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Charlie Cutler's Latest Ideas for Multivariable Controllers
Process Variable Models and Adaptive Transforms

PACs, PLCs, Industrial PCs
Big, Little, Rugged, Thin, Fast, You Name It. We Have Your PLC, PAC or PC Here

PID World Tour--The Final Performance
Read the Conclusion of McMillan, Weiner and Congiundi's Tour of PID World

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

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White Papers: In Depth Research

Convergence and the Programmable Automation Controller
Author: Rockwell Automation
Posted: 03/23/2010
Ensuring your PAC-based control system is an integrated, robust and flexible information producer helps improve business performance, lower costs and uncover unique opportunities for competitiveness.

All companies seek ways to make their businesses grow for the long-term. Ask any manufacturer today what he/she needs in an increasingly challenging economy. It's likely to include cutting costs, improving yield, increasing functionality and becoming more competitive in the global marketplace.

Manufacturing convergence helps companies meet these business drivers - globalization, innovation, productivity and sustainability - by more closely aligning manufacturing technologies and production system operations with the rest of the enterprise. This convergence is enabled throughout the manufacturing environment with the technologies of convergence - control, power, information and communication.

OSIsoft High Availability Platform
Author: OSIsoft
Posted: 04/24/2009
Customers generally say the PI System is one of the most reliable components of their operations software infrastructure. They also say that the longer they have PI, the more problems they discover that can be solved using it. The more they use it, the more important it becomes to their operations strategy. Finally, the more important it becomes, the greater is their concern about the risk that something might happen to preclude access to the data or, worse, to prevent data from being collected for some period of time.

Benefits of State Based Control
Author: David Huffman, ABB Inc.
Posted: 03/23/2009
State Based Control is a plant automation control design based on the principle that all process facilities operate in recognized, definable Process States that represent a variety of normal and abnormal conditions of the process. State Based Control, implemented with the latest developments in object-based technologies, delivers direct benefits to its adopters in a variety of Operational Excellence categories. It results in productivity increases, higher asset utilization of both people and process, automated responses and recovery for abnormal conditions and provides an environment for knowledge capture directly into the control design.

GE Fanuc’s Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation
Author: GE Fanuc
Posted: 03/10/2008
It is a significant competitive advantage for an automation supplier to offer an open and collaborative production environment that embraces standards and can address the full scope of automation and control applications from process to discrete and motion applications. Download this white paper to learn more about collaborative process automation.

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