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Article: Optimizing Energy and Operations for Cement Production.
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Iltaf Khan, Lehigh Cement, Moin Shaikh, Siemens Process Automation Systems
Lehigh Cement Company's modernization of its Union Bridge, MD, plant has integrated process control and energy management to improve process efficiencies across the facility.
Over the years, Lehigh Cement has been willing to try innovative approaches to optimize energy consumption and improve operational efficiency. The company has sought to eliminate islands of automation, integrated its software platform under one centralized location, and even transferred production data into SAP enterprise system as part of its efforts. This thinking challenges the notion that PLC/HMI-based ...