Process control reliability: the key to investing in your infrastructure

Expenditures to improve process control infrastructure in pulp and paper mi lls should be analyzed and evaluated as rigorously as greenfield investment s to optimize capital effectiveness. An approach to such an evaluation base d on the economic impact of process control equipment reliability is presen ted. The procedure, called the control infrastructure health assessment (CI HA), is described and the results obtained for a particular case are discus sed. Some data and the linkage to life cycle costing (LCC) are shared. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.