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.

Yes—improving your plant’s process performance is essential. But with competing priorities and limited time, knowing where to focus can be a challenge. This webinar shows how System Health Monitoring (SHM) turns your existing process data into actionable insights, benchmarks your plant against peers, and delivers a prioritized list of issues and corrective actions—making performance improvement faster and easier than ever.

Designed for both corporate and plant-level engineers, this session will show you:

1) How SHM benchmarks plant performance across units, facilities, and the broader fleet.
2) How SHM automatically prioritizes improvement opportunities based on impact and urgency.
3) How SHM’s unified scoring system simplifies root-cause analysis from the loop level to the enterprise level.

Join us to see how leading manufacturers use SHM to cut through information overload and focus on what matters most. Register today and start driving measurable operational excellence.

Within advanced regulatory control, only a handful of strategies consistently boost process performance. Feed-Forward may not be “advanced” in the formal sense—it's technically a basic extension of feedback control—but it remains one of the most powerful and underutilized techniques in a process engineer’s PID toolbox. Knowing when to apply Feed-Forward and how to configure it correctly can make a meaningful difference in stabilizing processes and reducing disturbances.

Designed for controls engineers, this session will equip participants to:
1) Understand the fundamentals and purpose of Feed-Forward control and why it matters.
2) Identify the right applications where Feed-Forward delivers measurable performance gains.
3) Design and implement Feed-Forward strategies effectively for reliable, disturbance-resistant operation.

Join us to explore the practical role of Feed-Forward control and learn how to apply it to improve your facility’s controller performance. Register today to strengthen your process control toolkit.

There are countless KPIs for identifying underperforming PID loops—but one of the most revealing is often overlooked: the amount of time operators spend “babysitting” a controller. Loops that are unstable, noisy, or unpredictable tend to draw repeated operator intervention, effectively overriding automation in an effort to manage volatility and reduce perceived risk. These patterns offer powerful clues about hidden control issues that traditional KPIs miss. Wouldn’t it be valuable to know which controllers demand the most operator attention—and why?

Designed for both corporate and plant engineers, this session will reveal:

1) Why operator interventions are a powerful indicator of underlying control problems that may not appear in conventional KPIs.
2) How to quantify operator interaction and trace it back to root cause, including tuning issues, equipment malfunctions, and process disturbances.
3) How to use these insights to prioritize corrective actions, enhance controller reliability, and improve overall plant safety and performance.

Join us to learn how everyday operator behavior provides a window into your plant’s true control health. Register today to turn manual interventions into actionable improvement opportunities.

If your facility was ranked as having the worst controller performance in the fleet, you’d likely make optimization a top priority. But what if it was a middle performer? Or even best-in-class? In every case, the first step is understanding how your plant is truly performing—and now there’s finally a reliable way to quantify it.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a widely accepted framework for assessing the performance of production assets. That same framework is being applied to measuring PID performance at the loop, unit, and plant levels. Through benchmarking, manufacturers can now see exactly where their performance stands—whether underperforming, average, or world-class—and pursue optimization initiatives based on a clearer understanding of the associated opportunities and costs.

Intended for corporate managers, plant managers, and process engineers, this session will show:

1) How accepted statistical analysis methods apply to quantifying controller performance across loops, units, and entire facilities.
2) How comparative statistics reveal performance rank, enabling clear benchmarking against peers and the broader fleet.
3) How benchmarking informs better operational decisions and help target the most valuable performance-improvement opportunities.

Join us to learn why leading process manufacturers are adopting OCE to improve fleet-wide performance and gain a competitive edge. Register today to see how data-driven benchmarking can transform your operational strategy.