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Do We Really Understand What We are Doing? Does anyone else?
This paper focuses on the difficulty of adequately understanding and clearly describing the functionality a manufacturing process is to have before hard...
Information on the Amperometric Measurement of free Chlorine, Chlorine Dioxide and Ozone in Water
For reasons of hygiene, drinking water, or any other water that people come into direct or indirect contact with, often has to be treated with compounds that destroy...
Why Is Safety So Hard?
<i>Control</i> editor Walt Boyes speaks to the TÜV Safety Symposium in Cologne. Read a transcript of his speech, "Warum Ist Sicherheit So Schwer?/Why Is Safety so HARD?
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...
Measurement Automation Strategy Key to Bio-Ethanol Refinery Efficiency
Ethanol production holds great promise for our country’s energy future and also provides an excellent opportunity to support our domestic agricultural economy and...
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...
Developing Operating Procedures For Projects Involving Multiple Organizations Using a Linear Responsibility Chart
One of the difficulties of managing projects that involve several organizations is that the group has no pre-established procedures for handling actions that cross...
OptoFluidic: Real-time Optical Analysis
Optofluidics is a relatively new interdisciplinary technology that combines optics and fluidics. It extends to both the realization of optical effects and components...
Real-Time Profit Optimization
Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been successfully utilized to help control manufacturing and production processes since the late 1970s. The primary function...
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...
