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Process Monitoring

Plants drift before they trip. Cerasus turns your historian into an early-warning system — KPIs, soft sensors and deviation limits that show operations and engineering where a unit is heading, while there is still time to act.

Leadingindicators, not just lagging
Lab-validatedsoft sensors
OPC UA · PI · IP.21historians we connect to
What it means

Process Monitoring, explained.

Process monitoring is the continuous comparison of what the plant is doing against what it should be doing: performance KPIs (yield, energy per tonne, exchanger UA, compressor efficiency), equipment health indicators, and statistical deviation detection on key variables.

The Cerasus approach layers engineering models on historian data — rated exchangers, inferred properties, mass-balance closure — so the alerts mean something to an operator, not just a statistician.

Delivered with our software
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What Cerasus provides

Scope of service

KPI definition & dashboards

Unit and equipment KPIs with targets, calculated live from historian data.

Soft sensors

Inferential property estimates (e.g. RVP, cut points, composition) validated against lab data.

Deviation & early-warning limits

Statistical and engineering limits that flag drift before alarms.

Equipment health monitoring

Exchanger fouling, compressor performance, valve health trends.

Reporting

Daily / weekly performance reports and root-cause drill-downs.

Historian & connectivity

OPC UA / PI / IP.21 connections and data quality checks.

How we do it

Our approach, step by step

Define

Agree KPIs, limits and who acts on which alert.

Connect

Historian tags, data quality, calculation engine.

Calibrate

Validate soft sensors and limits against history.

Operate

Dashboards live; monthly review and tuning.

Standards & references

Codes this service follows

ISO 22400KPIs for manufacturing operations management
ISA-95 / IEC 62264Enterprise–control system integration
ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682Alarm management — separating monitoring from alarms
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.119(d)(2)PSM — monitoring against safe operating limits
API RP 754Process safety indicators (Tier 3/4)
OPC UA (IEC 62541)Data connectivity
ISA-101HMI design for operator displays
Deliverables

What you receive

  • KPI catalogue with definitions and targets
  • Soft-sensor models and validation reports
  • Deviation-limit configuration
  • Dashboards and periodic reports
  • Data connectivity and quality documentation
Why Cerasus

Practitioner-led, standards-based

200+ years of cumulative plant experienceA team that has operated major refineries and petrochemical plants, led by a chemical engineer with 35+ years in industry.
Certified leadershipTÜV-certified HAZOP Leader, CCPSC (AIChE/CCPS) and IEC 61508/61511 Functional Safety Engineer.
Global reach, Doha-basedCerasus Technologies QFZ LLC — registered in the Qatar Free Zones, with reach across geographical locations around the world.
Related services

Often scoped together

Request a consultation

Tell us about the unit and the problem.

Send a short brief — plant, service of interest and what you need to achieve — and a Cerasus engineer will respond with a proposed scope and next steps.

Prefer email or phone? sales@cerasus.ai · +974 5506 2743