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Final control

What’s the latest on control valves? Editor in Chief Walt Boyes takes a look at the current marketplace for the final element that all control stuff is aimed at—the...

Improved level control of a feed water valve

Process control authority Bela Liptak answers a reader's question regarding improved level control for a feed water valve that is too far from the drum.

Multivariable Control of Distillation

Advanced Regulatory Controls May Be the Way to Overcome the Limitations of Model Predictive Control of Multivariable Processes

Not So Fast on Single-Loop Control

Predicting That Single-Loop Control Will (or Should) Go the Way of the Dinosaur

How to select control valves, Part 1

When it comes to selecting and sizing control valves, the non-commercial chart in this article not only helps you pick the right one for the job, but also serves as...

Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field

Three Trends Are Converging That Will Make Our Dependence on Single-Loop Control Part of History

PC–Based Controls Help Freeze Escalating Energy Costs

Freezing Energy Costs. The World’s Largest Producer of Frozen French Fries Uses PC-Based Controls to Freeze Escalating Energy Costs

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...

15 case-in-points of common control myths

In a time-proven tradition of subjecting everything to scrutiny and ridicule, columnists McMillan and Weiner offer up the following 15 examples used to help...

How to select control valves, Part 2

When it comes to selecting and sizing control valves and positioners, this article not only helps you pick the right one for the right job, but also includes a...

How to select control valves, Part 3

When it comes to selecting and sizing control valves, gain and stability are key characteristics. The non-commercial valve selection chart in this article serves as...

New MFA Control Toolbox

Helping Automation Engineers Solve Various Tough Control Problems

Three-element boiler control system

Ask the Experts” is moderated by Béla Lipták, editor of the three-volume Instrument Engineer’s Handbook. In this column, he welcomes questions from the readers...

Predictive Control of Batch Reactors

Continuous control of batch reactors is now feasible with Model Based Predictive Control. First Principles modeling allows the solution of difficult problems of non...

Advanced Control of Batch Reactor Temperature

This paper describes the application of an advanced model predictive adaptive controller to the problem of batch reactor temperature control. Although a great deal...

Model Predictive Control of Batch Temperature

Control modules used for critical phases of reactor operation such as heating, cooling and reacting can be optimized using advanced process control technology to...

Helicopter Controls

See the online continuation of this story for the solution to control problems in a helicopter control system involving three interacting PID controllers. Engineers...

Gas Blending Control; Pipe Schedule and Control Valve Size

Any Thoughts on Where to Go for Reference Material and/or Subject Matter Experts for Help with Controls Engineering Project? Is It Mandatory That Pipe Line Schedule...

Control and Condition Monitoring of Reciprocating Compressor

Optimum configuration for control system, instrumentation, electrical and condition monitoring of reciprocating compressor is presented. Reciprocating compressors...

Control/ARC Process Automation Podcast Series

Here You Will Find Interviews Done by Control Editors with Different Experts and Personalities Across the Industry

Open Loop Tuning and Process Control en Español

People Ask for More Information on the Implementation of Cascade Control and Instrumentation and Process Control Books Written in Spanish

Beach Blanket Control

“PlantBerries” Won’t Control Processes Any Time Soon, but They Do Break the Link Between Many Workers and Their Control Rooms

Control en Español

ControlGlobal now has process control resources written in Spanish. ControlGlobal ahora ofrece una lista de recursos en español sobre procesos de control.

Maximizing the Potential of Batch Process Control

In the recent years, batch process optimization has made significant advances. The efforts that went into the development of ISA-S88/IEC 61512 batch control standard...

Control valves for slurry service

In this installment of Ask The Experts, noted process control authority and CONTROL Columnist Béla Lipták and his cadre of automation experts answer a reader’s...

Benefits of State Based Control

State Based Control is a plant automation control design based on the principle that all process facilities operate in recognized, definable Process States that...

Plant Modeling: A First Step to Early Verification of Control Systems

Today's control system engineers face competing design demands: increase embedded system performance and functionality, without sacrificing quality or breaking the...

System Configuration Management and Version Control in an FDA Regulated Environment

Managing the genealogy of database configuration and its life cycle is critical to following 21 CFR Part 11. In addition to recipes and equipment model...

Download the new control valve handbook here!

The Control Valve Handbook, Fourth Edition, is now available online. This latest version presents information on control valve performance and new technologies, and...

Response to Control Mode Switching

How to Run Level Control Loop Experiments Successfully, Even After Encountering Controller Performance Issues After Changing Control Mode?

MTL releases control system updates that leverages ArchestrA technology

MOST's process control system, Matrix v. 8.0, leverages Wonderware's Industrial Application Server to automatically manage and coordinate the development,...

Tight Integration of Process Control with ERP

For a new built multi purpose batch plant the DCS with batch control was linked to the ERP-system of the company to ensure consistent and up-to-date data in all...

Batch Control Systems Market and User Requirements

Standards for batch control systems continue to be developed and incorporated into many current and new automation products. This effort is having significant impact...

Securing batch control systems

Batch process control security is becoming a critical concern for the process control domain, IT technology infrastructure and the business enterprise. This paper...

Emerson Process Management's Fisher GX 3-way control valve and actuator system

3-way control valve controls the temperature of water, oils, steam and other industrial fluids

Application of PHMSA Rule Control Room Management/Human Factors

Effective Feb. 2, 2010, the PHMSA rule: 49 CFR Parts 192, 195 Pipeline Safety: Control Room Management/Human Factors imposes control room management requirements for...

Value, Safety and Security of State–Based Control

Walt Boyes talks with ABB's Dave Huffman about the value, safety and security of state-based control. Don't know what state-based control is? Then you should listen...

Choosing an enlightened control path

The rapid development of computer technology in advanced distributed control systems (DCS) has brought a Chinese fatty alcohol process plant safely into the modern...

Where does the control system integrator go?

The CSI must be brought into the design phase of the construction process prior to the selection of major equipment and control components in order to review them...

PC-based control infiltrates process plants

As PC-based control becomes more widespread in process plants, often via purchased machines and process skids, companies are finding it's a short step to...

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,...

Control de Procesos en Español

ControlGlobal is looking for process control resources written in Spanish. ControlGlobal busca recursos en español sobre el control de procesos.

Batch Control Analysis

Batch control analysis is one of steps in the design of plants executing batch process - an S88-based analysis of batch process from the control point of view. It is...

English, the Lingua Franca of control

In his monthly Control Report, Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt surmises that just as English is the language of international business and air traffic...

Distillation control and optimization, Part 1

CONTROL columnist Bela Liptak describes the distillation process and PID-based controls, reviews optimization strategies, and shows how advanced controls can cut...

Can an automation engineer control the economy?

Process Automation: In this month's installment of his Lessons Learned column for CONTROL magazine, columnist Béla Lipták, PE, shows what can happen when advanced...

Solar Generators; Control Valve Boosters

“Ask the Experts” is moderated by Béla Lipták (liptakbela@aol.com), editor of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook . In this column, he and his co-authors welcome...

PCSF group moves to detect control system attacks

The Process Control Systems Forum (PCSF) Interim Governing Board (IGB) has voted to transition the Control System Security Event Monitoring (SEM) Interest Group to...

Nonlinear Control and Decision Making Using Fuzzy Logic in Logix

This white paper explores fuzzy logic and how it helps engineers solve nonlinear control problems commonly found in process applications. Fuzzy logic, which...

Assuring Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Security

Joe Weiss, Control's Unfettered blogger, was asked by CSIS to prepare a white paper on cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems. CSIS is the Center for...

Intelligent Rotary Control Valve: One Valve Numerous Applications

During recent decades, rotary control valves have encroached upon the traditional territory of the linear globe valve in the petrochemical industry. Eccentric plug...

Process Control Systems Forum (PCSF) 2006 Spring Meeting

Process Control Systems Forum's 2006 Spring meeting will take place Tuesday, June 6, and Wednesday, June 7, at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in La Jolla,...

Woodward Industrial Controls' Control Valve System

Control valve system designed for remote monitoring

Process control and SCADA security best practices

This guide is designed to impart good practice for securing industrial process control, automation, distributed control and SCADA systems. It provides an overview of...

Targeting Batch Outcome using Predictive Control

The paper will present a new methodology for using predictive control to improve batch process outcomes. Predictive control refers to a situation in which data...

News Scoop: ABB Presents "Benefits of State Based Control" White Paper

Control Gets Exclusive on ABB's "Benefits of State Based Control" White Paper. This Paper Is Being Presented at ABB Automation & Power World 2009

How Electric Control Valve Actuators Can Eliminate the Problems of Compressed Air as a Power Medium

Find out how the new generation of electric control-valve actuators can provide significant benefits over compressed-air actuators in process applications, leading...

Functions Need to be Considered for Batch Material Transfer Controls

Batch processes depend heavily on the speed and repeatability with which each material transfer is completed for every recipe executed. Each and every transfer...

Managing Change in an Open Process Control Environment

Modern process control strategies are transitioning from closed, proprietary platforms to networks of flexible, distributed databases and open Human-Machine...

Control Valve Handbook, 4th Edition

The Control Valve Handbook has been a primary reference since its first printing in 1965. This fourth edition presents vital information on control valve performance...

PACs for industrial control, the future of control

As the technological differences between PC and PLC wane, a new class of controllers is emerging for engineers who require higher loop rates, advanced control...

Control software gets sophisticated

In this Product Roundup of control software in the process automation and instrumentation industry, Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt finds that small software...

Control system migration or migraine?

Birds know when to fly south for the winter, but how do automation engineers figure out when it's time to migrate? CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes looks at the...

Control Valve Simulation

How to simulate the designs of an automation and control project for a water treatment process, before putting them into operation.

OneGear, PowerFlex 755 Headline New Intelligent Motor Controls

Meet the Next Generation of Medium-Voltage Motor Control

Integrated Controls Keep Cement Plants Nimble

Evolution and Benefits of Cement Plants’ Automation and Control Systems Technology

Control Software

The Latest in Functionality and Features for Control Software

Model-Based Control of Fast Processes

Online Visitor Asks About Applications That You Wish You Could Use APC on, but Can't Do Because of the Speed, Cost and Complexity of Traditional Approaches to...

Process Control's Role in Nuclear Waste Handling

Liptak Talks about the Role of Process Control in Nuclear Safety and How It Can Plays in Reducing the Risks Associated with the Transportation and Storage of Nuclear...

Can Process Control Prevent Oil Well Blowouts?

Oil Drilling Accident in the Gulf of Mexico: What caused it? Could We Have Prevented the Blowout with Properly Designed Process Control Systems?

Wireless Control in the Field

Users Will Have to Exert Their Influence with Suppliers to Get Control in the Field Implemented in WirelessHART

What is field control?

Process Automation: Fieldbus technology expert Dick Caro asserts that field control is an idea whose time has come and, when presented with the facts, should be the...

Model-predictive control can solve valve problem

CONTROL columnist Greg McMillan addresses the use of fine adjustment valves to reduce process variability and suggests that now is a fine time to break away from old...

Split range control methods

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out which books and online courses they...

Mission possible: Control and IT integration

Despite what you may have heard, it is possible for plant and enterprise IT departments to play well together. CONTROL's Dave Harrold reports on changes, new...

Ink control, steam drums, smart positioners

Process control authority Béla Lipták and his cadre of automation experts answer readers' questions regarding ink control, steam drums and smart positioners.

Will your New Control System fail?

Find out what to do to keep your new control system from failing. A veteran control system integrator tells you what you need to know.

Surprise! Field-Based Control Beats DCS

It Is Evident That Device-Based Control Exceeds DCS-Based Control in Reliability and Performance

Market Intelligence Report: Process Control Software

Control's market intelligence report on process control software reveals some interesting attitudes on the part of end users. Some of the responses will...

Control Room Information for Batch Processes

The way information is displayed in control rooms in the process industry has developed a long way from the original gauges, chart recorders and lamps to the...

QNI Uses the OSIsoft PI System to Control Refinery Operations and Gain 41 Percent IRR in 3.5 Years

Until a few years ago, QNI’s cobalt/nickel refinery in Yabulu, Australia, used manual process-recording methods. Process engineers found it difficult to determine...

Critical components of a surge control loop

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out what are the critical components of...

Can process control help stabilize global warming?

CONTROL columnist Béla Lipták, PE, continues his Lessons Learned series on Global Warming, and what the proceess control confraternity can do about predicting the...

Honeywell's New Experion LS Brings the Power of a Distributed Control System to Smaller Manufacturing Sites

Control System Provides Reliability and Agility in Smaller System, Helps Plants Lower Lifecycle Costs

Control Valve Market to Exceed $5 Billion by 2011

The Worldwide Control Valve Market Experienced Double-Digit Growth in 2006

How Control Engineers Can Deliver the Most Value

Control Engineers are a scarce and valuable resource for process plants. When applied to the right tasks, control engineers can easily deliver 10X their annual...

Control systems cyber security awareness

This White Paper is the first installment in a series intended to provide relevant cyber security information to the control systems community. It raises cyber...

Purchasing controls equipment on the Internet

Going once, going twice. Sold! Learn how process automation professionals are saving thousands of dollars buying or selling industrial controls equipment through...

Metal legos streamline sampling and control

The new sampling and sensor initiative (NeSSI) delivers savings now, and improved process control soon.

Efficiency in pH Control – Function Block Programming

Dual Reagent Control is an example of an efficient function block implementation of pH control.

FutureCast: Advanced Control

Advances in computing power and statistical analysis have made it possible for Control's Walt Boyes to peer into the crystal ball and see what the control strategies...

A model-based approach for viscosity control

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out how you can develop a model-based...

AutomationDirect's Line of Hammond Control Power Transformers

Encapsulated Transformers added to Hammond Control Transformers Line

Get Out the Process Control Vote

Society Could Use Some of that Technical Know-How that Process Control Engineers too often Leave Back at Work

Process Control Security News

Two years of work by the plant security working group of the Netherlands-based WIB International Instrument Users' Association plant security working group has...

Temperature measurement and control resources

Every month, CONTROL 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...

