What’s New in CVE 2.5

Alarm Management

• Import, Export and Scale Alarm Limits

• See and compare Sets of Existing and New Alarm Limit
• Find Consistent Alarm Limits functions

• Calculate and Update Annunciation Rates for many sets of Alarm Limits

• Calculate and Update Standing Alarm Counts for many sets of Alarm Limits

• Set up Operator Alerts Envelope for use and display in CPM

• Identify Process Modes and assign Mode Numbers

• Find Alarm Limits, Operating Limits and Alerts by Mode

Batch Process Analysis and Control

• Identify process Phases and assign Phase Number

• Calculate Stage and Phase times

• Find all of a Batch or Phase from just a few points

Process Stewardship and Production Reporting

• Import/Export Bounds for standardised variability reporting

• Set Query Ranges to multiples of Standard Deviation

Continuous Process Control

• Investigate time delay affects with the Time Shift Variable

• Smooth data with the Moving Average variable

• Identify and separate Process Modes for individualised control

Process Analysis and Trouble-Shooting

• New Derivative Variable formulations

• Additional Missing Data options

• Improved Distribution Plot with Means and Standard Deviations
• Set Queries to multiples of Standard Deviation

• Combine Queries

• Multiple Keys and improved  Labelling for Join Data Files

• Enlarged Box Query

• Enhanced Cluster Variable

Analyser Support for PAT

• CVE Plot enlarged to allow many more than 1000 variables. View entire Rahmann, NIR etc. spectra and process data for causes of change in spectra.

Usability

• Full support for European number formats and csv file variants

• Enhanced DataTools Add In

• European number formats and csv file variants fully supported
• Csv files saved in local format allowing re-use in Excel
• Extended Date and Time conversion options
• Improved Enumeration capability

Education and Training

• Third Edition of the CVE User Guide substantially revised and much extended with over 350 pages and more than 200 illustrations.
• Worked Examples in User Guide with data files supplied for

• Continuous process – Ammonium Nitrate process plus 4 Tutorials
• Alarm Management – Claus Sulphur Removal process
• Multi-phase, multi-Stage Batch Process – organic chemical product

• Improved and Extended Help

• Training Classes and individual tutorials by webinar for low-cost and flexibility

IT

• Improved Installation procedure

• Thin Client – nothing pre-installed on any client PC (Network Version)

• Separate DataTools versions with and without CVE Launch capability

• CVE Supported under Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Server

• Data Tools Excel Add-In supported under Excel 2000 – 2007