Why should you engage a Process Control Engineering Consultant?

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Why should you engage a Process Control
Engineering Consultant?
Commissioning new plants and optimising existing
ones requires specialist multidisciplinary
knowledge. Our Process Control services are
unique, we extend ourselves to any related
aspect of Industrial Engineering impacting a
process plants ability to control and optimise
unit performance. Too often Process Control
practitioners may constrain the control problems
and solutions within a PLC (Programmable Logic
Controller), DCS (Distributed Control System)
APC (Advanced Process Control / Model Based
Control). Whereas, our approach is to look at
the fundamental business objectives, the innate
process behaviour, plant design and the
associated supporting controlling systems and
instrumentation. We study the problems and
investigate where best to improve or remediate
hardware and / or develop PLC, DCS control
strategies or APC model algorithm
improvements. Our services bridge across all
Industrial Engineering related disciplines of
Process Control Engineering, Instrument
Engineering, Process Engineering Consultancy,
Process Control Engineering Consultancy, and
Instrument Engineering Consultancy. Doing so,
enables our clients to engage us singularly to
serve all their Process Control needs. Our
systems knowledge covers all major manufactures
of PLCs, DCSs, APCs, process simulation
platforms and operator training systems, e.g.
Honeywell, Yokogawa, Emerson, Schneider,
Invensys, Foxboro. We are vendor agnostic and can
also provide guidance on relevant features
important to consider. Our APC experiences
include Honeywell Profit Controller, Yokogawa
PACE SMOC, Aspen Tech DMC. Our simulation
Operator Training System (OTS) experience
include Aspentech Hysys, Honeywell Unisim, DWSIM,
Yokogawa Omegaland.
What does a Process Control Engineering
Consultant do? Lets take a look at what Process
Control Engineering consultants do and what you
may expect from us.
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Project Engineering phases are different to an
Operational Asset. Within a Project there are a
number of stages where the technology and
economic decisions are explored to ensure a
proper fit for the plant being designed,
including safety and compliance and the available
investment. During an Operational Asset phase,
the business operational and engineering staff
at times will be exposed to unforeseen problems
or business opportunities that may not have been
a priority to the project at the time. An
experienced Process Control Engineering
Consultant, can aid in both Project and Asset
Phases, by balancing the fundamental business
needs with sound advise covering equipment
design and selection, associated instrumentation
control systems, electrical power control
systems. In the Project Phase, once the
technology is selected, then the Process Control
Engineer can work with all interfacing
disciplines to ensure the Process Control
Strategies are developed to achieve the
Functional Operational Requirements. During an
Operational Asset, the Process Control Engineer
can study unit performance, optimisation
opportunities, empirical unit transitory response
and lead activities from simple PID (control
loop) tuning through to complex control strategy
improvements and where to improve hardware that
is constraining unit Process Control
Performance. Additionally the Process Control
Engineering Consultant can develop software
process control models to test scenarios and
improvement virtually via modern Digitisation /
Digital Twin techniques. In both Project and
Asset Phases it is important a Process Control
Engineer also provides guidance on operability
aspects that concern Panel Field Operators.
This may often include overlooked HMI (Human
Machine Interface) PLC / DCS panel graphics,
alarms, trending systems and ease of navigation.
What does SAROM GLOBAL have to offer?

• Our staff are experienced with major projects and
  operational assets. We can work either embedded
  as Owners Engineers / Client Engineers where
  effectively we are part of your enterprise or
  provided complete Turnkey engineering detailed
  design, hardware and commissioning start up
  support and the perpetual operational support.
• We can develop detailed Functional Requirements,
  Process Control Safeguarding Narratives. Our
  specialisation also extends to ensuring adequate
  equipment coordination of
• Process Equipment Design and Instrumentation.
• Our expertise is in bridging multidisciplinary
  facets and leading all aspect concerning Process
  Control. We are able to specify Process
  Instrumentation hardware requirements, lead and
  work through entire technological needs to pursue
  optimal process control of your plant.
• Our Responsibilities as a Process Control
  Engineering Consultant includes
• Basic Engineering and Detailed Engineering.
• Project feasibility and equipment research

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• Supporting Engineers, Craftsmen and Tradesmen at
  all levels. Be them, graduate,
• apprentices or senior staff.
• Estimation and planning of costs.
• Specifying Hardware Systems Technology
• Performance Testing Services in Project Factory
  Acceptance Testing (FAT) or Site Acceptance
  Testing (SAT)
• Entire Plant Start Up and Optimisation, including
  Tuning, Advance Process Control and
• Remediation of equipment issues impacting plant
  performance.
• Supporting and guidance of your operational asset
  with industry best practices from
• globally experienced staff.

Industries we serve

• Our process control engineering consultants have
  experience in the following industries.
• Energy, Gas Turbines, Boilers, Heat Steam
  Recovery Co Generation Plants
• Utility, Power, Water, Steam, Air, Desalination
• Oil, Gas Refining, Hydrogen
• Cryogenics, Air Separation LOX, LN2, Ar, O2,
  Membrane
• Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) its associated
  Cryogenics and Gas Conditioning and
• Processing
• Syn Gas, Ammonia and Hydrogen plants
• Chemical
• We hope this has provided you with a better idea
  of what we do and what we can do for you. Every
  element of a project or an operational asset is
  important in determining the method to approach.
  To know more about our company or services,
  kindly contact us or
• visit us. We would be more than happy to help.
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