GEA OptiPartner® for powder plants
Optimization faster than you can peel a clementine
Spray dryer optimization
With real-time optimizations every 20 seconds, meet your partner in optimization.
Every 20 seconds, GEA's OptiPartner® works seamlessly to adjust your spray-drying production, utilizing a unique algorithm drawing on both hard and soft sensor inputs. Offering precisely tailored software and support that combine GEA expertise with actual plant data, and operational feedback from the plant to improve performance.
Imagine the impact of these 20-second cycles over a year of production — that’s 1,576,800 automatic adjustments. Clients have experienced remarkable increases in stability by up to 80%, production capacity up to 10%, and reductions in energy consumption as much as 10%. OptiPartner® is a transformative service, equipping production managers with confidence and precision. So when are you joining in?
Advanced process control in action
See how 20 seconds adds up with real world effect.
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Optimizations every 20 seconds makes up to 1,546,800 optimizations annually. Calculate how much your operation would benefit.
Performance care
Making the optimization of your business, our business.
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Understanding Advanced Process Control (APC) through the lens of Automotive Innovation.
Spray Drying meets Automotive Innovation.
Optimizing powder processing with a digital twin
A digital auto pilot for spray drying, evaporation and freeze drying
Resource efficient solution
GEA OptiPartner® is one of our most resource-efficient solutions, and carries the Add Better label.
Through the application of advanced model-predictive control, GEA OptiPartner® improves process stability and capacity utilization in spray dryer applications, leading to a potential reduction of up to 10% in energy consumption per kilogram of product when compared to traditional process control systems.
*The Add Better label relates to the serial product GEA OptiPartner®, released in July 2021.
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