Optimized plant operations at Zellstoff Pöls

Andritz has been award­ed an order by Zell­stoff Pöls to opti­mize oper­a­tions at its pulp mill in Pöls, Aus­tria. The goal is to increase pro­duc­tion, while sta­bi­liz­ing the pulp mill’s pro­duc­tion process and opti­miz­ing chem­i­cal use at the same time. The tried-and-test­ed Metris OPP sys­tem (OPP: Opti­miza­tion of Process Per­for­mance) from the com­pa­ny, which has been used suc­cess­ful­ly in ref­er­ence plants all around the world, will be used here.
Metris OPP is an IIoT sys­tem devel­oped by Andritz and com­pris­es a range of dig­i­tal­ly sup­port­ed tools based on big data analy­sis to improve indus­tri­al process­es. The sys­tem has been mod­ern­ized con­tin­u­ous­ly in recent years, and new tools such as arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, apps, and so on, have been added. More than 50 inter­na­tion­al groups are already work­ing with Metris OPP suc­cess­ful­ly, many of which only began using it in the past two years. The over­all net ben­e­fit gen­er­at­ed by these com­pa­nies so far with Metris OPP amounts to over 150 mil­lion euros.The OPP sys­tem, which is used above all in pulp and paper pro­duc­tion, detects anom­alies and devi­a­tions at an ear­ly stage by ana­lyz­ing pro­duc­tion data. As a result, coun­ter­mea­sures can be imple­ment­ed in good time, guar­an­tee­ing reli­able pro­duc­tion and also opti­miz­ing oper­a­tions, includ­ing the use of resources.