Process Manufacturing Company of the Month
Control Station: We make sustainable process optimisation easy for you! Tipperary, deals with the European, Middle East and Africa Markets. With further representatives across Australia and Brazil, the company is in a good position to continue building its international customer base.
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e are delighted in this issue to select Control Station as our celebrated automated solutions for Process Manufacturing Company of the Month. Control Station is a leading provider of Monitoring and Tuning solutions. Our software and solutions empower manufacturers to enhance production efficiency, drive tangible improvements, and embrace digital transformation. They have a strong presence in the EMEA region with an office based in Ireland, ready to support the unique needs of this market. In 1988, Control Station was the brainchild of distinguished Professor Dr. Douglas Cooper from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Established in 1988, Dr. Douglas Cooper was the driving force in introducing software simulations to the Chemical Engineering curriculum, providing students with a dynamic and intuitive learning experience.
We spoke to Vera Lúcia Fregonezi: EMEA Business Marketing and Sales, Ireland to find out more, “Our existing and prospective manufacturer customers operate continuous and/or batch production processes and our products have been licensed to world-class global manufacturers, resulting in quantifiable improvements to production and driving sustainable annual company productivity.” “Our proprietary portfolio of products has cost-effective benefits, documented by our diverse range of end-users. These include oil and gas, mining, chemicals, basic materials, food & beverage, pulp and paper industries, and pharmaceuticals. If you have PIDs in your process you should be using our products to optimise, and sustainably maintain performance.” “Control Station products are both private-labelled and referenced by major automation solutions companies.”
In 2004, Dennis Nash took over as President and CEO and helped transition the company from a successful University project to a globally-ranked company.
PlantESP™ from Control Station is a Control Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) solution that accurately and proactively pinpoints control loop performance issues on a plant-wide basis and then methodically isolates the root cause. Through bespoke alerts, key performance metrics and guidance reports, engineers and operators are kept in the loop of performance changes, with recommended corrective action points.
In 2015: Damien Munroe expanded Control Station’s reach to Europe, establishing the EMEA business to cater to the unique needs of this market. The EMEA Control Station team is characterised by its multicultural and multilingual composition, ensuring a tailored approach to serving diverse customer types.
If you’re looking for state-of-the-art PID tuning software: LOOP-PRO™ is the only software on the market that accurately models changeable ‘real world’ process conditions. Designed to work with open and closed-loop, LOOP-PRO is the definitive software for accurate rapid PID controller tuning for all industrial applications.
Award-winning Control Station is recognised as a true industry-leader in innovative, Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller tuning solutions, providing the only product portfolio with tuning NSS conditions capability, irrespective of open or closed loop operationality, across integrating or non-integrating processes.
“The first full commercial license of PlantESP was issued in early 2013, and since that time, the product has been deployed to numerous process manufacturers on six continents.”
“The Company’s first enterprise-wide license agreement was completed in December 2015 with Cargill – the world’s largest privately-held food & beverage manufacturer. Since that time, numerous other enterprise licensing agreements have been executed with leading manufacturers.” “Loop-Pro is an award-winning software and has been recognised numerous times for the Engineer’s Choice Award as the market’s best PID Controller Tuning Software, as selected by the readers of Control Engineering Magazine.” “Furthermore, it is the only two-time winner of Chemical Processing Magazine’s Vaaler Award – an award designated by a panel of experts from the process industries.” “The company is focusing on sustainability and developing Digital Lifecycle Solutions for the control systems manufacturing sector, offering a comprehensive suite of solutions, that include regular monitoring, prioritisation, and proactive resolution of control loop issues that help to reduce variability, increase reliability, and save costs in lost productivity and wasted resources.” “Our Control Station’s EMEA Office in Ireland has been experiencing significant growth expanding its team to support the increased focus by manufacturers on sustainable production.” “Looking to the future, sustainability is at the forefront of our solutions in Software and Service.”
Control Station has an impressive customer base across almost 70 countries worldwide and has earned its place as the industry-leading platform-independent provider of process analytics and optimisation solutions.
“We are dedicated to providing world-class monitoring solutions to not only enhance efficiency but also to align with environmentally conscious practices. Our goal is to provide software that not only optimises processes but also contributes to sustainability efforts by standardising work practices, saving resources, reducing waste, and minimising energy consumption.”
Control Station now licences solutions to over half of the prestigious Fortune 500 manufacturers ranked by largest annual revenues.
“As we evolve, our commitment to providing innovative and eco-friendly solutions remains a key driver in shaping our future,” concluded Vera Lúcia Fregonezi.
In the USA, Control Station is based in Manchester, Connecticut and a second Irish base in Roscrea,
For more information, please see the website below: https://controlstation.com
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