Any manufacturing and/or chemical plant can have anywhere from about 50 to over 2000 PIDs. 60% of PIDs are simple but other 40% are more complex cascade, override controllers, model-based controllers and multivariable controllers. 

With the time, even well-tuned PIDs and other complex controllers can slowly start to deteriorate and cause large and time costing plant significant monetary and/or quality losses. PID deterioration can happen as PID oscillation or in the way of sluggish control, because of changes in process and operating conditions.

This process control training course covers the technology and methodology for process control performance monitoring and diagnostics that identifies sluggish and/or oscillatory simple and/or complex PID controller behaviour.

Also, this process control training course explains how to identify control problems in an online / real-time manner and how to take immediate corrective action using online adaptive control. 

Moreover, this process control training course shows how to implement true adaptive control inside the DCS and by designing special DCS / PLC-resident logic for triggering automatic control action.

Students get a chance to learn how to: 

• get skills in understanding process control quality monitoring criteria and statistics. 
• get skills in the application, installation and use of real-time software products for process control quality monitoring at any plant.
• get skills on the application of online adaptive control technology using the control quality monitoring software. 
• build closed-loop adaptive control schemes at their plant inside the DCS / PLC.
• significantly improve control quality at their plants, move the plant more stably and reliably in the direction of increasing profits with fewer shutdowns and fewer abnormal events. 
• reduce the number of alarms and the need for operator intervention.

The good prerequisites for this process control diagnostics training course are: 

• Primary Process Control
• Process Identification & PID Tuning

Process control engineers, Advanced process control engineers, Instrument engineers, DCS / PLC technicians, Managers and Supervisors.

Classroom training course: 2 Days (8-10 hours per day)

Online / Remote training course: 16 hours online  

Online video training course: 20 hours online

• Modern process control 
• Process interactions 
• Mass balance and heat balance integration 
• Process cycling and sustained oscillations
• Causes of process oscillations
• Typical process control quality performance criteria 
• Additional process control quality performance criteria  
• PID contribution detection

2nd day:

• Oscillating PID tuning parameters
• Implementation of process control quality monitoring technology
• Detection of oscillatory control
• Detection of sluggish control 
• Precise determination of oscillation
• Practical challenges of oscillation detection 
• Implementation of online adaptive control