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The Route to Model Predictive Control Success

McMillan and Weiner Ask Dennis Cima How He Approaches Making MPC Applications as Successful as Possible
Post Date: 06/14/2013
Author: Greg McMillan, Stan Weiner

Process Control Renovations: DCS Edition

You Can Do More Than You Think
Post Date: 06/14/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Intrinsic Safety Aids Cost-Effective Coal Mining

Daw Mill Colliery Implements Intrinsically Safe (IS) PLCs and IS Ethernet and Supporting Components to Fuel U.K. Power Utilities
Post Date: 06/14/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Process Engineering--The Complaint Department

There's More Work to Be Done by Fewer People
Post Date: 06/13/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Process Engineering--The State of Pay

In Spite of Economic and Technical Turbulence on Many Fronts, the State of the Process Engineer Remains Remarkably Stable
Post Date: 06/13/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Controls and Process Applications Can Be Restored

Restoration Possible: Many Distributed Control Systems (DCSs) Are Rapidly Aging and Risk Breaking Down. Luckily, There Are Many New Tools and Innovative Methods for Supporting and Breathing New Life Into Controls and Process Applications
Post Date: 06/11/2013
Author: Jim Montague

Why and How to Upgrade a DCS

Learn Why You Should Migrate Distributed Control Systems and How to Do So
Post Date: 06/11/2013
Author:

Loop Controllers

Our Editors Search the Web to Bring You The Latest Information on Loop Controllers
Post Date: 06/11/2013
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Safety on Our Minds

Workplace Safety Is a Lot More Manageable Than Preventing Floods or Tornados, Which Isn't to Say It's Easy. Let's Be Careful Out There
Post Date: 06/10/2013
Author: Nancy Bartels

Security: It's Not Just Cyber Anymore

How Long Can We Wait Before We Begin to Actually Put Policies in Place to Improve Reliability in the Electric Utilities, Rather Than Assuring Legal Compliance?
Post Date: 06/10/2013
Author: Walt Boyes

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

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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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

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

The Power of the Loop

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

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