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“Tune your PID control loops for the best possible performance!”
The course covers PID tuning. PID Control loops remain the main algorithm for controlling process flows, pressures, temperatures and levels in industry. However, tuning them for best performance is often a skill missing from many plants.
This course teaches how to tune the different types of PID control loop using the various techniques from a methodical trial and error method to more rigorous approaches and computer-based tuning and how to implement them in your Digital Control System.
Simulation based practicals are used. Learnings can be applied to all DCS systems.
HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE:
The course links theory to application. It reinforces this through real industry examples and allows participants to practice the theory through worked examples as part of the sessions.
The course is highly interactive and participants are encouraged to share their own experiences and problems to the benefit of all.
✓ Introduction
✓ Instrumentation
✓ Dynamics
✓ Filtering
✓ PID
✓ Level control
✓ Cascade control
✓ Control loop monitoring
✓ Computer based monitoring
✓ Honeywell Profit Loop
“Improve your plant performance using ARC techniques (plus an introduction to multivariable predictive control)!”
The course covers the Advanced Regulatory Control techniques.
Advanced Regulatory Control techniques (ARC) are used to improve the control of key process variables on a plant. The basic control layer can benefit from best use of existing algorithms in the digital control system (DCS) to control a plant better than just the basic control.
This course covers more complex PID based schemes such as feedforward, deadtime compensation, decoupling, nonlinear adaptive control and constraint control. For completeness, the course also includes an introduction to multivariable predictive control.
Simulation based practicals are used. Learnings can be applied to all DCS systems.
HOW WE BUILD YOUR CONFIDENCE:
The course links theory to application. It reinforces this through real industry examples and allows participants to practice the theory through worked examples as part of the sessions.
The course is highly interactive and participants are encouraged to share their own experiences and problems to the benefit of all in addition to the presenter’s experience.
✓ Introduction
✓ Tuning Refresher
✓ Feedforward
✓ Furnace Control
✓ Handling non-linearities (adaptive control)
✓ Deadtime compensation
✓ Distillation control
✓ Relative gain analysis
✓ Constraint Control and Constraint Override Control
✓ An Introduction to Multivariable control
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Basically all of them! Refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, polymers, mining, metals, food processing, utilities, and other sectors relying on stable DCS-based control can benefit immediately from improved tuning competence.
It strengthens engineers’ ability to tune PID loops for flows, pressures, temperatures, and levels, enabling more stable and responsive plants while building a reliable basic control layer for future APC implementation.
Proper tuning directly enhances operational stability, reduces variability and valve wear and tear (and therefore maintenance), and supports control and optimisation strategies that can then be put on top, giving higher throughput, higher yield, and energy savings across both continuous and batch systems.
Yes. The course includes a discussion of the generic types of algorithms used in all DCS systems and also covers the most commonly used DCS platforms, such as Honeywell and Emerson, in more detail. Our software, ARC-t, covers most of the key DCS algorithms, and we will use that for computer-based tuning in the course.
Yes. The principles apply broadly across almost all industries, including refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas, chemicals, polymers, metals, mining, utilities, and many other process sectors seeking performance gains.
It teaches participants how to apply Advanced Regulatory Control (ARC) techniques such as feedforward, deadtime compensation, dynamic decoupling, adaptive control, and constraint control to achieve better control of their plant.
Only basic control knowledge is expected; the course is designed to develop ARC understanding for both junior and experienced engineers. However, whilst you don’t need to attend this course in order to attend the PID tuning course, ideally you should have attended the PID tuning course before this one, because we will be doing some PID tuning as part of tuning the advanced control schemes that we discuss and develop during the course.
Yes. The course focuses on smarter use of existing DCS algorithms so plants can improve performance before considering external APC packages, although we do include an introduction to multivariable control, which does require licensed software. We also have our own in-house software for tuning and advanced regulatory control, called ARC-t, which is available for purchase. The price is very reasonable compared to competitive products and most other industrial software. Our philosophy was that we wanted to develop a tool that is fast and easy to use, and one that we would want to use ourselves.
