ABB’s Optimize IT Inferential Modeling Platform (IMP) is a native Windows, client-server software package for the offline development and online deployment of empirical models and data-driven process performance monitoring.
Inferential models are used to provide real-time estimates of product qualities otherwise available only through infrequent online or laboratory analysis. The package supports both a variety of empirical modeling techniques and the most advanced process performance monitoring technologies like SPC and MvSPC. The software product includes distinct offline and online software components.