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Presented by: ExperTune's
Official Training Partners
#EX-502-3, Duration: 3 days of hands-on ExperTune training
Class Schedule
Register Me
Three days of hands-on ExperTune training. Includes case studies of
industrial problems and solutions.
Objectives:
This course will allow you to master the use of ExperTune powerful tools provided
in the ExperTune advanced package. This is also a good opportunity for you to improve
your control loop optimization skills.
Who should attend:
Anyone who has taken the EX-501-3 course and wishes to use the powerful tools included
in the ExperTune Advanced version.
Content:
Day 1: Important concepts
Important Concepts
- Introduction
- Control loops
- Noise, disturbances, load
- Control objectives
- Types of processes
- Process Model
- Choice of tuning objectives
Frequency domain versus time domain
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Terminology
- Frequency response
- Natural frequency
- Bode diagram
Tuning control loops using ExperTune
- Hysteresis check
- Valve or final element sizing
- Noise level
- Characterization, linearization, asymmetry
- Filtering
- Aliasing
- Selecting tuning parameters, PID grid
- Robustness vs. performance
Day 2: ExperTune advanced tools
- Sampling time
- Manual and automatic tests
- Quality of frequency data
- Editing data
- Frequency domain evaluation
- Validity of results
- Filter selection in the frequency domain
- Valve abuse index
- Linearity correction with the characterization
- Asymmetry compensation exercises
Troubleshooting tools
- Power spectral density
- Cross correlation
- Auto-correlation
- Tips and tricks
Evaluation tools
- Statistical analysis
- Hysteresis check
- Simulation
- ISO 9000 and reporting
Day 3: Master ExperTune through practical exercises
- Process optimization examples
- Improving performance
- Troubleshooting loops
- Tips and tricks
- Simple and multiple loops
- Cascade loop
- Interacting loop
- Feedforward tuning with ExperTune
Special controllers
- PID, special algorithms and structures
- IMC and Dahlin controllers
- Smith predictor
- Fuzzy + PID
- Others
Process control, economics and practice
- Tuning methods comparison
- Time to tune loops
- Robustness and performance
- Practical rules
- Good optimization and maintenance practice
Conclusions
Software used
- Latest ExperTune Advanced version
- Please note that each participant must have a laptop computer to attend
the course. If you do not have one, we will arrange to rent one for you,
at your cost.
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Students Say:
"Very good course. Before this class ExperTune class in 1999 was the
best school I had at ARP—4 years later this is now the best class I've
had at ARP." E&I crew leader, Alabama Pine Pulp
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