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