About the session
Dr. Andy Clegg from Industrial Systems and Control Ltd will talk about his experiences with developing and using simulations within the design and deployment for challenging machinery control and process control applications. He will cover how simulation was used to shrink commissioning time for marine hydraulic control systems and ensure things are right first time. Another example presented will be for a novel water treatment process for an oil platform to provide some crucial pre-build assessments of the design.
Design, development and deployment of control systems can often be challenging; especially in time, cost or safety critical applications, such as in oil & gas, maritime or nuclear industries.
The use of dynamic simulation of plant/control systems can benefit by shrinking the overall lifecycle, time and cost, by analysing and optimising the design up front in the system lifecycle. Simulation can also enable commissioning the system in an ‘offline’ mode for the applications where commissioning against real plant can be restrictive/difficult.
Engineering simulators can also be used to train control room staff on the detailed aspects of process operations earlier in the project programme, thus reducing the overall time for handover to operations / changeover.