Under the hood of override control: Part 2

Users can accomplish forced initialization under adverse conditions, output tracking, and other methods of implementation, including selection based on error and...

User-friendly advanced control

Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, looks at the latest advances in simulation and modeling technologies for improved loop control, including new software packages...

Distillation Control and Optimization – Part 6

Model-based multivariable controls or artificial neural networks can reap optimization rewards for complex towers with many constraints.

Virtual Control of Real pH

Virtual design reduces the hassles of pH control.

The Potential for Electrical and Controls Integration

Electrical Integration Is Simply Connecting the Electrical Devices to a Control System

A process only mankind can control

Global warming, devastating hurricanes and rising ocean currents are all signs of a presently-out-of-control global heat balance that may result in colder winters...

Project Management of Batch Control Projects: How to avoid the Pitfalls

Batch control projects have tended to be software intensive and often overrun substantially. In most cases this is due to a lack of foresight and planning in the...

Distillation control and optimization

This ebook by noted process authority expert Béla Lipták provides a concise, yet complete analysis of distillation control, showing the potential for savings through...

Yokogawa Corporation of America's CENTUM VP for batch control

CENTUM VP for batch control is an enhancement to this company's integrated production control system

Control software opens up, prices come down

Statistical Process Control: Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt showcases the latest software offerings that are becoming more open to the web, networks and...

Cavitation in Control Valves

How Should I Minimize or Maximize Cavitation in Control Valves?

Emerson acquires Innovative Control Systems Inc.

Emerson Process Management has acquired Clifton Park, N.Y.-based Innovative Control Systems Inc. (ICS), a leader in turbine control upgrades for power generation...

Object oriented programming in control system software engineering

While it was initially esoteric, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) crept into mainstream Information Technology (IT) applications by the mid 1980s. A decade later,...

2O Years of Control

Control Magazine Celebrates 20th Anniversary by Looking into the Future of Process Automation

Market Intelligence Report: Process Control Software

Control Global surveyed its audience on process control software and Editor-in-chief Walt Boyes presents the survey results in this video report. Watch this report...

Process Control Domain - Security Requirements for Vendors

This document specifies requirements and gives recommendations for IT security to be fulfilled by vendors of process control and automation systems to be used in...

Honeywell, Wood Group Offer Turbine Control Solution

More Power-Generation Companies Are Upgrading Their Older Control Systems

Adaptive Control Positioner

Free Download of Reference Book on Basic Operation and Function of Control Valves

ControlGlobal.com has partnered with Cashco to make the Basic Operation and Function of Control Valves technical reference book available for free download.

Application Whitelisting and Control Systems: A Good Match

This white paper explains why application whitelisting is being rapidly adopted as a security and control solution for SCADA systems. In three major sections, the...

Advances in Low Voltage Motor Control Center (MCC) Technology Help Reduce Arc-Flash Hazards and Minimize Risks

Selecting the right MCC equipment leads to improved plant safety, helping protect people and capital investments. Measures to increase equipment and personnel...

ISA's widely used batch control standards to undergo revision

ISA's SP88 Batch Control standards development committee has formed a working group to update the first two standards in the widely used ISA-88 series.

Control Software and Renewable Energy, Part 1

Columnist Bela Liptak Launches a Series of Articles Talking About Control Software in Need of Development for Renewable Energy Processes. Here is Article Number 1

Control Systems, Oh, No...Not Again!

The Process Industries Have Been Faced with a Continuing Series of Refinery, Chemical Plant, Mining and Even Food Plant Disasters. These Continue to Happen with...

ISaGRAF’s Control Software Environment

Control software environment allows you to create local or distributed control systems with a variety of automation products.

Cascade control tuning

ControlGlobal.com presents "Ask the Experts," a column moderated by noted process control authority and columnist Bela Liptak. Save yourself the hefty consulting...

Process Controls Prevent Nuclear Disasters

A Six Part Series Describing How Process Controls Could Have Prevented Past Nuclear Accidents and Could Improve the Safety of the Nuclear Power Industry

Control/ARC Podcast: Tom Fiske

Faking It Can Be A Good Thing. Control Executive Editor Jim Montague and ARC Senior Analyst Tom Fiske talk about the benefits of using sophisticated...

Take off to new heights in your legacy control systems migration programs

There is a significant difference when it comes to birds and control systems from a perspective of migration. While some of the birds migrate back to its original...

Control in the Field Does Make Business Sense

The Business Value Proposition of Control in the Field

Advanced pH Measurement and Control Survey

Help Control's Greg McMillan Find His Sensors with Both Hands

Delivering Business Results with Control Systems

This paper discusses techniques for managing control system performance, and for gaining the greatest leverage from control system personnel.

How to Secure Your Control System

Process control systems have historically been operated in isolation or in a stand-alone fashion. Today, control systems are being connected to enterprise networks...

Integrating Control and Safety with Secure System Segregation

Download this white paper to learn more about how Honeywell delivers operational integration with critical system segregation. With secure integration at the control...

Control FutureCast: Networking Technologies

Keith Larson, Putman Media vice president of content and long time editor of Control, reviews the ongoing development and increasingly prevalent use of...

FutureCast: Control Valves

In this Futurecast, Control's Executive Editor Jim Montague peers into the crystal ball and reports what the future will bring for control valves.

Remote HMI Systems-What Control Readers Like (And Dislike)

This Special Report from the Process Automation Media Network, sponsored by EZAutomation, focuses on how Control readers use remote HMI systems and what they...

Applying NIST SP 800-53 to industrial control systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established an Industrial Control System Security Project to improve the security of public and private...

Delivering Business Results with Control Systems

This paper discusses techniques for managing control system performance, and for gaining the greatest leverage from control system personnel.

Batch Distillation: Practical Aspects of Design and Control

Distillation, both batch and continuous, is the most often used separation technique in the Specialty Chemical Industry. While continuous distillation has...

Project Management of Batch Control Projects: How to avoid the Pitfalls

Batch control projects have tended to be software intensive and often overrun substantially. In most cases this is due to a lack of foresight and planning in the...

Implementing Automated Batch Control of a Biotechnology Manufacturing Facility using S88.01 concepts – A Case Study

Genentech Inc. recently completed the design, construction and automation of a new, multipurpose, biotechnology drug, bulk-manufacturing facility in the United...

Benchmarking survey on Process Control: Earn a chance to win $100

ControlGlobal.com and its sister site, PharmaManufacturing.com, are co-hosting a benchmarking survey on process control in the pharmaceutical industry. Participate...

10 Essential Technologies for High–Performance Motion Control

Motion controllers have incorporated key technologies over the years to meet the increasing demands of high-performance applications such as profile cutting and...

Applying Multivariable Control to the Offshore Oil Production Process

Although multivariable control is now a well–established technology, new applications are still being found on which to apply it.In this paper, details will be...

Upgrading Control Systems

Find out why people upgrade control systems and what the best ways are to do a system migration.

Predicting Control Valve Noise in Gas and Steam Applications: Valve Trim Exit Velocity Head vs. Valve Outlet Mach Number

Predicting and managing control valve noise has long been an important consideration in gas and steam applications, with the dual goals of protecting workers from...

Cyber vulnerabilities in control systems

As steps are being taken to ensure the cybersecurity of control systems in the automation industries, securing and maintaining these systems will require employees...

Advanced process control in practice

Around the Loop columnist Terry McMahon takes a look at a few recently published works that are heralding the advent of advanced process control technology as a...

Pressure control optimization

Floating pressure control means that, at minimum pressure, the heat required at the reboiler is minimized, its capacity is increased, and fouling is reduced.

The skinny on PC-based control systems

In this column, Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, takes a look at why a process skid manufacturer thinks PC-based control makes sense for its—and other—process...

Intelligent Motor Controls Boost Safety, Energy Savings

Rockwell Automation’s Automation Fair 2007 visitors explore a range of Intelligent Motor Control (IMC) solutions.

7 Part Series on Distillation Control and Optimization

Read Bela Liptak's Complete Series on Distillation Control and Optimization

Control System Migration

Reduce Costs and Risk by Following These Control System Migration Best Practices

Distillation Control and Optimization – Part 7

Plant-Wide Optimization Involves Coordinating the Control of Distillation, Furnaces, Compressors, etc. to Maximize the Profitability of the Entire Operation

System 800xA Helps Wed Process Control and Safety

ABB Reaps Benefits of Process Control and Safety Integration―without Compromising Either One

Worsley Alumina designs luxury suite for control room operators

The management team at Worsley Alumina's refinery in Western Australia challenged its process control group with this task: Create an environment where process...

Designing Control Rooms for Humans

Process Automation: Today's work environment has been revolutionized by PC’s and PC workstations. The most dramatic changes have taken place in industrial control...

Automation Using PLCs, SCADA and Telemetry Process Control and Data Acquisition

Learn about automation using PLCs, SCADA and telemetry fundamentals, process control fundamentals, data acquisition concepts and more.

What Drives Choices of Industrial Heat Control Systems?

Design Engineers and Engineering Managers Say that Core Heating and Control Technologies They Use will Change in the Next Two Years

Securing IP control protocols

Is it impossible for all SCADA IP control protocols to implement a common security protocol? This "special to the web" article by SCADA security consultant Dale...

Control Software and Renewable Energy, Part 3

Bela Liptak Discusses the Control of the Renewable Energy Processes That Use Energy Sources Such as the Sun, the Moon, the Rotation of Earth and Its Coriolis Effect...

Mission Control

Every process plant has a control room with numerous display devices. Some old plants still have large custom-built mimic panels, while newer plants have two main...

Precise Flow Control

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...

Automation Federation joins control systems security certification initiative

Automation Federation has made a commitment to support a new initiative aimed at evaluating the feasibility of creating a set of well-engineered specifications and...

Control reports from the ABB Automation World Conference and Exhibition

Control Provides Daily Coverage of the 2008 ABB Automation World Conference and Exhibition and Walt Boyes Blogs Live from the Meeting

The Energy Future—Process Control’s Role

Find out about the “zero energy home of the future” and the hydrogen economy. What are the potentials of process control in wind, ocean wave, and geothermal energy...

Unscrambling Safety: The International Digital Edition of CONTROL for May 2006

CONTROL magazine's May issue is now available in digital format (Flash, HTML, and PDF) as a complete facsimile edition of the magazine. No copy protection means the...

How to Develop High Reliability Ethernet Control Systems Using Media Redundancy

A fault-tolerant Ethernet control network requires not only redundant switches and cables, but also redundancy down to the I/O. Otherwise, we still have...

Virtualization Reduces the Cost of Supporting Open Industrial Control Systems

Applying virtualization technology to open industrial control systems reduces lifecycle costs and improves manageability. Virtualization helps reduce hardware and...

Innovative defense strategies for securing SCADA and control systems

This White Paper takes a look at the fundamental issues with the current practice of securing SCADA and control systems, discusses the concept of security zones of...

Integrating control and safety: Where to draw the line

Different vendors offer varied degrees of integration and solutions. The question is how to provide an integrated control and safety solution with advanced...

Process Control Network Security

Here, Invensys describes the reference architecture of best practices for a process control system network and its interfaces to a corporate network.

Adalet's Motor Control Enclosure Systems

Adalet offers a line explosion-proof motor control enclosure systems for hazardous areas

Simplify Control System Building

Free Download of Technical Reference Book on Measurement and Control

Process automation: ControlGlobal.com has partnered with Omega Engineering to make the Transactions in Measurement and Control technical reference series available...

Drives, Motor Controls, Power Quality Information

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

DuPont selects Siemens as global process control partner

Siemens Energy & Automation has announced that it has been selected as one of two guidelined distributed control systems (DCS) suppliers for DuPont.

Control Marks 20th Anniversary

Control Editors Celebrate 20 Years of Excellence with Video Prognostications on Different Process Automation Technology Subjects

CONTROL’s 2005 Buyer’s Guide

Now available online, the 2005 Buyers Guide provides the process automation, instrumentation and controls community with the industry's newest and most comprehensive...

Hacking the grid: control systems under attack

Process Automation: Security experts warn it wouldn’t be hard for a cyberpunk or terrorist to hack into a monitoring and control SCADA system and wreak havoc on a...

SOUND OFF! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog!

Want to know what's really going on in the industry? CONTROL's Intrepid Roving Editors blog from just about anywhere on almost any process automation topic.

Upgrading Control Systems

Find Out Why People Upgrade Control Systems and What the are the Best Ways to Do a System Migration

10 Essential Technologies for High-Performance Motion Control

Motion controllers have incorporated key technologies over the years to meet the increasing demands of high-performance applications such as profile cutting and...

Seven Ways Today's Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Can Improve Your Operations

In the past, DCS systems were large, expensive and very complex. This drove many control engineers to use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and human machine...

Seven Steps for Improving Control Loop Performance

This paper outlines a systematic, seven-step approach for improving control system performance. It also describes the key points to follow for ensuring each step is...

Lumenite's LASC-RTD/THM Liquid Level and Temperature Control Board

SENSITIVE LIQUID LEVEL/TEMP CONTROL BOARD

Diagnosing and Solving Common Control Loop Problems

This paper describes the most common problems affecting control loop performance and how to identify and solve them.

Omega's Industrial Control Transformers

The control transformer line is particularly adaptable on applications where compact construction is demanded.

Control offshore plants from here

Automation technology just might keep process control from going overseas as long as engineers, operators and techs can tune the plant, watch over day-to-day...

Protect control networks from office network problems

Three techniques—overlapped VLANs, rate limiting, and port security—can help safeguard control networks from problems with office networks or equipment such as...

CC-Link Improves Printing Press Control

CC-Link provides the "open" network backbone for the control of 32 Tensor printing press units

A disciplined approach to control system development

This article explains the basic method to rapid control system development, as well as ways to create a reliable system model that a virtual controller may be...

Application of S88 Model in the Control of Continuous Distillation Facilities

A recipe control of a continuous distillation plant was a challenge in its design, simulation, validation and successful exploitation. The plant was used for solvent...

Emerson to install expert control system at new Chinese thermal power plant

Emerson Process Management has received a contract to install its Ovation expert control system at units 1 and 2 of the new 1,200-MW (2 X 600) super-critical...

