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Simulation scope and funding, Part 1

A multidisciplinary perspective on real-time process simulation
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Simulation and innovation for best process control

How first-principle simulations enable process control improvements
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Deep dive into distillation control

Examining the tug-of-war between reboiler and reflux actions
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Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence, part 3

The process industry can make changes for better safety performance
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Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence—part 2

There are changes the process industry can make for better safety performance
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Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence, part 1

Why the process industries need practical improvements in business policies, and how to do it
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Control Talk: Modeling and control opportunities

How dynamic modeling and digital twins can accelerate industrial operations
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How to deal with dead time compensation revelations

In this month's Control Talk, Control Global columnist Greg McMillan talked with Héctor Henry Torres, a founding member of the ISA mentor program, about the best methods for dead...
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Control Talk: Failure identification and management

FMEA is a qualitative tool developed to provide a structured technique for failure analysis
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Control Talk: Top of the plant bottom line

Inferential measurements of stream composition can improve the performance of individual unit operations
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Control Talk: Machine learning, deep learning and nonlinear controls

Why you should be intrigued, and why you should be cautious
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Foray into feedforward control

There may be many more opportunities to preemptively correct for a measured disturbance via feedforward control than we realize.