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Organizations looking for an advanced process control system that helps identify process dynamics using plant data
About Pitops
Pitops is the only software product that performs truly closed-loop system identification with PID controllers in Auto mode or even of secondary PID controllers in a Cascade mode, without the need to break the cascade chain and to conduct additional time-consuming and intrusive plant step tests. No other competitor tool can do successful transfer function identification using data with PID controllers in Cascade mode (Pitops is the only one). Furthermore, Pitops performs transfer function identification entirely in the time domain whereas all other competitor tools use the more complicated Laplace (S) or Discrete (Z) domain. Pitops can even handle multiple inputs and identify multiple transfer functions simultaneously. Pitops performs multiple inputs closed-loop transfer function system identification in the time domain using a new proprietary breakthrough algorithm, far superior to the older methods like the ARX/ARMAX/Box and Jenkins methods that are used in competitor tools.
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PiControl Solutions
Founded: 1992
United States
www.picontrolsolutions.com/products/pitops/
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