Practical Process Control Training - PID Control

Top companies maintain their competitive advantage by maximizing productivity and minimizing costs - by optimizing and controlling critical processes. Training is an essential element in equipping engineers for success and achieving that advantage.

The Practical Process Control curriculum is how top companies empower their human resources and to maximize the return on their capital investments. Practical Process Control Training has helped process technicians and engineers to understand and apply innovative control techniques.

How do top companies like Holcim (US) (cement), Lafarge North America (cement), Honeywell (chemicals), Westinghouse Savannah River (power), ChevronTexaco (petroleum), Genzyme (biotech/pharmaceutical), and Owens Corning (chemicals) maintain their competitive advantage? Attend PID Control workshop and learn proven techniques that will improve your bottom-line performance. 

This more advanced seminar is part of Business Industrial Network's Phase II Training (Phase I training is our PLC Troubleshooting course), and is also offered as On-Site Training. 

These process control  training courses, as with all of our training courses, are not just text book instructions but practical knowledge and case examples based on years of experience.

This course offer information your people will actually use out on the shop floor. 

Be sure and read PID Instructor's (Dr. Rice) articles on our site.

"Model-Based Tuning Methods for PID Controllers"

"PID Performance Monitoring Fundamentals" (17 page PDF)

Course Location ...

The Microsoft Building

 3 Cityplace Drive 

Saint Louis, MO. 63141 

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This seminar/workshop will be held in the state of the art training  facility located in the Microsoft building next to Business Industrial Network's HQ offices.

• Lecture
  • Fundamentals of Process Dynamics and Control
  • Proportional Control
  • Integral Action and PI Control
  • A Formal Approach to Controller Design Using Design Tools
  • Controller Performance Criteria
  • Derivative Mode and PID Control
  • PID Control with Derivative Filter
• Demonstration
  • Modeling Process
    Dynamics Using Control Station
  • Implementation of
    P-Only Controllers
  • Adaptive PI Control of Nonlinear Processes
  • PID Control of Tank Level
  • PID with Filter Control of Heat Exchanger Temperature

• Workshop
  • Exploring Dynamics of the Gravity Drained Tanks
  • P-Only Control of Tank Level
  • The Hazard of Tuning PI Controllers by Trial and Error
  • PI Control of Heat Exchanger Temperature
  • PID Control of Heat Exchanger Temperature
  • PID with Filter and Control of the Multi-Tanks Process

Day 2 Training ...

• Lecture

  • Using Control Station with Real Processes
  • Cascade Control
  • Feed Forward Control
  • Dynamics of Non-Self Regulating (Integrating) Processes
• Demonstration
  • Simulation and Control of Heat Exchanger using Custom Process
  • Single Loop Control of the Jacketed Reactor
  • Feed Forward Control of an Ideal Process
  • Controlling a Non-Self Regulating (Integrating) Custom Process
• Workshop
  • Modeling and Simulation of Single Loop Processes
  • Cascade Control of the Jacketed Reactor
  • Feed Forward Control of the Jacketed Reactor
  • Modeling and Control of the Pumped Tank Process

Instructor Bio:

Dr. Robert Rice Director of Solutions Engineering
Dr. Rice has published extensively on topics associated with automatic process control, including non-self-regulating processes and model predictive control. Prior to joining Control Station, Dr. Rice held engineering and technical positions with PPG Industries and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Rice received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic and State University and both his MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

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We are a Strategic Training Partner for the Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE) and provide AFE members a 10% discount.

Note: Loaner laptops will be provided. We will be using laptops to work with the PID software specifically designed to help users with the process control training. 

Recommended Lodging ...

Drury Inn & Suites just 1/2 mile down the road at ...

11980 Olive Blvd, Creve Coeur, Missouri, 63141

Discount code provide after registration.