Profit Optimizer

The Profit Optimizer software integrates with Honeywell’s Profit Controller applications to deliver cost-effective and user-friendly solutions to real-time optimization (RTO) problems. It solves multi-unit and plant-wide optimization on a minute-by-minute basis, even when the plant is not at a steady state. By using an overall economic model, and accounting for constraints within and between operating units, Profit Optimizer can determine setpoints that are both optimal and feasible across the process. In addition, it dynamically coordinates the introduction of these optimal setpoints to ensure a feasible transition to optimal operation.

Profit Optimizer helps plant owners achieve comparable optimization benefits as with traditional steady-state RTO solutions, but at lower implementation and maintenance costs.

Profit Optimizer uses existing dynamic models from Profit Controller applications as well as novel (patented) models that define the inter-unit relationships to enable a true dynamic, real-time multi-unit or plant-wide optimization. The resulting global optimization targets are then passed in a collaborative fashion to the underlying Profit Controller applications where they are implemented.

Instead of relying on steady-state, first principles-based modeling systems, Profit Optimizer relies on measured process relationships and fully leverages dynamic process information that resides in the underlying Profit Controller applications. Using this approach, Profit Optimizer is able to deliver the same (or superior) economic benefits of traditional RTO with a dramatic reduction of engineering effort.

​Profit Optimizer delivers significant optimization and control benefits, typically an additional 5-20% of the advanced process control benefits. Its plant-wide scope of dynamic control and optimization ensures that overall profitability is improved, rather than optimization of one unit at the expense of another. Since it does not require large-scale rigorous process models, it leads to reduced maintenance effort and sustained, long-term benefits.