Expertune PID Loop Optimizer
PID tuning, valve and instrument analysis software
In many plants, process engineers are guessing PID tuning numbers. The outcome of guesswork is increased wear on valves, shortened valve life, poor control, and inconsistent results. Expertune PID Loop Optimizer is a PID tuning software designed to eliminate the guesswork. It helps in properly tuning and stabilizing the plant, improves the reliability of valves, and makes it easier to sleep at night.
Expertune PID Loop Optimizer – fast and easy way to the right PID tuning
Benefits
- Focus your efforts in the right place - instrument and valve issues are easily distinguished from tuning problems.
- Tune with confidence – Accurate tuning parameters for the process response that you want
- Reduce mistakes - no math required. PID Loop Optimizer knows your controller, its algorithms and all the unit conversions.
- Speed up your loop tuning activities, tuning many loops in one day.
- You have total control over the tuning selection – whether you want fast response or slow ramping.
- Tune specialized loops, like pH control, level controllers, cascade and more.
Features
- Fast and easy - no math required
- Automated reporting tools
- Gives you control over the tuning methods
- Works with hundreds of industrial controllers
- Gathers data via OPC and other methods
- Diagnoses instrumentation and valve issues
- Develops process models you can trust
- Simplifies reporting using automated reporting tools
- Predicts results with built-in simulator
- Supports tuning for advanced regulatory loops, like cascade and split-range controllers. Gives you control over the tuning methods
- Eliminates interactions between controllers
Versions
Standard version - Award-winning PID Tuning software connects to PLC systems and single loop controllers, gathers process model and calculates optimal PID tuning, specifically for your controller.
Standard Plus and Advanced version - Includes everything in the Standard version, plus analysis tools for cascade and feedforward loops, valve analysis, pH control linearizer, power spectrum analysis, and more.
Articles, webinars and whitepapers about PID tuning and process control
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Webinar: 7 Ways to monitor controller variability
The control system typically represents as much as 10% of the full cost of a new process plant. With such a big investment, you might like to know if the control system is doing its job. This webinar presents seven methods to analyze controller variability.
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Webinar: IIoT, Digitalization and Process Control
Process Control Systems are uniquely positioned as one of the first industrial systems that can leverage the IIoT. This presentation addresses the routine monitoring of industrial control systems themselves. This includes monitoring of the performance of not only basic equipment, such as instrumentation and valves, but also monitoring of control loops, control strategies, and process results.
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9 steps to achieve energy savings in process plants
The industrial sector alone consumes more than 50% of all the energy used in the world in manufacturing and production. Saving energy is more important than ever, as costs to the environment and to the bottom line are getting more attention. Especially in process manufacturing, energy accounts for a significant share of the operating costs.
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6 steps to better pulp & paper performance through consistency control
Consistency control has an immediate and direct effect on almost all aspects of the pulp and paper process. Problems with consistency control inevitably lead to quality problems, reliability problems, sheet breaks, lost production, and increased energy costs. These six steps can greatly improve the operation of consistency loops, bringing stability to quality to pulp and paper operations.
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Webinar: Workflows and KPIs for remote monitoring of valves and controls
When working remotely, you don’t always have access to all the resources of the plant facility. But you can have access to data streams that can measure valve performance, diagnose issues, and document improvements. This webinar teaches you to set up basic workflows for remote valve monitoring, as well as specific technical and business KPIs for reporting.
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Webinar: How to calculate the business value of control performance
Your plant can save millions with Control Performance. But, do you know how to measure and document those savings? This webinar presents several practical methods to identify, calculate, and document economic benefits from your control system. Use this information to show management the value of your work, to justify projects, and to improve your career.
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Webinar: Digital twins and valve diagnostics
How can you make sure the control system is performing, even when you are not able to be physically in the plant? This webinar shows you what and how to monitor critical KPIs and diagnostics for control system performance – remotely. You will learn how to evaluate and manage instruments, valves, and controls from afar, and know when to call for hands-on in-plant actions to resolve hardware issues.
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Webinar: Remote troubleshooting of control systems
How can you make sure the control system is performing, even when you are not able to be physically in the plant? This webinar shows you what and how to monitor critical KPIs and diagnostics for control system performance – remotely. You will learn how to evaluate and manage instruments, valves, and controls from afar, and know when to call for hands-on in-plant actions to resolve hardware issues.
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Webinar: See how plants are monitoring valves remotely – case studies
How to monitor valves remotely and how do we customize a solution to maximum reliability, reduce risk and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Neles’ Expertune Valve Performance Management service helps you manage the performance of valves, actuators, and positioners. Extend the life of your valve assets and improve reliability.
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Webinar: How to monitor advanced regulatory control
Advanced regulatory controls (ARC): How to monitor your ARC strategies, to make sure they are delivering their best performance all the time. Watch our webinar by Vincent Morehead, Senior Process Control Engineer at Neles to learn more about ARC.
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Webinar: Loop tuning – What can you do remotely?
Often, PID tuning constants are developed quickly, by guessing, or with unreliable methods. The outcome is increased wear on valves, shortened valve life, poor control, and inconsistent results. In this webinar, we will show you how to tune remotely with Expertune PID Loop Optimizer which is a PID tuning software designed to eliminate the guesswork.
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