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Evolution

Process Control Software Expands to Meet Today’s Evolving Needs
Post Date: 12/10/2008
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Organic Wireless Growth Must Be Managed

Technologies Compete for Bandwidth.
Post Date: 04/11/2008
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PLCs and PACs

CONTROL's Monthly Resource Guide
Post Date: 04/04/2008
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Loggers Keep Feeding Data-Hungry Users

Recorders and DAQs Have Survived the Advent of PCs, Adapted to Cooperate with Software-Based Historians and Continue to Serve in Applications Where Computers Can't Go
Post Date: 04/04/2008
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Process Hero

Simulation Software Rocks for Training, but Its Benefits Go Way Beyond Teaching to Aiding Design, Optimization, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Management. Here’s How Savvy Users are Gaining Simulation’s Full Advantages
Post Date: 04/04/2008
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A Dynamic Duo

Digital Valve Controllers Linked to Asset Management Systems Offer a Double-Barreled Approach to Valve Maintenance.
Post Date: 03/11/2008
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Networking the Loop

Networked Ethernet, DeviceNet and Distributed Nodes Let Loop Controllers Speak
Post Date: 03/04/2008
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Build Green and Stay Green with OPC


Post Date: 02/20/2008
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Watch Your Mouth

Did We Truly Need to Replace Programmable Logic Controllers with Programmable Automation Controllers? Why Not Just Call Them Computers and Leave It at That?
Post Date: 02/04/2008
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Open Control Programming at Last?

Vendors were able to co-opt IEC61131, and some are wary of the same danger with respect to the new IEC61499.
Post Date: 11/07/2007
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Distillation Control and Optimization – Part 6

Model-based multivariable controls or artificial neural networks can reap optimization rewards for complex towers with many constraints.
Post Date: 09/28/2007
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Aluminum anodizing temperature control

“Ask the Experts” on ControlGlobal.com is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták. Béla and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, recruited from among the co-authors of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook 4th Edition, are “in the box” all month answering process control questions from ...
Post Date: 07/15/2007
Author: Bela Liptak

Focus on PLCs and PACs

Every month, Control’s editors take a specific product area, collect all the latest, significant tools we can find and present them here to make your job easier. This month, we focus on PAC and PLC-based controllers.
Post Date: 04/11/2007
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Measuring flare gas; Controller set points

This installment of Ask The Experts focuses on best flare gas measuring devices and how to keep liquid out of the service lines, and how to set up a trim controller to achieve very tight control.
Post Date: 03/08/2007
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Best practices in control system migration

Migration from your old control system to a new one is as an inevitable as death and taxes. But, the key to minimizing the pain is to abide by the control system migration best practices listed here.
Post Date: 01/05/2007
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Artificial intelligence in process automation

Just how smart will controller intelligence get? CONTROL’s Béla Lipták reports on changes, new concepts, and innovative methods in the use of artificial intelligence in controlling automated processes.
Post Date: 11/06/2006
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Finesse introduces new bioreactor control OS

Walt Boyes talks with Larry West, executive vice president of California-based Finesse, LLC. Boyes and West discuss the introduction of TruBio, the first truly open configurable bioreactor control OS.
Post Date: 08/14/2006
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Which PLC/HMI platform should I choose?

Read what The Experts had to say to a reader's question regarding which PLC and HMI platform to choose for their particular process plant automation and controls applications.
Post Date: 05/10/2006
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The power of external-reset feedback

Preventing windup requires reconfiguration of the controller, according to process control consultant, F. Greg Shinskey, and external-reset feedback is the most satisfactory method of accomplishing it.
Post Date: 05/10/2006
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The past, present and future of PLCs

Famous futurist and 2005 ISA Rimbach Lecturer, Jeff Harrow, contributes to the discussion of the future of process automation and how today’s PLCs will eventually feel like the TTL logic chips of older days.
Post Date: 02/10/2006
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