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Pavilion Technologies has announced version 2.0 of its Pavilion8T software platform. Leveraging a powerful modeling engine at its core, Pavilion8 is the foundation for Pavilion's industry-specific solutions. With version 2.0, the Pavilion8 platform has new modeling capabilities, enhanced web service integration and a new metadata warehouse. In addition, two new Pavilion8-based applications, Real-time Environmental Management and Production Performance Management, will now compliment the existing process optimization and control applications. These Pavilion applications enable manufacturers to improve operational profitability by increasing production capacity, reducing production costs, improving product quality and reducing environmental risk.

First introduced in 2005, Pavilion8 is a modular software platform based on a modern Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and implemented in J2EE.  Key new capabilities provided in version 2.0 include:

• Enhancement of the Pavilion8 Model Analytic Engine to define and deploy composite models that aggregate and extend existing empirical, first-principle, arithmetic and rule-based models including those from other vendors. The type and range of applicability of Pavilion8-based solutions is greatly expanded by this capability;
• The addition of a new functional module, the Pavilion8 Metadata Warehouse, that aggregates and stores time-series data within an operational context to a secure database providing a permanent system of record for  production and compliance information generated by Pavilion8 applications;
• Enhancement of the Pavilion8 Integration module enabling seamless integration with ERP applications, data warehouses, historians, distributed control systems and other heterogeneous data sources. The fully J2EE-compliant web services interface provides portability and simplifies deployment throughout the organization with its secure, scalable architecture;
• The Pavilion8 Monitor module has been extended to continuously assess key process and environmental variables based on targets or limits; this module provides instant notification to specified recipients. These alerts may be set against both real-time and predicted variables enabling proactive response to key production, quality and environmental conditions.

The platform's scalability, flexibility and ease of integration with existing business and plant infrastructure provide a lower total cost of ownership than alternative technologies. Pavilion8 is the only platform in the market today that offers a model-based architecture that allows the same process models to be used in control, environmental and production performance management applications.
 
"The latest release of Pavilion8 demonstrates Pavilion's commitment to developing innovative solutions around their core modeling technologies and expertise that helps achieve collaborative manufacturing," said Tom Fiske, senior analyst, ARC Advisory Group. "The integration of production performance management, environmental compliance and model predictive control on one platform provides its customers with opportunities to achieve significant value."
 
Pavilion8 version 2.0 powers three classes of applications that enhance production and environmental performance for global manufacturers, including: 
 

Pavilion8 T Environmental Solutions

Not only are manufacturers forced to comply with increasingly stringent governmental emissions regulations, many are seeking to reduce compliance complexities, costs, risks and capitalize on emissions trading programs. Pavilion8-powered environmental applications include proven Predictive Emissions Monitoring (PEM) and Real-time Environmental Management (REM). Pavilion8 REM is a new class of environmental compliance and reporting application, providing "active compliance" continuously and in real-time. REM provides a flexible, scalable solution to meet a wide range of predictive emissions, emissions monitoring and compliance reporting requirements. Sophisticated data validation and a secure metadata repository ensure all reporting information is accurate and auditable to meet the most stringent regulations. A complement to REM's performance management applications, PEM provides more cost effective emissions monitoring compliance than hardware-based alternatives. Proven in more than 210 installations, PEM uses the powerful Pavilion8 model analytic engine and the patented sensor validation system to ensure regulatory compliance with unparalleled accuracy and reliability. 
 
"We selected the Pavilion8 Real-time Environmental Management (REM) application from Pavilion Technologies for our emissions performance management system because Pavilion8 REM provides active analysis of data, real-time compliance and emissions information, instantaneous alerts regarding environmental performance and coincident views," said Ali G. Ahmad, aromatics production leader, EQUATE Petrochemicals Company. "More than that, Pavilion8 REM can flexibly accommodate myriad requirements, scale to add new emission sources and securely ensure the integrity of our emissions information."

Pavilion8 T Production Performance Management Applications

Pavilion's Production Performance Management (PPM) applications provide instantaneous and predictive assessment of plant production performance to enable proactive decision making. Leveraging the Pavilion8 Model Analytic Engine, PPM uses production process models that more accurately represent current and future operational performance than simple arithmetic calculation techniques. PPM improves the timeliness and accuracy of decision making, delivering greater profitability through opportunity identification and cost avoidance. Like other Pavilion8 applications, PPM is pre-packaged by industry vertical and can be quickly configured to calculate and store predicted and real-time metrics concerning costs, yields, capacity, quality and margins. Metrics may be visualized by role within the Pavilion8 browser-based interface or via third-party applications such as SAP's xAPP for Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII). In addition, leveraging the open ISA95 standard, PPM can be bi-directionally integrated with planning systems like SAP's MySAP ERP via the Pavilion8-based web services interface.
 

Pavilion8 T Advanced Control and Optimization Applications

Version 2.0 of Pavilion8 provides further enhancements to Pavilion's proven Model Predictive Control (MPC) technology which powers the company's industry-specific control applications. Key enhancements include embedded controller performance metrics for all variables, automatic controller parameter change logs and historization of controller trajectories. The new capabilities provide greater diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities, ensuring faster application deployment and greater uptime. As a result, manufacturers can achieve reduced off spec production, increased production rates, improved product quality and greater production flexibility for the development of new grades or products. While other providers require numerous software applications to manage model development, control, optimization, transition management and controller monitoring, Pavilion8 2.0 is the only platform that offers all of this functionality in one integrated platform. Pavilion received the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Emerging Company of the Year in the field of advanced process control and automation, a testament to Pavilion's innovation in this field.
 
Since its release one year ago, Pavilion8 has enabled Pavilion's customers worldwide to reach new levels of manufacturing performance. Industry-leading customers in the cement, chemicals, consumer products, ethanol, minerals, and polymers segments have reported demonstrable benefits since implementing Pavilion8-powered solutions.

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