Optimised business solutions through Philosophy, Practice & Performance.

Structuring automation and systematic procedures is essential to deliver effective and consistent operation. By integrating different operational disciplines (e.g. planning, execution, and maintenance), automation can deliver the next level of proactive improvement – a usually impossible task with a conventional automation approach. 

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Coupled with a system that structures performance monitoring and bench-marking of all tasks, this will transform mundane operation to rewarding analytics that facilitates continuous improvement.

Historically, some advanced control strategies often die as soon as the champion or the inventor leaves the organisation. Crucial factors for sustainable performance of an advanced control strategy are:
1. Sound knowledge transfer to operation and maintenance team through a joint-team approach.
2. Simple operator and engineering interface that provides insights to the control strategy and its decision rationale.
3. Staged approach to ensure good foundation for system and human knowledge to facilitate consolidating system understanding and acceptance.

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Most processes have complex interactions, hence it is difficult for operator to manage without significant insight of the process. In order to ensure good performance, it is essential to have a control strategy that embeds a process model and transforms operator tasks to a simple goal-based decision with clear trade-off. 

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In order to ensure sustained optimised performance, the operator graphical interface and control system needs to be equipped with an engineering configuration that facilitates system diagnostics and adjustments through parameterised adjustment attributes designed as part of OP3 Approach requirements.

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