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• Device drivers in easy reach

  By Fieldcomm Group

  It’s hard to keep your ducks in a row if you can’t find them. That’s why technicians have toolboxes and everyone has a tool drawer at home.On the software side? Historically, not so much. While code and programs must be carefully organized, support software such as device descriptions (DD)…

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• Simulation breeds innovation

  By Greg McMillan

  Greg: Innovation in process control tends to be missing more than ever despite the era of digitalization and incredible increases in automation system and modeling functionality. We seem to be not even aware of the opportunity to use process and automation system knowledge to make incredible…

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• Wireless may make all the connections needed to improve operations

  By Ian Verhappen

  Wireless is well suited to applications in those hard-to-reach or widely dispersed locations where the cost of connectivity appears to make the measurement impractical. Tank farms and level measurements are just this sort of environment because they tend to cover large areas with few field…

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• IIoT, digitalization and the workforce

  In this podcast, Sam Hoff, CEO of Patti Engineering, a CSIA-certified system integrator in Auburn Hills, Mich., talks with Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor, about the Industrial Internet of Things, workforce development and other topics.TranscriptHi, this is Jim Montague, executive editor…

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• Going with the flow: Advances in inline blending

  By John Rezabek

  The last gasoline blender upgrade was a decade or more in the past, and once again claimed millions in benefits thanks to controlling the blend so precisely that giveaway was next to nothing. Giveaway, simply put, is shipping a fuel that exceeds the specifications. By blending gasoline precisely on…

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• Assigning control valve pressure drop

  By Béla Lipták

  Q: I am an energy engineer currently looking at optimizing the pumping circuits in process plants by reducing unnecessary pressure drop across the system. Please advise me on my understanding. Your handbook, Volume 2, Chapter 6, ”Control Valve Selection and Sizing,” says, "The proper approach…

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