15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE MONITORING TOOLS
Tore Hägglund
Department of Automatic Control
Lund Institute of Technology
Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
Email:tore@control.lth.se

This paper describes two procedures for automatic monitoring of control loop performance. The first is a procedure for detecting oscillations in control loops, and the second a procedure for detecting sluggish control loops. The focus of the paper is the industrial application of the procedures, and the various implementations possible and available.
Session slot T-Mo-A11: New Directions in Control System Performance Monitoring/Area code 7a : Chemical Process Control