Advanced MPC systems help food manufacturers optimize complex processes, reduce waste and maintain consistent product quality ...

With the increased focus on return on assets (ROA) and Operational Excellence (OpX), users must find ways to effectively migrate from one generation of control system to the next, whether it is from ...

Comprehensive modernization of process control systems at gas storage facilities can increase gas-transfer flexibility and shorten response times, even with existing field equipment. Wingas undertook ...

How self-tuning can support an adaptive control strategy. How Model Reference Adaptive Control can improve adaptability. The different types of MRAC. A certain amount of flexibility is always good to ...

Process-control environments are under constant threat from cyberattacks, internal threats, and even simple vandalism. Designers need to consider the spectrum of threats and hardening strategies, from ...

The control systems world is changing. Historically, process control systems—which include all industrial control, process control, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed ...

Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus hardware solutions that ...

Which subjects should be included in the curriculum of an undergraduate process control course, and which should not?

PLC evaluation board applications for industrial process-controlsystems are diverse, ranging from simple traffic control to complexelectrical power grids, from environmental control systems ...

The automation of processes is aimed at making them more efficient by eliminating human error as well as making them more repeatable, ensuring product uniformity. To ...