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TJ-101-3 - Workshop on Loop Analysis with Matrikon TaiJi


Objectives

This workshop will allow you to effectively use Matrikon TaiJi's PID tuning and analysis tools in your plant.
Whot should attend

Anyone with a basic knowledge of instrumentation who wishes to use loop analysis and optimization software with PID controllers.
Schedule

From 8:30h to 12h and from 13h to 16h30

Each day
Content

Day 1 : Important concepts

Introduction
  • Control loops
  • Noise, disturbances, load
  • Feedback-Feedforward
  • Matrikon TaiJi 5 steps to optimize loops
  • Control objectives
Process
  • Simple model
  • Types of processes
  • Process flaws
  • Exercises
Controllers
  • Proportional, integral, derivative, filter
  • Structures of industrial controllers
  • Exercises
Tuning
  • Intuitive tuning
  • Performance criteria
  • Load change, setpoint change
  • Tuning: a compromise
  • Traditional tuning methods
  • Natural frequency
  • Important time delay
  • Limits of traditional tuning methods
  • Exercises


Day 2 : Tuning and analyzing a loop using Matrikon TaiJi

Matrikon TaiJi software
  • Basics principles
  • Matrikon TaiJi 5 steps to optimize loops:
    • Configure
    • Diagnose
    • Test
    • Identify
    • Tune
  • Exercises
Data to tune a loop
  • Data generated by TaiJi
  • Good data, from a controller ouput change (manual)
  • Good data, from a setpoint change (automatic)
  • Exercises
Tuning control loops using Matrikon TaiJi
  • TaiJi Analysis
  • Quality of frequency data
  • Filtering
  • Selecting tuning parameters, safety factor, Lambda value
  • Load rejection and setpoint tuning
  • Tuning comparison with Lambda and Ziegler/Nichols tuning
  • Simulation, response to load change, setpoint change, noise
  • Robustness plot
  • Performances: IAE, robustness, valve travel, etc.
  • Exercises
Analyzing a control loop using Matrikon TaiJi
  • Loop analysis vs loop tuning
  • Hysteresis check
  • Linearity
  • Basic reporting
  • Exercises


Day 3 : Matrikon TaiJi step-by-step

Steps to tune a loop
  • Matrikon TaiJi 5 steps to optimize loops
  • Control objectives
  • Process knowledge, P&ID and wiring diagrams
  • Bump sizes, preliminaries
  • Configuring TaiJi
  • Automatic bump tests to check hysteresis, stiction, linearity
  • Loop analysis, design, 4 rules of 3
  • Exercises
Analyzing the data from a test in automatic mode
  • How to detect hysteresis, stiction, high process gain
  • How to detect bad tuning parameters
  • Exercises
  • Tips and tricks
Analyzing control loops using Matrikon TaiJi tools
  • Hysteresis, noise and process gain check
  • Stiction test
  • Linearity
  • Exercises
Scan time
  • Aliasing
  • Matrikon TaiJi and scan time to acquire data
  • Exercises: real cases, self-regulating and integrating processes
  • Analyzing the data
  • Editing the data
  • Tuning the loop to quickly remove disturbances
  • Robustness analysis
Reporting
  • Matrikon TaiJi report
  • Adding items to report
Conclusions
  • Tuning methods comparison
  • Time to tune loops
  • Robustness and performance
  • Practical rules, tips and tricks
  • Windows of acceptable tuning parameters
  • Process control and economics

Manual included

Ruel, Michel. Fundamentals of process control, Lévis, v.2 1999, 279 p. (not included in price of a discounted course)
Software used

Matrikon TaiJi (latest revision)
Matrikon Control Performance Optimizer (latest 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.