One of the presenters I really enjoy listening to at Emerson Exchange conferences is Emerson’s James Beall. As a process control consultant, he helps process manufacturers and producers get their processes running as optimally as possible. He always shares his tips and tricks from understanding the dynamics of a process to how to get the […]
Over in LinkedIn’s Process Control group, a question was asked: What is the difference between regulatory and model predictive control. Is it possible that MPC work as stand alone without regulatory control? Emerson’s Chowyang Neo offered: Regulatory Control generally refers to good old PID loop control. Gaps between the SP and PV known as errors […]
It’s human nature to operate within a comfort zone. For plant operators, where the stakes are incredibly high, it means operating away from constraint limits. Unfortunately, to maximize the performance of the process, it means to get as close to the limits as you can safely operate. Emerson’s Mark Coughran presented at an ISA Automation […]
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