December 2018 Issue

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control is used in more than 99% of the loops for chemical, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage manufacturing. However, the opening challenge with PID control is recognizing the effect of PID form, structure and tuning units. Learn the best practices for PID.
Also in this issue are feature articles about common-sense cybersecurity and an introduction to modbus.
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Articles
Do multiple sensors improve accuracy?
Is there a process control degree and if so, at which universities?
A little help for those who share my aversion to “digitalization”
The phrase I love to hate
Reader feedback: December 2018
Reader's respond to November's Lessons Learned, Unfettered blog
The teardrop model of cybersecurity
We need to emphasize the importance of the human element.
Protecting your bus during winter
HART and fieldbus offers ways to keep instruments honest when temperatures are low
Best practices for PID
Basics of PID in 25 points
IIoT, cloud computing changing control system architectures
Technologies changing our view of the venerable Purdue model
Resource guide: Panel planning, best practices
Control's monthly guide brings you invaluable industry information to stay up to date on the latest trends and developments.
Common-sense cybersecurity in the age of IoT
Build on tried-and-true methods with protections enabled by cloud computing and other digitalized solutions.
Challenge us with your problems
Help develop the potential of those of us in research and development
Introduction to Modbus
Why the grandfather of modern fieldbus is still on the job after 40 years.
Product roundup: Temperature, pressure burst boundaries
Sensors, transmitters and other solutions push against constraints with new capabilities and operating limits.
The multiplier effect
Automation is not the job-killer many make it out to be.
Don't watch the holidays
Many small, face-time interactions are the main ingredient for long-term mental capacity.
News
Automation Fair, PSUG chart process progress
Rockwell Automation's Process Solutions User Group and Automation Fair spark their process industry roles