Source: Westinghouse Process Control, Inc. Westinghouse Process Control's Smartprocess™ Delivers Measurable Improvements For Power Plants PITTSBURGH, June 28, 2000 â Westinghouse Process Control, Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Company, recently released its Smartprocess™ Optimization Software for wide distribution within the power generation community. Backed by solid performance results from initial field installations at electric utilities in the United States and Eastern Europe, SmartProcess provides power plants with solutions to operational, heat rate and regulatory compliance challenges throughout the full plant operating range. A hybrid combination of linear models, neural networks and fuzzy logic, SmartProcess offers a suite of intelligent software modules capable of working with any distributed control system (DCS). The suite includes modules to optimize many power generation processes, including steam temperature control, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and opacity emissions, sootblowing, and load dispatch. While similar software products use steady-state optimization, SmartProcess enhances processes dynamically, providing consistent, reliable results during all plant operating scenarios, including startup, shutdown, load swings and baseload operation.