PID loop

  • January 31, 2019
  • Control Guru

What 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

  • September 15, 2016
  • Control Guru

How to Model a PID Loop

As stated in a previous post, tuning PID controllers is a multi-step process. After you gather your data from your step test, the next step in the process is fitting

  • January 20, 2016
  • cyrus@timberbrookfamily.com

Using Average Absolute Error to Uncover Tuning Issues

Average Absolute Error (AAE) Provides an Intuitive Alternative to Variance and Simplifies the Assessment of Changes in PID Controller Performance.

Quite simply, things at a manufacturing facility can change

  • December 1, 2015
  • cyrus@timberbrookfamily.com

Using Mode Changes to Uncover Tuning Issues

Poor Controller Tuning. Operator interventions and Mode Changes are often viewed negatively. When a PID loop is switched out of automatic there can be a sense that the controller wasn’t allowed

  • March 12, 2015
  • Control Guru

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

  • November 25, 2014
  • Control Guru

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