Posts Tagged ‘PID Control Loop’
January 31, 2019 – Global Manufacturers Instrumental to Record Full-Year Financial Performance
Control Station today announced record growth for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018. The company recorded significant growth in key product and service lines, and it continued its expansion both domestically and internationally.
Read MoreDecember 27, 2018 – Control Station Announces 2019 Practical Process Control Training Calendar
Control Station today announced plans to host over 30 training workshops during 2019. The company’s plan targets major manufacturing centers located across North America and Europe. The plan capitalizes on growing global demand for industrial training and skills development that enables the optimization of production processes.
Read MoreWhat is the Moving Boxcar Method? How is Boxcar Averaging Applied to Control Loop Monitoring?
No surprise – advanced diagnostic tools like PlantESP constantly crunch data in order to uncover important trends and provide actionable insights. As the automation market’s leading controller performance monitoring solution PlantESP typically performs complex calculations on each PID control…
Read MoreNo More Downtime: Top 5 Loop Metrics for Avoiding Mechanical Failures
With an eye on uptime manufacturers are now investing in solutions that analyze the performance of their regulatory control systems. The control loop remains a building block for manufacturers across the process industries and it is intimately connected to innumerable production assets. Data from the common control loop offers a wealth of information and insight into mechanical issues. Still, knowing how to use that data effectively often presents a challenge.
Read MoreExpress Lane Ahead: CLPM Solutions Are Putting Process Optimization Back on the Fast Track
Control loop performance monitoring solutions were supposed to facilitate optimization of a plant’s PID controllers. Difficulty with real-world process data and limits on their ability to provide meaningful recommendations hampered effectiveness. Those speed bumps have been removed and real-time optimization is now on the fast track.
Read MoreWhat is Process Simulation? How Does Process Simulation Help With Optimization?
Imagine it’s your first time flying in an airplane and the pilot casually asks you to take the control wheel during landing. While that scenario might make a blockbuster movie script, it’s not a practical recipe for success in industry. In fact, it’s a recipe for disaster which is why many manufacturers rely on process simulation tools to both train their staff and optimize their production processes.
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Cascade Control
As shared previously Cascade Control is an advanced application of Single Loop Control. Through the use of a secondary and faster PID control loop, practitioners can improve a given process’ ability to correct for known disturbances. Although it is considered an advanced strategy, Cascade Control is commonly used across the process industries.
Read MoreWhen Profits Are Hidden in Plain Sight
If you drive a car, then you probably benefit from McGard’s products. Their proprietary lug nuts keep automobile tires where they belong – on your car. In fact, McGard is the nation’s leading manufacturer of mechanical anti-theft devices. When market demand outpaced McGard’s production capacity they focused their attention on existing production lines. With the help of PlantESP the engineering team at McGard successfully tapped into opportunities that had been seemingly hidden in plain sight.
Read MoreData Collection Speed is Key to the Accurate Interpretation of Process Dynamics
If you’re old enough to remember silent movies, then you know what it’s like to see the characters seemingly jiggle around the screen. Black spots would randomly appear as the story was told with the help of subtitles. Spots and subtitles aside, these movies appeared jittery due to their slow speed. The slow frame rate – a precursor of data collection speed – resulted in visual gaps.
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