IPCOS releases a new version of RaPID

Today IPCOS announced the release of a new RaPID version, a state of the art optimisation product that allows the industry to optimize PID controllers.

Estimates indicate that more than 90% of all controllers in industry are PID. However, despite the "lookup" tuning rules and the recent auto-tuning methods, about 80% is badly tuned and does not operate optimally. Heuristic manual tuning of these controllers is tedious, time-consuming and often infeasible. RaPID provides you with a systematic and user-friendly solution to optimize PID controllers in no time.

A tuning project of a PID control loop consists of 5 steps (data-acquisition, data pre-processing, system identification, control design, performance check). All these steps are incorporated in RaPID and are executed with minimal user intervention. More experienced users have access to and can manipulate all the details of the tuning process.
RaPID supports also the OPC interface, an easy way to communicate with modern control systems. Connect your computer to the network hub in the control room, browse through the control system database and monitor the data in real time.

New powerful data preprocessing functionality is added to this version of RaPID, like automatic peak shaving, graphical manipulation of the data and very easy to use range selection.

System identification is the power of RaPID. It is still one of the only software tools that can identify processes starting from many sorts of excitation signals, besides step signals. Higher order model and closed loop identification is easy with RaPID.

Given your DCS or PLC or microcontroller architecture, RaPID will compute the optimal PI(D) settings based on engineering specifications. A library with most common DCS and PLC PID algorithms is included.

Finally you can compare the performance of the designed loop with what was expected. At the end of the design and validation session a report is generated automatically.

Previous versions of RaPID where implemented in a Matlab framework. This new version of RaPID is completely standalone.