Internet Access in a Process Control Environment

Industrial automation is no longer limited by the walls of a production facility. More and more automation is being handled via remote communication, whether it’s...

Process Control Network Security Using OPC Tunneling

Manufacturing companies have invested billions of dollars in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their investment...

Common control system vulnerabilities

This report describes the generalized trends in vulnerabilities observed from control and automation IT systems used in critical infrastructures, as well as typical...

Cyber security procurement language for control systems

This document summarizes important security principles that should be considered when designing and procuring control systems products (software, systems and...

Process control system security technical risk assessment

As enterprise systems evolve towards increasing integration, the need has increased for inherently secure process control systems. This research report describes an...

Using MODBUS for Process Control and Automation

This whitepaper, written by Vince Marchant, a senior application engineer at Moore Industries, describes how Modbus works, and how it can be used in new and legacy...

Internet Access in a Process Control Environment

Industrial automation is no longer limited by the walls of a production facility. More and more automation is being handled via remote communication, whether it’s...

Pavilion Technologies' Process Control Software

Variable dynamics provides control and ROI

Control Microsystems' Gas Flow Computer

Gas flow computer takes control

Tetragenics' Alarm Control System

Alarm control system can be viewed remotely

The Bad Hall of Fame

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner highlight really bad instruments, final control elements, and control systems in their Bad Hall of Fame, then proffer the...

Control Valve Technology Library

The Control Valve Technology Library is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and...

Evolution

Process Control Software Expands to Meet Today’s Evolving Needs

...to Tango

Model-Predictive Control and Advanced Process Control Tools Are Helping Users Gain Efficiencies and Savings in Their Process Applications. Here’s How You Can Boogie...

The best of the best, Part 1

Columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE, bring their wits and more than 70 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments and problems...

The best of the best — Part 2

In the second installment of this two-part series, Control Talk columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE, bring their wits and more than 70 years of process...

Best of the best, Part 3

In the third installment of this series, Control Talk columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE, continue their interviews with the big names in process control....

The DCS spirit lives on everywhere

Classic distributed control systems typically remain only in high-availability refining and power applications, but their strategies and capabilities persist in...

Why do you need performance supervision?

One way to unlock control system secrets is to implement a Performance Supervision System, a smart reporting system that can dramatically help save time, money, and...

Regulating inlet fluid temperature

In this installment of Ask the Experts, Béla Lipták and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, share tips on regulating inlet fluid temperature and...

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...

Productos

Presentando lo Ultimo en la Tecnología de Procesos de Control

Jacket temp: Thermocouple multiplexers

In this installment of Ask the Experts, Bela Liptak and his cadre of automation experts suggest to a reader how to tune a reactor temperature control loop for nearly...

Process safety system market to see double-digit growth

According to researchers at ARC Advisory Group, the worldwide market for safety and critical control systems will grow to more than $1.5 billion by 2010.

ISA announces publication of electricity and electronics resource

ISA has announced the publication of "Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition" by Lawrence (Larry) M. Thompson.

Process Automation Comics

Ted Williams, Control's Resident Cartoonist, Sketches the Light Side of the Trials and Tribulations of Life as a Process Engineer

Control Platforms

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

This Week Control Reports Live from ABB Automation and Power World 2009

This Week, Control Editors Report Live from ABB Automation and Power World 2009. Don't Miss Our Daily Tweets, News Updates, Blogs and In-Depth Reporting

Your August isse of Control is ready online... #pauto #mfg #manufacturing #wireless #NeSSI #BP

digital issueControl's August issue is now online and ready for viewing. In the August Issue of Control, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes outlines where we are now with...

Your August isse of Control is ready online... #pauto #mfg #manufacturing #wireless #NeSSI #BP

digital issueControl's August issue is now online and ready for viewing. In the August Issue of Control, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes outlines where we are now with...

The best of the best, Part 6

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner continue their multipart series of talks with some of the Great Minds in Process Control. This month it’s Terry Blevins,...

Daytime talk is a hoot and a holler

McMillan and Weiner imagine a transcript of a control engineer on a daytime talk show and offer up the Top 10 reasons why you won’t find a model-based control text...

Logic Developer Process Edition Function Blocks

Delivering increased precision and enabling advanced regulatory control strategies for continuous process control. Process control in the most generic sense...

Does Valve Size Matter? Ethernet or Modbus?

“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority, Béla Lipták. In this column, he and other experienced process control...

A Simple Single Setting Controller Yields PI Performance

This paper presents a simple velocity control algorithm with output modification that has equivalent PI controller dynamic performance. The controller features a...

Predictive Material Delivery to A Batch System

Creating an inexpensive material delivery system to provide high accuracy and to do so at high speeds would seem to be an impossible task. Procter & Gamble's...

Second-tier systems replace legacy controls

Got an old control system? Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt looks at a few case histories where companies chose products and services from second tier vendors to...

Talking about talking

Columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE, bring their wits and more than 70 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments and problems...

Controlling distributed processes

The distributed process—while undeniably complex—can be defined by only two parameters and is relatively easy to control. Our very own guru, Greg Shinskey, provides...

Flowmeter Articles

The Flowmeter Knowledge Center is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and researchers...

Help us with our March cover story

Help CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt research his cover story for the March 2006 issue of CONTROL magazine. Click here to take a short poll on...

Performance Monitoring Fundamentals: Demystifying Performance Assessment Techniques

Real-time performance monitoring to identify poorly or under-performing loops has become an integral part of preventative maintenance. Among others, rising energy...

Understanding the Concepts Behind Short Circuit Current Ratings (SCCR)

The date of January 1, 2005 sits vividly in the minds of manufacturers within the industrial control panel field. That's because that's the day when the National...

Robot Ships?

The RTP Critical Control and Safety Systems will operate all aspects of the ship, including the four LM2500 turbines that provide propulsion and steering control.

Energy | Global energy strategy begins with control | Control Global

Process control guru and columnist Béla Lipták, PE, provides a powerful vision of our energy future and a challenge to the process control and instrumentation...

How to perform alarm rationalization

If you don’t deal with your computer-based control alarms in a disciplined manner, uncontrolled alarm growth can result, which can lead to out-of-control alarm...

Readers' Choice Awards: Are you being served?

Process control professionals report who offers the best technologies and who best meets their needs in CONTROL's 14th Annual Readers' Choice Awards

Bumpless switching of most open valves

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings answers a reader's question about how to control variable speed feedwater pumps.

The Top 50 process instrumentation and controls suppliers in the industry

CONTROL magazine continues its annual hit parade of the industry's top process instrumentation and controls suppliers. Find out who made this year's hit list, and...

Tuning rule bonanza

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner say in order to get good performance, you need to measure and track the process, the controls, and the equipment under...

The best of the best, Part 5

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner continue their multipart series of talks with some of the Great Minds in Process Control. This month it’s Sheldon Lloyd,...

Biomass fuel production gets sweeter

Improved instrumentation and control strategies allow biofuel producers to reap the benefits of new processing techniques and advanced control strategies. CONTROL...

Process controllers don't do windows

Automation Engineering: Embedded operating systems dominate the process control market, but this soon could change according to Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert in...

Analyze this!

Measurement and control of physical properties such as level and flow are the heart of process control. But measurement and control of the molecular composition of a...

CyboSoft wins DOE grant for intelligent actuation control

CyboSoft has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant entitled,"Intelligent Actuation Control Using Model-Free Adaptive Control Technology."

APC: A Status Report

The purpose of this paper is to trace the history of the development of process control, advanced process control and related applied engineering technologies, and...

Achieving 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance Using CENTUM VP

This technical white paper will discuss Yokogawa's CENTUM VP DCS (Distributed Control System) product, hereafter referred to as "CENTUM VP", and the extent of its...

PACs for Communications and Data Handling

Process Control Tasks Performed by the PAC Include Closed-Loop PID Control of a Set of Heaters That Maintain the Sampling Ports at Constant Temperatures

Recycle, Reduce Energy Costs

To Control the EAF Temperature and Reduce the Number of Reheats, Nucor Developed a Low-Cost Scale and Weighing Control System

Heads up: NIST developing SCADA guide; seeks feedback

NIST is seeking subject matter experts (SMEs) to actively review and provide feedback on the content and organization of the "Guide to Supervisory Control and Data...

Watlow

The EZ-ZONE ST integrated control loop is the first product to integrate temperature control, power control, safety shut-down and power disconnect in a single package.

Oh the humanity!

In this installment of Control Report, Executive Editor Jim Montague finds the process control and automation field is awash in irony, unexpected twists and tragic...

Blood and guts

Executive Editor Jim Montague notes that taking a closer look at biological processes can help adapt or improve existing process controls and systems. Read why in...

Are you grounded in reality?

McMillan and Weiner get an insightful reply as to why a plant instrument engineer said the control schemes and instruments successfully used at other locations won't...

Back to Basics: Loop Tuning

Control Editor in Chief Walt Boyes explains the basics of this fundamental control operation. Learn about dead band, lag time, PID control, manual and...

Flowmeter White Papers

The Flowmeter Knowledge Center is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and researchers...

Getting batch material transfers under control

Batch material transfer control seems an easy task to carry out. But the reality is that many functions are necessary if the system is to accomplish accurate batch...

To Hell and Back

How to Rebuild a Control Room in Five Days. Lessons in Disaster Recovery and Emergency Response

Three decades of DCS technology

Distributed control system technology and its pioneers have had a profound effect on our profession and should be recognized, according to Around the Loop columnist...

Fitting the Workplace to the Worker

Process Industry Control Rooms Would Be Designed a Whole Lot Differently if Air-Traffic Controllers Were Working in Them

Hunting Know-How

Everyone Wants to Gather and Preserve the Knowledge of Veteran Process Control Engineers. However, Few Know How to Turn Expertise into Useful Information that...

Back to Basics: Basics of Data Acquisition

Data, data, it's all about the data. Nothing makes a control system fail faster than a failure of the data acquisition system. Walt Boyes, Control's editor in...

Brewery in a Box?

Bringing the Benefits of Distributed Control to Non-Traditional Industries Can Be Both Tricky and Lucrative

Applied control theory moves out

Process Automation: Many of your peers share the same advanced process control (APC) problems, and an APC solution applied to one process can often be adapted for...

Control Station and Yokogawa offer integrated tuning solution

Control Station simultaneously announced completion of a cooperative reseller agreement with Yokogawa Corporation of America and general availability of a PID tuning...

Automation Federation joins security project

Joining end-user companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil and automation vendors like Emerson and Honeywell, and Control magazine, ISA's new "Automation Federation"...

Distillation Control and Optimization

Distillation is arguably the most complex unit operation in most processing plants. In this Ebook, “Distillation Control & Optimization,” Béla Lipták, one of the...

The case for valves: Not just open and shut

Actionable Items columnist Steve Kuehn notes that precision flow control is ensured with well-specified, precisely controlled valves, but for the sake of your...

InFusion Enterprise Control System v2.0

Invensys Operations Management has released the next evolution of its InFusion Enterprise Control System (ECS).

Events Calendar

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Five rules for helping a middle-aged engineer

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner provide their unique brand of commentary on the handling of cascade loops, then offer up some humor with the Top 10...

Control valve market to exceed $6 billion

The worldwide control valve market enjoyed yet another year of historic double-digit growth between 2006 and 2007. Strong revenue growth is expected to continue at a...

Events Calendar

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

The next generation of smarter valves

Process automation: In the next decade, much improvement and change is expected in the design of smart and self-diagnosing control valves, with potential advantages...

Market Intelligence Report: Field Instruments

Control’s Walt Boyes reports on how end users are using field instruments, analyzers and final control elements. Wired or wireless, this is where the rubber...

Life's a batch!

Process automation: Efficient batch control can be both an art and science, writes CONTROL contributor Gregory K. McMillan, so act accordingly for best results, and...

The whys and hows of enterprise integration

CONTROL's Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt reports on enterprise integration, who's doing it and how well it is going, and how information is provided from the...

Best of the best, Part 4

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner continue their interviews with the big names in process control. This time they talk with Bob Heider, adjunct professor...

Controlling the Whole Column

In the next installment of this series, CONTROL Columnist Béla Lipták, PE, discusses the overall control strategies for optimizing the distillation column to...

Is PAT a Silver Bullet?

Ready to Kill Some Werewolves? Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) Are Beginning to Inject Quality-by-Design (QbD), Model-Predictive Control, Risk Management and...

A Mixed Bag

Control’s 2008 Salary Survey Reveals Some Industry and Economic Shifts. Our Veterans Grow Strong Within the Process Control Industry and Their Job Roles, but...

Automation Loop Controllers | Controlling Loop Controllers | Control Global

Control’s Monthly Resource Guide, This Month We Cover Loop Controls

Getting Real About Simulation

Emerging and Eye-Popping 3-D Graphics and Virtual Reality Technology Are Giving Plenty of Game to Process Control Testing and Training Simulators Integrated with...

Ask The Experts

"Ask the Experts" is moderated on ControlGlobal.com by noted process control authority and CONTROL Columnist Bela Liptak. Liptak either answers the questions...

Round Up Them Puzzler Answers

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to...

Do You Know Who Made Your Valves?

Counterfeiting is a slippery business. Here’s how to minimize the risk and danger of fake process controls.

The rest of the best of the best

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner continue their multipart series of talks with some of the Great Minds in Process Control.

Wolves at the Door(s) of the House of Straw

In the control system world, engineers believe that as long as they have some sort of device separating the control network from the business network, they are safe.

How to Measure pH Inside a Tank; Increasing Scan Times

“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,...

SecureSystems Insider: Archived issues

Process Automation: SecureSystems Insider probes the latest system advances designed to safely control and secure your critical SCADA control systems.

Top 10 signs your software is over the (leading) edge

Process Automation: Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner discuss standard mixing design practices for neutralization control and offer up the Top Ten Signs...

OPC considerations for network security

It seems that whenever IT meets real-time control systems, trouble usually erupts, but this article shows that while industrial cyber security is complex, there are...

Process Control Trends--Part 1

In this, and future columns, I'll be making some observations on current trends in process control. While 90% of global production is still controlled by analog...

