Wastewater treatment plants represent complex process trains with many input and control parameters. Our automation packages can make the variables visible in a single location and provide context by allowing disparate systems to be compared in real time or extended time periods, up to years.

Once the variables that make up a process train can be evaluated, it is possible to define operational targets. Controlling outputs to achieve these targets is where automation excels because it doesn’t get distracted, bored, called away to meetings, sick, etc. Its behavior is predictable and reliable, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

Once a properly designed automation system is in place, chaos recedes. The operator’s scope of work shrinks from constantly having to check inputs and adjust outputs to simply defining the goals/targets/setpoints that the automation should achieve. Additionally, the operator decisions are logged and can be easily viewed alongside the real-time system performance data. This makes it much easier to determine if an operator is making appropriate decisions regarding treatment processes and generates a documentation trail to support personnel management decisions. 

Personnel are expensive; competent, qualified personnel much more so. Without automation, the experience and skill that these individuals have are often wasted as they are forced to constantly make minute decisions that could be easily achieved by a simple algorithm. Our solutions free the operator from mundane, repetitive tasks, opening up the time for them to make informed process management decisions, perform preventive maintenance activities, gain additional training, etc.

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