Process Control Engineering Consultant with Design & Optimisation

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Process Control Engineering Consultant with
Design Optimisation
Role of a process control engineering consultant
in plant design operational phases Process
engineering control consultants are responsible
for providing specialist input during the
designing of the manufacturing processing
plants or mineral processing facilities. Process
Control Engineers can help with Instrument
Engineering and Process Engineering problems by
challenging and refining control strategies,
highlighting issues learned from incidents and
previous improvements. Unfortunately, it is
common to see a reoccurrence of problems from
project to project which can occur due to a
'cookie-cutter approach'. A tier one organisation
will yearn for seeking knowledgeable
professionals as part of their design reviews and
commissioning and operational phases. These
professionals can often be embedded within a
clients/owners team within engineering
contractors offices or via remote support.
Additionally, they can aid in complex plant
start-up and optimisation. Responsibilities of a
Process control Engineering Consultant While
considering a plants design, the responsibility
of a process control engineering consultant can
be vast. Manufacturing companies hire process
control engineering consultants to handle their
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• projects for managing the different stages of the
  plant design and engineering reviews. This would
  include designing the process control
  schemes/strategies and commenting on control
  issues, cost and schedule estimates, the
  equipment selection layout, supervising control
  system programming and the construction of
  plants equipment that may affect its
  controllability.
• Engineering Studies Front-End Engineering
  Design (FEED)
• The conceptual phase is the initial step to plan
  any plant design project. Problem-solving and
  workarounds are the main concerns where a process
  control engineering consultant can assist. If a
  design contractor has a process flow diagram
  (PFD) or just a conceptual scheme, the process
  control engineering consultants can aid with
  design matters and prevent issues that may occur
  at start-up or operational plant phases. The
  early collaboration will help the design
  contractor, client and associated vendors will
  typically see improvements in the shortening
  testing and commissioning timelines.
• Before the project starts rolling, the process
  control engineer can recommend a suitable area of
  study helping prioritise what to address first.
  A process control engineer can also carry out or
  contribute additional engineering studies like
  HAZOP, CHAZOPS area classification, safety,
  ergonomics and much more.
• Process Control Engineering and Design of the
  Systems
• The primary role of a process control engineering
  consultant is to complete the in-depth process
  control scheme design and control system design.
  They can also provide essential input to process
  engineering and instrument engineering
  disciplines. This should include the review
  developing documents
• Functional Detailed Design Specifications
• Control and Safeguarding Narratives and Control
  Schemes
• Process Historian Trending Systems
• Alarm management and threshold reviews
• Control simulations and calculations via process
  modelling and digital twin technologies

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distributed control systems (DCS), the
human-machine interfaces (HMI) as well as other
industrial self-regulation equipment. Turn Key
Process Systems Sarom Global can also develop
and deliver Turn-Key systems covering control
valve supply selection, and manufacture,
construction and commissioning of complete
control and process equipment systems. Contact
us should you wish to know more.
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