This may include maintaining a process within environmental limits, safety limits, maintaining product quality, increasing product yield, reducing process unit maintenance, stabilizing process operation from shift to shift, or optimizing based on economic factors. These goals can be met, subject to the constraints of a process, utilizing AAI's Advanced Process Technology Platform developed to maintain a process within predetermined and prioritized process constraints, which may include any or all of the process goals mentioned above. AAI implements advanced optimization control strategies using a software platform developed in-house. Control software is Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, '98 and '95 compatible. The ActiveX Server contains controls and database historian.
Clients view graphics by requesting database information from the Server.
This architecture permits the use of multiple CRTs and also allows for remote viewing, tuning, configuration and trend data gathering via dialup networking. Also, interfaces are available to PlantScape, ProcessLogix, WonderWare, Intellution and other PC based platforms. Modbus serial communications is supported, also. Since Window's operating system is non-deterministic, the Advanced Control Platform is designed for Supervisory Control. There are plans to implement Advanced Control Platform controls server into an embedded Window's CE platform for even more robust control.