OCS on-line and off-line equipment are very well known in the polymer & petrochemical industries worldwide. Scores of well-known raw material manufacturers trust in its precocity, its ability to optimise the production process, its reliability and efficiency as well as the economical impact.

By using OCS on-line equipment, the polymer process capability is highly increased; the quality growth, constancy and operation cost of the plant are significantly improved.

In the following, all benefits of an on-line implementation of combined OCS modular testing system conceptions according to respective requirements are pointed out.

Constancy and smooth operation

• All needed major analytical values and therewith all plant operation values are available every time – direct overview of plant situation
• Plant parameters are in the designated levels
• Exceeding of analytical values are recognised soon and can be managed
• Overview on all parameters allow smooth operation at all times
• Direct parameter corrections keep the plant in stabile conditions

Direct results, fast reaction and direct handling

• Serious time saving in getting immediate quality measurement results and malfunctions by monitoring nearly all results in real time
• Cases of plant malfunctions are minimised because deviations from regular are observed directly and can be limited 
• Real time reaction on parameter changing
• Short time switch-over during transitions

Optimized product mix, transition and scrap minimising

• Well known values allow flexible product changes 
• Exact results are used for optimised product mix
• Campaigns of defined products easily can be prolonged or shortened
• Optimise plant flexibility by remix
• Conspicuous reduction of transition time 
• Enabled to operate advanced transitions
• Direct insertion of influence

Error prevention

• Avoiding human errors
• Avoiding miss-sampling
• Avoiding analytical data transfer errors

General plant overview

• Continuous data collection
• Statistics
• Process capability
• Increase of process CpK-values

Laboratory independence

• Reduced man power in lab
• Plant orientated operation
• Wide possibilities of error prevention

On time readjusting

• Instantaneous intervention in case of parameter deviations
• Direct switch to good or fail production
• Preventing huge amounts of scrap

Perfect additive control

• Continuous control of stabiliser, slip agent, anti-block, antioxidant and other additives
• Additive limit settings or alarms
• Optimised additive consumption