Capitalizing on an Environmental Enterprise, 1996 Engineering Conference Proceedings
John A. Schlitt & Harry D. Biehl
Bailey Controls Co.
This paper discusses the implementation of the tools available today to manage your enterprise enviromnentally. The enterprise must be composed of key elements including a distributed process control system (dcs), an enviromnental information management system (eims), a global historian, and artificial intelligence linked together providing key decision making information to the process control operator, plant operations management, and corporate operations management. Information technology is the key to successfully implementing an enterprise that will yield higher profits, higher efficiency, and eliminate nov’s (notices of violation).