Tip #89: Identify Deadtime and Ramp Rate

In Tip #70, we learned that deadtime was the key to loop performance. The Control Talk blog The ABCs of Controller Tuning describes how tuning settings can be reduced to a simple function of deadtime. The InTech article PID Tuning Rules and the article’s online appendices describe the fundamental relationships between deadtime, performance, and tuning. [...] Read the full text.