About the Event
This workshop explains how the PID controller functions. Participants learn a proven, systematic approach for both tuning loops manually and achieving consistent results.
This course is not vendor specific.
Who Should Attend?
Technicians, Engineers, and others with responsibility for control loop performance.
What's the Objective?
Learn simple, repeatable methods for evaluating and tuning PID controllers.
How's it Delivered?
Key concepts are followed by demos of real-world examples and hands-on exercises.
Course Information
Below is the agenda for the Techniques for Applied Process Control virtual training workshop. The workshop will be delivered in daily segments estimated at four (4) hours in duration. Daily breaks of approximately fifteen (15) minute will be provided by the instructor at appropriate stages of the workshop.
Day 1 Topics
- Introductions – Goals and Objectives (5m)
- Application Roundtable Discussion (30m)
- Fundamentals of Process Dynamics and Control (30m)
- Self-Regulating Process Dynamics (35m)
- BREAK (15m)
- Workshop – Modeling a Flow and Gravity Drained Tank (45m)
- Understanding Control Objectives (15m)
- Generating Good Test Data (30m)
Day 2 Topics
- Review of Dynamics (10m)
- P-Only Control (20m)
- P-Only Workshop (45m)
- PI Control (20m)
- BREAK (15m)
- Trial and Error Tuning Workshop (20m)
- PI Control Correlations (15m)
- PI Tuning Workshop (45m)
- Q&A (15m)
Day 3 Topics
- Review of PI Control and LOOP-PRO TUNER (10m)
- PID Control (25m)
- PID Workshop (45m)
- PID With Filter / Signal Filters (20m)
- BREAK (15m)
- Controller Robustness and Adaptive Control (30m)
- Tuning a Nonlinear Process Workshop (45m)
- BREAK (15m)
- Non-Self Regulating Control (25m)
- Tuning a Non-Self Regulating Process Workshop (30m)
- Q&A (15m)
Day 4 Topics
- Review Non-Self Regulating Processes (10m)
- Controller Analytics (30m)
- BREAK (10m)
- Cascade Control (30m)
- Cascade Control Workshop (45m)
- BREAK (10m)
- Advanced Models for Simulation and Control (15m)
- Feed Forward Control (30m)
- Feed Forward Workshop (45m)
- Q&A (15m)