Greg McMillan makes this book, Tuning and Control Loop Performance, freely available to help you to eliminate the misunderstandings, realize the difference between theoretical and industrial application of PID [proportional-integral-derivative] control, address practical difficulties, improve field automation system design, use the latest PID features, and ultimately get the best tuning settings that enables the PID to achieve its full potential.
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Embedded Tools Drive Better Loop Tuning
Properly tuned loops are critical to efficient, effective plant performance. However, constant changes in the plant environment mean that proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning cannot be a set-and-forget procedure. This poses a problem for many modern plants,...
Looking Beyond PID Tuning Parameters for Control Performance Issues
When a variability problem emerges in a production process, the first suspect is often to look at the tuning of PID [proportional-integral-derivative] loops. While adjustments can be easily made in most automation systems, this is often not the source of the problem....
Loop Tuning Expertise in Your Pocket
Some of the more popular posts here on the blog involve loop tuning. Our Process Optimization category is filled with more than 150 posts featuring the wisdom of many experienced practitioners. One extremely proficient practitioner and prolific author, Greg McMillan...
Is Loop Tuning an Art or Science?
This interesting question was posed in the LinkedIn Process Control group. You'll need to join this 31,000+ member group to see it, but the exact question was: Process Control Tuning - is not just science but an art. The real talent to be process control engineer lies...
Optimizing Reactor Temperatures for Resins Manufacturer
I heard a great story about a resins manufacturer who was having some issues in meeting quality specifications due to temperature variability in the process. Emerson's Gergo Kertesz, whom you may recall from an Emerson Exchange presentation I liveblogged, shared this...
Methodology for Solving Control Loop Problems
This time of year, after our big Emerson Exchange conference, I like to go back and see what sessions I missed to be able to be able to recap for you. I caught up with Emerson's Mark Coughran, whom you may recall from many control performance-related posts. He...
Getting up and Running Quickly
Emerson's Gergo Kertesz shared a story of how to get a plant started up and running with the aid of control loop tuning. His abstract: This Russian Petrochemical Company is one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes. The company specialises in the production...
Steps to Effective PID Loop Tuning
Sometimes when you read an article about tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) loops, you're treated to all the 2nd order differential equations they contain. These can be intimidating, especially if your college calculus classes are many years in the rearview...
Getting the Converted PID Values Right
I received an interesting story from Emerson's James Beall about a process manufacturer with a process filled with many fermentors. They were being converted over from Provox control systems to DeltaV systems. pH control was a key part of the plant's fermentation...
Tuning Integrating Process Loops
Earlier this week, I highlighted a presentation by Emerson's James Beall, Fundamentals of Modern Loop Tuning. I shared his approach for tuning self-regulating loops and the sequence to tune interacting loops. Today, I'll share some guidance from the portion of the...
How to Tune Self-Regulating Control Loops
I've highlighted a few Emerson presentations for this week's ChemInnovations conference in New Orleans. Emerson's James Beall, a 30-year veteran in process control and chairman of the ISA 75.25 committee on control valve performance testing, shared his ChemInnovations...
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