Plantpax® MPC: Model Predictive Control Product

PlantPAx® MPC
Model Predictive Control Product
Features and Benefits

PlantPAx MPC moves Model
Predictive Control into the controller
layer providing new opportunities
to improve process equipment
performance
• Superior control of challenging

control problems
• Safely drive process performance
closer to constraints
• Increase throughput
• Improve yield
• Reduce costs
• Increase profitability Driving Maximum Performance
For many process control situations, PID control is the time-proven
approach that provides excellent control and performance. However,
there are a number of situations where PID control is simply not the best
choice. Those situations include:
• Long/slow process dynamics
• Significant dead times
• Unstable dynamic responses
• Significant interactions/fighting between control loops
• Dynamic process constraints
• Reliance on infrequent lab measurements for control
PlantPAx® MPC from Rockwell Automation is designed to drive maximum
performance in the face of these challenging control situations. For more
than 25 years, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has proven its ability to
address control problems like these where PID simply does not maximize
controller performance. By utilizing more robust process models that
account for significant process interactions, PlantPAx MPC stabilizes
process variability and enables the control loops to be pushed closer to
process constraints while maintaining an acceptable margin of safety.
Even though it is hardware-based, PlantPAx MPC is a full-featured MPC
solution capable of handling the most challenging advanced process
control problems. It can manage multiple objectives and process loops
while assuring that plant constraints are monitored and enforced.
Identification Control Task Specs Export
Online Change Monitoring

Monitoring/Tuning
Logix5000
MPC Builder Logix5000 Program Download
Development Cycle Dedicated MPC-Module
1. Identify Process Parameters (Co-Processor)
2. Specify Target Measurements and Limits AOI on Controller
3. Generate MPC Shell AOI
4. Import and instantiate AOI
5. Download project to Logix
6. Monitor and Tune
Dynamic and steady-state constraints are monitored, One PlantPAx MPC module can support up to five
predicted and enforced in a manner never before realized MPC applications, each with:
in DCS-based MPC solutions. By embedding MPC into the
• Up to 10 controlled variables (targeted and/or
control layer, PlantPAx MPC simplifies integration with
constrained measurements).
the PlantPAx distributed control system and improves
ease-of-use. • Up to 10 manipulated variables (PID instruction
outputs or slave targets adjusted by MPC).
The end result is PlantPAx MPC drives maximum • Up to 10 disturbance variables (inputs that would
performance from plant operations, which results in shift some controlled variables without proactive
higher throughput, lower costs and higher profitability. adjustments on available manipulated variables).
• A predictive horizon of up to 200 controller
Proven Technology Embedded in Controller execution steps.
PlantPAx MPC is a new migration of concepts from the
Rockwell Automation® Pavilion8® workstation-based MPC Easy to Configure and Use
product that has been in industrial use for more than PlantPAx MPC has set a new standard in ease-of-use
20 years on hundreds of the most complex and for advanced process control solutions. Controller
challenging control problems globally. It is optimized configuration and tuning parameters have been
for fast execution within the Logix environment and enhanced to be more accessible to engineers accustomed
designed for maximum ease-of-use. to PID control. Faceplates for PlantPAx have been
developed within the Rockwell Software® ViewSE product
Optimized Performance that are very similar to what engineers familiar with PID
control have come to expect.
Model design, development and advanced monitoring
are conducted on a PC connected to your Logix chassis. Rockwell Automation has also developed powerful tools
Run-time APC instruction is called and accessed by an that facilitate the use of plant data and step tests to build
add-on instruction (AOI) within a 1756 Logix controller, models, MPC configuration as well as monitor controller
and is programmable with Rockwell Software Studio5000® performance.
software with a dedicated PlantPAx MPC module.
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Model Predictive Control Product

Features and Benefits

• Superior control of challenging

Online Change Monitoring

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