The Process Control Workshop

The Process Control Workshop^TM is an intensive, three-day training workshop that will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed for optimizing the performance of your plant’s controls.

Not only will The Process Control Workshop give you a thorough understanding of control loop dynamics and an essential insight into the workings of controllers, but it will also provide you with the know-how to identify poor control, the tools to find the root causes, the skills to fix the problems, and the techniques to optimize your control loops.

In addition, The Process Control Workshop covers most advanced control strategies including feedforward, cascade, and ratio control, control valve characterization and gain scheduling.

Workshop Content

Introduction to process control
Understanding process characteristics and limitations on loop performance
PID controllers and their proportional, integral, and derivative control modes
Controller algorithms and options
Proven controller tuning methods for self-regulating and integrating control loops
Tuning strategies for difficult control loops
Diagnosing and solving control problems
Feedforward, cascade, and ratio control
When and how to use advanced regulatory control
Assessing control loop performance

The content of the training can be customized to meet your specific needs. Many customers also add one or two days of hands-on controller tuning on their own live loops.

Workshop Handouts

You will receive the following useful materials to use during the workshop and take with you afterwards:

Printed copy of the workshop material
Licensed copy of the OptiControls Loop Simulator software and accompanying practical exercises
MS Excel spreadsheet for PID controller tuning