Aspen PID Watch™
PID loop monitoring and diagnostics
Aspen PID Watch is a full end-to-end solution for regulatory
control loop performance assessment, and is part of the Aspen
Watch™ Desktop product. Aspen PID Watch provides analysis,
reporting, simulation, and tuning functions for PID loops. It was
designed to automatically monitor and evaluate the performance and
of a large number of PID control loops on a regular scheduled
basis. Aspen PID Watch is a core element of AspenTech’s
aspenONE® Advanced Process Control applications.
Features
- Expanding range of performance monitoring applications
- State Monitoring
- APC Performance Monitoring
- Controller diagnostics
- PID loop monitoring
- Performance Index Chart
- Closed Loop Impulse Response Plots
- Control Error Auto-Correlation Plots
- Closed Loop Frequency Response
- Control Valve Stiction Plots
- Automatic alarms when PID loop performance degrades
- Flexible reporting
- Various shift/daily/weekly reports for controller
performance
- Track to highlight Operator changes to limits/status
- % time in different control modes
- Control performance statistics and trends
Benefits
- Quickly identify and correct PID performance problems
- Simplify the task of identifying optimal tuning parameters
- Create scheduled and ad hoc reports