Issue Archive

35 Years of Extraordinary PID Innovations
The Best Tuning of a PID Controller Is Knowledge of the Process Dynamics

Automation Business: India on the Move
India Graduates Up to Four Times More Engineers Than Lawyers, and at a Pace Double the Rate in the United States

Distributed Safety Arrives
Just Like Distributed Control, Distributed Safety Is Coming Soon to a Process Plant Near You, Maybe Your Own

Safe Engineering Practices Fail to Make Headlines
"Good Engineering Saves Millions of Lives After Earthquake, Tsunami" This Is A Headline You Will Never See. The Press Gets Away With Abysmal Reporting Because the Scientific Literacy of the Population Is so Low

Fieldbus Online
Control's Resource Guide on Fieldbus

"Future-Ready" Flowmeter Series
FCI Introduces the ST100 Mass Flow Series

The Fukushima Nuclear Accident - Part 1
Béla Lipták Talks About the Safety Processes Used at the Fukushima Plant

IEC 61131-3 by the Numbers
The Programming Standard for Controllers: What It Is, What It Is Not and Its Benefits

Improving ICS Security with OPC and Defense in Depth
Exactly How Can an Engineer Reliably Secure His or Her Control System? When It Comes to Security Demands - Can OPC Address These?

This Month We're Leveling with You
Products to Meet All Your Level Measurement Challenges

Measure Slurry Flows Accurately
Dual-Frequency Excitation Combined With the Advanced Design of the Flow Tube Ensures Accurate and Reliable Measurement

Meditating on Disturbance Dynamics
Managing Control Loops Requires a Deep Understanding of Setpoint, Load Path and Noise

Online Articles: Diving Deep Below the Fold
Many Web Surfers Often Flash Across Stes and Don't Delve Deeply into Any One of Them. This Can Be a Mistake. Come Tour ControlGlobal.com With Me

Reader Feedback: Process Automation, Control Valves vs. VFDs and More
Readers Agree, Disagree and Respond to Some of Our Latest Articles. See What They Have to Say

Sustainability: Gagging on Green
Sustainability Must Mean Questioning and Developing Better Applications, Not Just Making Non-Green Processes More Efficient

The Nuclear Mess
Just When We Were All Getting Convinced to Let the Genie Out of the Bottle Again, We're Back Where We Were

Weather, Plus Compensation, Transmission, Standardization
Disagreeing With "An Engineer's View of Global Warming" and Explaining the Benefits of Compensation

Siemens Opens New Process Instrumentation Training Center
Siemens Industry Inc. has opened its expanded Process Instrumentation and Analytics Learning Center in Houston

Wilcoxon Research Renamed Meggitt (Maryland)
Meggitt, manufacturer of Wilcoxson Research vibration sensors and sensor networks, has announced the legal entity name change of Wilcoxon Research Inc.,

Industry Experts Will Appear at ISA Automation Week
The Present and Future of Automation Worldwide

ODVA, OPC and SERCOS Partner in Machine-Builder Initiative
Machinery Initiative to Focus on an Interoperability Framework for Machine Optimization, Connectivity, Information Exchange, and Device Definition and Configuration

Accountant to Take Helm at Invensys
Ulf Henriksson Leaves Invensys