Ask the Automation Pros: How Can You Ensure the Best Rate of Change in the PID Manipulated Variable?

What is the best strategy to get the best rate of change in the PID for a manipulated variable, or is there a more elegant ...
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Troubleshooting and Solving Poor Control Loop Performance

Only through proper troubleshooting and then solving the underlying problems can control loop performance be improved. Process design certainly plays a role in control loop performance, but experience ...
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Single-loop control- Still the mainstay of advanced process control

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...
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Optimizing to the tune of a PID equation

Machines and processes are controlled using many strategies, from simple ladder logic to custom algorithms for specialized process control, but proportional-integral-derivative (PID) is the most ...