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Instrumentation Books and Reference Guides

Automation.com bookstore offers books and reference guides about general instrumentation. To learn more about a specific book, check prices, or to purchase a book, please click on the corresponding link below.

		SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 4th Edition - $109.00 After completing these 15 self-study units, readers should be conversant with SCADA nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system’s building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA technology for their operational requirements.

		Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification, 2nd Edition - $99.00 This revised best-seller addresses the increased realization that today’s engineering systems - and the computers used to control them - are capable of large-scale destruction. This book is a practical how-to text on the analysis, design, application and installation of safety instrumented systems.

		Essentials of Modern Measurements and Final Elements in the Process Industry: A Guide to Design, Configuration, Installation, and Maintenance - $119.00 This comprehensive resource aims to increase awareness of the opportunities afforded by modern measurement instruments and final elements, and to show how to get maximum benefit from the revolution in smart technologies. It builds an understanding of the fundamental aspects of measurements, measurement instruments, and final elements for applications in the process industry.

		Control Valve Primer: A User's Guide, 4th Edition - $109.00 This easy-to-read text includes insights on valve sizing, smart (digital) valve positioners, field-based architecture, network system technology, and control loop performance evaluation.

		Control Systems Safety Evaluation and Reliability, 3rd Edition - $109.00 This third edition provides the detailed background necessary to understand how to meet important new safety regulations and reliability engineering topics. Professional control system designers will learn to properly evaluate control system components, various system architectures, how to better communicate with vendors, and how to increase accuracy of life-cycle cost estimates.

		Control Loop Foundation - Batch and Continuous Processes - $109.00 This book is a guide for engineers, managers, technicians, and others that are new to process control or experienced control engineers who are unfamiliar with multi-loop control techniques. After the traditional single-loop and multi-loop techniques that are most often used in industry are covered, a brief introduction to advanced control techniques is provided.

		Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application - $99.00 The second edition of this best-seller covers the topics of tuning feedback control loops, multiplicative feed-forward control, and other control techniques such as split-range control, cross-limiting control, floating control, techniques for increasing effective valve rangeability, and time proportioning control, and more.

		Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd Edition - $89.00 In this second edition, various problems of alarm systems are covered with precise guidance on how they come about and how to effectively correct them. It is written by individuals with vast experience in the different plants, processes, and environments requiring effective alarm management.

		Advanced Temperature Measurement and Control, 2nd Edition - $69.00 This book provides a comprehensive view of what is needed to take advantage of the latest developments in smart and wireless temperature measurements and control strategies. A fundamental understanding of the capabilities of temperature sensors and the advances in wireless technology are provided.

		Measurement and Control Basics, 4th Edition Ideal for classroom use or self-study, this newly revised best-selling book has provided thousands of students, technicians, sales people, and others with a practical introduction to the technologies, systems, and strategies involved in industrial process control.

		PC Based Instrumentation and Control - Third Edition - 05/10/05 PC Based Instrumentation and Control is a guide to implementing computer control, instrumentation and data acquisition using a standard PC and some of the most popular computer languages.

Automation.com Real-time Information for the Automation Professional May. 25, 2012

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