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
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
Lecture: Fundamentals of Process Dynamics and Control
Demo: Modeling Process Dynamics Using LOOP-PRO
Exercise: Exploring Dynamics of the Gravity-Drained Tanks
Lecture: Proportional Control
Demo: Implementation of P-Only Controllers
Exercise: P-Only Control of Tank Level
Lecture: Integral Action and PI Control
Exercise: Hazards of Tuning PI Controllers by Trial and Error
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)