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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 to improve your control loop optimization skills.
Who should attend
Anyone who has taken the pre-requisite EX-501-3 course and wishes to use the powerful tools included in the ExperTune Advanced version.
Schedule
From 8:30 am to noon and from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Each day
Content
Day 1
Important concepts
- Introduction
- Control loops
- Noise, disturbances, load
- Control objectives
- Types of processes
- Process Model
- Choice of tuning objectives
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Terminology
- Frequency response
- Natural frequency
- Bode diagram
- 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
- Power spectral density
- Cross correlation
- Auto-correlation
- Tips and tricks
- Statistical analysis
- Hysteresis check
- Simulation
- ISO 9000 and reporting
Day 3
Master ExperTune through pratical exercises
- Process optimization examples
- Improving performance
- Troubleshooting loops
- Tips and tricks
- Simple and multiple loops
- Cascade loop
- Interacting loop
- Feedforward tuning with ExperTune
- PID, special algorithms and structures
- IMC and Dahlin controllers
- Smith predictor
- Fuzzy + PID
- Others
- Tuning methods comparison
- Time to tune loops
- Robustness and perfomance
- Practical rules
- Good optimization and maintenance practice
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.
