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    Real-time optimization is often misunderstood. Here are the basics
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    A ‘clean dozen’ tools and techniques for process plant automation.
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    A look at the extreme differences in PID tuning that’s led to several hundred different tuning rules
    Control Talk March 2025
    How to train an AI for process control engineering
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    Large language models can do amazing things, just don’t confuse them with human thoughts
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    Control valve selection and specification is critical to achieving good control loop and process performance
    Examining the tug-of-war between reboiler and reflux actions
    The process industry can make changes for better safety performance
    There are changes the process industry can make for better safety performance
    Why the process industries need practical improvements in business policies, and how to do it
    These practical techniques help eliminate compartmentalization of multivariable control
    We conclude this modeling and control series by asking engineers to use simulations to achieve more prolific and productive APC