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ExperTune's Latest Software Releases

  • News Releases
  • PID Loop Optimizer Latest Updates — Get The New Features!
  • PlantTriage 7 — Get The New Features!

  • (Dates approximate)

    PlantTriage 7 goes enterprise-wide

    PlantTriage 7.0 Goes Enterprise-wide—June 2007

    This software gives companies a global view of plant performance and process control assets. The latest release of PlantTriage also offers language support for all world languages. Users see data in their own language, and can share results with other users world-wide, each user seeing the information in his or her preferred language. The new Real-Time Savings Advisor quantifies and reports dollar savings opportunities.

    Get all the details on PlantTriage 7

    Read the News Release for PlantTriage 7.0

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    PID Loop Optimizer 16.03—October 2006

    Long-recognized as the best PID Loop Tuning and Optimization software package, ExperTune's PID Loop Optimizer continues to get better every year. A quick summary of improvements this year include:

    Software Improvements
    PLC Version
    DCS Version
     Level Tuning Improvements
    • Tune while ramping. No need to reach steady-state.
    • Hysteresis Check for integrating loops
    • Stiction Check for integrating loops
     
     Improved User Interface
    • More undo capability
    • Remembers user-preferred workspace layout
    • Clock time displayed on real-time trends
    • Option for actual data collect time on offline trends
     Sample Time Awareness
    • Alerts you when sample time is too slow
     Video Help Files
    • Check Control Loop Basics With a Timeline
    • How to Remove Interactions
    • Eliminating Process Oscillation
    • Variability
     
     More Controllers Supported
    • Supports over 540 controllers

    PlantTriage® 6—May 2006

    PlantTriage Dashboard shows the most important performance information

    Introducing the most powerful, easiest-to-use Performance Supervision System ever! PlantTriage 6 helps you to improve your plant in the quickest ways possible.

    Discover all of the new features of PlantTriage 6.

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    PID Tuner/Analyzer—June 2005

    Floating License Support

    The floating license option allows the license to "float" to any user on the network. Run PID Optimizer or PID Tuner on a server machine and multiple users can have access to the software. Multiple user are optionally supported.

    Users start their own Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (terminal services) to connect to the server and run the software.

    PID Tuner/Analyzer—January 2005

    Level Control Wizard

    Level loops have differing objectives, goals, or purposes. ExperTune's new software wizard helps process engineers optimize the control strategy of level control loops in all types of process vessels. Level loops present a unique challenge to process control since the control objective varies widely, from tight level control in reactors to averaging level control in surge tanks.

    Whatever the performance requirement, whether it be a complex application like a hot vapor by-pass, or a simple surge tank, the new ExperTune Level Wizard guides engineers through choosing and implementing the best level loop control strategy for each individual need. The wizard uses the design experience of Greg Shinskey.
    ExperTune's level wizard makes it easy to optimize your level loop, no matter what the objective. The wizard:

    1. Identifies the goals for the level loop
    2. Chooses the level control strategy that matches the plant's goals
    3. Finds the best P, PI or PID parameters to meet those goals
    4. Provides built-in user guidance (see figure).
    The wizard pays for itself quickly by:
    • Forcing the controls to adhere to the operational objectives, maximizing profits.
    • Maximizing surge usage for smoother response to upsets, keeping critical quality variables on target.
    • Savings in cost, better quality, safer operations, increased throughput, and more consistent quality.

    PID Tuner/Analyzer now optimizes level loops with the following level control goals:

    • Fast and accurate control of level to setpoint, with and without derivative. The result is the fastest recovery back to setpoint in the face of upsets.
    • Averaging level, where the purpose of the tank is a surge vessel to smooth flow upsets. In this case you are using the vessel to reduce the effects of upstream disturbances. The goal is that one unit feeding a second should disturb the second as little as possible.
      • Averaging level with P action only—level is floating, maximizing the use of the surge vessel to smooth flow upsets.
      • Averaging level with P and I action—level floats and slowly returns to setpoint.

    Averaging level techniques may use tank volume. Using simple test data, the ExperTune Level Control Wizard automatically determines tank volume and controller settings.

    Other Enhancements

    • Setup Wizards now include the PV filter address
    • OPC items for a loop can now come from different OPC servers.
    • Standard OPC components direct from the OPC foundation install.
    • You can now turn off (forever) the message about how changing the PV span also changes the SP span.

    Earlier Releases

    Get more details on earlier upgrades:

    PlantTriage 5

    Pre-2005 Software Releases

       
     
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