How to automate series: The mechanics of loop tuning
Date: August 1, 2024

Young engineers and those with more experience will benefit from looking at control system loop tuning from a fresh, experienced and slightly irreverent perspective. It’s an industry mantra that control loops need to be tuned, but are your problems really tuning problems? Keep yourself out of trouble by asking six key questions. Gain insights into working with operators on loop tuning without upsetting the process. Think you’re finished? Did you close your loop-tuning session properly? Join us in this PID tuning tutorial to learn and ask your most pressing questions.

Learning objectives: 

• The six things you should look for before you start tuning: Is it really a tuning problem?
• Understand the etiquette for working with operators.
• Take steps to avoid upsetting the process while tuning.
• You aren’t done when you are done: How to close out a loop tuning session properly.

Presenter

Ed Bullerdiek is a retired control engineer with 37 years of process control experience in petroleum refining and oil production.

Moderator

Mark T. Hoske is content manager, Control Engineering, CFE Media and Technology, www.controleng..com