Short Description
Laplace Industrial Solutions was approached by a major chemicals manufacturer to design software for a rheological additives plant.
Our client specified to optimise the efficiency of the plant through reduction of running costs and man-hours.
- Date : 2016
- Categories : Industrial Solutions
- Client : Rheological Additives Plant
The technological advancement sought was to increase the output capability of the plant through the programming of its controls. For example, an agitator device was initially operating constantly, but was later programmed to operate for only twenty minutes of every hour, thus saving a considerable amount of energy.
The uncertainties in this job were the challenges in increasing the output of the plant without altering the additives the plant produces. The additives were all produced using complicated mathematical formulae in the programming, which had to be altered carefully so as to not disrupt the production process.
The uncertainties were overcome by identifying inefficiencies, and reducing them through the programming of the control systems, thus optimising the plants performance by maximising output and minimising costs and man-hours.