October 30, 2018 – Enhanced PID Controller Tuning Technology Streamlines Process Optimization

Control Station today published the latest release of its award-winning LOOP-PRO™ process modeling and PID controller tuning technology. Among other feature enhancements the Fall 2018 Release introduces an innovative capability for connecting live to any commercial PID controller. The new release also enhances the software’s overall performance and security via a comprehensive rewrite, and it now caters to the multilingual needs of Control Station’s growing base of international customers.

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What is a Micro-Historian?

News flash – the market for pneumatics has been marginalized significantly by digital control. And with data being increasingly central to the average plant’s day-to-day plant operations it’s no surprise that the market for data historians is growing. Without data the staff in operations, engineering, and maintenance would be hard pressed to control production either safely or profitably.

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How Does the PI SDK Benefit Process Optimization Applications Like CLPM?

Have you ever called a customer support line and found yourself talking to the ‘middle man’? That’s the staffer who knows just enough to sound legitimate but not enough to fully answer your questions. That’s the individual who will “get back to you” as he confers with other company resources only to parrot back a partial answer. While the middle man does his best there’s always some amount of information, some detail that’s lost. With its market leading data historian OSIsoft has worked diligently to assure that there’s no middle man when it comes to accessing a manufacturer’s process data.

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