Tuning a single PID controller is challenging enough—but when multiple loops interact, achieving stable, predictable performance becomes exponentially more difficult. A loop you just tuned may suddenly destabilize because another loop is influencing it. Understanding and managing these interactions is essential for maintaining reliable process control in complex industrial systems.

This webinar explores the dynamics of loop interaction and presents proven strategies for diagnosing issues and tuning controllers for consistent, optimized performance.

Designed for process and controls engineers, this session will help you:

1) Understand the root causes and behaviors of interacting PID loops, including cross-coupling and system-level effects.
2) Apply diagnostic techniques to identify and isolate interaction-driven problems within your control architecture.
3) Use practical tuning and configuration methods to compensate for loop interaction and restore stable control.

Take control of multi-loop systems and avoid performance degradation caused by interaction. Register now to learn how to minimize its impact and improve overall PID loop performance.

“What you don’t know can’t hurt you” is a dangerous mindset—especially when it comes to your facility’s PID controller performance. Overlooking controller issues can lead to instability, increased variability, equipment stress, and unexpected production losses.

This webinar introduces a proven methodology for conducting comprehensive PID performance audits and shows how data-driven analysis can uncover tuning deficiencies, oscillatory loops, and interaction problems that quietly undermine plant performance.

Designed for corporate and plant managers, this session will equip you to:

1) Perform a structured, data-driven PID performance audit using data that you probably already capture.
2) Identify tuning weaknesses, oscillations, and interaction issues the effects of which are routinely overlooked or minimized.
3) Translate audit findings into targeted corrective actions that improve reliability, stability, and overall process performance.

Learn how plant-wide controller assessments can prevent costly disruptions and boost operational efficiency. Register now to gain the skills needed to evaluate and elevate your facility’s control performance.

Manual PID tuning remains common—and Control Station even teaches a repeatable, calculator-based approach for estimating models and tuning coefficients. But relying on trend estimates and slope calculations can be imprecise, time-consuming, and disruptive. Without visibility into the controller’s predicted response, tuning often requires multiple iterations that slow down operations and impact production.

Innovations in process modeling effectively eliminate these challenges by generating accurate models from real operating data, even when noisy or oscillatory, and by validating PID performance before parameters are put into service.

Intended for individuals responsible for PID loop tuning, this session will equip you to:

1) Understand why manual tuning frequently leads to inaccurate results, repeated adjustments, and prolonged performance disruptions.
2) Learn how an innovative modeling approach develops reliable models and optimal tuning parameters—even from imperfect data.
3) See how modeling eliminates issues by simulating the PID response prior to implementation, ensuring first-time-right optimization.

Discover the hidden costs of manual tuning and how NSS accelerates plant-wide control improvement. Register now to streamline your tuning workflow and improve process performance.

For decades, discrete manufacturers have relied on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to identify underperforming machines. As a normalized metric, OEE can be applied consistently across individual assets, production lines, or entire cells. When a line’s OEE drops, the math makes it easy to isolate the specific machine or asset dragging performance down.

Process manufacturers can apply this same powerful concept to PID controller performance—enabling objective benchmarking, rapid root cause analysis, and smarter optimization decisions.

Intended for corporate and plant managers, this session will equip participants to:

1) Understand how the OEE framework can be applied to assessing controller performance at the loop, unit, and plant levels.
2) Use this method pinpoints underperforming controllers and identifies root causes, including tuning issues, equipment problems, or process changes.
3) Leverage new KPI insights to prioritize improvements and drive plant-wide performance gains using a data-driven, OEE-style approach.

See how applying proven OEE concepts to process control can simplify optimization and improve operational effectiveness. Register now to learn why leading manufacturers are embracing a new method.