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LOOP-PRO DEVELOPERTM

LOOP-PRO DEVELOPERTM comes with our popular ENGINEER software as its core and provides a customizable simulation environment for process control loop designers. DEVELOPER includes visual development tools for you to design and test alternative loop architectures, explore different controller algorithms and test new tuning values.

LOOP-PRO DEVELOPER has become essential to our staff’s ability to achieve optimal performance and to deliver the highest quality products to our customers.

C.V., Vice President, T-Graphic Engineering

Use LOOP-PRO DEVELOPER to conduct offline simulations studies using models developed from your plant data. Perform "what-if" studies as you design and test architectures that improve operational performance at minimal expense and with maximum safety. When your development studies are complete, implement your optimal design and obtain a return on investment with payback measured in days.

Our award-winning technology enables you to meet goals critical to industrial competitiveness, including: meeting final product specifications, minimizing waste production, minimizing environmental impact, minimizing energy use and maximizing overall production rate.

DEVELOPER provides these cutting edge tools using our visual presentation software. This makes them intuitive to use and accessible to users of all backgrounds.

Key Features
1. Loop architectures include: single loop, 2x2 multi-loop, cascade, feed forward, Smith predictor, adaptive, discrete-time sampled data, and model predictive (DMC).
2. Models for process, disturbance, and cross-loop blocks forms include: first, second and third order; overdamped and underdamped; linear and nonlinear; and self regulating and non-self regulating (integrating) forms.
3. Zero and span limits can be set to match your custom simulation to your observed process behavior.
4. Controlles include: ideal, interacting, independent and parallel forms.
5. For each controller form, choose: controller gain or proportional band; proportional on error or proportional on measurement; reset time or reset rate; derivative on error or derivative on measurement, and with or without signal filter.
6. Use feed forward and cascade architectures to explore improved disturbance rejection capability.
7. Use the Smith predictor architecture to study benefits of model predictive compensation on processes with large dead times.
8. Multivariable loop interactions permit design and testing of cross-loop decoupling strategies.
9. Nonlinear process behavior simulation enables studying loop stability and exploring benefits of adaptive parameter scheduling.

Design and Test New Architectures in a Few Easy Steps
Below is a brief overview of how easy-to-use and powerful L
OOP-PRO DEVELOPER is for improving the profitability and safety of your operation. There are many more features then we can show in a few screen shots, so please contact us to learn more and access a free demo.
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1)
Select a control loop custom architecture for your offline study, including single loop, 2x2 multivariable and cascade strategies:

   
 

2) Use LOOP-PRO ENGINEER to fit models to your plant data to create valuable offline simulations. Evaluate and compare your process response data against our library of dynamic process models. While we provide goodness-of-fit measures so you can make analytical comparisons, our visual presentation lets you recognize that if the fit looks like the data, then you have computed a model that represents the character of your process.

  
 

3) Program your model(s) using simple entry forms. You can enter model values you have from previous studies or grab them from the model fits of step 2 above. You can choose from an array of models, including linear or nonlinear; self regulating or non-self regulating (also called integrating); and overdamped or underdamped forms. Set the zeros and spans of each variable so your simulation behaves like your observed process behavior.

  
 

4) Select and implement a controller algorithm and tuning values. Tuning parameters can be obtained from LOOP-PRO ENGINEER, or entered into the controller form if custom values are desired. Controller options include PID, feed forward, adaptive, cascade, Smith predictor, discrete sampled data, and model predictive DMC. Customize your PID algorithms to explore the benefits and pitfalls of each option, or choose your vendor algorithm if you seek to match your existing plant behavior. 

  
 

5) With your simulation complete, evaluate your process and controller architecture and assess your design and tuning choices. Perform “what-if” studies and explore the benefits of variations in models, controller architectures and tuning parameters. When you have optimized your design, implement the results in your plant.

  
 

e-Book Articles Using LOOP-PRO DEVELOPER
    Sample Time is a Fundamental Design and Tuning Specification
    Parameter Scheduling and Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Processes


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Please contact us to learn more and access a free demo.

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