ULTRAMAX-Advanced Process Management

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Ultramax®, from the Blue Book > Preface, page 1

Ultramax® is a Method and Intelligent Analytics toolset to operate existing production equipment and controls to generate more value as determined by the user’s metrics.  Fast, safe, simple.

Ultramax (or UMAX® for short) is a superior innovation to solve these two important problems:

1.    How to expediently adjust (or ‘tune up’) a production process so that the consequent operations generate the maximum possible benefits, with safety.  Safety’ here includes reliability complying with ALL the basic requirements listed by the users.  In making several adjustments to balance multiple performance metrics, process expertise alone is too often insufficient to maximize overall operation’s performance, and applying other analytics (DOE, NN, first-principle models, with their experimental and/or validation data) demand so much proficiency, time, risks, costs, and/or production losses that their impact is often limited.  With Ultramax users regularly achieve during and after the tasks useful extra safety (reliability meeting basic requirements) and/or higher margins (a few $100/hr to a few $1,000/hr in high-volume production).  It takes a few days to a few weeks of modulating adjustments during production, under full user control.  See our Track Record at the middle of the next page.  The Intelligent Analytics used is Sequential Empirical Optimization (SEO).

2.    How to evaluate operations and compare the overall benefit of ALL performance metric values.  The otherwise difficult balance and trade-offs of multiple technical and business metrics without obvious economic impact is resolved with this method in a couple of hours by team and management consensus.  Whether with pure economic analysis or including this method, SEO automatically balances ALL performance metrics, enabling personnel to be more thorough and to free up their time.  The evaluation is dynamic as managers refine evolving factors and business priorities (e.g., impact of quality, unit costs, carbon footprint) for agile, responsive operations. 

With the game-changing SEO Macro-Control and Evaluation method one gets better results faster and safer.  It supports our guarantee of 100% annual returns even after the users apply their best solutions.  We are pleased to offer the same guarantee to firms with lower value added production.

The main requirement of the SEO Macro-Control is access to the usual measurements during or shortly after operations in repetitive production.  Using that data stream, its main achievement is on-going self-learned, criteria-driven decision-making for more valuable operations (far greater than extracting information or applying rules), thus raising the effectiveness of personnel and of assets.

Adopting UMAX as the common approach to metrics and macro-control of all major production processes yields the compounded payout of synergism.  UMAX applies to continuous, discrete and batch processes; to those with Advanced Process Control (APC) or with simple controls.  Off-line Manual use is sufficient for quick Static Optimization; seamlessly move to on‑line Advisory or Closed-Loop Dynamic Optimization for practical best operations as conditions change (e.g., raw material characteristics, production speed). 

As a toolset, Ultramax is used and managed by the users (support available in various countries).

Ultramax Corporation and Agencies deliver outstanding technology and services tailored to your needs.  Discover the possibilities, get in touch!

 URL: www.ultramax.com 

Contact:  ultramax@ultramax.com     (USA +0)  513 469-8629

Technical Summary: www.ultramax.com/Technical_Summary.htm

Download: www.ultramax.com/downloadlogin.asp > The Blue Book; read pages 1-5

Clients: www.ultramax.com/Clients.htm

Applications:  www.ultramax.com/Applications.htm

Whitepapers:  www.ultramax.com/WhitePapers.htm

Video:  www.ultramax.com/Downloads/Ultramax.wm

Bibliography: www.ultramax.com/Bibliography.htm  

 

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