To maximize the contribution of production facilities in today’s environment requires a careful balance between the utilization and availability of your production assets.  In terms of utilization, Operator Effectiveness and Engineering Effectiveness are the two largest contributors to bottom line performance. In both cases, organizations are dealing with a wide range of challenges:

• The loss of critical knowledge as experienced personnel leave the organization through retirement or restructuring
• The scarcity of new engineering and operations resources in the marketplace
• Increasing complexity of the operation
• Increased risk in terms of environmental, health and safety as we push our operations closer and closer to the safe operating limits

 For operators, IPS offers a range of solutions aimed at ensuring that your limited resources are focused on the correct issues and are operating in a proactive, versus reactive, mode.  These include:

• Alarm Management, eliminating alarm storms and allowing the operations team to focus on the core issues
• Loop Management, improving the performance of problem loops and allowing the operations team to move away from manual control
• Advanced Process Control, providing the operations team with guidance around the optimal operational settings
• Operator Training, based on our powerful Operator Training Simulator capabilities. This solution component provides the most effective ramp-up for new operations staff and provides a safe environment for existing staff to test changes and enhancements to the control environment without impacting production

For engineering, we offer a complete range of integrated modeling solutions that allow your engineering staff to optimize the overall performance and efficiency of the production processes.  Our consulting organization includes global practices that focus exclusively on these two areas. Our subject matter experts will work with you to identify the challenges and opportunities and outline the recommended strategy, solution elements and ROI and then work with you to implement the solution.