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    Now retired, the ExxonMobil engineering veteran reflects on a lifetime in process control
    John Hedengren’s run toward his career goals culminates with induction into the 2025 Process Automation Hall of Fame
    A former All-American distance runner, John Hedengren returned to academia with a mission: bring real-world experience into the classroom and make process control education hands...
    OEE acronym, overall equipment effectiveness concept, identifies the percentage of manufacturing time that is truly productive.
    OEE has been used by discrete manufacturers for years to greatly improve asset efficiency and plant productivity, and now OCE is achieving the same results for process manufacturers...
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    How a would-be teacher became the flagbearer for the process control industry’s changing technologies
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    If we can’t rely on the shoulders of giants, are we willing to lean on each other?
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    AI-enabled technology has become too enticing for process operators to simply shake it off
    Electricity and electrical maintenance service, Engineer hand holding AC voltmeter checking electric current voltage at circuit breaker terminal and cable wiring main power distribution board.
    The Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) and Yokogawa report on the organization’s latest efforts
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    M3000 and M4000 programmable automation controllers (PAC) integrates the functionality of a PLC and a PC functions in one device with a control and edge system, multi-core technology...
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    ExxonMobil’s resin-finishing plant runs with O-PAS, and company starts internal commercialization
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    NX102 machine automation controller provides robust safety, precise motion, and transparent control by harnessing Sysmac’s One Controller, One Connection and One Software...
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    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...
    Plummer Forest Products in Post Falls, Idaho, endured a fire and had to rebuild its control system quickly.
    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 ...