Seames Wayne. Designing Controls for the Process Industries

CRC Press
Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 - 429 p.
ISBN13: 978-1-138-70518-0 (Hardback)
The primary goal of these textbooks appears to be to help the reader understand the dynamics of the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller
mathematically, so that the stability of control loops could be properly evaluated. This was an appropriate approach to the subject matter when process control was performed using a suite of stand-alone electronic controllers but is much less important now that control is most commonly performed using sophisticated, integrated distributed control and automation systems. While stability analysis is still of some interest to process control engineers, modern control system algorithms have reduced the importance from primary to secondary for control engineers.