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AnalyticsJanuary 20264 min read

Plant process analytics: what your historian already knows

Most plants store years of operating data nobody looks at. Three analyses that pay for themselves in the first quarter.

Your historian has been writing down everything for years — temperatures, flows, pressures, states. Storage was the easy part. The value is in three analyses most plants never run.

1. Golden batch / golden shift comparison

Find the best runs in history and compare them to today, automatically. The differences — setpoints, sequences, ambient conditions — are your cheapest optimization program.

2. Specific consumption drift

Energy per unit creeps up so slowly nobody notices: fouling, wear, leaking valves. A simple drift monitor on specific consumption catches what walk-downs miss.

3. Precursor patterns before trips

Most unplanned trips have precursors in the data. Mining past trips for shared patterns turns them into early warnings — the entry ticket to predictive maintenance.

Years of stored data, three analyses, payback in one quarter.

„The cheapest sensor is the one that has been logging for five years already.“

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