Control Station and Dimension Software partner on operations intelligence

US-based process analytics company Control Station has announced a strategic technology partnership with Dimension Software, a New Zealand-based provider of industrial operations management platforms. The collaboration connects Control Station’s PlantESP control loop performance monitoring (CLPM) platform with Dimension Software’s Asset Intellect operations intelligence environment, with the aim of enabling manufacturers to operationalise control performance insights across their organisations.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Auckland, Dimension Software develops operational intelligence platforms designed to help industrial organisations unlock value from their existing data infrastructure.

Control Station’s PlantESP platform leverages a production facility’s existing historical process data to proactively identify poorly performing control loops, oscillations, valve issues and tuning deficiencies that undermine regulatory control. These issues frequently contribute to process instability and production inefficiencies across continuous and batch manufacturing environments.

Dimension Software’s Asset Intellect platform provides a unified, browser-based operations management environment that aggregates, integrates, contextualises and visualises operational and business data in real time. It is designed to enable organisations to create a centralised ‘single source of truth’ for operations by integrating data from enterprise systems such as AVEVA PI, SAP/Maximo, Power BI and other operational technologies such as process alarms, IIoT and geospatial systems.

“By partnering with Dimension Software, we are expanding our ecosystem of world-class technology partners while making it easier for manufacturers to translate control performance insights into operational improvements,” stated Damien Munroe, Vice President of Partner Development at Control Station.

“We have first-hand experience with control loop performance monitoring and recognise both the importance of optimising regulatory control and the complexity involved in analysing process data,” said Yong The, Director of Business Development and Global Sales at Dimension Software. “Through our partnership with Control Station, we are able to offer customers a fully integrated and market-leading CLPM capability while continuing our mission of unlocking operational value from existing data and systems.”

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