Articles

Aero-Derivative Advanced Control

What's APC and What's Just a Collection of Clever Programming Blocks?
Post Date: 10/31/2012
Author: Dan Hebert

Take Steps to Justify Your DCS Upgrade

Equipment Failures Aren't the Only Reason to Take the Plunge
Post Date: 10/31/2012
Author: Aaron Hand

Users Challenged by PLC Lifecycle

ExxonMobil Talks About the Industry's PLC Lifecycle Management Challenges
Post Date: 10/29/2012
Author: Keith Larson

Industry Needs Driving Software Investment

With The Cloud Invensys Can Develop and Commercialize a Broader Array of Remote System and Support Services, Making You More Proactive in Monitoring Your Application Landscape
Post Date: 10/19/2012
Author: Keith Larson

Process Automation Systems: How Secure Is Secure Enough?

Where Do you Draw the Line in Applying Security to Your Systems?
Post Date: 10/09/2012
Author: Walt Boyes

Crude Oil Pipeline Control

Is It Possible to Maintain an Accurate and Stable Pressure Control Just Using Speed Control?
Post Date: 09/27/2012
Author: Bela Liptak,

SCADA Update Protects Potable Production

Windsor Utilities Commission Bolsters Its Water Production System With Data Tracking-and-Tracing Capabilities and Some Wireless Controls
Post Date: 09/07/2012
Author: Jim Montague

How Can Incompatible DCS and Asset Management Suppliers Get Along?

One Throat to Choke: When a Site Has an Installed Base of Incompatible DCS and Asset Management Suppliers, It May Have to Revert to the Host's Offerings
Post Date: 09/04/2012
Author:

Faster Simulation Enables Alarm Prediction

Cutler Technology's Alarm Advisor Software Capability Will Be Added to Its Operator Advisor Software and CTC Sim Simulator
Post Date: 07/16/2012
Author: Control Global Staff

Everybody on Board

End Users, Process Control Engineers, Integrators and Suppliers Are All Getting On the Sustainability Bandwagon With All Kinds of Green Applications. Here's How They Do It
Post Date: 06/07/2012
Author: Jim Montague

There's a Robot for That

We Manufacture Programs and Robots That Not Only Make Our Lives Easier, but Make Our Work Environments Easier, Too
Post Date: 06/02/2012
Author: Katherine Bonfante

A Failure to Communicate

What's Stalling VFD Adoption? It May Not Be What You Think
Post Date: 05/10/2012
Author: Dick Caro

Control System Evolution at Bayer: 24 Years and Counting

Bayer Healthcare Partnered with ABB to Bring its 1980s-Era Control Systems into the Future
Post Date: 04/25/2012
Author: Walt Boyes

BASF Rejects Rip and Replace with System 800xA

How a Paint Plant Preserved Its Legacy System Investments while Modernizing for the Future
Post Date: 04/25/2012
Author: Aaron Hand

Precious Water

Don't Take Water for Granted. See How New Controls Maintain the Reliability of Water Production System and Read Case Studies on Water Collection and Treatment Applications
Post Date: 04/11/2012
Author: Jim Montague

A Charming New Facility

Recycled Equipment, a New Automation System, Electronic Marshalling and Remote I/O All Go into a Greenfield Sulfuric Acid Plant
Post Date: 04/10/2012
Author: Bryan Beyer

PLCs and PACs--What You Need to Know Now

PLCs and PACs 101
Post Date: 04/09/2012
Author: ControlGlobal.com

Spring Is in the Air and Safety on Our Minds

Here Is Hoping for a Safe Spring and a Wonderful Summer for You and All Your Control Systems
Post Date: 04/02/2012
Author: Katherine Bonfante

The Control Room of the Future - Smarter Reality

The Control Room of the Future Will Put a World of Science-Fiction Tools at Operators' Fingertips - but They'll Only Be Effective if Designers, Engineers and Operators Jointly Plan Ahead and Use Them to Serve Practical, Functional Needs
Post Date: 03/05/2012
Author: Jim Montague

The Future of Manufacturing?

Here Is A Reader's Point of View on What Manufacturing in America Actually Would Look Like
Post Date: 03/05/2012
Author: