In modern process manufacturing plants the correlation between the performance of the process control assets and the financial performance of the business is strong. Virtually every advanced process control project has been justified using predictions of improved business performance
resulting from improved control. The process of implementing such projects routinely includes improving the performance of the regulatory controls and in some cases instrumentation.
This paper will focus on the following question:
“Among all of the control assets in the plant, where should maintenance resources be
expended in order to have the most significant impact on plant performance?”