MAY 2011 – CONTROL LOOP MONITORS HELP OPTIMIZE CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE

Vendors of control loop performance monitoring and optimization software describe what it does and how users benefit.

In a word, control loop monitoring and optimization is all about savings, saving energy, raw materials, and operator effort while improving quality and profitability in a plant that depends on feedback controllers to produce a product. Commercial control loop monitors help the plant’s operators meet those objectives by automatically collecting and analyzing massive amounts of loop data from which to identify opportunities for improvement.