Reducing Energy Cost through Improved Disturbance Rejection

Two of the most popular architectures for improving regulatory performance and increasing profitability are 1) cascade control and 2) feed forward with feedback...

Control valve market to drop for next two years

In 2009, control valve suppliers face precipitous drops in control valve orders and declining backlogs. The worldwide market for control valves will decline over the...

Things Go Better with S88: A New Approach to the Engineering Process

Investments in process control systems will claim a large percentage of capital investments in modern manufacturing facilities. In order to maximize return on these...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month (February '07) on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

Every Day Changes

Looking at Three Technologies That Have Matured In Recent years—Distributed Control Systems (DCSs), Control Software and Process Analyzers

Meggitt Control Systems and Green Hills Software build cabin air system

Green Hills Software has announced that Meggitt Control Systems is using Green Hills Software’s comprehensive software development solutions to build a cabin air...

Batch executives speed up accurate feeds

Despite great strides to the increased computing power of PC-based controls and software, many batch applications have been stuck with the same measurement and...

Lynda J. Patterson New CSIA President

Control System Integrators Association Elects New President

System protection profile for industrial control systems

The first draft of the System Protection Profile for Industrial Control Systems, designed to present a cohesive, cross-industry, baseline set of security...

Corrosion: The new process variable

This White Paper offers a three-step plan to interface real-time corrosion measurement with process data through a plant’s distributed control system (DCS). It also...

Valve innovations aid nuclear slurry pretreatment

Plug valves, stem extensions, and automation enable remote control and repairs in radioactive waste vessels at the Hanford Waste Treatment Project (WTP) in southeast...

Sensing leakage and emissions at the valve

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question regarding future trends of sensing emissions...

Edge protection a first layer of defense-in-depth security

Control system security expert Eric Byres presents defense-in-depth strategies for process control systems to some 150 attendees at the Honeywell Users' Group...

Books for success in the process automation industry

Covering the world of automation, instrumentation and control, these industry books available from ISA are authoritative, thorough, and written and reviewed by...

Product Roundup of valves, actuators and positioners

Process Automation: This Product Roundup of control valve technology shows that valve devices and components continue to get smarter, wired and more networked.

Are your security practices up to IT standards?

Joe Weiss and Jay Abshier, world class security consultants for process automation, write about the battle between the world of IT and Plant Operations. So, who’s...

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...

All around loop controllers

Every month, CONTROL 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...

One Man’s Story – Back to the Future

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to...

Up From the Ashes

This Month’s Column Tells How One Intrepid Fellow Survived a hit From a Reorganization Meteorite and Went on to Find Happiness as Part of a Process Control...

Chernobyl Did Not Need To Occur

Good Process Control Could Have Prevented this Historic Meltdown

Clearing the Integration Hurdles

Control System/ERP Integration Is More Profitable and Technically Easier Than Ever, but Non-Technical Challenges Remain

Going, Going, Gone — Part 2

What Can Be Done to Save and Promote Process Control Expertise?

CyboSoft's MFA Technology Now Available for ControlLogix

CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group, Inc. has announced that its model-free adaptive (MFA) control technology is now available in Rockwell Automation's ControlLogix...

The next generation of smarter valves – Part 2

Process Automation: Much improvement and change is expected in the design of smart and self-diagnosing control valves, with potential advantages outweighing the...

Fuel Cell of the Future

Process Control Will Play a Key Role In the Transition From the Fossil/Nuclear Economy to the Solar-Hydrogen Economy of the Future

Transportation

* Real-time Traffic Information Display System * Railroad Crossing Real Time Monitoring System * Port Container Yard Lighting Control System * Wharf...

Tunneling process data securely through firewalls

This paper presents a new technology that increases the security of data and the overall usability of the solution. It facilitates integration between and with...

Security incidents and trends in the SCADA and process industries

This report presents evidence in support of a business case for improving security of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), process control networks...

SecureSystems Insider: Top Five White Paper downloads

SecureSystems Insider probes the latest system advances designed to safely control and securely your critical SCADA control systems. The following are the Top Five...

Special E-Show Daily edition from Matrikon Summit 2007

The editors of CONTROL report on the presentations, case studies, panel discussions, demonstrations and networking events at this year’s technology conference for...

WAGO’s free industrial control seminars begin

WAGO Corporation is offering five three-day Industrial Control Seminars focusing on the latest in control technology at its Germantown headquarters; the first of the...

Integrated Architecture Is Platform for Manufacturing Convergence

The Convergence of Control and Information

Mustang Engineering and Control gets Hawaiian project

Mustang Engineering (“Mustang”), part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC (“Wood Group”), has been contracted by Hawaii Electric Light...

Faking It Isn’t All Bad

Simulate or model your loop tuning, operator training, advanced process control or optimization for savings, safety and skill-building.

Why Your CFO Loves VFDs

Variable-Frequency Drives, the Right Software and Motor-Control Centers Push Energy Savings to the Bottom Line

Lubrizol, Emerson Redefining Collaboration

Walt Boyes, editor in chief of Control, chats with Lubrizol's Bob Wojewodka and Philippe Moro, along with Emerson's Terry Blevins, on their project to embed batch...

Control System Asset Performance

Most large process plants have invested millions in their control systems. Yet it is typical that more than 30% of the system is off-line at any given moment....

Three alternative approaches to better loop control

What's wrong with those ramps? Well, as the performance of control loops declines over time, there are better alternatives to properly handle potential problems....

The Process Analyzer Report

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

Honeywell Brings DCS Power to Smaller Sites

Honeywell Process Solutions Introducing its Experion LS Control System

Fisher control valves first to be SIL3-certified to IEC 61508

Emerson Process Management has received SIL 3 certification of several ranges of its Fisher valves to IEC 61508 standards. Emerson is the first control valve...

Cooper Wireless Debuts

Cooper Wireless, which brings together Cooper's Canadian acquisition Omnex Controls and Elpro Technologies

Control Global Online Guides

ControlGlobal works hard to get you the best informative resources in the process automation technologies. Wireless, Automation, plant service, Batch Manufacturing,...

Cyber security interview with Kevin Staggs

Honeywell global security architect Kevin Staggs sits down with CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes to discuss the changing process control security landscape.

DVCs Drive Digitization of the Process Industries

Emerson claims that the digital communication and diagnostic capabilities of its Fisher FieldVue changed the way all process control vendors monitor control valves

Nuclear power makes sense

Whether you believe in global warming, the Kyoto Protocol or hugging trees, building nuclear power plants will create thousands of jobs for control engineers,...

Emerson’s new valve lab

Emerson Process Management recently announced a multi-million dollar renovation and expansion of its Fisher control valves research and development facilities in...

The four-fold method of noise and vibration control

This White Paper on noise and vibration control will help control engineers get a better understanding of how passive acoustical systems can best be used to improve...

Experion R400 simplifies management of open systems

Honeywell has added several major enhancements to its flagship Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to help process manufacturers more easily and cost-effectively...

What you should know about plant security

By being aware of the red flags, process plant personnel can enhance the potential for preventing security breaches in their industrial control systems.

Evolving Best-Practices Through Simulation-Based Training

Training the Field Operator of the Future Simulators are widely recognized as essential to process control training as they facilitate the propagation of a...

Convergence and the Programmable Automation Controller

Ensuring your PAC-based control system is an integrated, robust and flexible information producer helps improve business performance, lower costs and uncover unique...

SOUND OFF! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog!

Want to know what's really going on in the industry? CONTROL's Intrepid Roving Editors blog from just about anywhere on almost any process automation topic.

Honeywell to provide control valves for Qatar gas-to-liquid operation

Honeywell today announced a $9.1 million agreement to provide control valves for the new integrated Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant in Qatar, a partnership between...

ABB

ABB announced the release of its Automation Sentinel program for ABB control system software management. Designed to help customers actively manage their lifecycle...

Seeds with teeth!

Senior Tech Editor Jim Montague muses that maybe it's time to think up some new incentive programs for individuals and teams to make more and better innovations in...

Environmental Systems acquires ECC Controls

Environmental Systems Inc. (ESI) has acquired ECC Controls, Inc. (ECC) in a strategic growth move that expands ESI’s technology offerings and its Midwest presence.

2-Axis Stepping and Servo Motion Control Universal PCI Card

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the PCI-1220U, a 2-axis motion control card for stepping and pulse-type servo motors with hardware-controlled...

Process Performance Improvement–Part 3

McMilland and Weiner Concluding Their Interview with Mike Brown. It Focused on the Bottom-Line Performance of Process Control Tools

Struggling loop controllers in a mature market

In this month’s Product Roundup, readers can see that the evolution of single- and multi-loop controllers has followed the path of many types of industrial controls.

What is taking so long?

Despite its 30-plus-year history, advanced process control (APC) applications remain few and far between, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Dave Harrold, cofounder...

Distillation, Part 5: Multiple Products

In Part 5 of this series on distillation control and optimization, we find that adding a side-stream component to your process gives an additional degree of freedom,...

Grow Up, Get Down, Get Green

Increasingly Capable Drives and Motor Controls Are Moving into More Diverse, Smaller-Ticket Applications, as Well as Helping Users Gain the Operating Efficiencies to...

Process Plant 2025

One-Person-and-a-Dog Operations? Wearable HMIs? At-Home Control Rooms? Or More of the Same Ol’, Same Ol’? Here’s What May Be on the Horizon

Does DCS Have a Future?

We Asked Systems Integrators and Vendors What Distributed Control Systems Are and We Got Answers. Is It HMI/SCADA?

The Gaming of Modeling and Simulation

Tomorrow’s Control Engineers Are Playing Today’s Computer Games, with Their Realistic Simulations. Will Tomorrow’s Process Simulators and Modeling Software Adopt...

Could Cyber Terrorists Attack Our Company?

Less Than 25% of the Incidents Recorded in the RISI Database Represent Intentional Attacks on Control Systems

The Future is Now

Process Control Is Open to Innovation!

Process Performance Improvement - Part 2

Continuation of the Interview with Mike Brown on Performance of Process Control Tools

Building automation steps forward

In commercial building automation and control, major technology evolutions generally lag adoption in industry. The transition from costly pneumatics to printed...

Loop gain in aluminum extrusion processes

Process control authority Béla Lipták answers a reader's question regarding PID loops and if they can be used without having to change the loop gain when the number...

Upgrading a Wastewater SCADA System

The City of Yuma installed a SCADA system to control and monitor its water and wastewater distribution system remotely. But as the city expanded, the existing SCADA...

One Man’s Story – Part 2

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to...

The Secret Life of pH Electrodes - Part 3

Bringing Back Experts to Wind Up Our Discussion of One of the Grand Old Tools of Process Control- the pH Electrode

Has ISA 100.11a Been Overtaken by Events?

Walt Boyes, editor in chief of Control magazine and one of the signatories to the appeal against the ISA100.11a standard which led to its failure to clear the ANSI...

Early Education

The process control and automation industries are loosing practical knowledge to retirement and outsourcing, and veteran engineers aren't being replaced quickly...

Will IT Security & Plant Security Ever Be Able to Work Together?

Walt Boyes explores this vital question with Bjorn Gudehus, a senior security advisor with Bell Canada, who spoke at the 2nd Annual Critical Infrastructure...

The need for secure OPC communications

This paper presents a new technology that increases the security of data and the overall usability of the solution. It facilitates integration between and with...

Monitoring Multi-Recipe Batch Manufacturing Performance

Quality and consistency are key factors in determining business success. Manufacturing products that satisfy product quality and consistency specifications first...

Applying MPC to a Batch Process

The application of Model Predictive Control (MPC) is often considered for multi-variable continuous processes. However, the benefit of applying MPC to a batch...

Exception Handling for Optimal Batch Production

This paper supports the application of an “Intelligent” exception handling strategy, which helps to provide maximum business benefit and optimum batch production....

Automatic Adaptation of Batch Logic to Changing Levels of Field Automation

As batch processes are automated, it is common to leave certain less essential field devices without automatic actuators. Thus, the initial control design must...

Integration of Package Units

One of the current problems of batch automation specialists, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, is the integration of PLC-controlled units (package units,...

Integrated Automation of Filling Line for Parenteral Products

Integration of batch process and pharmaceutical production equipment (OEM) towards MES and Business System in a sterile manufacturing About 40 Filling, Inspection...

Is automation in your future?

Is automation really a profession? As HMIs and historians fade into the fabric of manufacturing, what has automation done for us lately? Executive Editor Jim...

Action Figures of Summer

Jim Montague talks about the few process control-related heroes found in the mainstream media and in less-hyped branches of literature and the fine arts.

Puzzler Extravaganza

Present the Solutions That Are Every Control Engineer’s Dream or Nightmare

Renewable Energy Processes, Part 2

The Control System Must Be able to Detect the Loss of the Grid and Respond by Isolating Itself from the Grid or by Tripping Offline

The Ultimate in Flexibility

44 % of Process Control Inputs Can Be Wireless with No Difficulty and for a Greenfield Plant That's a Savings of 7% Overall

Emerson’s Ovation control system selected at UK power station

Emerson Process Management announced today that Fawley Power Station Unit 3 is standardizing on the company’s Ovation expert control system as it upgrades plant...

ICS Triplex delivers first U.K.-built turbine and compression control system

ICS Triplex has delivered its first UK built Turbine and Compression Control System to CNR International (UK) Limited (CNRI). The Trusted™ T6300 system, built at the...

Fieldbus in biopharma applications, Part 2

This article highlights issues associated with the installation of a multiple-fieldbus control system at a pharma processing facility and talks about its...

Collaboration tools offer users more face time

Communications and software tools are available to aid process control collaboration efforts, but language and cultural issues remain the most persistent barriers to...

Year End Puzzler Bonanza

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to...

Bundled Benefits Are iICEing on the Cake

Benefits of Bundling Instrumentation, Control and Electrical Systems

When multiple analog transmitters go haywire

All kinds of high and low level alarms caused this reader to look for the common threads that tripped his control system. Read how troubleshooting the problem...

