, Duration: 10:03*Enlace a Spanish version
Materials: [ DecentrBigPicturev2.pdf]
This video introduces and motivates a series of four videos to discuss the ’grand scheme of things’ in industrial control engineering. If you are a student who has taken several control courses, you are the target audience for the video series: the emphasis on ‘detail’ in each of the courses may mean that none of your teachers have given you a glimpse of the ’big picture’ on what is expected of an ’industrial process engineer’ or ’control engineer’ outside the university.
In the series of three videos (apart from this introduction one), we will break down the following ideas key in the successful operation of a control-intensive installation:
Design easy-to-control processes,
Select the most appropriate control structure,
Tune regulators,
Carry out the actual implementation,
Craft a data analysis plan for supervision and continuous improvement of the process.
The videos will be, intentionally, longer than usual, because the objective is to have a ’condensed’, ’all in one’ view of the large number of options and the key ideas of each of these stages, listing them without going into detail. Obviously, this detail would be material for several courses (and indeed, this is the case in the undergraduate and master’s specialties in control). If any of the discussed topics do not sound familiar to you, you should look in other materials (from this collection, maybe) for said detail.
*Link to my [ whole collection] of videos in English. Link to larger [ Colección completa] in Spanish.