ProcessOpt's economic MPC computes the best next move each cycle toward your objective — throughput, recovery, energy per tonne — while respecting every equipment and safety limit. You keep the authority to accept or automate it.
The ProcessOpt loop is how APC actually earns its keep on the circuit you already run — one repeated cycle that sees the plant, predicts where it's heading, drives the best next move, and never crosses a safety limit.
Draws from your conventional signals over OPC UA/DA, Modbus, MQTT, REST, or OSIsoft PI — and adds neural-network smart-vision instruments for what conventional sensors miss.
A live process model — the digital twin — turns measurements into an estimate of the whole circuit state and projects it forward before it drifts off-spec.
A sparse QP solver, warm-started every cycle, works out the best next move against your economic objective — 30-minute horizon, 60-second control interval typical.
Every constraint you commissioned stays in force. Your control system holds the final safety authority; the MPC hands it a target rather than actuating directly.
On SAG mill circuits and flotation cells — with SmartRock, SmartFroth, BallManager, and the Digital Twin. Typical result: +3–10% productivity, payback in under a year.
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