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Our Speaker: Rachel Lowell
Rachel Lowell
APC Product Marketing
Aspen Technology Inc.
Rachel Lowell is a member of the product marketing organization at
AspenTech, specializing in advanced process control products. She
holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from
The Florida State University.

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Rachel Lowell
APC Product Marketing, Aspen Technology Inc.
June 18, 2014
Monitor and Optimize PID Loop
Performance with Aspen PID Watch
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Agenda
Why regulatory control is important to APC
Monitoring PID Loops
Online
Offline
PID Loop performance reports and analysis
Tuning PID Loops
Use the tuning toolkit to improve problematic PID Loops and
optimize performance
Demonstration & discussion with Lucas Reis
Q&A with Randy Burch

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PID Control
ProportionalIntegralDerivative (PID)
Generic control loop feedback mechanism (or controller) widely
used in industrial control systems
PID controller calculates an "error" value as the difference
between a measured process variable and a desired set point.
The controller attempts to minimize the error by adjusting the
process control inputs.

PV response to varying
proportional term (with
constant integral and
derivative)
PV response to varying
integral term (with
constant proportional
and derivative)
PV response to varying
derivative term (with
constant proportional
and integral)
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Control Loop Tuning
Tuning a control loop is the adjustment of its control
parameters (proportional band/gain, integral gain/reset,
derivative gain/rate) to the optimum values for the desired
control response.
Stability (bounded oscillation) is a basic requirement, but
beyond that, different systems have different behavior,
different applications have different requirements, and
requirements may conflict with one another.
settling time
rise time
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Causes of Poor PID Performance
Tuned for stability rather
than performance
20%
Actuator deteriorated
15%
Interaction with other loops
20%
Process/Feed change
15%
Measurement and
Instrumentation Issues
5%
New process operating point
15%
Operator/Training
10%
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Aspen PID Watch Functions
Although there is overlap of work-flow processes,
the control loop monitoring tasks can typically be
classified into online and offline functions
Report:
Identify
deficient PID
loop control
Monitor:
Validate
control
performance
Retune:
Resolve
control or
mechanical
issues
Assess:
Analyze control
loop issues
Online
Offline

Control Loop
Monitoring
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PID Loops Tuning
display includes:
Tag Name and Description
DCS Type
PID Form and Equation
PV High/Low Limits
PID Tuning coefficients
Control action
PID Loops Tuning
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PID Loop Analysis
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Raw Data Plot
Provides historical trend values for
process measurement, setpoint and
control valve output
Includes indication for manual control
mode and bad process measurements

PID Watch Analysis
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Impulse Response Plot
Represents the closed-loop impulse
between the ideal disturbance
sequence and process input
Provides a direct measure of how the
PID controller is performing in
rejecting disturbances or in tracking of
setpoint changes

PID Watch Analysis
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Performance Index Plot
Control loop performance in response
to random disturbances or ability to
achieve setpoint changes
Index ratio of actual performance
over minimum variance control
PID Watch Analysis
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Valve Analysis Plot
Includes statistical-based and
pattern recognition techniques for
estimating control valve oscillation
and valve stiction size
PID Watch Analysis
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Analysis Summary
Provides an overview of all PID loop
analysis results and performance
metrics
PID Watch Analysis
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PID Watch Analysis
Process Model Identification
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PID Watch Analysis
PID Tuning Simulation Plot
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Lucas Reis
Sr. Product Designer, Product Management
Aspen Technology Inc.
Lucas Reis is the APC Sr. Product Designer. He earned a B.S.
and M.S in Chemical Engineering from the University of
Uberlandia, Brazil. He worked in APC Services and product
management during his career at AspenTech.
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Want to see similar results?
http://training.aspentech.com
Consider a training class from AspenTech
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Advanced Process Control
Performance Monitoring

Advance Process Control
Performance Monitoring (APC2600)
July 2, 2014 Reading, UK
July 28, 2014 Houston, TX
August 27, 2014 Reading, UK
http://support.aspentech.com/supportpublictrain/CourseInfo.asp?course=APC2600
Learn how to use Aspen Watch KPI to analyze and troubleshoot
controller performance, and how to detect and repair model
mismatch in Aspen DMCplus controllers.
Learn to sustain the benefits achieved by your control applications.
Learn how Aspen Adaptive Control can help improve performance of
the controller through generating and deploying updated models.
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Online Customer Community

To register, please visit
www.aspentech.
com/community

Questions? Email
community@aspentech.com

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https://www.aspentech.com/community
Discussions
DMCplus & APC products
Product Discussions
Thread: Aspen PID Watch

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Q&A








Randy Burch
Advisor, Advanced Control Technology
Products
Aspen Technology Inc.
Randy Burch is an Advisor in the Advanced
Process Control R&D group at Aspen Technology.
In over 20 years with Aspen, he worked for 10
years as an APC Services engineer responsible for
design, implementation, and commissioning of
advanced process control and optimization
projects, prior to joining the APC software
development team.