Process Control and Automation

Dates : February 10 - 12, 2009
Venue : Bayview Eden, Melbourne, VIC

Utilising Technology to Achieve Optimal Throughput, Reduce Process Variation and Manage Change.
Process and Control Systems Automation ’08 will bring together expert process control practitioners who will address the issues you have identified as most important to your organisation.

These include:

* Developing strategies to drive efficiencies and achieve optimal throughput
Reducing process variation to ensure the smooth functioning of your control systems
* Managing change and configuration of process control systems

By attending Process and Control Systems Automation ’08 you will benefit from expert insights on:

Streamlining your processes to achieve optimal throughput
* Leveraging automation to drive process efficiencies
* The importance of operators and designers working together to create the most efficient control system
* Managing change during the implementation of a new control system
* How incremental change to systems can benefit your organisation
* Standardising systems to reduce process variation
* Developing statistical methods for determining where process variation is occurring.more

Executive Tutorial : Model Predictive Control: Design and Implementation Using MATLAB

This session, presented by Professor Liuping Wang of RMIT, was the most well-attended and acclaimed workshop that was delivered at the 2007 American Control Conference.

TUTORIAL OUTLINE:

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has a long history in the field of control engineering. Three major aspects of MPC make the design methodology attractive to both engineers and academics. The first aspect is the design formulation, which uses a completely multivariable system framework where the performance parameters of the multivariable control systems are related to the engineering aspects of the system. The second aspect is the ability of the method to handle both soft and hard constraints in a multivariable control framework. This is particularly attractive to industries where tight profit margins and limits in the process operation are inevitably present. The third aspect is the ability to perform process online optimisation.

This one day short-course gives you an introduction to MPC, including recent developments in design and implementation. The session will include an overview of the field, discussion on optimisation, receding horizon control, design formulations, constrained control, as well as real-time simulation using MATLAB and Simulink as a platform.