Breaking Product News: Opto 22's SNAP PAC Redundancy Option Kit

Opto 22's new SNAP PAC Redundancy Option Kit (SNAP-PAC-ROK) can be used to design an Ethernet-based redundant control system with maximum reliability and distributed...

How to rescue your plant from alarm overload

Everyone who has a distributed control system has encountered alarm management issues. The reason is simple: A DCS makes over-alarming all too easy. Find out ways...

Something Old, Something New

Users of the Two Most Measured and Most Important Variables in Process Control—Temperature and Pressure—Are Benefiting from Added Intelligence, Software and Other...

Patching SCADA systems

Since the SCADA community is forced to live with unpatched systems with many known vulnerabilities, compensating security controls are required, according to this...

Interpretation of the ANSI/ISA-5.01.01 standard

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out if they agree to the intepretation...

Foreseeing the Future of Process Automation Technologies

Control Editors Make Prognostications on the Future of Automation Technologies. We Have These on Video

HMI software is disappearing

Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt takes a look at the HMI marketplace and finds today's software packages are getting better and cheaper, but are increasingly...

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...

Batch Manufacturing Guide

We’ve been covering batch manufacturing at Control for years now, and a pretty complete archive of our material is available here. See our online batch manufacturing...

How to Get Started in Asset Performance Management

Customers Can Enjoy Control-System-Class Device Management and Optimization Benefits in a Small Package

Life cycle analysis for Quantum and ControlLogix platforms

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in a specialist to answer a reader's question regarding life cycle analysis for the Modicon Quantum and Rockwell...

Advantech's Universal PCI Card

PCI-1220U is a two-axis motion control card for stepping and pulse-type servo motors with hardware-controlled linear and circular axis interpolation.

Fieldbus in biopharma applications, Part 1

This article highlights issues associated with the installation of a multiple-fieldbus control system at a pharma processing facility and talks about its...

Intoxicating answers

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner describe the period of time between when you first take a drink and when you first recognize the effect and bypass the...

Who's Winning?

The ARC/Control Top 50 Process Automation Companies. Find out who are the top vendors who supply automation professionals with the tools of their trade.

Think Things Are Small Now?

signaling, sensors, process control, Jeffrey R. Harrow, radio components, instruments, converters

Readers Respond

This Month, Our Readers Respond to Our Latest Articles on Wastewater Management, Wireless Standards and Process Controls

Honeywell and BTG Instruments optimize fiberline control in pulp mills

Honeywell has announced a collaboration with BTG Instruments, a supplier of high-quality instruments for the pulp and paper industry, to help optimize fiberline...

Features and capabilities of hybrid controllers

Process Automation: Is there a difference between a DCS and a hybrid control system? Bela Liptak and his cadre of automation experts suggest where to apply each...

A spoonful of industrial computers

CONTROL's contributing editor Wayne Labs notes that while that well-known spoonful of sugar may work for sick kids, manufacturers may need a dose of industrial...

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...

Where The Information Is

Electric utility fleet optimization through process control

Best Practices in Securing Process Automation Networks

Maturing Practice of Evaluating and Managing Control System Risks.

Industrial Safety

Learn More About the Root Cause and Results of Most Industrial Accidents. Plus IT vs. Control Systems

More Than a Beauty Contest

How to Select an industrial Control System Integrator Without a Dart Board

A word about cyber security

A determined hacker can wreak havoc with your plant or steal your secrets without blinking an eye. So if you are in charge of security at your plant, don’t leave it...

Unified theory of everthing

The big problem is that control systems don’t all support OPC the same way or to the same degree, so there’s often no consistent way to capture and transmit even...

Real-world education

Many newly minted control and automation engineers find they need months of training to learn how their employers apply their technologies because of lack of...

One Man’s Story – Part 1

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to...

PlantPAx Continues Rockwell Automation’s Process Push

The Next Generation of Process Control, Asset Optimization and Decision-Support Tools

Security Standards Stewpot Simmering

Process Controls Engineers, IT Technicians, Manufacturers and End Users Have Been Left Hungry as Government Departments, Trade Organizations and Corporations...

Batch to the Future

Pigment Dispersions Manufacturer Plasticolors Uses Predictive-Adaptive Material Transfer Control to Continuously Tighten the Accuracy of Its Filling Batches on the Fly

Instrumentation as a Foundation for Profit

What Is the Real Value of Instrumenting Production Processes? Control Engineers Know It. Do You?

Emerson to automate coal-fired, supercritical plant in Wisconsin

Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture with Ovation expert control system will be utilized in two new units being built to boost generation capacity in the...

Wyeth streamlines batch management with S88

Wyeth-Ayerst Lederle used ISA's S88 batch automation standard to improve process batch control and plant operations at its pharmaceutical plant in Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Control E in C to Keynote at WBF 2007

Dr. Paul McKenzie, Vice President and General Manager - LSCC at Bristol Myers Squibb, and Walter Boyes, Editor-in-Chief at CONTROL Magazine, will be the featured...

Copa-Data Moves Fast with Windows 7 Certification

Austrian SCADA- vendor Copa-Data has had its zenon 6.50 industrial process control and visualization software certified as "Compatible with Windows 7" by Microsoft....

Patch management for control systems

This guideline provides suggestions for an effective cyber security patch management strategy for control systems, addresses potential risks that can apply to some...

The PI System Revolutionizes One Utility's Electric Transmission and Distribution Power System Data

As with most electric transmission and distribution (T&D) companies, growth does not come without many challenges commonly faced by most large utility companies:...

SCADA system specification

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out where to obtain a general...

Flowmeters, Multi-Lingual Keyboards, DCS/PLC Websites

Problems Selection Flowmeters? Problems Switching Between Languages and Alphabets in Control Systems? Problems Finding DCS, PLCs and Field Instrumentation Websites?...

Make Business Case First

The Biggest Integration Challenge Is Not Technical, It’s Identifying the Business Objective of Linking the Control System to the ERP Systems

Emerson helps upgrade Solutia's chem plant in South Wales

Phased migration to digital automation system brings increased reliability and a standard control system across all of the company’s sites.

Server-based DAQ/HMI system cuts seat charges

To eliminate seat charges for additional HMI terminals across the country, WPS Energy has developed its own web-based data acquisition and HMI system that is...

Resolutions are made to be broken

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner provide their unique brand of commentary on process trends and dynamics, then offer up some humor with their Top 10...

How to improve network security

There's no such thing as a 100% secure control system, but learning and understanding the risks associated with security standards, and how to mitigate them are a...

SCADA: Big changes – From telemtery to data to infomation management

SCADA is changing rapidly, and the end users agree. In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes notes that the technology is in fact...

NeSSI taxis for takeoff

Though acceptance and networking hurdles remain, the New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI) is starting to emerge in real-world, standardized, modular process...

Of Family Trees and Brand Patriotism

Keith Larson talks about the results of or May survey. We asked Control subscribers to identify the current parent companies of different process automation brands....

Pulling Teeth

Maybe the U.K. could re-colonize us, so we could get OSHA’s process control-related divisions to be more responsive.

Data Acquisition

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

IOC to expand digital automation systems using mesh network technology at Canada's largest mineral processing plant

The project will connect multiple generations of systems, putting entire Iron Ore Company of Canada plant under I/A Series control.

Graphical System Design for Machine Control

Embedded system development for machine control using a single, automated graphical programming tool chain and programmable automation controllers (PACs).

CompactRIO: Reconfigurable Control and Acquisition System

CompactRIO is a small rugged industrial control and acquisition system powered by reconfigurable I/O (RIO) FPGA technology for ultrahigh performance and customization.

Indian DCS market grows

The Indian DCS market grew at 20% compound over the past three years and is predicted to grow at just under 15.2% compound between now and 2012, according to ARC’s...

Better than 3-D for Batch

N-D lets operators see many more variables with alarms and all the interactions between them and is capable of eliminating alarm floods. In the video black dots are...

Market Solution Brief

The industrialized world relies on a broad spectrum of vital critical infrastructure sectors. In addition to physical safety and security, network security for...

High Accuracy Batch Formulation and IBC Based Manufacturing Techniques

The application of rigid Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) in batch processing of solids has substantially changed in recent years from simple storage and...

A User’s Wishlist for Batch

The benefits of applying the S88.01 standard have been well proven in the industry, although most users have only scratched the surface on achieving these benefits....

Cleaning common fluid lines

Process control authority Bela Liptak answers a reader's question regarding how to clean out common lines without a whole bunch of solvents and/or pigging systems.

Institutional knowledge for the future

Knowledge earned by hard work and experience in process automation is waning at an alarming rate, but there are a few shining lights on the industrial landscape....

Luddites unite!

Tradition for its own sake is useless, of course, but tradition based on common sense is crucial for the success and safety of process control engineers and their...

Through A Looking Glass Brightly

Cutting-edge viewing technology can potentially simplify the presentation of process control system information

Listen to the Kids

The Latest Social Media and Networking Tools. Are They Being Used by Process Control and Automation Engineers?

ISA releases new editions of control systems books

ISA has released new and revised editions of Automation and Control Systems Economics by Paul G. Friedmann and Programmable Controllers by Thomas A. Hughes.

ABB wins $62-million control order for high-efficiency power plant

ABBhas won an order worth $62 million from the German utility, E.ON-Kraftwerke GmbH, to supply the complete process control system for a new high-efficiency power plant.

Bell's Brewery picks Siemens to improve fermentation control

Bell's Brewery, Galesburg, Mich., has installed the Braumat Compact brewery control system from Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.

Yokogawa sponsors Control Automation Hall of Fame dinner at WBF 2008

WBF, Control magazine and Yokogawa are pleased to announce that Yokogawa will sponsor the 2008 Process Automation Hall of Fame Dinner on Monday, March 24 during the...

A Stimulus for Product Quality and Lifecycles...Facing Today's Challenges

IFPAC - 2010 Process Analysis & Control January 31-February 4, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Proficy Process Systems 1.6

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has released the latest version of its process control system: Proficy Process Systems – Version 1.6.

Honeywell's DCS for Small Manufacturers

Experion LS control system

FasTest's WEH 17 Series Connector

Fast Connections for Diagnostic Tuning of Control Valve Actuators without Sealants, Wrenches or Thread Damage!

How to pre-test Foundation fieldbus instruments

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out if they agree on ways to pre-test...

The ABCs of XML: Part I

This three-part series for CONTROL introduces readers to the basic rules of XML, its terminology and related standards, and discusses what you’ll need to know to...

Power Sources

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

Yokogawa, SAP and the Middleware Space

Adoption Standards Is Key in Business and Control System Integration.

SCADA Software Keeps Eye on Big Picture

Truly Useful Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Software Never Dies

Honeywell to design integrated control system for Australian LNG plant

Honeywell announced a contract to provide the integrated control system for Woodside’s new Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) Project in Western Australia. The...

Mustang does process control design for ExxonMobil Singapore complex

Mustang Engineering, a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has been authorized by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific to proceed with the...

Yokogawa gets Australian instrumentation and control project

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its Yokogawa Australia subsidiary has been awarded the contract to replace the control and instrumentation systems at...

Dresser Masoneilan gets Qatar control valve contract

Saipem SpA, a Milan, Italy-based engineering and project management company, has chosen Dresser Masoneilan, to supply control valves for the Qatar Fertilizer Company...

Control Microsystems' SCADAPackER automation controller

SCADAPackER automation controller provides flexible solutions in applications requiring high-speed control and monitoring.

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' Proficy Batch Execution Version 5.1 software

Batch software now includes a Tabular Recipe Editor and new ActiveX controls

Automated Batch Scheduling and MES Integration Using a Hierarchical Based, Batch Control Software Architecture

After years of advancement in the batch control industry--particularly within the area of standardization using S-88 and S-95--today’s automated batch control...

An IT Perspective of Control Systems Security

Enterprises with industrial operations typically utilize at least two types of computer networks – Information Technology (IT) - a network that supports enterprise...

What’s your taste in Ethernet?

Process Automation: When planning a high-speed motion control application, consider the features you need, the deterministic nature of your application, and just how...

Dramatic efficiency, quality improvements for Canadian papermaker

This videocast from the Process Automation Media Network shows how Catalyst's Elk Falls integrated paper mill on Vancouver Island in British Columbia uses advanced...

Hart Keeps Paint Flowing

Digital Fieldbus gives Meter Maintenance & Controls in Redlands, Calif. a wide variety of configuration options.

GE Fanuc’s PACMotion in compliance with PLCopen for motion control

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that it has received certificates of compliance from PLCopen, the independent...

DCS Business Finds Salvation in Services

The global distributed control systems (DCS) market will continue to find growth in the midst of a global recession.

Yokogawa Focuses on BPCS-SIS Integration

Yokogawa releases new versions of both its Centum VP control system and of the ProSafe-RS integrated SIS

Mitsubishi Joins Ranks of Rest of the World Elite

Mitsubishi Joins Control's Automation Top 50 Vendors of the Year

Fisher Control-Disk Valve Brochure

Brochure describing the Fisher Control-Disk valve

Industrial strength security

How secure are the industrial information systems that control the valves and sensors responsible for the safe operation of your plant? Find out why securing them...

Web mash-ups: 1+1=3

CONTROL Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, takes an in-depth look at a new web technology that will affect how you'll use the Internet, and how this latest trend...

Modeling software for continuous batch processes

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question regarding good modelling software for a batch...

SCADA system makers pushed toward security

Idaho National Laboratory and the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure have teamed up with utilities and makers of distributed control...

Webcast: Safety systems – Experts talk

If a safety system is "good enough" for the lab, does that mean it's good enough for your plant? This on-demand webcast lets you listen in on a group of leading...

Honeywell to provide quality control system for Mexican papermaker

Honeywell today announced a $2.7 million agreement to provide its Da Vinci Quality Control System (QCS), Quality OptiMiser and Web Inspection System for Mexico’s top...

JMP Environmental Division wins Smith Falls controls contract

Since last spring, the town of Smith Falls in Ontario has been working on plans for a much needed water treatment plant to meet the growing needs of their community....

IPS to supply controls for world's first hydrogen power plant

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) announced that it has been selected by Enel to supply control and automation technology for the world's first hydrogen-fuelled power...

