Your control system represents a significant capital investment, often amounting to as much as 10% of your plant’s total value. Are you making the most of it? This webinar will show you how to track trends in system health and overall control effectiveness (OCE) to maximize the return on that investment. Learn how to receive immediate notifications of changes in system health, predict potential issues, and take quick, decisive actions to keep everything running smoothly.

Designed for operations management and control engineers, this session provides actionable insights, practical techniques, and real-world examples. See how other plants have successfully used system health monitoring to prevent costly downtime and improve overall efficiency.

Gain the tools you need to maintain daily awareness and optimize performance.

Register now to learn how to stop losing control and keep your system delivering peak performance.

Stiction is a common yet often overlooked issue that silently sabotages control performance. This webinar will teach you how to identify and address stiction effectively, restoring precision and reliability to your controllers. Gain a deeper understanding of the causes of stiction in valves, dampers, and actuators. Learn about stiction's impact on system dynamics, and develop practical strategies to mitigate its effects.

Designed for process control engineers and valve maintenance personnel, this session provides step-by-step guidance and real-world examples to help you tackle stiction head-on. Don’t let this hidden killer undermine your plant’s performance—gain the tools and techniques you need to stay in control.

Register now to learn how to find, measure, and resolve stiction to keep your control systems performing at their best.

Level controllers are essential for stable plant operations, but not all applications require the same tuning approach. This webinar will show you how to customize tuning for surge tanks, standpipes, and other scenarios. Learn to balance stability with responsiveness while avoiding common pitfalls like oscillations, overflows, and process upsets.

Designed for process and control engineers, this session provides a clear, step-by-step framework to master level control tuning. Discover how tailored strategies prevent disruptions, smooth variations, and optimize performance.

Register now to gain the tools to tackle even the most challenging level control scenarios.

Plant operations constantly shift between different states, including startup and shutdown, product transitions, testing, and varying operating strategies. Traditional analytics struggle to capture the complexity of these transitions, leading to missed inefficiencies and suboptimal performance. This webinar will show you how state-based analytics can provide the necessary context to detect control challenges, optimize tuning, and stabilize performance across multiple states.

Designed for process engineers, control engineers, and operations management, this session provides real-world examples of state-based analytics in action. Learn how to assess system performance on a per-state basis, uncover problem areas that traditional monitoring overlooks, and apply targeted adjustments to improve control outcomes. See how PlantESP can deliver actionable insights that reduce variability, minimize operational disruptions, and enhance overall plant performance.

Register now to unlock the full potential of state-based analytics and gain a deeper understanding of your plant’s multi-state behavior.

How well are your controllers performing compared to other plants, your own historical data, and industry benchmarks? Benchmarking Overall Control Effectiveness (OCE) provides a powerful framework for evaluating controller performance, identifying trends, and focusing efforts for maximum improvement. This webinar will show you how to assess OCE, interpret key performance indicators, and compare your plant’s control performance against important established benchmarks.

Designed for operations managers as well as maintenance and control professionals, this session will provide practical methods for choosing benchmark context and identifying key areas for improvement.
Learn how leading plants leverage this knowledge to prioritize strategic focus areas to deliver the biggest business benefit.

Register now to take the first steps to understand how your plant measures up.

Achieving consistent and efficient PID control requires more than just basic tuning—it demands a structured approach tailored to your organization. This webinar will guide you through best practices for tuning PID loops, ensuring reliable performance across a variety of operating conditions. Learn how to establish repeatable tuning methods that save time, eliminate costly mistakes, and improve tuning results.

Designed for technicians and control engineers, this session provides step-by-step techniques and real-world examples to refine your plant's tuning strategies. Discover how to overcome common challenges, apply proven methods, and achieve consistent and repeatable results.

Register now to learn the techniques and practices needed to achieve consistent, safe, effective, and repeatable control in your plant.

Pinpointing the root cause of process disturbances is essential for maintaining plant stability and efficiency. This webinar explores proven techniques for distinguishing symptoms from true root causes, utilizing tools like power spectrum analysis and cross-correlation to accurately diagnose issues. Learn how to apply these methods to save time and effort, minimize upsets, and prevent recurring problems.

Designed for troubleshooters, process engineers, and control engineers, this session provides a structured approach to root cause analysis, enabling you to quickly isolate problems and implement effective corrective actions. You will learn to confidently tackle complex process issues by finding the true root causes.

Register now to develop the skills needed to diagnose and resolve process disturbances with precision.

Imperfect data can lead to frustration, inaccurate models, poor tuning, and inconsistent control. Challenges include noisy signals, infrequent sampling, sensor drift, disturbances, and missing data. This webinar demonstrates effective techniques for working with imperfect data to develop accurate models and achieve optimal tuning results. Learn how to extract meaningful insights from inconsistent datasets, apply robust tuning methods, and improve control in real-world operating conditions.

Designed for control technicians and engineers, this session provides practical guidance on handling imperfect data effectively. Discover methods to automatically refine model accuracy and achieve stable, responsive control. Gain the skills needed to confidently tune dynamic processes in the real world, even when working with less-than-ideal data.

Register now to learn how to turn imperfect data into accurate models and achieve optimal tuning results.