Staying informed means avoiding pitfalls of new control technology

The implementation of advanced process control technology helps paper mills boost their profitability and quality of their products. Mills need to get familiar with the specifications of control systems prior their installation. Mills can keep their process control systems functional by properly training support personnel and creating process control teams to maintain the systems. Some mills are using the services of control system suppliers' onsite support specialists or third parties to manage their control systems.
Control Technology is changing at an extremely rapid pace. In the past 20 years, paper mills have gone from pneumatic control systems using basic control strategies to CRT-based distributed control [...]