Posts Tagged ‘PID Controllers’
February 26, 2020 – Control Station Monitoring and Analytics Solution to be Featured During PI World 2020
PlantESP Helps Global Manufacturer Sustain Optimal Performance Manchester, CT – February 26, 2020 – Control Station today announced that the company’s PlantESP solution will be featured during the PI World…
Read MoreChange: Something that Sports and Manufacturing have in Common
Tuning a production facility’s numerous PID control loops should be standard operating procedure at the start of a new season. It’s well known that PID performance can have a significant impact on production output and efficiency
Read MorePulse is Okay, but Doublet is Better
The Pulse and Doublet tests both allow practitioners to observe the process moving in opposite directions, but which is better?
Read MorePartner4Success: PID Control
Studies show that tuning PID controllers regularly provides significant economic benefit. Even so a 2019 survey conducted by Control Station found that only 27% of practitioners apply the best-practice of…
Read MoreWhat should you consider when tuning PID controllers?
Knowing how to tune a PID loop while satisfying its unique control objective is critical. Fortunately there is a group of descriptive statistics that characterizes a controller’s core performance attributes and that helps you to get the tunings right each time. Below are four (4) KPIs that process control experts frequently use when determining if their new PID tuning parameters are right for the job.
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 Process Gain? Why is Process Gain important when tuning Processes?
Professionals who tune PID controllers using manual methods tend to agree that understanding the Process Gain of their system is of the up-most importance. Among industry practitioners the Process Gain is often referred to as the “how far” or even the “sensitivity” variable and yet these descriptions can be rather vague to beginners.
Read MoreControl Station: Techniques of Applied Process Control
With engineers retiring at a dramatic rate, process control training classes that prepare the next generation of process control experts are more important than ever. In most cases, training workshops…
Read MoreApril 24, 2018 – Automation OEMs Address Market Demand for Regulatory Control Optimization
Control Station today announced the acceptance of several invitations to present at user conferences and symposia hosted by major automation OEMs during 2018. Planned presentations will address best-practices for tuning the control systems that provide the foundation of factory automation…
Read MoreTool Tips: Connecting to a Live Controller
Welcome to Control Station’s Tool Tips video series. LOOP-PRO TUNER is award-winning technology from Control Station that applies a repeatable 6-step method to the tuning of PID controllers. It supports…
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