Case Study
Food & Beverage: Pinpointing the Root-Cause
Catch of the Month Food & Beverage: Pinpointing the Root -Cause Control Station, Inc. Control Station, Inc. 160 Chapel Road 160 Chapel Road – – Manchester, Connecticut 06042 Manchester, Connecticut 06042 – – USA USA www.controlstation.com www.controlstation.com Standard reports like Valve Stiction Likelihood keep process engineers aware of changes —whether subtle or significant —in the overall performance of the many, many PID control loops tasked with regulating production. Advanced forensic tools like Power Spectrum allow users to easily identi fy other controllers that share frequencies linked to the oscillatory behavior resulting from Stiction. How did PlantESP find it? Valve Stiction Likelihood is one of the many standard reports that capture changes in control loop p