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What is social proof and how do you get it? More than likely, you already have it

What part of a globe valve has the same purpose as the disk in a butterfly valve?

By Chuck Fuerst and Carl Marin, HighJump The warehouse should be one of the first places you turn to when improving efficiencies and productivity for your business. It’s the heart of your operations, and its ability to be nimble and efficient has a big impact on your customers’ experience and your bottom line.

How to make sure the cascade control system is intelligently designed to meet process requirements in terms of vessel and heat transfer surface temperatures

What programs are available from ISA in July 2015?

By Bill Lydon, Editor The adoption of disruptive technologies can make or break your business. The effects can be positive or negative. Adopting what appears to be a disruptive technology that does not go mainstream or adopting it too early can break or significantly hurt a business. Automation professionals are in a unique position to understand, evaluate, and make recommendations to management about the adoption of new technology.

What does it mean when the percentage of flow through a valve equals the percentage of plug movement?

Critical aspects of the design of the jacket and coil in vessel heating and cooling.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The need to improve manufacturing operations and maintenance using real-time data is creating a greater need to efficiently link larger volumes of data from controllers to the enterprise. Connecting real-time information from disparate control devices to operations, maintenance, and enterprise systems is not an easy task. Here's one solution that may help.

A major migration project offers what is arguably the best opportunity to train the next generation of automation engineers and plant operators in a way that can yield benefits for many years to come.

What is the process of grinding the plug and seat of a valve called?

An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters.

By Edward E. Herceg, Alliance Sensors Group Position feedback sensors for hydraulic or pneumatic cylinders have used one of three traditional technologies: Magnetostrictive, Variable Resistance, and Variable Inductance sensors. Here’s a comparison.

By Craig Resnick, ARC Leading field instrumentation suppliers such as MicroMotion (a unit of Emerson) and Endress+Hauser have already equipped many of their Coriolis flow measurement products with Ethernet interfaces, including EtherNet/IP.

By: Jeremiah Stone, GE Not too long ago, diagnosing a problem with a critical asset was a cumbersome process for the automation industry. The Industrial Internet is making the diagnostic process much more straightforward and manageable, particularly with the advent of powerful Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic (RM&D) capabilities. The Oil and Gas industry in particular has been quick to recognize the benefits of RM&D.

Industrial automation & manufacturing has been slow to adopt modern digital marketing practices, they have not embraced social media & mobile computing.

Test your ability to match the name for valve symbol designations.

Deciding whether to calibrate instruments in the field or workshop is not a simple choice. The two methods often complement each other.

By Bill Lydon, Editor A single cyber security incident can lead to significant losses for any company. It is unclear to me and I am sure many readers what the insurance possibilities are for manufacturers. Insurance companies are working to ban cyber coverage under the commercial general liability (CGL) policies but are also offering separate cyber security insurance policies.

In an effort to advance control valve technology, industrial designers have developed new butterfly valve innovations.