WAGO's 758 Series IPC Modules

PC INTELLIGENCE/CONTROL FOR DAQ

Control and Automation Maturity Models in Brewing

How do we choose the correct level of automation for a specific process area within the production facility? How does that facility drive a migration of its control...

Getting Loopy with Control Loops

This month's edition of Ask The Experts focuses in on manual control loops and offers guidance on which PID control mode should be used when, and what the range of...

Special Issue on Security

Our Upcoming November Issue Will Be Devoted to Critical Infrastructure Protection for Process Operations. We’ve Brought Together Control's Team to Cover Every...

Matrikon buys Integration Automation & Control

Matrikon has acquired Integration Automation and Control Pty Ltd. (IAC), a private Newcastle, Australia-based company. Established in 2000, the 21 staff of IAC...

Enterprise Integration with ARC's Bob Mick

Control's Dan Hebert and Walt Boyes talk about enterprise integration with ARC's Bob Mick. This is a rocket-fast tour through the world of enterprise...

Asish Ghosh on Process Safety

In This Edition of the Monthly Control/ARC Podcast Series, Walt Boyes and ARC's Asish Ghosh Talk About Process Safety and Why It Seems So Hard to Accomplish,...

Improving agility, performance, and profitability with MPC – A decade of success

The benefits of Advanced Process Control (APC) technology are deemed so significant that many manufacturing experts consider the use of APC a necessary requirement...

Integrating quality and process information in a batch context for semi-continuous processes

This paper discusses the scope and approach taken to integrate quality information from various analytical devices through a Laboratory Information Management System...

"Collaborate-Breakthrough-Profit:" A Myth, Minefield or Treasure Chest?

The objective of this paper is to provide an outlook on emerging Collaborative Production Management (CPM) tools. It will discuss these CPM tools in relation to...

ISA100.11a D2 Interoperability and Interchangeability

The ISA100.11a D2 draft is a major step forward over D1. The D2 document is the first draft that attempts to be a full specification of the network and application...

Surface Acoustic Wave Technology-Based Temperature Monitoring of High Voltage and High Current Switchgear Boxes

Safety is a big concern when it comes to managing power distribution systems. High voltage and high current switchgear boxes serve an important role in establishing...

OneWireless Solution

As the first major process control supplier to offer industrial wireless sensors, Honeywell is an expert in industrial wireless applications that reduce costs and...

Isolation Technologies for Reliable Industrial Measurements

Voltage, current, temperature, pressure, strain and flow measurements are an integral part of industrial and process control applications. Often these applications...

Optimization Solution White Paper

Honeywell has continuously demonstrated the benefits of advanced process control technology in improving profitability through improved process stability, increased...

A Shared Vision Leads to Success

More than 30 years ago, the Dow Chemical Co. embarked on what ultimately evolved into a global corporate initiative: to develop and broadly leverage a standardized,...

Surviving the Automation Knowledge Crisis

Automation systems today have become remarkable warehouses of knowledge and information. Beyond just system configuration, many years of effort is inevitably...

Ethernet in Harsh Environments

Ethernet has steadily migrated from the office environment onto the factory floor for automation and industrial control, in industries as wide ranging as food...

Applying Six Sigma to Alarm Management

The Control article "Six Sigma Alarm Management" highlights an end user's experience applying Six Sigma practices to their alarm management effort. This white paper...

Emerson acquires Bristol Babcock

The acquisition will expand the company's portfolio of measurement and control products, technologies, and services for process industries worldwide.

PMC and STS launch new pressure sensor agreement

Process Measurement & Controls, Inc. (PMC) and Sensor Technik Sirnach AG (STS) have combined to provide a range of high-performance pressure transmitters and...

WBF announces plans for 2007 North American "Meeting of the Minds" conference

This annual event showcases the automation profession's leading experts addressing manufacturing system control, from batch to continuous, discrete, and hybrid...

Video Invitation to Rockwell’s Process Solutions User Group Meeting

Rockwell Automation Invites You to The Process Solutions User Group Meeting. This Event Features Presentations on Topics Ranging from Advanced Process Control to...

Back to Basics: SCADA

What's a SCADA? Editor Walt Boyes takes you Back to Basics with Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition systems.

Back to Basics: Termination Technology

One of the most common single points of failure in control systems is the wiring, and especially the connections. Here's a Back to Basics on termination technologies...

Back to Basics: Cybersecurity

Walt Boyes talks about cybersecurity and its relationship to functional security. Today the process automation world is vulnerable to online safety disasters derived...

Rockwell’s Pavilion and the Economic Melt–Down

Walt Boyes talks to Rockwell Automation Pavilion’s marketing vice president, Don Hart about the economic melt-down, sustainable manufacturing, advanced process...

Factory acceptance testing with MiMiC

There are a number of enabling technologies that support modern control systems, but the most significant is the use of simulation systems for application software...

Flare Metering with Optics: From Blue-Sky Technology to the Real World

This paper reviews the development, testing and deployment of the Photon Control Optical Flow Meter

Use of Web Technologies in Batch Management

Genentech Inc.’s bulk manufacturing facility in Vacaville, CA has been in production for the past two years. Application of S88 design concepts has provided the...

Identifying Benefits for S-88 and S-95 Based Systems

System Architectures using S-88 and S-95 standards are being used in system implementations across the plant floor. These systems include batch management, MES,...

SP88 Part Two Overview

The World Batch Forum was originally formed to support the S88 Batch Control standard. All forums since have related in some way to the published part of the...

Comprehensive Decision Support Solutions for Improving Operations Management in the Batch Industry Supply Chain

Many business and process operational decisions ultimately determine the yield, quality and throughput of batch product operations. Improving operations therefore...

Establishing Compliance of Batch SCADA Systems with FDA cGMP 21 CFR Part 11

FDA enforcement of a 1997 cGMP regulation, 21 CFR Part 11, for electronic records and signatures, is imminent. Compliance policy Guidelines were issued May 1999 to...

Video Process Monitoring

The white paper describes the hardware and software elements of a video process monitoring system, how it uses the plant’s industrial network to transmit video to...

CONTROL special coverage of Honeywell User Group

In a first for CONTROL and for Honeywell, "show daily" coverage of the Honeywell User Group meeting June 13-16 in Phoenix, Ariz., will be by special editions of...

Red Lion Controls' Modular Ramp/Soak Control

Modular Controller series PID modules from Red Lion Controls support ramp/soak control.

Choosing motor controls and drives

Process Automation: In any industrial control application, using the right drives and motor controls can make or break the project, and also can make a huge...

Distillation control and optimization, Part 3

Control's Béla Lipták continues his series on control of distillation processes, this time focusing on managing reboiler flow, temperature, feed rate, loading and...

New PID Algorithm Facilitates Wireless Field Control

New PID Control Algorithm Enables Closed-Loop Distillation Control Over Wireless

Batch Control Application Frameworks and Reuse

ABB Automation has adopted elements of object-oriented analysis and design in their batch control projects in order to take advantage of the reuse potential inherent...

OPC is on the rise in process control

In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Executive Editor Jim Montague comments on a recent survey about the impact of object linking and embedding for process...

CERN seeking secure COTS controls, networking for collider

To control its new collider and give physicists remote access to its data, Europe’s laboratory for high-energy particle physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, will...

Indoor environment control

Process Automation: CONTROL's Around the Loop columnist Terry K. McMahan has been following Indoor environment control technology since the '70s and concludes that...

Using S88 Batch Techniques to Manage and Control Continuous Processes

Have you ever thought of using batch sequencing and S88 recipe management techniques to control a continuous process? This paper will discuss the great similarities...

Replacement Batch Control System for a Multipurpose Contract Manufacturing Plant

Successful Contract Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in a GMP regulated environment is heavily dependent on the flexibility and utilisation of the available processing...

Integrate Control and Safety

Safety Instrumented Systems Are Vital Assets because They Protect Lives, Process and Equipment. With Secure Integration at the Control Data and Operator Levels,...

An Analysis of Whitelisting Security Solutions and Their Applicability in Control Systems

Whitelisting is described by its advocates as "the next great thing" that will displace anti-virus technologies as the host intrusion prevention technology of...

CONTROL invites you to "Ask the Experts"

ControlGlobal.com presents "Ask the Experts," a new department moderated by noted process control authority and columnist Bela Liptak. Save yourself the hefty...

Ten steps to secure control systems

This "special to the web" article summarizes the 10 most important design and process principles that, while not guaranteed to secure a system, ensure your control...

pH linearization lubricates waste control

Process Automation: Learn how a simplified technique for linearizing pH can enhance control in waste treatment applications and eliminate the need for gain-adjusting...

Posting gains: CONTROL's 2006 Salary Survey

Respondents to the CONTROL 2006 Salary Survey are collectively earning more money, experiencing increased job security, reporting more hiring and fewer layoffs, and...

Raising the bar for control system security

Security researchers at Wurldtech Analytics are partnering with ISA to establish procedures and an operations model for the security testing and certification of...

HMIs evolve in process control

New HMI technology is putting a whole new (inter)face on how operators view control systems information, while at the same time driving human error out of systems...

Control 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards

Control Readers Report Their Solution Provider Preferences in More than 100 Process Automation Technology Categories

Control Systems Cyber Security—The Current Status of Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures

Testimony of Joseph M. Weiss Control Systems Cyber Security Expert before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation U.S. Senate

Plant-Wide Optimization Relies on Multi-Disciplined Control

The Ability to Perform All Control Disciplines In a Single, Integrated Environment Is Fundamental to Realizing the Potential of Plant-Wide Optimization

2010 Control Readers' Choice Awards

Control Readers Report Their Solution Provider Preferences in More than 100 Process Automation Technology Categories

Control Systems Cyber Security Expert Testifies before Congress

Control's "other blogger", Joe Weiss, testifies before House Committee on Homeland Security.

Better Fieldbus "Control in Field" Saves Time and Headaches

Invensys' Charlie Piper Demonstrates New I/A Series Control System Capabilities

Reader Feedback: Sox for Control Systems?

Read our argument, does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, particularly Section 302, which mandates a set of internal procedures designed to ensure accurate financial...

Aviation Safety; Variable Control Valve Failure

Does Better Understanding of Process Control Could Help Determining the Probable Causes of Aviation Accidents?

Where are our control engineer heroes?

Process Automation: In process control, our heroes are few and far between, yet opportunities abound for engineering heroism. Just apply what you know to a field...

Nosbusch Growing Rockwell Automation's ‘Control Footprint’

"The convergence of discrete and process, information and control is a game-changing opportunity.”

Back in CONTROL!

Just when he thought he was out, Group Publisher and VP of Content, Keith Larson, is pulled back in. Check out "Wind-up," his new monthly column positioned as a...

Mission Control

Custom-built command-and-control centers are an expensive option, but they provide concrete benefits.

Honeywell Is First to Offer Wireless for Control...

Honeywell is first vendor to introduce a wireless solution suitable for process control.

Control of the solar-hydrogen plant

Columnist Béla Lipták describes equipment and control requirements of the solar-hydrogen demo power plant and says we now are in critical need of them because the...

Security could put process control under IT

With new technology and strategies being developed to protect industrial systems from current and future threats, process control needs to figure out where it's...

Occupational therapy for the control engineer

Process Automation: Can companies and technologies adapt to change in a positive manner? CONTROL Contributor Dick Morley says yes and believes that with some...

Diagramming drum level control

Harold Wade suggest a few additional points be made to the three-element boiler level control figures in a previous article that show how signals from the steam flow...

Control is truly global!

Perhaps you’ve noticed articles in Control and on ControlGlobal.com have become less North America-centric over the past few years. This is intentional, and you can...

Adalet Offers Atex Control Panel Assembly Certification

Adalet, a manufacturer of explosion-proof enclosure systems and cable accessories, has completed a new ATEX Control Panel Assembly Certification.

Control News from Europe December 2007

Andrew Bond reports on process controls

ActiveX and .NET controls for Modbus TCP and RTU I/O modules

Acromag has released a series of ActiveX and .NET controls to help engineers developing measurement and control systems in a Visual Basic or C++ environment...

Control Global Reports from Global Exchange User Group 2008

Control Editors Report on Emerson's Global Exchange User Group 2008. If You Missed It, Check All the Details Here

Control editor wins ISA Award

CONTROL’s Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, has won a Distinguished Society Service Award from ISA.

Control the Flow

Will wireless robot control?

The development of more intelligent and easy-to-operate robots will begin to drive the development towards improved control and interface capabilities between humans...

The Control/ARC Process Automation Hall of Fame and Brain Drain

Control's Walt Boyes talks with ARC's Larry O'Brien and Tom Fiske about the top automation professionals.

Moving toward IT and controls engineering convergence

This paper provides a current snapshot of the IT/controls dynamic based on interviews with more than 20 professionals in IT and manufacturing. Their feedback was the...

Risk Control Hierarchy Clarifies Electrical Safety

A clear and realistic set of objectives goes a long way in driving continuous improvements in electrical safety. Resources can be allocated and priorities can be...

Keep control cabinet wiring neat and organized

Phoenix Contact introduces a new line of wire duct cabinet add-ons that simplify control cabinet wiring.

Final Control Elements: Smarter, More Efficient

Smarter Valves Are Poised to Take On More Tasks, Even as the Energy Savings of Variable-Speed Drives Edge Them Out in Some Applications

The Evolution of the Process Control Engineer

We’ve Come a Long Way from the Days When Refinery Operators Used Flaming Arrows to Relight Their Flare Systems, but Even Bigger Changes May Be Ahead

Calibrating Injection Molding Machines, Compressor Control

Readers Asks About the Proper Procedure to Calibrate an Injection Molding Machine

Applied Alarm Management Using Six Sigma

The Control article "Six Sigma Alarm Management" highlights an end user's experience applying Six Sigma practices to his alarm management effort. This white paper by...

GE Fanuc’s Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation

It is a significant competitive advantage for an automation supplier to offer an open and collaborative production environment that embraces standards and can...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, December 2006, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month (January '06) on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

Boiling water is easy as one, two, three, four

There’s more to boiler level control than measuring level and adjusting a feedwater valve. Improved measurements and inverse response are just a few of the...

