Product category:
Process Monitoring and Optimisation
News Release from: ExperTune
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 November 2003
ExperTune PID tuning sofware skills
recognised
John Gerry, of ExperTune, has received the Douglas H Annin Award at the ISA 2003 conference "in recognition of the contributions to the development of a PID engine and its commercial applications"
John Gerry, founder and president of Wisconsin-based ExperTune, has received the Douglas H Annin Award at the ISA 2003 conference "in recognition of the contributions to the development of a PID tuning engine and its commercial applications" For the past 17 years, John has been guiding the ExperTune development of control loop optimisation tools
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 5 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Douglas H Annin Award, established in 1985, recognises outstanding achievement in the design or development of components of an automatic control system from the input measurement through the final control element.
The Award is made annually by the ISA in honor of Douglas H Annin, a pioneer in modern-day control valve actuation and control-valve body design.
The 2003 award was presented to Mr Gerry by the President of the ISA, Robert Ives, who commented: "Few people in the industry have not heard of John Gerry and his loop tuning and analysis software".
In accepting the Award, Mr Gerry paid tribute to his team, saying: "This award underscores our commitment towards making ExperTune the leader in process optimisation software".
He added: "Our latest technology, PlantTriage, is a plant-wide performance monitor that has successfully saved millions of dollars in improved performance for the process industries".
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