Michael Brown Control Engineering CC 

Practical Process Control Training & Loop Optimisation

Michael Brown
Graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand as an electrical engineer. He is a specialist in control loop optimisation, with over 50 years experience in process control instrumentation. His main activities prior to recently retiring were consulting and teaching practical control loop analysis and optimisation. He has worked on optimising loops in over 300 plants in Southern Africa, Europe, UK, USA and Cyprus, and has presented courses in many countries around the world.

 

 

 

Loop Problem Signature Series
How to manage the problems encountered in feedback control loops.
A practical approach to the basics of regulatory control loop optimisation. The problems are systematically dealt with using a logical approach and starting with the basics.

 

Case histories
 Articles describing problem loops that Michael has encountered.

 

About us

 

Surveys show the following conditions are common in process plants:

 

  • Over 85% of regulatory control loops are not optimised optimally, and could in most cases be drastically improved .
  • Less than 5% operate really well
  • 50-60% of all loops have equipment and/or design problems

 

Michael Brown Control Engineering specialises in control loop optimisation, and offers training, consulting and loop analysis tools.

 

  • The Training Courses are designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice and concentrate entirely on practical solutions to control. Since Michael's retirement the courses are available as PDF downloads.
  • The Protuner™ control loop analyser is a unique solution which allows you to see what is going on in your control loops, pinpoint the problems and optimise the process.
  • The Educational PDF series "Michael Brown's Basic Troubleshooting and Loop Tuning" provides a course consisting of 31 chapters and offering a new and practical approach to the basics of regulatory control loop optimisation
  • The Educational PDF series "Michael Brown's Optimisation of More Difficult Processes" provides a deep practical insight into optimising processes with more complex dynamics.  Most of these are almost impossible to tune by "trial and error" tuning or by using tuning packages blindly.

 

 

Contact details

 

Michael Brown Control Engineering


Mobile:  +27 (0)82 440 7790


email:  michael.brown@mweb.co.za