Energizing the enterprise

Asset management will put the zip back in your plants! CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the industry’s stampede toward asset management systems for...

The Best in Valves, Actuators and Positioners

Check Out Some of the Latest and Greatest Final Control Element Solutions

Maximizing Control-Loop Performance

Tune Your Processes to Stop Giving Away Valuable Commodities

Bean Control Engineers Needed

There Are Too Many Parasites Waiting to Steal Working People’s Money, and Executive Editor Jim Montague Thinks Engineers Could Protect Them from Financial Worst Practice

Remote Monitoring, Control & Automation 2005

The Remote Monitoring, Control & Automation Conference, now in it's fourth year, will be held October 6-7, 2005, in Orlando, FL. The show will focus on the leading...

Flowmeter Technology Library

The Flowmeter Technology Library is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and...

Is Wireless Process Control Ready for Prime Time?

Wireless Can Stand Up to the Demands in All but the Applications That Require the Fastest Scan Times

Control Global | Process Automation Technologies

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Industry Links

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Special Reports

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Distributed engineering

WITH TODAY'S abbreviated staffs, where can manufacturers turn when they need a new plant, a new control system, an upgrade, or help in fine tuning a process,...

Industry Links

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Control Systems, We Know What You Need

We Know What It Is You Want, So Step Aside While We Give It to You

Temperature Control with Slow Boilers

Not Sure What to Do with Tempered Water System and Heating to Exothermic Reactor. What's the Difference between Smart Actuators and Smart Positioners? Check What Our...

Network Tunnel Links Control and Vision

Swiss Paper Mill Uses OPC DataHub to Integrate Real-Time Data for Better Quality Management

Invensys en Chile Provee Control Avanzado de Procesos para Codelco

Soluciones Integrales Aumentan la Calidad del Producto y de la Utilización de los Activos del Mayor Productor Mundial de Cobre

Control system architectures: Remote control

Process Automation: By using fieldbus, OPC links, secure data transmission systems, appropriate software and modern server technologies, you, too, can build your own...

Ross Controls' L-O-X Valve Family

OSHA-compliant valves have 1/4 and 3/8 in. port sizes

Articles

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

10 principles for securing control systems

KEMA Consultant Jay Abshier takes an unbiased and highly detailed look at where plant security really is, and what is being done to better protect our process...

Software & Integration

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

The Need for Speed (on Wireless Networks for Control)

Currently there is a limitation to do true contol with wireless technology. What are the barriers we face to get to true control with wireless? If we had the...

SANS Institute presents Invensys with process control security award

Group recognizes Invensys practices for facilitating user security procedures and protecting process infrastructure owners’ critical assets.

Novel Approach Enhances Control System Upgrade

Measures to Mock-Up Wiring and Limit Project Scope While Incorporating Operational Improvements Provided Significant Benefits

Adaptive Level Control

Exploring the Complexities of Tuning Level Controllers and How an Adaptive Controller Can Be Used in Level Applications

Process simulation: Your job is still safe…for now

With mechanical simulation tools, one engineer can do the work of an entire staff. With chemical processes, however, simulation tools aid the staff — but don’t...

Is There a PC in Your Control Systems Future?

There's No Longer Any Technical Reason Why a PLC or a DCS Should Be More Reliable Than an Industrial PC

Advanced Process Control Makes Good Business Sense

Add a Litte APC to Improve Production, Increase Efficiency and Reduce Carbon Footprint

Is Field-Based Control Really All That?

Recent Studies Shown That the Fieldbus-for-I/O-Only Approach Is Likely a Source of Compromised Performance and Unknown Latencies

Control Systems and the Great Toyota Fail

Toyota Is Simply Not Bulletproof as Advertised. We, as All Auto Makers, Aren't Willing to Pay Enough for Failures Not to Happen

Safety System Can Be Used For Process Control

Everyone Talks About Doing More with Less, but Few People or Companies Actually Do It

How important is it to have flexibility in a process control or safety system architecture?

Modern process control and safety systems provide modular, distributed architectures to deliver flexibility to fit any size project or any application. Flexibility...

How important is it to have flexibility in a process control or safety system architecture?

Modern process control and safety systems provide modular, distributed architectures to deliver flexibility to fit any size project or any application. Flexibility...

PAT slaps pharmas with control system aftershave

Though users in other process industries have seen it coming for years, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) is now bringing similar improvements and benefits to many...

Control News from Europe January 2008

Andrew Bond Reports from Europe

Semiconductor Fab Clears Air with Intelligent Motor Control

Networked Recirculation Air Handlers Save Hardwiring and Programming Costs

Control News from Europe February 2008

Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.

Advances Needed in Control System Cyber Security

Cyber Security Is A Shared Responsibility.

|Control and ACS Sponsor Cybersecurity Conference

Cybersecurity Conference Focuses on System Reliability

Control Valve Market Drops, Backlogs Shrink

No rebound until 2011, says ARC.

Robertshaw Controls div of Invensys

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ThermoElectron Measurement and Control

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Thermo Electron Measurement and Control

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Robertshaw Controls div of Invensys

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Thermo Electron Measurement and Control

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ThermoElectron Measurement and Control

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Ready for Control in the Field?

When The Loop’s Valve Positioner Loses Power, the Loop Will Experience an Upset No Matter Where the PID Is Solved

The Parts that Advanced Control Cannot Reach

The traditional approach to advanced control is complex, expensive and slow. This is not an issue for the applicaitons that it is conventionally used for, but means...

The Parts that Advanced Control Cannot Reach

The traditional approach to advanced control is complex, expensive and slow. This is not an issue for the applicaitons that it is conventionally used for, but means...

Capital Controls Co. div of Severn Trent

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Masoneilan div of Dresser Flow Control

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Milton Roy Flow Controls, LMI div.

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Capital Controls Co. div of Severn Trent

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Masoneilan div of Dresser Flow Control

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Milton Roy Flow Controls, LMI div.

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Honeywell gets control system contract for solar panel plant

Honeywell will design and install the core process and safety systems for a new plant under construction by Hoku Materials, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hoku...

Rotork Controls

IQ PRO intelligent electric valve actuator provides enhanced text displays, performance monitoring information, and data logging with valve torque signature profiles.

Collaborative process control: The Dow/ABB story

This article discusses what was involved in building a close working relationship with a vendor and the elements that are essential to starting and sustaining any...

Control Global Online Guides

ControlGlobal works hard to get you the best informative resources in the process automation technologies. Check out the online guides we have put together for you...

A Revolutionary Approach: Quad Redundancy Control

This white paper discusses the "Smart Redundancy" capability of GE’s revolutionary Quad PAC solution, which includes a patent-pending algorithm that continually...

Omnex Control Systems enters into joint development partnership for secure industrial wireless

Control Software Does More than Ever

Virtual Engineering with Connectors to Every Aspect of the Process is Hot, Hot, Hot

Effective modeling for nonlinear control

This paper presents simulation results comparing Extrapolating Gain-Constrained Neural Networks (EGCN) to traditional neural network training methods, as well as to...

System migration plan features on-the-fly control network split

Expansion plans at Petro-Canada’s Edmonton refinery entailed a somewhat risky on-line split of its LCN to create additional network capacity in a way that ongoing...

An Integrated Approach to Process Control and Safety

Satisfy Safety Requirements for Independence Using Methods That Don’t Require Physical Separation

Back to the Basics: PC Based Control

Re-visiting the Basics of Automation

Forecasters Downgrade Process Control Prospects

Back in 2008, IMS Research took a distinctly low key approach to the release of its first survey of the world DCS market eschewing even to produce a press release.

Living control systems?

Self-reconfiguring and assembling devices may have some surprising unintended consequences. We’re talking the potential for almost unlimited versatility that could...

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.

MIPAC leads automation major metallurgical project in Kazakhstan

MIPAC to provide design, automation and control systems for expansion of smelter complex

Process Control Evolution - Five Critical Steps to Enhancing Your Performance

Download this white paper for the five critical steps to enhancing your performance.

Emerson to supply digital control valves at olefin plant in Taiwan

Emerson Process Management is fulfilling a contract received from Formosa Petrochemical for Fisher digital valves to be installed at olefin OL3 plant in Mai Liao, Taiwan

Heated, smart and modular sample handling system: Enabler for closed-loop process control

This white paper/case study documents the rationale and steps for deploying a modular sample handling system solution in a moisture-sensitive process, from concept...

Implementing Automatic Controls Using Data Acquisition Processor Boards

Learn where you can apply DAP technology, how hardware affects system performance and how to measure actual performance limits.

Westinghouse Process Control

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Westinghouse Process Control div. of Emerson Process Management

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Westinghouse Process Control

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Westinghouse Process Control div. of Emerson Process Management

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“Father of Control System Integration” Dies

...“Father of Control System Integration” Dies ControlGlobal.com 01/12/2009 Nels Tyring, commonly considered the father of the profession of control system...

How Shell E&P assesses and addresses control system security risks

Dan McDougall of Shell Exploration and Production speaks about the company’s drive to ensure security of its global assets at the Honeywell User Group Americas 2007...

Fisher Controls Inc.

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Saab Level Control

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Bettis Actuators & Controls

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Fisher Controls Inc.

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Saab Level Control

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Bettis Actuators & Controls

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Winsted’s New Mini Catalog

Customized and custom control room consoles

Seeing deeply into process control technologies

Executive Editor Jim Montague finds that even if there’s nothing new under the sun, what’s truly new may be a deeper understanding and appreciation of what we...

Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation

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Love Controls

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Robertshaw Controls

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Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation

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Love Controls

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Robertshaw Controls

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B/W Controls

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Eastech Controls

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Loveland Controls Ltd.

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Gemco Controls

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B/W Controls

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Eastech Controls

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Loveland Controls Ltd.

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Gemco Controls

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Control Reports from Yokogawa Tech Fair

Live Coverage from Yokogawa's Technology Fair and User Conference 2008

Valve Accessories & Controls' Fail-Freeze Positioner

FAIL-FREEZE POSITIONER

ARCOM Control Systems

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Bailey Controls

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Danfoss Flow Control

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Honeywell Control Valve div.

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Honeywell Sensing and Control

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Invensys Flow Control

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Powers Process Controls

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Red Lion Controls Inc.

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ARCOM Control Systems

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Bailey Controls

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Danfoss Flow Control

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Honeywell Control Valve div.

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Honeywell Sensing and Control

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Invensys Flow Control

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Powers Process Controls

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Red Lion Controls Inc.

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Siemens Perfecciona Sistema de Control de Procesos para Entornos de Laboratorio

Nuevos Componentes para Simatic PCS 7 Lab

Givens Control Engineering's Plotting and Analysis Software

Allowing users to plot and analyze data to make quick conclusions

Practical methods for protecting industrial networks

Though cyber attacks are increasingly easy to launch, there are many practical methods for protecting against potentially destructive attacks on vulnerable networks.

Security hot spots: Where protection matters most

From the loading dock to the data center to the control room there are hot spots in any facility where security issues matter the most. This series of articles below...

Control News from Europe July 2008

Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.

A Return to Single-Loop-Integrity

Control in the field is becoming mainstream once again – just as the ISA SP50 fieldbus committee predicted it would be. CONTROL's regular contributor Dave Harrold...

Electronic Device Damage in Control Panel of Drilling Unit

Reliability of electronic circuit boards and electronic devices of console of drilling units are investigated. This new analytical method confirms modification of...

Walchem's Wind Controls

Wind online controller fully integrates the functions of a transmitter, PLC, data logger and auto-dialer into a rugged, industrial, NEMA 4X package.

What happens at PAR, stays at PAR

CONTROL columnist Terry K. McMahon reports on the 11th Pharmaceuticals Automation Roundtable, including staying focused on simple logic that adds value, and...

CONTROL contributor to keynote ISA

Jeff Harrow, Principal at The Harrow Group and a contributor to CONTROL magazine, will deliver a keynote address entitled "Technology and You: We’re in for an...

Invensys awarded automation contract for refinery in Qatar

Engineering Procurement Contractor, GSEC of Seoul, Korea, has awarded Invensys Process Systems a multimillion dollar automation contract to provide an integrated...

DeltaV Operate with wireless streaming video

Emerson Process Management has further developed Smart Wireless solutions by integrating video streams from Industrial Video & Control Co.'s (IVC) Relay Server with...

Gems Sensors & Controls' UCL-520 ultrasonic level sensors

Ultrasonic level sensors perform non-contact level measurement up to 26.2 ft.

Control Microsystems' expansion line of SCADARange wireless process instruments

Al10 and AV10 multi-input field units are suited for applications requiring wireless connectivity for analog and digital signals

United Electric Controls' explosion-proof One Series electronic pressure and temperature switches

One Series explosion-proof electronic pressure and temperature switches are designed for Div. 1 (Zone 1) and Div. 2 (Zone 2) areas

Control Microsystems' SCADAPack 300 Series of PLCs

SCADAPack 300 series of PLCs feature 32-bit processing, high-speed LAN and USB communication, and advanced power-saving features

Should SIS input values be used in the BPCS as a deviation alarm or in a PID control loop?

This topic is related to integrated BPCS/SIS platforms where the BPCS has fast, reliable access to SIS input signal data. In cases where two transmitters are being...

Should SIS input values be used in the BPCS as a deviation alarm or in a PID control loop?

This topic is related to integrated BPCS/SIS platforms where the BPCS has fast, reliable access to SIS input signal data. In cases where two transmitters are being...

Safety Manager Edges Towards Integrated Camp

Safety, control systems

Tendril, Atmel ease deployment of wireless sensor and control networks

Tendril and Atmel will also collaborate on a variety of co-marketing activities, support each other’s field sales operations, and jointly provide support for the...

Control FutureCast: Batch Automation

Where's the batch? ISA88 was the first attempt to create a manufacturing language. Walt Boyes talks about the direction ISA88 and ISA95 are taking and what the...

Protecting Process Control Systems and Networks From Cyber Attack

Business information systems and process automation systems that support the manufacturing enterprise have evolved from individual isolated applications utilizing...

