ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROLS (APC)

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Centurion Controls can help sustain the life of your assets and maximize the operational
performance of your plant, factory, or mill. Learn more about how Centurion Controls can help you
reduce costs and increase efficiency during these challenging economic times.

Optimize the Process with Advanced Process Control

Centurion Controls  Advanced Process Control and Optimization applications address all aspects of
process optimization, from improving regulatory loop control to globally optimizing the entire
process based on a unique layered approach. Centurion Controls is unique in the industry with its
multi-faceted optimization approach. This approach provides a scalable, benefits-driven approach
for the deployment and long-term sustainability of the solution leveraging a common skill set from
base Advanced Process Control technology to multi-unit and multi-plant optimization. Centurion
Controls technologies are designed to be flexible and applicable to a wide range of industrial
processes, are more easily implemented than competing products, and provide leading edge
technologies for the maintenance and long-term sustainability of the solutions. As the foundation of
Centurion Controls multi-faceted optimization approach, APC provides the base for increasing
economic benefits of your process in a user-friendly environment. Project payback periods of less
than a year are typical with sustained benefits lasting indefinitely.

Benefits of Centurion Controls APC application:

        Increase profitability through increased production, reduced operating costs and improved
product quality.

        Improve plant safety with more flexible operations and early detection of abnormal events.

        Increase employee productivity through improved operator effectiveness and lower
engineering requirements.

        Achieve the highest return on investment and continue to deliver sustainable results
throughout the entire application lifecycle.

        Improve profitability by increasing production and decreasing costs with Centurion Controls  
       modeling and multivariable advanced control and optimization products.

        Ongoing advanced control and optimization of plant operations ensures responsiveness to
inevitable changes in business demands through close linkages with planning, scheduling, and
management functions. Our unique solutions improve profitability by increasing throughput,
reducing costs, increasing yields, and improving product quality.

        Advanced Control and Optimization products address all aspects of advanced process
control and optimization—from improving regulatory loop control—to globally optimizing the entire
process based on a unique layered approach. This model allows new technologies to be easily
added at any time to a common platform that meets optimization objectives without compromising
future opportunities to improve business performance.

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC)

Statistical process control is an effective method of monitoring a process through the use of control
charts. Control charts enable the use of objective criteria for distinguishing background variation
from events of significance based on statistical methods. Much of its power lies in the ability to
monitor both process center and its variation about that center, by collecting data from samples at
various points within the process. Variations in the process that may affect the quality of the end
product or service can be detected and corrected, thus reducing waste as well as the likelihood that
problems will be passed on to the customer. With its emphasis on early detection and prevention of
problems, SPC has a distinct advantage over quality methods, such as inspection, that apply
resources to detecting and correcting problems in the end product or service.

In addition to reducing waste, SPC can lead to a reduction in the time required to produce the
product or service from end to end. This is partially due to a diminished likelihood that the final
product will have to be reworked, but it may also result from using SPC data to identify bottlenecks,
wait times, and other sources of delays within the process. Process cycle time reductions coupled
with improvements in yield have made Statistical Process Control a valuable tool from both a cost
reduction and a customer satisfaction standpoint.
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