User`s guide

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• How to make the best use of this book, and how the information is
ordered.
• What information you can find in the different sections.
• What writing conventions have been used throughout this book and
the Profit library.
Section 1, "An Operator’s
Quick Tour of Automated
Process Control"
• A definition of controllers, model-based control, and control loops.
• A discussion of the problems of multivariable control.
• The advantages of DQP over other control strategies.
Section 2, "An Operator’s
Quick Tour of the Profit
Optimizer Displays"
• An explanation of the Profit Optimizer structure.
• An explanation of the Profit Optimizer display structure.
• An explanation of Profit Optimizer control concepts: inputs, modes,
statuses, and parameters.
• How to read and use the Profit Optimizer displays.
Section 3, "Main Menu,
and Optimizer Detail
Display"
What the Profit Controller Selection, the Optimizer Detail, and the
optional graphic displays are, and how to use them.
Section 4, "Displaying and
Using the Summary
Screens"
How to use the CV, MV, Bridged DV Output, and Combined Constraint
Summary screens to monitor and control a process.
Section 5, "Displaying and
Using the Detail Screens"
How to use the CV, MV, Bridged DV Output, and Combined Constraint
Detail screens to monitor and control a process.
Section 6, "Displaying and
Using the Tuning
Screens"
How to use the Tuning screens to refine CV and MV control.
Section 7, "Displaying and
Using the Point
Description CONFIG
Screens"
How to name (describe) interface and transformation points for the
displays.
Section 8, "Displaying and
Responding to Profit
Optimizer Messages"
Profit Optimizer messages: what they mean, and how to respond.
Appendix – "Operator’s
Quick Reference"
Procedures for performing common Operator tasks.