NovaTech is easing that pressure and increasing revenues for its chemical customers with solutions that improve yields, decrease waste, achieve higher equipment utilization, speed up product introductions and bring their plant or process improvement on-line faster.

NovaTech has provided automation and information solutions to the chemical industry for over thirty years. We provide process control, recipe and batch process management, interactive procedures, client/server and business software, systems, training, and engineering services to chemical plants worldwide.

Monitor Plant Performance from your Desktop

Keep tabs on your plant performance using the office applications you use everyday. Use a Microsoft_® Excel spreadsheet to monitor production rates and product quality directly from the control system or use Excel's statistical ability to analyze process information across multiple batches. Receive shift reports via e-mail as Microsoft Word documents, complete with production tables, graphs, and trends. Customize our standard Microsoft Access batch reports to your own requirements and ship electronic batch reports to your customers along with your products.

Fully Utilize Capital Equipment

Don't let a vessel sit idle while an operator is attending to other tasks. FlexBatch_™ Batch Management software automatically keeps equipment fully utilized by allocating equipment to scheduled batches.

Make different products on the same equipment faster and easier using graphical recipe procedures created by your process or product development engineers. Their product recipes connect to reusable, equipment specific code to accomplish a processing action, such as charging a reactor.

Schedule your plant from your ERP system using campaigns and batches to match your customer orders. Then, monitor your production using the FlexBatch schedule view and follow the execution of your product recipes from start to finish through your plant equipment. Report your production progress back to your ERP system without manual intervention.

Meet Regulatory Requirements

Automatically capture electronic records including alarms, alerts, events, operator actions, and control system actions to fully document your plant's operation. Include Material Safety Data Sheets and Standard Operating Procedures in your product recipes and access them from your TotalVision_® graphical operator displays or the NovaTech Interactive Procedure Suite_™.

When Something Goes Wrong...back to top

Inevitably, something will go wrong during manufacturing - it might be a stuck valve or a failed pump or a trial that runs amuck. In that event, a properly trained operator is your best defense. NovaTech provides operators with training simulations of abnormal conditions and provides them with the tools to correct them. Operators can exit the normal processing procedures and modify the recipes on-line or execute recipes specifically designed to circumvent abnormal situations. Your plant will be back on-line quickly, safely, and with a minimum of waste.

A dynamic operating procedure, created with the NovaTech Interactive Procedure Suite, can automatically pop up on an operator's console during abnormal events. This procedure can "walk" the operator, step-by-step, through automatic and manual recovery actions. It can even present the operator with forms to complete to meet regulatory requirements.

Attentive Service

We work closely with our customers in focus groups and user groups to help set product direction and requirements. We will also add optional features to our products to meet your specific requirements.

Improve Product Quality and Yields

The D/3_® DCS improves product quality and yields by adjusting control strategies to current system dynamics. Statistical Process Control (SPC) features built into the controllers continually optimize control actions. Other best-in-class analytical tools connect directly to your process data using OPC and other communication standards.

Improve quality by consistently performing control actions regardless of operator attention and reduce the number of wasted batches. Decrease product changeover times and off-spec production by automating your product changeovers using FlexBatch_™ recipes designed specifically for this purpose.

Integrate your specialized laboratory and quality software into the same process graphics used by the operators and produce complete electronic batch records.

Introduce New Products Faster

Introduce new products to your market faster by building upon existing product recipes, libraries of operations and phases, and by training operations personnel in advance with training systems. Then, electronically distribute the same product recipes to all your manufacturing plants.

Preserve Existing Investmentsback to top

NovaTech will never obsolete a customers' D/3 DCS asset. This guarantee, unmatched by any other DCS vendor, is proven by customers who have upgraded systems with eighteen year gaps in revision. The D/3 guaranteed migration path ensures continuous ROI through an open system philosophy and allows customers to upgrade without major rewiring or rewriting of their application software. Your investment in legacy software applications is preserved by a toolkit that connects any legacy applications to process graphics.

NovaTech products are built using open system standards and can directly connect to a variety of I/O (see the 8000 Series IO) including most major brands of PLCs. We can also bypass the PLC's CPU board and connect the PLC I/O directly to the control system. This preserves your investment in your I/O while providing the power and flexibility of a more advanced automation system.

Orion Automation Platforms combine two decades of protocol emulation experience with intuitive deployment software to bring in isolated legacy PLCs and processing equipment, making D/3 the ideal platform for both new plants and upgrades of existing facilities.

Facets maintenance agreements can include yearly software upgrades to bring new proven technologies and improvements to your engineering and operations every year.

Engineering Services

NovaTech engineers can help you reduce operating costs, lower material losses, improve product quality, operator logging and process tracking and interface to lab and accounting systems.