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Real-time optimisation
Use live plant data and a validated model to recommend better operating points as conditions change.
Custom quote after a short scoping call
Discuss this service“Our setpoints don’t keep up with the plant”
Feed, ambient conditions and prices keep changing, while setpoints often stay where they were last tuned. Real-time optimisation uses a validated model to work out better operating points as those conditions move. We deliver it as advice: your engineers review each recommendation and make any change.
A good fit when
- Conditions change faster than setpoints are reviewed
- You can state the objective and the constraints clearly
- Instruments on the unit are reliable enough to run from
How the work runs
Timing is a planning estimate, confirmed after the first stage.
| When | Work | You can review |
|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 | Define the objective, constraints and baseline operation | Agreed optimisation specification |
| Stage 2 | Check instruments and validate the process model | Go/no-go decision |
| Stage 3 | Build the optimiser and test it on past operation | Backtest against actual operation |
| Stage 4 | Run recommendations in shadow from a read-only feed | Time-stamped recommendations and review log |
| Stage 5 | Hand over with operating rules | Decision note and documentation |
What we need
- A read-only feed from the historian
- Operating objectives, prices and constraints
- An existing process model, or time to build one
- Current setpoint practice and any existing control layers
What you keep
- Validated process model and optimiser
- Operator-facing recommendations with the reason for each
- Shadow-run record compared with actual operation
- Rules for when recommendations should not be used
Agreed before we start
- Objective and how it is measured
- Constraints that must never be broken
- Recommendation frequency and review burden
- Baseline to compare against
When we’d stop
We stop or narrow the work if the instruments or the model can’t support reliable recommendations, or if the unit has too little room to move.