"Learn How To Tune PID Loops
First Time, Every Time"

I'll show you the exact, step-by-step method that PID Tuning consultants use to get the fastest response and max stability from almost any PID control loop.

Dear Engineering Professional,

Are you pulling your hair out with frustration trying to tune your PID loop using trial and error?

I'll let you into a secret: the PID Tuning pros have a special name for that 'trial and error' method.

They Call it "The WAG Method."

That stands for Wild Assed Guess. Because if there is no science behind your tuning - then the chances of you stumbling across the exact combination of P, I and D that will deliver the fastest, most stable response are approximately zero.

Have you also tried the infamous Ziegler Nichols technique yet? You know the one - It forces you to send your system unstable before suggesting tuning constants that leave your loop always teetering on instability.

How is it that a technique invented in the 1940's that doesn't work outside of a laboratory (with its sterile, ideal conditions) is still pedalled by almost everyone in the industry as THE way to tune a PID loop?

How's your Calculus these days?

Are you fed up with websites and textbooks full of equations like this??

The truth is you don't need to understand control theory or equations like that evil looking one above to successfully tune most PID loops.

You don't need to plough through pages of dry text books trying to separate the academic theory from the practical techniques that you can actually use in the real world.

My name is Finn Peacock, and I've been in the Control System Engineering game for over 12 years...

After 12 years of costly trial and error, here’s what I discovered

• I've learnt that life is just too short to spend your days (and late-nights) tweaking controllers using an infinite loop of trial and error.



• I've learnt that Ziegler Nichols is a waste of time on anything but the most textbook of processes.



• I've learnt that if you have $10,000 to spend - then there are some great software packages that really do work very well. (drop me a line if you want to know which one works best)



• I've also learned that if you ain't got $10K burning a hole in your pocket - you can still get your loops tuned beautifully - but you need to follow a very specific process.

Funnily enough I have never seen this complete PID Tuning process in any textbook or on any website. Which is a shame because these tuning rules will give you a fast, robustly tuned loop with minimum overshoot.

The technique I'm talking about is a technique that I've assembled from lots of different sources over my 12 years as a control engineer working with some of the best Control Engineers in the world. I've used the very same technique to tune loops from nuclear power plants to chocolate factories.

Finally, I've found time to sit down and commit every last detail of this proven method into one easy-to-use reference. I've called it:

The PID Tuning Blueprint

I have collected 12 years' worth of practical PID tuning experience and put it into The PID Tuning Blueprint. I will guide you through all the methods, principles, and hard earned practical insights of my 12 year-long journey in plain English and in a simple step-by-step way.

As a highly skilled professional, you've got a million and one things that need your attention. Don't waste your precious time trying to piece together the whole picture about PID Tuning when I can give you all the information you need right now.

Skip the learning curve and learn from my mistakes…

The 4 Deadliest Mistakes of PID Tuning

Mistake # 1: All processes are tuned the same way

You do not want to fall into the trap of thinking that there is a “one size fits all” approach to tuning PID loops. There are 2 distinct types of processes, and you need to follow a very different set of tuning rules for each type.

I walk you through how to identify your process type - and then guide you through the specific tuning rules that will work for that particular process.

Please beware of tuning methods that don't make this distinction.

Mistake # 2: Tuning your loop in "Closed Loop"

If you have been struggling to tune your loop it is probably because you have had the thing in "closed loop" or "Auto mode". This is really bad news. Closed loop mode masks critical process characteristics that are essential for robust tuning. You must have your loop in "Open Loop" or "Manual mode" when you tune it to get the real picture. Does this sound counter intuitive? Don't worry it is all explained in plain English in Section 6 of the blueprint.

Mistake # 3: Assuming all controllers can be tuned with the same method…

Imagine that you inherit a perfectly tuned loop, but the controller is obsolete and needs replacing. You swap it with the latest model controller and copy all the settings over. You power up the loop … and it immediately goes unstable!

This happens all the time because there are no standard units for PID settings and there is no standard algorithm for implementing PID control. It is a jungle out there, but the Blueprint takes you by the hand and guides you through the undergrowth by identifying how YOUR controller works and what units it uses. You then get all the tools you need to translate your freshly calculated tuning constants into your controller's language.

