ensures efficient control tuning and performance by analyzing control performance without direct plant interruption. 

How Does It Work?
Control Performance Monitor uses a condition-based maintenance methodology to increase control performance and plant productivity, while reducing maintenance costs. The methodology comprises four main steps:

• Identify - It visualizes, identifies and prioritizes problems throughout the entire plant, notifies personnel of the impending issues and locates the root cause of the problem.
• Analyze - The software provides online and offline reports analyzing control issues throughout the plant. In addition, it analyzes regulatory controllers and APC applications.
• Improve - It enables reactive and proactive Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) tuning, valve/sensor repair, controller redesign, Model Predictive Control step testing, and model identification.
• Sustain - It enables constant assessment of control performance and flags critical problems to help users institutionalize sustainability through continuous improvement.

What Problems Does It Solve?
​Control Performance Monitor helps improve the operability and stability of the process, thereby leading to reduction in off-specification production, operating costs and product variability and an increase in production rates.