石化行业的先进控制、优化、信息技术（英文版）.pdf16

Advanced Process Control, Optimization and
Information Technology in the Hydrocarbon
Processing Industries—The Past, Present and Future
By George S. Birchfield, Birchfield Consulting, LLC
FOREWORD
I write this perspective, not as a practitioner, but from the point of
view of a business researcher who has tried to benchmark
progress, levels of application, critical success factors and the
impact on business profitability. Perspectives will differ by
company, by discipline and by individual. By no means, do I
claim to have the absolutely correct perspective. However I would
like to share my perspective in the hope of learning more from
other points of view. A historical perspective does heighten
respect for the true practitioners and their ongoing saga to master
a rapidly advancing technological wave for the economic benefit
of their companies and all stakeholders.
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