Improvements in process control through model-based techniques: a control system vendor´s perspective

The paper aims at showing how the introduction of model-based control strategies impacts on both the skills (and training) required to plant operators, and in the way control project development has to be managed. As more and more emphasis has to be given to the methodologies used, successful applications (with the related important economic benefits) may result only by the creation of an actual partnership between the process owner and the control system supplier. Aware of this necessity, Elsag Bailey has coupled the introduction of new control technologies with the creation of a sound experience-based methodology, and able to provide the market with the most performing tools in the most suited environment