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AspenTech Breaking New Ground in Simulation, Model-Based Control

Resurgent Software Maker Showcases Innovations at OPTIMIZE 2013
Post Date: 05/17/2013
Author: Keith Larson

Creative Computing for Control

PC-Based Control Is Taking Over in a Variety of New and Upcoming Process Industry Applications. Here Are Some of the Most Innovative Solutions
Post Date: 05/16/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Implementing MVT

Tomorrow Is Promised to No One
Post Date: 05/13/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Bringing the Lincoln Paper Mill Back from the Dead

Lincoln Paper Wasn't Even a Zombie Company. It Was Dead. Closed. Kaput. Then New Owners Brought in Multivariable Testing to Help Resurrect It Through a Top-to-Bottom Revamp of Procedures, Processes and Plant Culture
Post Date: 05/13/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Multivariable Testing: Getting the Measurements Right

Before You Begin to Implement MVT, Make Sure You're Measuring What Can Be Quantified
Post Date: 05/13/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Process Automation Industry: When an Apology Is Just Not Good Enough

We Can't See Most Tragedies Coming, but There Must Be Dozens of People Who Could Have Seen the West Fertilizer Disaster Coming
Post Date: 05/10/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Our Control Experts Deal with Process Dynamics

McMillan and Weiner Ask James Beall How He Approaches the Challenge of Intertwined Problems That Have Evaded Solution. See What He Had to Say
Post Date: 05/10/2013
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The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match

Industrial Ethernet Is Faster, Can Use Standard Wireless and Has More Topology Options
Post Date: 05/09/2013
Author: Dan Hebert

Killing Model-Based Control Dead Time

Dead Time Compensation Can Improve PID Controller Performance, but at the Cost of Robustness
Post Date: 05/08/2013
Author: F. Greg Shinskey

Motors and Drives Grow Up and Graduate

Motors and Drives Have Been Moving Up to Variable-Speed Control for Better Accuracy, but Now They're Also Increasing Power Density and Efficiency and Even Coordinating More Closely With PLCs and Intelligent Systems
Post Date: 05/08/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Solving the Process Safety Puzzle

Integrated Safety Systems Offer One Solution, but No One-Size-Fits-All Fix Exists
Post Date: 05/07/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Relief Valve Blowdown Rings; D/P and Straight Runs

Readers Ask: When It Comes to Safety Relief Valves, What Is Best? Using Two Blowdown Rings or Ones? and Can We a Transmitter Be Installed Above Pipe Taps?
Post Date: 05/07/2013
Author: Bela Liptak

The Power of the Loop

The LPD is 100% DCS/SCADA/Ethernet-Compatible with Its Serial I/O Capabilities
Post Date: 05/07/2013
Author:

What You Need to Know about Fieldbus Now

Fieldbus Online. Check Out This Month's Resources
Post Date: 05/07/2013
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IEEE 802.11 Evolution Continues

The Demand for Speed and Bandwidth, Including Backhaul and Emergence of New Applications Are the Drivers for the New Standards
Post Date: 05/06/2013
Author: Ian Verhappen

Fieldbus is Dead! Long Live Fieldbus!

The Competing Communications Technology That Presumably Will Replace All These Buses, Including Process Fieldbuses, Is Ethernet
Post Date: 05/02/2013
Author: John Rezabek

Automation Could Have Prevented Fukushima, 2

Bela Liptak Discusses Automatic vs. Manual Operation of the Emergency Cooling Systems, and the Roles the Bad Designs of Control and Block Valves Played in this Nuclear Accident
Post Date: 04/30/2013
Author: Bela Liptak

The Process Automation Assisted by Audio

Our Articles Get Accompanying Audio and Video Recordings. Check Them Out
Post Date: 04/30/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Electric Power Utilities Are Not as Cyber Secure As They Say They Are

An Orderly Strategic Advance to the Rearward: The Cybersecurity of Electric Power Utilities Depend on How You Count It
Post Date: 04/29/2013
Author: Walt Boyes

Shrink-Swell Phenomenon and Solving A Steam Generator Control Problem

Upgrading a Control System at Maanshan II, a nuclear power plant in southern Taiwan, Solved an Elusive Steam Generator Control Problem. Find Out How
Post Date: 04/25/2013
Author: Greg Shinskey