Mistake # 4: Assuming PID tuning begins and ends with the tuning!

A car with a well tuned engine won't perform very well if its tyres are flat. And the best tuned PID loop in the world won't perform if certain process fundamentals are wrong.

I once completed a $35,000 dollar fixed-price contract to fix a PID loop. It took me half a day. I didn't touch the tuning. I just made a change to a position-transmitter setting. Heaps of times I've been called out to tune a controller, when something else in the process was wrong.

The Blueprint walks you through a step-by-step check of all the process fundamentals before the tuning begins (tuning starts at step 8 out of 10 steps!). This is stuff learnt from over a decade in the game, which is essential to get right before you can even think about tuning. And you won't find these steps in any text books!

Here's a sample of what the PID Tuning Blueprint
will do for YOU...

Save Yourself Hundreds of Hours by Getting an Immediate Blueprint to PID Tuning Success

Tune your loop today – the Blueprint gets straight to the point with no distractions, so you can get your process up to maximum performance ASAP

Gives you a loop that is Robust – this means that you can rest easy safe in the knowledge that it will stay tuned for the long term

Say goodbye to trial and error – this technique will give you the best settings first time, every time.

This technique will automatically identify any nasty loop characteristics like time delays and lags and provide tuning constants that will handle them.

You don't need to be Einstein to follow this technique, if you can

(a) read

and

(b) use a calculator (or MS Excel)

Then you have all the skills required to nail your loop tuning.

No expensive equipment required – all you need is your process data and a spreadsheet

Identify problems with your process that have nothing to do with the tuning (these are incredibly common)

You Learn Techniques It Has Taken Me 12 Years to Acquire But You Can Start Using In 10 Minutes

Here's what The PID Tuning Blueprint won't do:

IT WON'T...

• leave you with a process that is always teetering on the edge of instability

IT WON'T...

• leave you with raw tuning constants and no means of converting them to the specific units and algorithm of your particular controller

IT DOESN'T...

• expect you to have a PhD in maths to understand it

IT WON'T...

• cost you $10,000-$30,000 in PID Tuning Software

What's In The Box?

So what does the PID Tuning Blueprint package actually include?

Start Now PID Tuning Blueprint Your net investment -- an investment that can save you weeks or months scaling the PID learning curve -- is yours for only $97   "But Wait, That's Not All!" Order now and I will give you the following FAST ACTION Bonus Package FAST ACTION Bonus #1 The Complete Idiot's Guide to the PID Algorithm You don’t have to understand why the PID algorithm works or the calculus that underpins it to tune most loops in practice – but if you are like any engineer that I know – you don’t quite feel comfortable unless you have an intuitive understanding of what is happening and why….. This guide to the PID algorithm and the mathematical concepts that underpin it - is written so that anyone can get an intuitive understanding of how the algorithm works and why. This crash course uses the analogy of a car on a freeway changing lanes to represent the process under control and walks you through easy to visualize "thought experiments" to cement the concepts in your mind. If Integrals, Differentials and the inner working of the PID algorithm are a mystery to you - this "Idiot's Guide" will give you the A-HA! moment as everything finally makes sense Get The Complete Idiot's Guide to the PID Algorithm today with your Order of the PID Tuning Blueprint. FAST ACTION Bonus #2 Automated Process Linearizer for MS Excel A critical step of any tuning process is to ensure that your process responds linearly to your controller output (See the Blueprint Guidebook Section 8). This Macro automates the linearizing process. You simply paste your process data in - and the macro works out a lookup table that you can use in your controller to hugely improve the performance of your loop. Get The Automated Process Linearizer today with your Order of the PID Tuning Blueprint.

Delivery

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Format Of The PID Tuning Blueprint

Finn Peacock
Author of The PID Tuning Blueprint

PS The fact you're reading this PS means you're not quite sure whether The PID Tuning Blueprint is for you, right? If you order now, read the guide and are still not happy contact me within 30 days and I will give you your money back in full. REMEMBER - you are getting immediate access to to a PID Tuning technique that is guaranteed to improve your loops performance.

 

Finn Peacock
15 Caldwell Ave.
Dudley
NSW 2290 Australia
+61 2 4944 9475
Email: finn(at)PID-Tuning.com

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