Standards for the degree of automatic control of equipment instruments
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We are a company that manufactures hydrogen production equipment, and the company now requires a certain level of automation. What level of automation do you generally achieve in your operations? I think it’s better not to use automatic control for some instruments; for example, the steam flow rate in hydrogen production units. I’d like to hear everyone’s suggestions on this. Thank you!
The control rate generally indicates the degree of automation; in fact, in some areas prone to fluctuations, automatic control is not as good as manual control. It depends on the manager’s perspective – personally, I think manual control is better. If it’s automatic, stability leads to less effort required, and it also offers higher safety levels
The self-control rate should exceed 90%.
Our company has around 20 sets of equipment in total, and we are now working to increase the level of automation for all of them; it would be ideal to achieve over 95% automation! This should be the result of the combined efforts of process and instrumentation teams!
The last edit to this post was made by zhangchao2012 on 2017-5-23 at 12:00. Our system requires a performance level of over 96%; if this standard is not met, the company will hold the workshop accountable. Almost all instruments are set to automatic mode, with only a few pumps not using frequency conversion. If a particular instrument shows significant fluctuations, measures such as adjusting the PID settings or setting limits can be employed to control it
Your self-control is really high! How do you calculate those complex circuits as well as the single circuits? If a single circuit is controlled by an inverter, is it still necessary to put that circuit in automatic mode? Also, with such a high level of automation, has the number of process engineers decreased? Finally, I would like to ask whether such a high level of automation imposes a significant workload on the instruments I hope to discuss these issues with you. Thank you!