ADVANCED REGULATORY CONTROL TRAINING

Self-paced video training in practical industrial process control 

APC 200: Online training

The DCS and PLC have many powerful features that still remain under-utilized. This course gives you a training on PID tuning, it shows you how to build powerful optimizing controllers inside the DCS or PLC. The course explains in detail the when and how of control techniques like cascade, feedforward, constraint override, maximizing and minimizing constraint controllers, model-based controllers and dead-time compensators.

This video training on advanced process control consists of videos that can be watched at your own rythm over the course of a week. Students can call instructor at specific hours for clarifications. Participants are expected to spend in total about 21 hours watching video's and doing exercises and tests. These exercises and tests could be made during or after the training, since each participant will receive a 14 day temporary license to our process control software products SIMCET and PITOPS.

Presentation of APC200 by our partner PiControl

TARGETED TO:

• ​Managers and Supervisors
• Advanced Process Control Engineers
• Process Control Engineers
• Instrument Engineers
• Lab Technicians
• DCS/PLC Technicians

PROGRAM

TOPIC 1

• Advanced Process Control options and strategies
• How to maximize throughput?
• When to use feedforward control?
• Advanced cascade control

TOPIC 2

• How to use constraint override selectors?
• Procedures for startup and chain activation in the DCS
• Tips for PID and APC schemes
• Understanding closed loop dynamics

TOPIC 3

• How to correct online analyzers?
• Using dead-time compensators
• Using virtual sensors, aka soft sensors
• When to use which type of model based control?

TOPIC 4

• How to identify transfer functions based on closed-loop data?
• Practical lab sessions using PITOPS
• Model-predictive control

TOPIC 5

• ​When to use Advanced Regulatory Control (APC) or Model Predictive Control (e.g. DMC, RMPCT,...)?
• Debugging and troubleshooting PID and control room problems
• Online PID/APC control quality monitoring and reporting
  

AFTER THE TRAINING YOU ARE ABLE TO:

• ​Design and build powerful controllers in any DCS/PLC
• Calculate DCS parameters precisely
• Activate and commission new control schemes carefully
• Decide when to use APC and when to use MPC

PRICE

• Video: €680/ participant (Excl. VAT)
  

EXTRA INFORMATION

The course is given in English. Furthermore, participants must have access to a windows computer with Microsoft Excel and internet connection suited for watching video's on the VIMEO platform. 
 

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