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35 Years of Extraordinary PID Innovations

The Best Tuning of a PID Controller Is Knowledge of the Process Dynamics
Post Date: 05/12/2011
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IEC 61131-3 by the Numbers

The Programming Standard for Controllers: What It Is, What It Is Not and Its Benefits
Post Date: 05/09/2011
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More on BP Oil Spill; Restriction Orifice Sizing

Could Properly Designed Safety Controls Have Prevented the Loss of the 11 Lives in the 2010 BP Oil Spill?
Post Date: 02/14/2011
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How to Hijack a Controller

Why Stuxnet Isn't Just About Siemens' PLCs
Post Date: 01/13/2011
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Innovation in Industrial PCs

Surf's Up: Users and Developers Are Keeping Their Heads Above the Incoming Waves of Innovation Driven by Smaller, Faster, Cheaper and Stronger Industrial PCs. Here's How They Stay Afloat
Post Date: 01/13/2011
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PLCs and Industrial Computers

The Latest PLCs, PACs, Embedded Units and Other Computing Goodies
Post Date: 11/16/2010
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To Hell and Back

How to Rebuild a Control Room in Five Days. Lessons in Disaster Recovery and Emergency Response
Post Date: 08/25/2010
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Birds of a Feather

If You Recognize Your Peers and Competitors Attending or Presenting at a Trade Group Seminar, Then You May Have Found Your Home
Post Date: 06/02/2010
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Process Controllers on Deck

See the Latest Developments in This Technology
Post Date: 03/08/2010
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What is OPC in 2010? It is all about the tag

OPC Is Three Letters That Are a lot of Things to a lot of Different People, but What It Really Boils Down to Is Moving Data and the Tag
Post Date: 01/28/2010
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Computers in a Nutshell

Industrial PCs Can Take Almost Any Form These Days, but Many Users Still Need Protected and Enclosed Hard Drives, Screens, Keyboards and Other Interfaces in Increasingly Harsh and Varied Settings
Post Date: 01/12/2010
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Real Time for Maintenance Savings

Reduce Costs with CBM and OPC Real-Time Data
Post Date: 07/29/2009
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PC–Based Controls Help Freeze Escalating Energy Costs

Freezing Energy Costs. The World’s Largest Producer of Frozen French Fries Uses PC-Based Controls to Freeze Escalating Energy Costs
Post Date: 05/13/2009
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PLCs and PACs

Control’s Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Take a Look at PLCs and PACs
Post Date: 04/03/2009
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Fanless PC for Rugged Deployment

Steath's LittlePC Products Serve In Space-Challenged Designs Around the World
Post Date: 03/09/2009
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More Golly-Whiz from Google

Is the iPLC to Be Found by Watching What Google Is Doing?
Post Date: 02/27/2009
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PLC Programming

The Three Top Reasons Why RLL - Ladder Logic - Remains the Control Language of Choice of PLC Users Worldwide Are - It's Easy to Learn, Robust to Use and Offers Transparency Across Platforms
Post Date: 01/12/2009
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Smart–Trak 2 Mass Flow Controllers Put Users in Control

Next Generation of High-Performance Digital Gas Mass Flow Meters
Post Date: 01/12/2009
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PLCs, PACs and DCSs Can Do Windows

The Capability of Today's PC-Based Industrial Computers Are Overcoming Engineers' Resistance to "the Wal-Mart of Operating Systems"
Post Date: 01/12/2009
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Gas Blanketing Controls and How to Contribute to IEH v.5

A Process Engineer Has Concerns About the Standard Split-Range Nitrogen Blanketing on a Vessel Done with a DCS PID Controller with Separate Analog Outputs to Each Valve. If Everything Is Properly Sized and Tuned, There Should Not Be Any Issues, Right?
Post Date: 12/22/2008
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