Although this is appearing in the middle of the current series of loop signatures on digital controllers, I felt that it would be nice to have a change and write another article on some of the more interesting ...
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In the previous article in this series, it was shown that the main problem with the P only controller is the fact that it is not capable of eliminating offset between setpoint and process variable (PV) ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in November in Johannesburg. The courses are unique, in that they are beneficial to both novices and highly experienced ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in July in Johannesburg, and August in Durban. The courses are unique, in that they are beneficial to both novices ...
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In the far distant past when I first started my own business we specialised in automating plants mainly on gold and platinum mines. Even inexperienced as I was in those days, I soon realised that the ...
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One of the biggest problems associated with the final control element is hysteresis and backlash. This can be roughly defined as the maximum difference obtained in stem position for the same input up-scale ...
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Readers are familiar with Michael Brown's popular series of articles on control loop optimisation. Many may be pleased to hear that Michael Brown Control Engineering now has a website - have a look at ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well-known courses on practical process control in March in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and are invaluable to both novices and highly experienced practitioners ...
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In response to the frequent requests for more detailed information on control loop problem solving, I intend publishing some of the information dealt with in our courses in the next series of articles. ...
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