ISC - Control Benchmarking

What is PAM?

PAM is a project funded by the European Commission under the "IST Programme".

What is it about?

PAM aims to provide new control benchmarking tools and demonstrate their effectiveness in assessing the performance of controllers used in manufacturing or process plant. The goal is to improve the control of processes, learning from the "best in the field" measures or metrics. These performance measures can be calculated from normal operating data. Once such a tool has been used to identify a shortfall in performance, the control system can be re-tuned.

What are the specific objectives?
	Summarise recent advances in performance assessment and controller re-tuning techniques
	Implement benchmarking on industrial SCADA systems and in a standalone software environment
	Organise control benchmarking training workshops and courses
	Provide Internet site for self-study of control benchmarking
Who are involved?
	Industrial Control Centre, Strathclyde University (UK)
	ISC Ltd (UK)
	ABB Energy Automation (Italy)
	Siemens AG Power Generation (Germany)
	Centro Elettrotecnico Sperimentale Italiano Giacinto Motta SpA (Italy)
	BASF (Germany)

Current status
The project has been completed.
Deliverables
	Control benchmarking theoretical report
	MATLAB software modules for benchmarking
	Industry simulation case study report
	Four workshops/courses on control benchmarking
	Control benchmarking learning centre

Welcome to PAM Project Home Page

What is PAM?

What is it about?

What are the specific objectives?

Who are involved?

Current status

Deliverables