Lumenite Control Technology' Sanitary Pressure Gauges

SANITARY PRESSURE GAUGES

United Electric Controls' Digital Switches

DIGITAL SWITCHES

Red Lion Controls' Embedded Modem

G3GSM modem card for the G3 line of HMIs

Kuka Controls GmbH

Real-Time platform supports Windows

Safety & Automation System (SAS) - How the Safety and the Automation Systems Finally Come Together as an HMI

Today we have clear guidelines on how the Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) and basic Process Control Systems (BPCS) should be separated from a controls and network...

Honeywell wins $41M contract to upgrade South African power station

Honeywell has been awarded a three-year contract worth $41.4 million by Eskom, the national electricity utility of South Africa to provide the distributed control...

Invensys Offers Free Online Seminar Series

Invensys Process Systems is launching a new series of online seminars on current practices and trends in asset performance management. Areas of focus in the series...

Can we make the jump to a wireless plant?

Process Automation: The only way to predict point-source failures is to monitor each point for failure parameters. It is far too costly to wire sensors to every...

Wireless Process Control Network Architecture Overview - Industrial Wireless Networks Gain Acceptance In Plant Floors

The rapid advances and maturation of wireless technology, such as Wi-Fi security, network management, standardization and mesh networking, have captured the...

Welcome to CONTROL's Process Automation Usability Project

Here You'll Find Forums for Discussing How to Streamline and Simplify the Application and Use of Process Automation Technologies

Webcast: Elimination of Common Cause Failures in Integrated Control & Safety Systems

Many process automation systems (DCS and PLC alike) incorporate Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) as an integral part of the system. These systems are Safety...

Securing process control network external communications

In the real world, sharing PCN data with external systems and accessing PCN systems from external sources is fast becoming a manufacturing necessity. This paper...

Real Time Batch Control and Materials Management in Perfume Production

This paper discusses the automation of the batch process and raw materials warehouse functions at a large perfume manufacturing facility. Many items no longer met...

Control Technology's HMI Web Software

HMI web software is a drag

Adaptive Instruments announces deals with Adaptive Wireless Solutions and Control Microsystems

Adaptive Instruments Corporation (AIC), a global leader in process instrumentation technologies including the Accutech line of advanced wireless products, today...

Intrusion detection and cyber security

SecureSystems Insider Contributor Dale Peterson disucusses current SCADA security deficiencies within the process control community and how we need to find...

Making Permanent Savings Through Active Energy Efficiency

This white paper argues strongly that meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets set within the Kyoto Protocol will fail unless Active Energy Efficiency becomes...

Motor drives "hunt" for success

MalAsia strikes drive manufacturers, but motion control is stepping up, according to CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt's Product Roundup of motor drives...

Still life

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner invite Wendy Kramer, Mark Sowell and Control Hall of Fame inductee Terry Tolliver to comment on improving the control of...

Optimized Solution

Improve profitability by learning the benefits of advanced process control technology. Advanced control and real-time optimization tools have become necessary...

S88 and Material: What is Going on Beyond the Process Cell?

The S88.01 Batch Control standard focused almost exclusively on the process cell and the activities and functions associated with it that convert raw material inputs...

With a little help from my friends

CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt adds to his growing collection of writing awards and takes time out to give credit to control engineers who make it possible

Béla Lipták, columnist and control consultant

...Béla Lipták, columnist and control consultant P: Ext: E: liptakbela@aol.com Biography: Béla Lipták is a control consultant, editor of the Instrument...

Invensys to provide InFusion-based SCADA system for CHS liquid pipeline

CHS Inc. has selected Invensys to implement an InFusion-based SCADA system for Front Range Pipeline, LLC and Cenex Pipeline, LLC.

ABB to provide control system for Alberta power project

ABB announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide Industrial IT Extended Automation System 800xA and related project services for the Keephills Unit 3...

Energy Monitoring: A Foundation for Effective Energy Management

Energy Monitoring: Modern manufacturing processes run on energy. Electricity and natural gas are common inputs to all manufacturing. Other fossil fuels such as oil...

Modular & Concurrent Design Using Standardized Interfaces for Accelerating Design Process

The successful execution of an accelerated project from Concept to Process Qualification within 1 year with extensive usage of multiple Vendors requires a paradigm...

Tracking and Tracing on an ISA S88 Foundation

From which supplier ingredient lots did we compose this batch? Which batches did this pallet feed? Which batches ran after it? What’s the effect of this badly...

General Purpose Permanent Magnet Motor Drive without Speed and Position Sensor

1. Power consumption by electric motors Worldwide, about two-thirds of the electricity is consumed by motors used in powers industrial facilities. According to...

The industry's Top 50 suppliers

Each year, CONTROL magazine polls a distinguished panel of industry experts and advisors for its annual hit parade of the process automation industry’s Top 50...

Jim Montague joins editorial team

Process Automation: Jim Montague is the Executive Editor at Control, Control Design and Industrial Networking magazines. Jim has spent the last 13 years as an editor...

And the winners are...

This is the 12th year that CONTROL magazine has surveyed the best in products and service in the process automation and controls industry. Find out who won this...

King Coal is back!

In his Control Report, Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt surmises that going into coal processing control may be the kind of career opportunity that only comes...

A roundup of unusual suspects

CONTROL lines up this year's Process Automation Hall of Fame inductees, three chemical engineers who got interested in the nuts, bolts and wires of control processes...

Readers' service scores

Find out who won as readers broadcast their opinions on the best suppliers in the process control and automation industry in CONTROL magazine's 13th Annual Readers'...

Special rules for tuning level controllers (Part-1)

Process automation: In Part I of his article on tuning level controllers, process control consultant F.G. Shinskey points out that loss of level controls can kill a...

Bumpless pump sequencing

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question regarding problems with the control scheme for...

Global Warming and Junk Science Revisited

Control Report: Quick! Put Control Engineers in Charge of Global Warming Before it's Too Late

Security Lifestyle

Security’s Not a One-Shot Deal, but a Lifestyle. Control Explores Its Many Aspects Across the Process Control Universe

Blocking and Tackling Are Still Required Skills

It Is Sometimes Easier to Get Classes on Advanced Process Control Than on the Basics of General Instrumentation and Control

Engineers can control the economy: Part II

In this second installment, CONTROL Columnist Béla Lipták, PE, illustrates an assumed ANN model of the U.S. economy to show what can happen when advanced process...

Detecting Bunker C Oil Mass Flow

“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,...

Podcast with ARC on "Domino Theory"

Control contributing editor Rich Merritt conducts a wide-ranging interview with ARC Advisory Group principal analyst John Blanchard on a variety batch-related...

Searching for the One True Network

October's cover story in Control is the search for the One True Network, as chronicled by John Rezabek, our intrepid On The Bus columnist. Walt Boyes,...

Operations Excellence

Our premise is that functional organizations, namely Production, Quality and Information Technology, have traditionally solved problems by rapid problem definition,...

Ethernet: Convergence, Choices, Complexities

Ethernet is penetrating ever deeper into distributed control systems to provide real-time control with direct connectivity to a wider range of devices while the...

AutomationXchange event report

While basic plant-floor automation is no longer a mystery, advanced control often is, making techniques for solving difficult process control problems of high...

Why do we have global warming?

CONTROL columnist Béla Lipták, PE, finishes his Lessons Learned series on global warming, and what the process control confraternity can do about understanding and...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of CONTROL magazine.

2007 Readers’ Choice Awards

Once again, the end users have spoken. Process control professionals assess the best technologies and vote on who best meets their needs in the 15th annual CONTROL...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, March 2007, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, June 2007, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

D/P Cell Settings, Plus Good Books

“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,...

Rick’ Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, July 2007, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

Continuous Level Measurement; Noise Filters

“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,...

Integrated Electrical and Automation Systems

As process plants get larger and more complex, automation systems must handle an ever-increasing number of signals. At the same time, the number of electric...

The Six Most Common PID Configuration Errors: How to Find and Fix Them

The PID control loop is one of the fundamental workhorses of the process industries. Day in and day out, millions of PID loops strive to keep processes safe, stable...

Market Intelligence Report: Operator Interface/HMIs

Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are increasing in number, variety, resolution, sophistication and related computing power, and so are becoming all-pervasive in most...

Batch XML Interfacing

The ability to share information between batch control systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems has become a...

Process Modeling & Efficient Engineering

The modelling of a Batch Process and breaking down into S88 modular components is key to an easy and cost effective control software solution. This paper looks at...

Batch Application Migration

The ‘migration’ of an existing Batch application, either by replacement or upgrade of the batch ‘engine’, or the entire replacement of the control system, raises...

S88.01 Models and Commissioning / Qualification Mapping

The following paper makes a link between ISA-S88.01 Batch Control Models and Terminology, and key features and terminology, used in ISPE Baseline Pharmaceutical...

A Flow Stream Approach for Process Cell Modularization

Many S88 implementation reports raise the issue of Process Cell breakdown into its lower level components (Units, Equipment Modules and Control modules). From the...

C&O Methodology: Delivering Batch Plant Project Right First Time

Implementation of ISA S88.01 Standard has delivered many benefits including improved control, reusability and a common language. Yet, many processes are unreliable,...

Building the Perfect Beast Batch

The ISA S88.01 Standard for Batch Control, Part 1: Models and Terminology has had a significant impact on the implementation of industrial control systems since its...

A Flow Stream Approach for Process Cell Modularization

Many S88 implementation reports raise the issue of Process Cell breakdown into its lower level components (Units, Equipment Modules and Control modules). From the...

Avoid Pitfalls in Precision Temperature Measurement

Everyone is familiar with the concept of temperature in an everyday sense because our bodies feel and are sensitive to any perceptible change. But for more exacting...

Tuning the Forgotten Loop

We can tune PID controllers, but what about tuning the operator?The purpose of tuning loops is to reduce errors and thus provide more efficient operation that...

Present State and a Futuristic Vision of Motor Drive Technology

One of the main driving force behind the industrial revolution was the invention of the electric motor more than a century ago. Its widespread use for all kinds of...

Split personality

Pressure Gauges: This month’s Control Talk proves a real pressure test for readers of CONTROL. Columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner provide answers and the...

An alarming situation

Process automation & alarm management: Alarm systems of one type or another always have been part of industrial machine, robot, and skid control systems, but CONTROL...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of CONTROL magazine.

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, April 2007, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of...

ISA-SP100 Committee tackles sensors and alarm rationalization

Recently formed standards committee addresses vertical integration of wireless manufacturing and control systems for monitoring, control, alarm, and shutdown.

Deterministic networking on Ethernet

Andreas Pfeiffer writes that if industrial Ethernet has any hope of becoming an automation control standard, time-deterministic control must coexist within a single...

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month, May 2007, on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of CONTROL...

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...

SOUND OFF! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog!

Process Automation: Sound off! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog! CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the North American process automation market with a...

Metso Valves Help Meet Environmental Regulations

Metso’s Automation business has launched a comprehensive range of control valves under the iCV (Intelligent Control Valves) brand name.

Largest Foundation fieldbus complex completed

SECCO’s petrochem process facility goes from bare ground to on line in 27 months using a main instrument vendor to engineer and implement automation and control...

Deal or No Deal

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to them...

Feeding on Feedforward

This Month’s Topic—Feedforward Control

Straight Talk

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner Bring Their Wits and More Than 66 Years of Process Control Experience to Bear on Your Questions, Comments and Problems

Loops are Not Just for Continuous Processes

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to them...

Fonterra Dairies of New Zealand

Walt Boyes Interviews Alice Baucke, the Advanced Process Control Team Lead of Fonterra Dairies of New Zealand and Asks How They Collect and Use Data from Their 25...

Taming the Shrink-Swell Dragon

The shrink-swell phenomenon in the liquid level of boilers and steam generators can dramatically limit control system's ability regulate level; especially during...

Last month on ControlGlobal.com

Here's what happened last month on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of CONTROL magazine. CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the North...

Expanding our coverage on print and online

Katherine Bonfante, digital editor of Control Magazine, talks about how Control's online resources have expanded the depth coverage of the print magazine.

10 things end-users need to know about vendors

The selection of a supplier, especially for large control systems, is a complex undertaking. To help end-users with automation vendor selection, here’s a checklist...

Secure your wireless information channel

Among the obstacles that process control pioneer Dick Caro sees affecting the advance of wireless technology are the security of the information channel and powering...

Lessons learned from HMI upgrades

Process Automation: Control systems have changed a great deal over the last 20 years, and control system upgrades are commonplace. Most seasoned automation engineers...

Highlights from the Honeywell Users Group Symposium

Headlines from the three-day event include excerpts from presentations by Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions' Roger Fradin, who shares his company's process...

New Generation of PACs

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech has released its new PAC product line, the APAX-5000 series. This new generation of PACs integrates control, information...

Universal alarm trip consolidates functions

Simple alarm trip systems provide straightforward self-diagnostics of problems to create an efficient and accurate distributed control system.

ABB controls run world’s largest poultry-fueled power station

ABB is carrying out a major evolution contract for EPRL (Energy Power Resources Limited) to upgrade the plant control systems at its 38.5 MW poultry-litter-fuelled...

The latest from ABB Automation World

CONTROL Editor-in-Chief Walt Boyes blogs all week from ABB Automation World 2007. This year, a record number has gathered in Orlando to see what ABB has to offer,...

Live blog from Honeywell's 2007 Users' Group Americas event

The editors of CONTROL report on the presentations, case studies, panel discussions, demonstrations and networking events at this year’s technology conference for...

How to diffuse a demographic bomb

CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartles tackles one of the biggest challenges the engineering field will face over the next few decades. The demographic bomb the...

Fieldbus Market Intelligence Report

An electronic survey of Control readers was conducted in June, 2007, in order to identify usage and application trends of fieldbus networks among the process...

Wireless Gets Easier Podcast

Most folks now believe wireless can work in their process applications, and veteran users are proving it. This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series...

PolyOne Deploys OSIsoft’s PI System and RLINK Interfacing to Integrate Real-Time Plant Production Data with SAP R/3 System

PolyOne Corporation is the world’s largest polymer services company,manufacturing thermoplastic compounds, specialty resins, specialty polymer formulations,...