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January 2023The Journey to a Digital Factory, Part IWhat a digital factory actually is—and the decision points that send manufacturers into dead ends, high maintenance costs, or a captive vendor.Download PDFAugust 2023The Journey to a Digital Factory, Part IIHow to aggregate plant data, what a useful dashboarding system requires, and how to avoid collecting more tags than anyone can act on.Download PDFJune 2024The Journey to a Digital Factory, Part IIIFrom fixed automation to flexible and integrated automation, with operator acceptance treated as a design constraint.Download PDFAugust 2023Meeting Evolving Power Generation RegulationsDigital-factory control, dashboards, and integrated systems under tightening U.S. rules—including combustion, sootblowing, and mercury PAC.Download PDFApril 2023Using No-Code Automation Tools for Process ControlWhy the DCS should stay the deterministic backbone, and why new models should not wait on that backbone’s change-control process.Download PDFApril 2023Deployed Digital Factories: a Taber International success storyCase studies of plants that moved from dashboards and models to closed-loop applications.Download PDFAugust 2021AI Process Automation & Optimization for Power GeneratorsOpen, customizable AI for combustion and related loops without treating the plant as a greenfield software project.Download PDFNovember 2020Temperature Setpoint Optimization in Steel Reheat FurnacesOpen-architecture neural networks used to set furnace temperatures, cut fuel, and drive temperature rejects toward zero.Download PDF
Application briefs
Combustion Optimization System
Expert logic plus model-based real-time optimization for boilers.
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Knowledge-based Sootblowing
Adaptive per-blower control instead of overbuilt sequences.
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Hg PAC Optimization
Mercury removal with less carbon and fewer opacity events.
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Cooling Tower Optimization
Cell-level fan control and documented auxiliary-power savings.
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Developers overview
How third-party developers encapsulate algorithms in the Toolkit.
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