Focus on the smart meter valve company

FOCUS-ON is a company established to develop, produce, and market autonomous control solutions for process industry 4.0 environments.

It is a unique collaboration between two leading companies, SAMSON and KROHNE, active in the process valve and measuring instruments industry, respectively. This 50:50 joint-venture follows a clear vision to provide breakthrough and technologies that combine control and measure elements to simplify plants and reduce CAPEX and OPEX.

FOCUS-1 IS THE FIRST SMART METER VALVE FOR FLOW, PRESSURE AND PROCESS CONTROL
Traditional installations for control tasks in process plants usually consist of several sensors, a control valve and a DCS with control algorithms. The process operator relies on proper functioning of all these components to ensure process quality. By combining all these components in one device, FOCUS-1 simplifies the installation dramatically and significantly reduces the number of flanges, cables and I/O points.

FOCUS-1 features integrated control valve, flowmeter, pressure and temperature sensors combined with extensive computing power in one single device. The smart meter valve replaces traditional control installations control functionalities. It allows for functionalities. It allows for increased control quality, plant uptime whilst simplifying installation and engineering efforts.
In addition to the above, the commissioning efforts are also heavily simplified, as all the control algorithms are implemented within FOCUS−1. Only a setpoint needs to be sent from the DCS to the FOCUS-1. Also, only one instead of several components need to be engineered, installed and commissioned.

FOCUS-1 allows in principle for three modes of operation:

• POSITION Controller - Control of the valve position will be given by the DCS
• FLOW / PRESSURE Controller - Control of either flow or pressure in the pipe
• EXTERNAL PROCESS Controller - Control of processes using an external sensor, such as level, pH values,etc

BETTER ACCURACY FOR IMPROVED CONTROL QUALITY

Any control task is simplified and improved at the same time: As all control functions (PID), sensors and the control valve is integrated in FOCUS-1, the system accuracy and thus the control quality is much improved:

− Setpoints can be reached faster
− Final control deviations can be minimized
− Overshoots in the control can be reduced to a minimum