Plummer Forest Products in Post Falls, Idaho, endured a fire and had to rebuild its control system quickly.
Loop Control

Dealing with deadtime

Patrick J. Dixon
How Plummer Forest Products quickly overcame a fire and devastation to its control system by implementing high-performance automatic control on very complex interacting loops ...

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Wildfire in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, January 8, 2025, towards Getty Center and Brentwood
Physical Security

Better protection from wildfires

Béla Lipták
Improvements to municipal water systems can help avoid a repeat of the Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles-area fires
Podcasts

Tariffs, inflation and process control

Control Amplified
How will the industrial processing market be impacted new tariffs and inflation? ITR Economics' Connor Lokar weighs in
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Industry News

2025 Edge Award program entries are open now

Control has been added to the list of brands supporting the Edge Awards in 2025
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Flow

How mass relates to flow measurement

Jesse Yoder
Understanding mass is important to understanding mass flow measurement
Edge computing networking internet technology concept
Industrial Networks

The hidden value of edge computing

Organizations can scale edge computing solutions to drive further efficiencies and improve overall process control strategies
Podcasts

Increasing the power of real-time data analysis

Control Amplified
Schneider Electric's Alejandro Trejo and James Redmond talk artificial intelligence and edge computing
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Industry Perspectives (sponsored)

Getting the most from data on the edge

Artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing increase the power of real-time data analysis
Control Talk March 2025
Control Talk Column

The AI reality: Part 2

Greg McMillan
How to train an AI for process control engineering
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Control

A re-energized market

Len Vermillion
Oil and gas producers will be drilling again; they'll want updated automated processes
Podcasts

AI, APL highlight ARC Forum

Control Amplified
A Control Amplified podcast with editor-in-chief Len Vermillion
Migrating Foundation Fieldbus-to-Ethernet-APL will take conviction and investment
Industrial Networks

Prepare to justify Ethernet-APL migration

John Rezabek
Migrating Foundation Fieldbus-to-Ethernet-APL will take conviction and investment
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Industrial Computers

Bad language

Jim Montague
Mind-numbing buzzwords can serve much darker purposes

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Level

Vega America's Magnetic Level Indicator 62

VEGA Americas, Inc.
The Vegamag 62 magnetic level indicator uses a magnetized float to cause a series of metal flags to rotate, indicating the position of the liquid level inside of the chamber.

SoftPLC
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PLCs & PACs

Controller can live in a SLC-500 rack and talk to 1,747 I/O modules

SoftPLC
A new version of the NeoPAC controller can reside in a SLC-500 rack and communicate with 1,747 I/O modules. Its CPU has Ethernet, two USB ports, and two ports for DH+ and Allen...

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Valves

Final word (for now) on valves and actuators

Control’s monthly resources guide on valves and actuators

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Data collected by robots falls into two fundamental categories: operations and maintenance.
Data Acquisition

Industrial mobile robots and the data challenge

Penny Chen
Advanced users have learned how to make the most of the data provided by robots

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Wireless

Want wireless with that?

Several crucial tasks must still be completed to deploy wireless effectively

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Analyzers

Generating successful wind turbine optimization

Béla Lipták
Our experts explain the best options for maintaining control and measuring wind speed and direction

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Safety Instrumented Systems

Safety controllers detect hazards and trigger automated responses

RS
Omron’s NX Series interact with sensors, emergency stops and light curtains