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Journal of Process Control 16 (2006) 1013–1020 /locate/jprocont Performance assessment using a normalized gradient Ari Ingimundarson * Edifici TR11 (Campus Terrassa), Rambla de Sant Nebridi, 10, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), 08222 Terrassa, Spain Received 4 March 2006; received in revised form 24 July 2006; accepted 24 July 2006 Abstract The paper presents a performance assessment method whose purpose is to make controller maintenance based on adjusting the con- troller gain, more systematic. A normalized gradient of a quadratic cost function is calculated with regard to the loop gain. It is shown that this statistic is very easy to calculate and that the information can be useful to improve performance. Calculations of the gradient for two loops from a pulp and paper mill that had performance problems show the validity of the method in an industrial setting. 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Control performance assessment; PID control; Loop management 1. Introduction The gradient gives information about the spectral content of the disturbances affecting the loop compared to the Controller tuning has been reported as an important desired disturbance rejection bandwidth. This information cause of bad controller performance in the process indus- is compressed into one number by calculating the gradient. try, see [1]. The advent of academic performance assess- Decisions to adjust the loop gain can be made with more m