Websites and email newsletters and even streaming media all have a very large drawback. In the case of www.ControlGlobal.com, we have hundreds of great articles, white papers, case studies, vendor notes, application stories and much more. But you have to look for them as if you were looking through the porthole on one of those old, hard-shell diving suits. Take your hands and put thumb to thumb and forefinger to forefinger, and look through your hands. Do you see everything there is to see? Not hardly.
Best Practices for Engineering Workflow
Process engineering focuses on the design, operation and maintenance of chemical and material processes in a vast range of industries. This white paper identifies process simulation tools to seamlessly integrate throughout the process design life cycle and discusses best practices for facilitating engineering workflow.
Your Choices in Flowmeter Calibration
Across various industries, the performance of a flow measurement device is ultimately dependent upon the proper functioning of its sensors or other signal producing elements, which have an active relationship with the flowing fluid.
Industrial Information System Security
Modern automation systems provide high levels of interconnectivity, often implemented via commercial IT platforms that are vulnerable to electronic attack. This three–part tutorial explains security objectives, attack types and countermeasures; best practices in protecting against certain types of attacks, and emerging standards for automation system security.
Specifying FDT Technology
Preventing unplanned shutdowns, reducing downtime and lowering maintenance cost have been shown to provide significant financial benefits. One way to achieve these results is to make certain that all installed assets are used to the best of their ability. This paper provides an overview of FDT Technology and describes how it enables these benefits.
Know Your Flow, Part 3
Application savvy is worth more than only products. In this third installment of Control's special report on mass flow and density measurement sponsored by Micro Motion, the applications are the stars. Check out the videos and other links that take you to far more information than we can fit onto a page.
For example, we have hosted two very useful documents for many years now. The first is the "Little Black look" (the Fisher Controls Guide to Control Valve Sizing and Selection). And the second is the Magnetrol Desk Reference. Bet you didn't know that.
The Little Black Book is part of our Control Valve Technology Library. Currently, this resource center has 61 articles, 12 white papers, 40 news stories, and 87 product information releases. See what I mean about looking through a tiny porthole?
The Omega Transactions series that contains basic instruction in a variety of standard process automation tasks is also on our site; Volume 1—Non-Contact Temperature Measurement; Volume 2—Data Acquisition; Volume 3—Force-Related Measurement.
Burner Management Webcast
Learn how to properly specify a PLC–based burner management system (BMS) compliant to today's industry safety standards (NFPA, API, ISA) as Siemens' Certified Functional Safety Expert Charles Fialkowski and Control Global's Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discuss what’s new and relevant.
Current Critical Safety Issues
Read the latest news related to automation safety issues.
Temperature/Pressure Instrumentation
Temperature is one of the Big 4 control parameters that any process plant must monitor. However, it is sometimes a forgotten measurement because it often isn't as hard to do as the other three. Editor in chief Walt Boyes reviews the 2009 survey on temperature instrumentation and compares it to the 2011 survey findings. There are significant differences between the two surveys. Watch this report to find out.
We created the Directory of Lost Companies wiki to make it easier to keep up with the ownership changes in the automation industry. Just like Wikipedia, the directory is only as good as the information that you put in it. Don't send it to us; add it to the wiki. The wiki can be found at: http://community.controlglobal.com/content/directory-lost-companies.
