Do you have important process control challenges but currently lack the staffing levels necessary to effect change? Or perhaps you have an ongoing operational problem that has repeatedly defied solution?

Partners With Expertise
Our approach is to partner with you as we work together toward improved process control performance and increased plant profitability. Control Station’s Solutions Engineers instruct as they work alongside your staff, optimizing process control today while empowering your staff to tackle similar challenges in the future.

Through onsite collaboration, Control Station maximizes the long-term return on your existing control investments in process equipment and instrumentation, computers and software, and experienced and trained personnel.

Control Station is staffed by a team of process control professionals. Each Solutions Engineer is expert in the application of industry best practices and proven methods. From PID controller design and tuning for optimal operation to process control strategy design, implementation, and troubleshooting, our Solutions Engineers combine a strong foundation of theoretical training with practical industry experience.

Customized to Your Needs
Each project is different, so it must be customized to the needs of your company and the challenges at hand. To illustrate our approach, a generic engagement might have our Solutions Engineer(s) work alongside your staff to:

Plan
 ◊ Explore alternative control strategies, loop designs, and tuning parameters.
 ◊ Recommend modifications to existing control configurations, including the retuning of critical control loops and recoding of controller logic.

Implement
 ◊ “Teach while we do” our proven methods for achieving optimum performance.
 ◊ Collect and analyze process data to evaluate current PID performance.
 ◊ Simulate and demonstrate the performance of recommended control modifications.
 ◊ Apply Control Station’s proprietary PID control technologies and design methodology.

Your Role
To achieve the desired results in a cost effective fashion, it is essential that the team include an operations and/or engineering employee from your company who possess both knowledge of the existing control environment and responsibility for maintaining the PLC or DCS. We also may need access to maintenance staff capable of assisting with the inspection and/or repair of process equipment. Finally, the team must have access to appropriate information maintained within your plant’s data historian or the ability to collect data via OPC or local wire termination panels.

Real Impact; Increased Profits
Please read benefit summaries from some of our recent successful projects, including:
  » Reducing energy costs in a cement plant
  » Increasing production rate in a reactor facility 
  » Minimizing waste production in a brewery

Contact Us
Please contact us to brainstorm possibilities and benefit from our experience.