Special reports

The cloud: A tutorial guide

In this new eBook, you'll learn about the issues facing manufacturers that are attempting to make their facilities cloud-based, and how to find the proper gateway to gather information from the industrial fieldbus. Get the report.

Guide: HMI design considerations

In this new resource guide, the editors of Control and ControlGlobal.com discuss steps for HMI design, whether HMI downtime is ever acceptable, what's holding back mobile HMI, and more. → Get the report.

Engineers guide: Level application determines best approach

The editors of Control and Controlglobal.com have compiled this new eBook from recent articles and interviews. Topics covered include: automatic tank gauging 101, radar vs ultrasonic sensors; is it wise or dangerous to back up differential pressure with nuclear instrumentation?; radar gauge considerations; and merging old and new in level measurement. → Get the report.

Functional safety in process control

As an industry, we have done an excellent job ensuring that our safety instrumented systems (SIS) provide the risk reduction calculated in our risk assessments. Other improvements in functional safety have further reduced the potential for accidents. Yet we’re still having them. Discover why safety instrumented systems are becoming an essential part of everyone’s engineering portfolio. → Get the report.

Engineer's guide to gas metering & analysis

In this robust special report you'll learn why accurate flare flow metering is important to account for production and energy loss, how versatile gas analysis works in the production of ammonia, how to know your process conditions and how to accurately scope process analyzer projects. → Get the report.

Béla Lipták on safety: Cyber security and nuclear power

In this report, process control expert Béla Lipták provides a deep understanding of the causes of the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, along with the reactor facility design, control and interlock configurations related to each one. → Get the report.

Special Report: Testing analog and digital I/O

This new ebook covers testing analog and digital I/O in great detail. Topics covered include troubleshooting programmable automation controller I/O at the physical level; how wireless I/O still fails to communicate; and how programmable I/O can be a multitasking master. → Get the report.

Special Report: Béla Lipták on safety: Oil and Gas

Process control guru Béla Lipták discusses emerging industries aimed at exploiting unconventional fossil fuel deposits. Take advantage of Lipták’s critical view of the oil & gas industry to gain a deep understanding of the dangers inherent in its processes. → Get the report.

Special Report: Cybersecurity in Operational Technology

In this special report, the editors of Control and Control Design present a collection of articles on OT cybersecurity to help you get up to speed on this challenging and important subject. → Get the report. 

Special Report: The latest in calibration technologies, methods and management

Compiled by the editors of Control magazine, this ebook contains the latest and most informative articles on calibration technologies, methods and management. → Get the report. 

Special Report: Industrial computers field guide and resources

Industrial computers, PCs and many of their counterpart devices can take almost any form these days, and serve in almost any setting thanks to miniaturization, disk-less and fan-less technologies, more capable software and other advances. Here's what you need to know. → Get the report.

Special Report: Field guide to power supply resources

These three features from Control contain tutorials, white papers, videos and other instructional materials for learning about and applying power supplies. → Get the report.

Special Report: Best cases guide to industrial computers

How innovative users are applying industrial computers, and how you can benefit from their experiences to achieve similar gains. → Get the report.

Special Report: Turbocharged DCSs drive users to new production heights

Here are five of the best, recent examples of the modern DCS in action, which show how other users can gain the same advantages. → Get the report.

Special Report: HMI field guide to best interface resources

There's a lot of information out there about how terrific many human-machine interfaces are, but precious little wisdom about how to select and implement the best HMI for your application. Here's help. → Get the report.

Special Report: Selection information for flow measurement

Better measurement can only be achieved by selecting the best/most suitable flow technology for each flow application. This report provides detailed selection information for each application. → Get the report.

Special Report: HMI guides users with expanded insight into processes

In these solution stories, the editors of Control explore how five of the most innovative HMI users and developers are applying new technologies to maximize safety and efficiency. → Get the report.

Special Report: Power supplies and users get smart

These recent feature articles in Control by Executive Editor Jim Montague show how power supplies are evolving to gain intelligence and perform more complex tasks—and how users can employ them to improve operating reliability. → Get the report.

Special Report: Latest trends in I/O systems

The editors of Control and ControlGlobal.com have compiled this anthology of articles covering the latest trends and technologies in I/O systems. → Get the report.

Special Report: Engineering guide to flow measurement

New flow measurement technologies, like multipath ultrasonic, magnetic and Coriolis, are increasing and can provide higher accuracy and rangeability than differential pressure technologies, but power remains a challenge. This eBook, compiled from the best articles on this topic in Control and Controlglobal.com, will show you how to meet this and other challenges, as well as how to balance technical needs with cost efficiency. → Get the report.

The technologies reshaping industrial network infrastructure

Feeling ill-prepared for the demands of Industry 4.0, plants and factories are on the look-out for infrastructure technologies that can give business performance a boost. This comprehensive new report from the editors at Control and Controlglobal.com will help you understand how to plan ahead for the accelerating convergence of IT and OT architectures. → Get the report.