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CURRICULUM

Master the Essentials: From Basic Foundations to Advanced Expertise

The finer points of process control can be as difficult to teach as they can be to learn. For instructors and students alike a clear understanding of the details of PID-based control are essential to success. Fortunately, Control Station offers a training and skills development solution that is ideal for everyone.

Our TRAINER solution includes content that spans basic instrumentation thru advanced process control. Leveraging the Practical Process Control curriculum originally developed by Control Station’s founder – Douglas Cooper Ph.D. – TRAINER’s content is easy both for instructors to deliver and for students to grasp. Courses included in the TRAINER offering include:

Course A

Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Process Control

Instrumentation can be found virtually everywhere in a typical production facility. It plays a critical role in the control of complex production processes. With its direct link to achieving and maintaining effective regulatory control, practitioners – both current and future – benefit from a better understanding of instrumentation’s capabilities along with its limitations. This course provides that understanding.

Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Process Control highlights sensors, transducers, and smart transmitters; temperature, pressure, and flow measurement; valves and pumps; among other important topics related to the physical layer of a plant’s regulatory control environment. It also explores the critical relationship between instrumentation and PID-based control systems. The course curriculum is comprised of the following segments:

  • Basics of Process Control
  • Process Dynamics
  • Signals and Aliasing
  • Measuring Temperature and Pressure
  • Measuring Level and Flow
  • Pumps and Valves
  • Proportional Control
  • Integral Action and PI Control
  • Formal Approach to Controller Design
  • Derivative Mode and PID Control
  • PID Control with Derivative Filter
Course B

Techniques for Applied Process Control

The PID controller is the most pervasive technology applied in the control of complex industrial production processes. In spite of its extensive commercial use, the PID controller is poorly understood by the majority of industry practitioners. Limited knowledge of process dynamics and of proven methods for calculating both model and tuning parameters places unnecessary constraints on the PID’s effectiveness.

Techniques for Applied Process Control provides a thorough understanding of process dynamics and examines both concepts and techniques associated with maintaining basic thru advanced PID control systems. The course covers industrially relevant control systems, and it stresses a systematic approach for the diagnosis and optimization of underperforming PID-based control loops. The course curriculum is comprised of the following segments:

  • Fundamentals of Process Dynamics
  • Proportional Control
  • Integral Action and PI Control
  • Formal Approach to Controller Design
  • Derivative Mode and PID Control
  • PID Control with Derivative Filter
  • Systematic Approach to Real-World Processes
  • Cascade Control
  • Feed-Forward Control
  • Dynamics of Non-Self-Regulating Processes
SUCCESS STORIES

What customers and partners are saying about Control Station

3M

"I had a temperature differential that was low and a flow that was high. So high in fact that it required 2 chillers to run. We used LOOP-PRO to tune the process. After tuning 75 loops, the temperature differential was at an industry standard and the flow was lower. It saved us maintenance time, energy, and productivity."

Jason Rumpza
Process Control Engineer

Bigelow Liptak

"Optimizing controller performance was a breeze with LOOP-PRO. A single bump test was all that we needed to accurately model the complex dynamics of each control loop. The software’s graphics made it easy to finely tune parameters for optimal responsiveness and control. It easily reduced the time we budgeted for tuning by over 80%. It’s a truly remarkable product."

Neil Gordon
Engineering Manager

Rockwell Automation

"TUNER has proven to be an integral and valuable optimization technology for many of our process customers. Its ease-of-use and high return on investment directly align with our goals for the PlantPAx system."

Greg Hood
Business Development Manager

OSIsoft

"PlantESP is a great example of advanced diagnostic technology that enables manufacturers to capture hidden value."

Timothy Johnson
Director of Partners and Strategic Alliances

YOKOGAWA

"PlantESP includes a loop monitoring capability that delves deeply into the health and performance of PID controllers. The insight that it provides is essential to our customer’s ability to maintain profitable production."

Jorge Pinto
Manager of Advanced Solution Sales

Haverhill Chemicals

"I am consistently amazed by the flexibility and power of LOOP-PRO. With the improvements in performance we clearly understand the benefit of well-tuned control loops. This software works magic."

Michael Hagans
Process Engineer

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