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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Galil Motion Control is announcing its GalilSuite Software Package, their latest generation software for configuring, analyzing and tuning Galil motion control systems.

By the way, we’ve covered a PID library for Arduino before. While this post talks about temperature, PID control is used for everything from flight control to levitation.