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New Pressure Calibrator with Integral Pressure Pump

New BetaGauge 330 Pressure Calibrator
Post Date: 09/15/2008
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Steam Heat and More on Calibration

Learn the Formula for Changing Volume Flow Steam Into Mass Flow Steam, the Basis for Fixing the Acceptance Criteria for an Equipment Under Calibration and How to Calibrate a DP Transmitter
Post Date: 09/15/2008
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Calibration Information

Controls’s Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Take a Look at Calibration
Post Date: 09/09/2008
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Purge/Pressurization Challenges Reduced at the Outset

Pepperl+Fuchs’ 6000-series Type X/EEx Purge/Pressurization System Offers Versatility to Customers
Post Date: 06/12/2008
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Sound Wave Principles

Life Would Be Simpler if There Were Fewer Complications
Post Date: 04/04/2008
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Field Calibration of Magnetic Flowmeters: Case Study

Is Not an Easy Task to Ensure That Flowmeters Function Accurately
Post Date: 03/26/2008
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Calibrate This—Electronically

Moving From a Paper-Based System to an Automated One Can Bring a 15% to 25% Improvement in Efficiency
Post Date: 02/05/2008
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Difficult Level Measurements

“Ask the Experts” is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták (liptakbela@aol.com), editor of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook. In this column, he and his co-authors welcome questions concerning process measurement or control. Please include P&ID drawings using ISA symbols to illustrate questions ...
Post Date: 10/02/2007
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Creative thinking streamlines cut-over at Frontier refinery

Here at the annual gathering of the Honeywell User Group Americas, Leland Borgett, Jeff Strecker and Tom Clark explain how their five-person team successfully performed their covert DCS to DCS cut-over.
Post Date: 06/12/2007
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Why calibration measurement software?

Field calibration is faster and more accurate with digital calibrators and a CMS, but there’s a catch. Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, reports on the state of the art in calibration systems for the operator.
Post Date: 04/06/2007
Author: Dan Hebert

Something’s fishy at the water treatment plant

The new Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta reuses millions of gallons of water and requires constant monitoring of its complex, closed-loop filtration system, ultimately leaving only small amounts of sludge.
Post Date: 02/01/2007
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Flashbacks

In conjunction with their retirement motto of better late than never, Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner offer answers to the May and June Puzzlers, and the Top 10 signs your project is behind schedule.
Post Date: 09/15/2006
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The relay logic syndrome

The coming together of nanotechnology, biology and medicine, information sciences, and cognitive sciences should give traditional automation and control devices new performance and capabilities.
Post Date: 06/07/2006
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HART 6: The very model of a modern calibrator?

Can HART, version 6, turn your calibrator or field programmer into a primary asset management tool? CONTROL’s Ian Verhappen takes a closer look at the latest and greatest in field calibration.
Post Date: 03/20/2006
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The power of Velocity Limit (VL)

This article argues that Velocity Limit (VL), which can be used to detect and take corrective action against faulty signals as part of an overall alarm strategy, is not being used as much as it should be.
Post Date: 09/26/2005
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Free Download of Technical Reference Book on Measurement and Control

ControlGlobal.com has partnered with Omega Engineering to make the Transactions in Measurement and Control technical reference series available for free download. Add Force-related Measurements to your reference shelf and watch this spot to download future editions of this popular educational series.
Post Date: 05/20/2005
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ISA <I>Transactions</I> abstracts on ControlGlobal.com

ControlGlobal.com is pleased to publish abstracts from one of the very few scholarly journals in the process automation field<EM>. </EM>Keep pace with technology developments and applications from the world's experts.
Post Date: 03/10/2005
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Sensing trouble

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes issues a cognitive dissonance alert! If you want to play in the big leagues and move into the process of control, you would do well to go back and concentrate on the fundamentals.
Post Date: 03/02/2005
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Save time and money with field calibrators

Portable, handheld calibrators save time for technicians on site, OEMs, and large industrial engineering and construction companies. Contributing Editor Wayne Labs provides an in-depth report.
Post Date: 03/02/2005
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Advanced pH measurement and control

This comprehensive treatment of applied instrumentation and control covers all the bases and is presented to more fully educate the industry in basic theories and technologies.
Post Date: 10/28/2004
Author: Gregory K. McMillan and Robert A. Cameron