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The Best Sample Interval For Process Control
ExperTune’s Loop Tuner/Analyzer, automatically checks your loop’s sample interval and tells you if it needs to be changed. -
Choosing the Best Control Loop Filter
Choosing the proper filter can have an impact in your company's bottom line. -
10 Tips on Choosing a Temperature Transmitter
While there are many practical and economic advantages to using temperature transmitters, the most basic are to ensure measurement integrity and to convert a temperature sensor’s low-level (ohm or mV) signal to a standard 4-20mA current signal that can be readily accepted by a monitoring and control system, such as a DCS or PLC. -
How Safety Light Curtains Work
Safety light curtains are an advanced method of safeguarding personnel around many hazardous machines. Safety light curtains offer freedom, flexibility and reduced operator fatigue when compared with traditional guarding methods such as mechanical barriers, sliding gates and pull-back restraints. -
The Basics of Digital Multimeters
A digital multimeter (DMM) may look complicated and intimidating at first glance, but once you understand the display, dial, and port panel, you'll have a better grasp of DMM basics. -
Water Security: The Role of the SCADA System
With security assessments and implementation of appropriate measures receiving the full attention of the water industry, we have been exploring how technology can contribute to these efforts. -
The Fast Way to Tune Slow Loops
To tune a control loop, analysis software must process some loop data. You must test or bump the loop somehow. For example a setpoint change in automatic or a controller output change in manual mode. -
Measurement Techniques for Reciprocating Compressors
Using standard vibration measurement methods on reciprocating machinery, to determine its running condition, has demonstrated itself to be unreliable! For years we, as an industry, have applied the techniques which have been mastered for measuring and understanding rotating machinery, to reciprocating machinery, only to produce confusing results.






