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Tuning Control Loops, Feedback and Advanced Controllers
Course Description
This course covers the principles of automatic industrial control and the operation of the feedback loop to include proportional, integral and derivative control modes. Advanced concepts of cascade, ratio, and feedforward control are presented. Methods of controller tuning are presented and practiced. Improved control provides better productivity and efficiencies. This course presents, step by step, practical, successful tuning methods that utilize closed loop relationships and reaction curve analysis to tune feedback controllers in process industries. These methods can be easily understood and applied immediately to provide improved control of your processes. Also this course explains the operation and application of advanced regulatory control methods: ratio, cascade, adaptive feedforward, override and deadtime control. Strategies are covered as well as mean to study process dynamics needed for implementation. You will learn how to tune advanced control systems to improve control of various types of processes. This will lead to more efficient process operation.

This Intensive five-day instructional program covering the educational needs of Instrumentation and Control Engineers & Technicians, Plant Operators, Operation Engineers, Process and Utility Supervisors, Project Engineers & Technicians, and Technical Supervisory personnel involved in Tuning Control Loops, Feedback and Advanced Controllers. No specific prerequisite training or experience required for registration.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions
  • Control Modes: Proportional, Integral and Derivative
  • Dynamic and Steady State Considerations: Gain, Dead Time and Time Constant
  • Tuning Control Systems: Closed Loop Tuning Using Ziegler Nichols Method, Evaluation and Control Criteria
  • Cascade Control: Primary Loop, Secondary Loop, Design and Tuning Criteria
  • Ratio Control: Applications and Implementation
  • Feedforward Control: Criteria, Applications, Tuning, Implementation, Material and Energy Balances
  • Safety Concerns and Procedures when Operating Control Systems
  • Relationship of Controller and Process: Four components in a closed loop system, Interaction of changes of each component, and Benefits of Good Control
  • Rules for Improved Trial and Error Tuning
  • Analysis of Closed Loop System: Tuning Using Oscillation Techniques
  • Analysis of Open Loop System: Tuning Using a Response Curve Generated by a Step Change, Tuning Using a Response Curve Produced by a Load Change, and Working with Unusual Response Curves
  • Process Characteristics and Related Tuning Requirements
  • Understanding Changes that may be Required in the Process and Suggest Alternative Methods
  • Relationship of Controller and Process: Various Parts of Processes and Interaction of these Parts
  • Description and Benefits of Feedforward Controllers: Tests Required to Obtain Feedforward Constants, Calculation of the Feedforward Constants
  • Description and Benefits of Adaptive or Scheduled Gain: Methods to Tune Controllers with Adaptive Gain. Use of Adaptive Gain to Provide Control of Non-linear Processes. Using Adaptive Gain to Provide Special Effects. Limits, Step Changes, Transmitter Failure Protection, Surge Control, etc.
  • Analysis of Processes with Excessive Dead Time: Dead Time Compensatory. Tuning Dead Time Processes with PID only. Small Changes to a Process to Provide Improved Control
  • Application of Error Squared Controllers for Level Control.
  • Understanding Changes that may be Required in the Process

 

 

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
IE136-01
2026-04-19
Manama
USD 5450
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IE136-02
2026-07-19
Dubai
USD 5450
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IE136-03
2026-10-12
Istanbul
USD 5950
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IE136-04
2026-12-20
Dubai
USD 5450
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