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    July 2025 Control Talk cartoon
    This is the first of a three-part series discussing fundamental skills gaps in instrumentation and controls
    A male electrician works in a switchboard with an electrical connecting cable.
    Controlling the manipulated variable if global warming was a temperature control loop
    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...
    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 ...
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    A performance comparison of the Smith Predictor and deadtime compensated PID
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    How PID loops were enhanced, and why it’s beneficial but confusing
    Understand PID subtleties to improve and optimize loop and process performance
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    How two-degree-of-freedom controllers both optimize setpoint response and minimize the effect of load disturbances
    A reader writes in to comment on one of Greg McMillan's recent articles, and he responds.
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    Stories from those whose careers were shaped by the process control legend
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    Sometimes it makes sense to spring for a feedforward approach
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    Five key informational objectives of the ISA 5.9 technical report