Where Can I Purchase RSTune?
Nowhere...Because RSTune and RSLoop Optimizer Were Discontinued in 2011! Product names often outlive the products themselves. Investments made to establish a product and a brand can have a lasting impact.
How Do I Tune a Temperature Loop?
Temperature is one of the more common types of self-regulating - also known as non-integrating - processes used in industry. Like other self-regulating loops, temperature loops tend to naturally settle
Default Out-of-the-Box Settings Prevent the PID Controller from Achieving its Goal
Tuning a PID controller doesn't have to be hard. Whether a practitioner chooses to tune control loops manually or with the help of software, the procedure is relatively straight forward
How Does the Derivative Term Affect PID Controller Performance?
Derivative is the third term within the PID. In mathematical terms the word derivative is defined as the slope of a curve. Seen in the context of strip chart data
How Do I Calculate Dead-Time?
Adults can learn a thing or two from children. That's especially true when it comes to matters of time. Whereas adults view it as fashionable to show up to a
What is the Process Time Constant? How Do I Calculate the Time Constant of A Process?
Party hosts often cringe when guests arrive early or late. Seemingly subtle shifts in timing can throw off planned details that are of importance to the host and utterly lost
How Do I Calculate Gain? What Is the Difference Between Process Gain and Controller Gain?
Among practitioners who tune PID control loops manually most note their focus on calculating the Gain. Process Gain is a model parameter whereas Controller Gain is a tuning parameter. The
How Do I Tune a Level Controller?
Level controllers present challenges that are different from others. Although their presence is significant they lag behind Flow controllers in their overall share of the typical production facility's process control
What Tools Are Available for Optimizing the CS 3000 and Centum VP DCS?
What have you done for me lately? That question directly influences the behavior of most everyone within a production facility. Face it, we operate in a meritocracy that has little
Does Tuning a PID Controller Require a Bump Test?
It's generally accepted that tuning a PID controller requires some form of testing. Whether a step, bump, doublet, or pseudo random binary sequence, the test forces a change to the