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News Release from: ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society | Subject: Advanced controller tuning
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2007
ISA Advanced Tuning Course to be
alongside NI Week
The ISA "Tuning of Advanced Controllers" course will be held on 6 August, in conjunction with NI Week and its Alliance Day Activities at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas
This course will focus on practical, useful ways to tune feedforward controllers in the processing industries without requiring advanced mathematics Attendees will have the opportunity to learn the operation and application of advanced regulatory control methods: ratio, cascade, adaptive feedforward, override and deadtime control
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Strategies will be covered as well as means to study process dynamics needed for implementation.
The course will also teach students how to tune advanced control systems to improve control of various types of processes, leading to more efficient process operation.
Upon completing the course, which awards 0.7 CEU credits, attendees will know how to recognize when advanced controls are beneficial; explain feedforward control and list the benefits; run plant tests to determine feedforward relationships; calculate the feedforward constants; explain what adaptive or scheduled gain is and its benefits; calculate adaptive gains for non-linear processes; explain the function and operation of dead time compensators; tune dead time compensators; use different methods to improve control of processes with dead time; and identify when process changes may be needed for improved control.
For more information about the "Tuning of Advanced Controllers" seminar on 6 August, visit the ISA website, or contact ISA direct.
NI Week, the ultimate learning environment for novice and expert engineers, takes place from 7-9 August at the Austin Convention Center, 500 East Cesar Chavez Street, in Austin, Texas.
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