Posts Tagged ‘PID Tuning’
FEBRUARY 2011 – PID TUNING FOR ALLEN-BRADLEY PLCS
A best-practices approach to understanding and tuning PID controllers. In the Forward to his “PID Tuning Guide,” Control Station’s Dr. Robert Rice notes that the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is here…
Read MoreNOVEMBER 2011 – A POWERFUL MIGRATION OPTION FOR PID TUNING
Now that Rockwell Automation no longer offers RSTune and RSLoop Optimizer, customers have a compelling option through the company’s partner program. The Rockwell Automation Encompass’s Product Partner program offers a…
Read MoreJUNE 2016 – CLPM: DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE OF PLANT-WIDE OPTIMIZATION
Petrochemical manufacturers experience unique challenges when it comes to maintaining effective regulatory control. As practitioners know, the dynamics of petrochemical processes are complex. From the volatility of batch reactions and…
Read MoreAUGUST 2016 – HOW TO TUNE PID LOOPS: TEMPERATURE CONTROL CHALLENGES
Temperature control applications can be broken into two main categories—fully continuous and semi-continuous (or batch). An example of a fully continuous temperature controller is a shell-and-tube heat exchanger. In this…
Read MoreFEBRUARY 2018 – THE IMPORTANCE OF ‘GOOD DATA’ WHEN TUNING PID LOOPS
Ask technicians and engineers about manually tuning PIDs. Their responses usually fall into one of the three different groups: 1) Some who will say it’s a “dark art” and won’t…
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2020 – Control Station Continues Global Growth with Strong 2019 Export Sales
Control Station today announced another record year of sales supported by strong exports and steady growth in the licensing of the company’s process diagnostic and optimization solutions. The company’s performance reflects overall growth in the industrial control and automation sector and increased global demand for process and energy efficiency solutions.
Read MoreTuning Made Easy: Licensing
Most PID tuning licenses are available in just one or two options, but those often fail to meet the needs of licensees. LOOP-PRO is different.
Read MoreSix Steps to Improved PID Tuning
Pulse 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…
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