Capstone Plant Automation

Maximize your assets and take plant operations
to a whole new level.

Let Capstone help you extract greater value from your manufacturing assets. Our innovative product group will allow you to overcome one of the largest challenges in plant management: maximizing plant efficiency and product consistency while keeping product variability to a minimum. Our plant automation tools will give you the agility needed to meet your customer objectives – even through the largest product grade change transitions.

Automation.

Capstone’s adaptable plant automation software is designed to meet – and exceed – the needs of process manufacturers across a wide range of industries including refining, pulp and paper, chemicals, power generation and others.

MACS™, our Multivariable Advanced Control System, is your choice for efficient model predictive control (MPC) technology. With adaptable models and tuning, you’ll maintain razor-sharp control – even during large product grade transitions on complex processes. MACS simultaneously integrates steady state and dynamic optimization to maintain peak control performance – all while helping to increase production and reduce costs.

Soft Sensors.

Obtaining product quality feedback quickly can be a challenge in any manufacturing environment – especially when product quality is intertwined with numerous process variables. Since quality is a key profit driver, we want to control it within tight limits. But that can be difficult, given infrequent lab measurements coupled with complicated process interactions. That’s where Capstone Soft Sensors come in.

Our industry-proven soft sensors combine time-series models with multivariate PLS and PCA models to provide continuous, quality variable feedback for closed-loop control. They’ll give you the ability to build effective advanced controls that maintain quality while minimizing operating costs.

Control Loop Performance.

To maximize the value of your assets over the life cycle of advanced control applications, it’s vital to maintain optimized performance in your regulatory control systems.

Capstone Control Loop Performance software integrates regulatory loop monitoring and diagnostics with advanced controls, allowing you to easily analyze system performance anytime and anywhere.

You’ll have quick access to loop diagnostics through the plant information system, web reports and messaging – and our integrated tuning software tools will allow you to quickly make corrections when needed.