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UPDATE #11

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In this issue:

• Kinetix 2000 expands application versatility
• On-Machine embedded I/O helps improve conveyor systems
• New ControlLogix PAC offers twice the memory
• MicroLogix controller enhancements
• Extended functionality with PanelView Plus CE
• FactoryTalk offers real power to the user
• VersaView is what your application demands
• A Fuzzy approach to enhanced control
• Case Study: Wet blending process in the food industry
• FuzzyDesigner provides a new level of capability
• Configured-drive packages save time and money
• Switch on to savings with MCCBs from Allen-Bradley
• New 800FD range pushes all the right buttons
• Safety control products receive China Compulsory Certification (CCC) mark
• Laser Measurement Sensors help improve reliability and flexibility
• SmartGuard safety system at a promotional price
• Tour drives safety offering right across Europe

Advanced Process Control helps optimise operations

Advanced Process Control tools and methodologies have been developed to help maximise process capacity, yield and product quality, and to save energy and raw materials, while, at the same time, reducing process variations and human intervention.

We customise APC solutions to help you realise significant operational and quality benefits and a rapid return on your investment

Embracing the APC approach can help organisations obtain additional process knowledge, understand interactions between process variables, explain non-linear relationships and handle multi-parameter systems.

The solutions we provide include model-predictive control, dynamic simulation and modelling, real-time optimisation, fuzzy logic and control. They are added to enhance the performance of existing controllers and are designed to increase production throughput and productivity, utility monitoring and cost reduction, enhanced preventive maintenance procedures, improved process control and operational performance.

We customise APC solutions to help you realise significant operational and quality benefits and a rapid return on your investment. The goal of our APC team is to provide you with a customised solution based on your objectives and areas of focus. In most cases, the final solution results from our industrial automation experience and know-how, an understanding and detailed audit of your specific process operation and close co-operation and teamwork between you and us.

Our APC team designs solutions for specific process control and operational performance goals set prior to commissioning. Economical benefits of APC solutions, as measured by our clients, have included a throughput increase of 7%, an energy usage reduction of 8%, a variation reduction by 40% and batch time reduction of 13.5%. The control technologies applied in each of these cases were carefully chosen and industrially proven to maximise economical and operational benefits. Industries served include food, life sciences, water, glass, chemical and mining and minerals across a huge array of applications, from water chlorination control to cream cheese yield maximisation.

Contact us to learn how our advanced process control solutions can help improve performance of your manufacturing plants.

For more information, please e-mail us at: info_update@ra.rockwell.com, ref: APC