Increase Plant Profits by Process Monitoring and Optimization Any factory or chemical plant has anywhere from about 10 to as many as several 1000 PID control loops. If PID tuning parameters are not optimal, control action can be slow or unstable and oscillatory. Bad PID control action can reduce product quality, make products sub-prime, off-spec, […]
PID Tuning in Chemical Plants PID Tuning Optimization helps chemical plants to run better, more smoothly, increases production rate and plant profits. This can result in 2-4% profits, sometimes as high as 10%. Unfortunately only fewer than 10% of all plants worldwide are precisely tuned using PID tuning optimization software. Most control engineers and operators […]
PiControl Solutions LLC, an industrial process control software and technology company has APC (Advanced Process Control) technology for improving operation and profits in Polyester Fiber plants. PiControl Solutions LLC expects to see around a 3- 4% improvement in the Polyester Fiber plant’s operating efficiency – (SD – Super Dull) production and wasted Ethylene Glycol (E.G.) […]
Two Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes crashed in less than six months. How is this possible in today’s day and age when safety and training procedures have been matured and perfected over several decades? What is more amazing and truly shocking is that Boeing process control logic used only two sensors and used a primitive […]
Distributed Control Systems (DCS) are almost in every plant now. In smaller plants there are Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). With mounting pressures due to global competition and increasing importance of running plants and factories more efficiently, companies are looking for ideas and recommendations. APC – advanced process control can give 2-10% increase in production rates […]
PiControl Solutions is a worldwide industry leader and a great to learn practically and effectively about the Process control system which is needed in the modern control room environment. Receiving training for this specific process has become critically important today – more so than before – because so many new process control engineers, DCS technicians […]
Phase 1: Benefits estimation The first step when implementing an Advanced Process Control (APC) strategy is to understand what process units or parts of the units are good candidates for learning the strategy. To be able to quantify benefits and improvement opportunity, it is necessary to first understand the economics of the unit and the […]
Companies that have implemented successful Advanced Process Control (APC) projects suggest they’ve done just that and even better. Whether its new drivers, process controllers, or economic issues like higher yields, lower energy costs, and better financial performance, all these benefits could be enjoyed by the companies using this specific method. How does Advanced Process Control […]
“PID auto-tuning” or “PID self-tuning” controllers are designed to simplify matters by choosing their own PID tuning parameters based on some sort of automated analysis of the controlled process’s behavior. Theoretically, the most basic PID auto-tuners simply automate the manual PID tuning procedures: force a change in the controller effort (bump or step tests), observe […]