Valmet Training Simulators

The key to a fast and safe start-up

High-fidelity operator training simulator

Boost your start-up curve with Valmet’s high-fidelity simulations for operator training and DCS testing.

Smoother and faster start-up

Safe procedure and scenario training

Enhanced learning curve

Testing of DCS before start-up

Safe and realistic procedure and scenario training

Valmet Training Simulators are effective training tools for operators and other mill staff. As part of Valmet’s integrated training package, these highly realistic simulators play a vital role in ensuring successful start-up and efficient long-term operation of key process and machine modules.

DCS verification and loop tuning before start-up

Detect process control errors before they affect operation by testing the DCS using our fully dynamic process simulators. Make sure your control strategies are up to date to avoid unplanned shutdowns. Make sure all shift teams follow the same operational strategies by practicing procedures and scenarios in the simulator. By introducing disturbances to the simulations your team can train troubleshooting and get ready to handle operational upsets before they cause severe effects.

Valmet Training Simulator has been the differentiating factor – not only does it support operator training, it also enables testing of new control loops even before the plant is in operation”

Valmet Training Simulator

Valmet Training Simulator for Board and Paper

Our customers' experiences

The time between discovering a problem and solving it is much shorter compared with if the training had been done with traditional classroom training only. The reliability of the plant is higher when using the simulators from Valmet.

David Dias Nascimento, Project Coordinator, CMPC Guaiba, Brazil

Valmet Training Simulator at CPMC Guaiba

The training in general, and specifically the use of the Valmet simulator, gave a very fast start-up with significantly increased production during the first month. No production losses at all on the board machine."

Mats Persson, Project Manager, SCA Obbola, Sweden

Process simulation and interactive multi-media training provided by Valmet were invaluable ingredients needed to bring the operators up to a high level of proficiency before startup."

Jim Brewster, Technical Director, Irving Pulp & Paper, Canada

Process simulator at Irving Pulp and Paper

The whole training program, including the DCS-based simulator, is a good investment over time. A couple of avoided unplanned production stops give a fast payoff."

Per Eklund, Operations Engineer, Jönköping Energi, Sweden

References and articles

Valmet’s training simulator gives positive results at Södra Cell Mörrum

As part of the successful upgrade of the recovery boiler control system at Södra Cell’s Mörrum mill, Valmet supplied a training simulator for DCS testing and operator training. The results were a success: a smooth start-up of the boiler, confident operators, and plans for another simulator.

Smooth start-up with Valmet Training Simulator

When a new white liquor plant was installed at the CMPC Laja mill in Chile, simulator training and testing of the distributed control system (DCS) were essential parts of the project. They were key factors in achieving a fast, smooth start-up.

SCA Obbolas new cooking plant

Obbola’s previous cooking plant was built in 1961 and was a batch system with eight digesters. Despite a number of renovations, the batch digester had reached the end of the road, and in October 2015 it was replaced with Valmet’s CompactCooking, a two-vessel continuous cooking system. It consists primarily of the ImpBin technology for impregnation and a steam/liquor phase digester for cooking wood chips.

Thorough planning brings success

Södra Cell Mörrum’s dissolving pulp line has been upgraded with new TwinRoll presses in the brownstock washing area, which will increase the production capacity. The installation followed after very careful planning.

Even better pulp and yield at Smurfit Kappa Piteå

Pulp with higher quality, combined with increased yield from the wood raw material, is now a reality for Smurfit Kappa at its mill in Piteå, Sweden. The cooking process technology from Valmet played an important role in the successful rebuild project.

SCA starts world’s largest softwood pulp line

The world’s biggest production line for bleached softwood kraft pulp is now up and running in Sweden. SCA’s massive Helios project, which involved a complete rebuild of the existing Östrand pulp mill, is a textbook example of how a successful project should be executed.