Understanding the inner workings of a PID loop and how it should be tuned for each process has become an essential skill for the boiler service technician and control systems design engineer.

To properly design a complex motion controller, you need to know what PID is all about. Proportional-integral-derivative, or PID, control is the most common type of controller used in industry ...

Generally, introducing sudden changes into the calculation of the PID (such as dumping the integral) is not an optimal solution because the effects of such excursions tend to destabilize the system.

Finding and fixing process control loop problems that PID tuning cannot correct By Mark Coughran Plant engineers and technicians are frequently asked to tune the controller when a control loop’s ...

What you’ll learn: How to define the performance criteria of a digital control feedback system, such as a PID control system. How to define the speed and resolution of the control DAC and the ...

Instrumentation, automation and process engineers and technicians involved in specifying, installing, testing, tuning, operating and maintaining regulatory PID control systems.

The PID Tuning Translator converts PID tuning from one industrial PID controller to another. It converts PID values from any of more than 490 different industrial PID controllers to the new system.

In the nearly 40 years since electronic control systems first became common features of industrial machines, controls theory has necessarily evolved to keep pace with machine design. Early on ...

PID controller design has long been central to the stable and efficient operation of automatic voltage regulator (AVR) systems worldwide.

I was nursing a lukewarm vending machine coffee recently when I overheard two fresh-faced engineers complaining about the PID tuning process and coming up with ways to tear down centuries of control ...