The document outlines a 2-day practical workshop on process control, scheduled for November 27-28, 2014, in Dublin, presented by Geoff Bottrill. Participants are offered a '4 for 3' discount deal, allowing companies to save on training costs, with an emphasis on hands-on learning for engineers and technicians involved in industrial control systems. Additional benefits include early bird discounts, free reference materials, and opportunities for continuing professional development.

1. 4 for 3 discount offer - see registration form for details
Practical
Process Control
dublin
27 & 28 November 2014
TechnologyTraining that Works
Geoff Bottrill
HNC, DMS, MIEE
A 2-day practical workshop presented by:
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TOTAL VALUE TO YOU - $202
Book by 30 October 2014 and
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each with hundreds of pages of
engineering knowledge
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our
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1359 per person
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• Practical Programmable Logic
Controller's (PLCs) for Automation
and Process Control
• Practical Distributed Control
Systems (DCS) for Engineers and
Technicians
• Practical Hazardous Areas for
Engineers and Technicians
• Practical Tuning of Industrial
Control Loops
You will learn how to:
• Understand the fundamentals of process control and new techniques
• Tune PID control loops
• Correct stability problems
• Understand cascade loops and feed-forward control
• Identify and correct problems with dead time in the process
who should attend:
• Automation engineers
• Building service designers
• Consulting engineers
• Control engineers
• Control technicians
• DCS personnel
• Electrical engineers and
technicians
• Electricians
• Energy management consultants
• Instrumentation engineers
• Instrumentation technicians
• Maintenance engineers
• Process engineers
• Process operators
• Those involved in the design, implementation and upgrading of
industrial control systems.
4 FOR 3 DISCOUNT OFFER – see registration form for details

2. Practical process control
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* discounted and free registration to be
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PLUS 5 eBooks of
your choice!
Every delegate will also receive
5 eBooks of their choice
from IDC’s technical library
– valued at $235!
Geoff has been working in the instrumentation, measurement and
control fields for over twenty-five years and has spent the past fifteen
years specialising in Hazardous Areas, Intrinsic Safety and
Instrumentation Drawings. Geoff began his career at Kent Instruments,
as a service engineer working in both the UK and East Africa. His
experience ranges from systems design functions and on-site trouble
shooting to technical and commercial customer support.
Recently Geoff has taken on the responsibility of mentoring engineers in training, in addition
to the presentation of engineering workshops in the process control and measurement field.
His positive interactive approach to teaching has made him popular with workshop attendees
worldwide.
An intensive, practical 2-day workshop presented by
Geoff Bottrill HNC, DMS, MIEE
the workshop
This practical workshop covers all the essentials of process control and tools to optimise the
operation of your plant and process, including the ability to perform effective loop tuning.
Practical process control is aimed at engineers and technicians who wish to have a clear,
practical understanding of the essentials of process control and loop tuning, as well as how to
optimise the operation of their particular plant or process. These persons would typically be
primarily involved in the design, implementation and upgrading of industrial control systems.
Mathematical theory has been kept to a minimum with the emphasis throughout on practical
applications and useful information.
Pre-requisites
Basic electrical concepts would be useful.
practical sessions
This is a practical, hands-on workshop enabling you to work through exercises which reinforce
the concepts discussed. Sessions include:
• Model response
• Trial and error tuning
• Ziegler Nichols tuning
• Open loop step analysis
• Protuner analysis
• Protuner data acquisition
• Feed Forward
• IMC tuning
To gain full value from this workshop,
please bring your laptop/notebook computer.
free reference manual
as a hard-copy and eBook (Valued at $89.50)
Our attendees don’t just receive photocopied notes!
You will receive the comprehensive fully illustrated reference manual,
as a hard-copy and eBook version, filled with hundreds of pages
of tables, charts, figures and handy hints.

3. the program
Day ONE
REGISTRATION & INTRODUCTION TO BASIC
CONTROL CONCEPTS
• Typical manual control
• Feedback and feed-forward control
• Block diagrams
INTRODUCTION TO SENSORS AND
TRANSMITTERS
• Selection and specification of devices
• Pressure transmitters
• Flow meters
• Level transmitters
• Temperature sensors
INTRODUCTION TO CONTROL VALVES
• Basic principles
• Rotary control valves
• Ball valves
• Control valve characteristics and
specifications
BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CONTROL SYSTEMS
• On/off control
• Modulation control
• Principle of closed loop control
• PID control modes
STABILITY AND CONTROL MODES OF
CLOSED LOOPS
• Cause of instability in control loops
• Change of stability through PID control
modes
• Methods to improve stability
• Principles of closed loop control tuning
DIGITAL CONTROL PRINCIPLES
• Principle of incremental control algorithms
• Identifying control blocks in the time and
frequency domain
• Multiple outputs through digital algorithms
IDEAL PID VS REAL PID
• Non-field-interactive or ideal PID
• Field-interactive or real PID
• Distinguish between process noise and
instability
• Selection of ideal or real PID
TUNING OF CLOSED LOOP CONTROL
• Tuning constants calculation according to
Ziegler and Nichols
• Open loop tuning procedure
• Closed loop tuning procedure
• Damped oscillation tuning method
• Fine tuning of practical control loops
• Tuning considerations for controllers with
saturation and non-saturation output limits
The fee for each workshop covers all materials
including workshop manual, lunches
and refreshments
Day TWO
CASCADE CONTROL
• Equation types for cascade control
• Initialisation and PV – tracking
• Use of multiple outputs in cascade control
• Tuning procedure for cascade control
FEED-FORWARD CONTROL
• Feed-forward balance – a control concept
• Tuning procedure for feed-forward control
COMBINED FEEDBACK AND FEED-
FORWARD CONTROL
• Concept of combined control with
incremental algorithms
• Tuning procedure for combined control
LONG DEAD-TIME IN CLOSED LOOP
CONTROL
• The problem of long dead-time in closed
loops
• Use of process simulation for process
variable prediction
• Tuning procedure for control loops with
long dead-time
ALARM HANDLING AND PROCESS
SECURITY
RANGE OF CONTROL AND
INSTRUMENTATION IN INDUSTRIAL
PROCESS CONTROL
INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL PROCESS
CONTROL
• Introduction in the use of statistics in
process control
• Standard deviation: static value alarm
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
• Tools of statistical process control
• PLC systems
• Stand alone loop controllers
EXPERT SYSTEM AND MODEL BASED SELF
TUNING CONTROLLERS
• Basis auto tuning
• Expert system control
• Model based adaptive control
SUMMARY, OPEN FORUM
AND CLOSING

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Practical Process Control
workshop details
• Workshops start at 8:30am and finish at 5:00pm daily.
• Registration is from 8:00am on the first day.
• Theworkshopfeesareperattendeeandincludeareference
manual, handouts, lunches and all refreshments.
• Full payment is required prior to the start of the workshop.
Early Bird BOOKING Offer
Please note that the Early Bird Booking Offer is only available
to those registrations received by 30 October 2014 and paid
prior to the start of the workshop.
Confirmation
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48 hours. Official confirmation and details of the workshop
will be sent to you prior to the workshop date. Please wait for
official confirmation before making accommodation and/or
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Cancellation
A fee of 20% will apply for written cancellations received
7-14 days prior to the start of the workshop. Cancellations
received less than 7 days prior to the workshop are not
refundable however substitutes are welcome.
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