PID Tuning

  • 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

  • July 19, 2016
  • Control Guru

How to Perform a Step Test

Tuning PID controllers is a multi-step process.  While it is important to understand each step in the process, performing the bump test and collecting dynamic data is the most crucial

  • May 23, 2016
  • Control Guru

Accelerating Start-Up, Optimizing PID Control

Control Station has been fortunate to partner with leading, global OEMs like Yokogawa.  Award-winning products like csTuner are helping process manufacturers at all stages of operation.  As GranBio in Brazil

  • 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

  • November 23, 2015
  • cyrus@timberbrookfamily.com

Using the Oscillation Metric to Uncover Tuning Issues

There’s a wealth of information available in most every data historian. The data can be used to evaluate the performance of a plant’s regulatory control systems in general and to