• Smarter, Faster, Better: Using SHM to Prioritize What Matters Most in Optimizing Plant Performance

    Interactive Online Learning

    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.

  • Techniques for Applied Process Control

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop provides a thorough understanding of process dynamics and showcases both concepts and techniques associated with maintaining a production facility’s PID control systems. It engages participants with hands-on application of a systematic approach for diagnosing and optimizing under-performing control loops. The workshop is designed for Technicians and Process Engineers.

  • LOOP-PRO Tuner Primer

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop explains how to install, configure, and use LOOP-PRO Tuner. Participants learn essential aspects of the software for the purpose of applying it in the modeling and tuning of PID controllers.

  • LOOP-PRO Tuner Primer

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop explains how to install, configure, and use LOOP-PRO Tuner. Participants learn essential aspects of the software for the purpose of applying it in the modeling and tuning of PID controllers.

  • Feed-Forward Fundamentals: Knowing When and How to Apply Feed-Forward Control

    Interactive Online Learning

    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.

  • Techniques for Applied Process Control

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop provides a thorough understanding of process dynamics and showcases both concepts and techniques associated with maintaining a production facility’s PID control systems. It engages participants with hands-on application of a systematic approach for diagnosing and optimizing under-performing control loops. The workshop is designed for Technicians and Process Engineers.

  • When Operators Become the Controller: What Frequent Interventions Reveal About PID Loop Health

    Interactive Online Learning

    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.

  • AIChE 2026

    Hilton of the Americas and the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX Houston, TX, United States

    Control Station at AiChE 2026 Dates: April 14 - 16, 2026 Location: Hilton Americas–Houston Room 335 A Speaker: Dr. Chris Chritie - Director of Services, Control Station Presentation Time: 2:14 pm – 2:36 pm Title: Advancing Process Optimization Through Overall Controller Effectiveness: A Novel Metric for Evaluating PID Performance. Take-Away: OCE provides a simple, scalable […]

  • Techniques for Applied Process Control

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop provides a thorough understanding of process dynamics and showcases both concepts and techniques associated with maintaining a production facility’s PID control systems. It engages participants with hands-on application of a systematic approach for diagnosing and optimizing under-performing control loops. The workshop is designed for Technicians and Process Engineers.

  • Pass or Fail: How Benchmarking Your Plant’s Performance Reveals the Right Path Forward

    Interactive Online Learning

    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.

  • Techniques for Applied Process Control

    Interactive Online Learning

    This workshop provides a thorough understanding of process dynamics and showcases both concepts and techniques associated with maintaining a production facility’s PID control systems. It engages participants with hands-on application of a systematic approach for diagnosing and optimizing under-performing control loops. The workshop is designed for Technicians and Process Engineers.

  • No More Trial-and-Error: Which Loop Tuning Method Provides the Simplest, Fastest Path to Optimization?

    Interactive Online Learning

    Whether the goal is Set Point Tracking, Disturbance Rejection, or something more specialized, PID tuning must always align with a specific control objective. Without the right tools, tuning can quickly devolve into excessive trial-and-error—wasting time, disrupting operations, and producing inconsistent results. This webinar examines IMC relative to other popular tuning methods like Ziegler-Nichols and assesses them in terms of intuitiveness, speed, and consistency of results across a wide range of processes.

    Intended for controls engineers, this session will reveal:

    1) What differentiates IMC Tuning from Ziegler–Nichols and other common methods, and why those differences matter.
    2) How IMC dramatically reduces trial-and-error, accelerating tuning and minimizing production impact.
    3) How IMC makes it easy to generate tuning parameters that align with each loop’s unique control objective, from tracking to disturbance rejection.

    Join us to discover why IMC Tuning is one of the most effective and reliable approaches for modern PID optimization. Register now to elevate your facility’s tuning strategy and improve process performance.