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• Top 50 Automation Companies of 2017: Digitalization takes over

  By Larry O'Brien, Craig Resnick and Allen Avery

  All the wells, mines, platforms, refineries, plants, columns, pipelines, sensors, analyzers and instruments are still chugging away as usual. Everything else is changing. Everything, that is, related to data acquisition, monitoring, process control, analytics, modeling, simulation and optimization,…

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• Structured troubleshooting approaches leave room for creativity, intuitive leaps

  By R. Russell Rhinehart

  We all try to understand why it’s not working and how to fix it. The “it” may be a process that was working, but is no longer is meeting expectations on quality, productivity or energy efficiency. The reason may be erosion in a pump impeller, fouling in a heat exchanger, deactivation of a…

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• Resource guide: Digital twins

  Digital flowmeter twinThe seven-page article, "Electromagnetic digital flowmeter twin," by Subhashish Dasgupta and Vinay Kariwala in ABB Review, Feb. '18, p. 58, shows how digital twin software and finite element analysis (FEA) can model and optimize the design and performance of ABB's…

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• Control magazine documents the digital age

  By Ian Verhappen

  To paraphrase a popular song from 1969, it was the “dawn of the age of digitalization,” and since its beginning some 30 years ago, Control has documented the digital age for field devices. At the birth of the magazine, HART was on its way to becoming mainstream and fieldbus standards were…

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• Control's Top 10 most-read articles from September 2018

  1. Your DP problems could be a result of improper use of purges, fills, capillaries and sealsLast month, we discussed potential problems with impulse lines. Here, we offer alternatives in terms of the use of purges and capillary systems, and continue the conversation on DP and PT installations.

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• Were the past century’s modernization projects really about headcount?

  By John Rezabek

  The instrument shop was not happy. Kenny, recently transferred from upstream operations in Alaska, had embarked on re-instrumentation of the refinery’s aging east side without engaging with them. Before they could object, he’d installed hundreds of unfamiliar (to them) “blue” pressure, DP…

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