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Low cost single sensor/single actuator approach to static feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems. Issue is present in many engineering applications.

Creating a standardized, enterprise-wide benchmarking system helps manage the complexity among various manufacturing processes, while reducing competitive risk.

By Bill Lydon, Editor New technology is enabling remote monitoring capabilities to improve operational effectiveness. This presents users with opportunities and challenges to be evaluated for practical applications. The latest remote monitoring tools allow experts to analyze problems and abnormal situations, and determine ways to improve and optimize operations, without traveling to the site.

Wireless technology for process instrumentation has the potential to bridge key gaps in a variety of industrial applications, including asset management solutions, monitoring, and noncritical alarming

A new Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming model is presented to analyze the availability optimization of a system with a given structure.

Isolated silos in industry may create barriers to growth, but they also offer opportunities for those willing to take the initiative.

PLC I/O replaced with DCS I/O while keeping existing PLC sequence logic.

A fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with double closed loops is proposed for spacecraft attitude control.

Check out some of the educational opportunities provided by ISA in January 2015.

The effect of reactor type on dynamic response, allowable measurement lags and delays, controller tuning, and control strategies is significant.

Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems

By Chris Favre, Automation Integrated The danger of this rush to smart devices is that some “manufacturers” are taking hobby grade equipment and developing it as a viable commercial solution.

Advances in digital integrated circuits are now paving the way for the proliferation of vision into diverse mainstream automated manufacturing platforms. Cost-effective vision processors with depth-di

By Bill Lydon, Editor I see the technology progress in other industries, and I am coming to the realization that the industrial automation industry is way behind. The automation market lacks the essential elements, thought leadership, and desire to take advantage of IoT (Internet of Things) architectures and technology.

New HMI solutions offer multitouch functionality so users can scroll, zoom, expand & rotate items via familiar smartphone gestures, such as swipe and pinch.

By Norman and Amelia Lobsenz A look back at robot predictions in 1950.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The dramatic cost reductions and increased computing power of mobile devices are creating opportunities to operate plants more efficiently and increase the productivity of personnel. Mobile devices can include smart phones, tablets, netbooks and notebook computers.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to massively instrument the world with intelligent sensors and actuators (analog/digital) that communicate over both wired and wireless networks and leverage the Internet Protocol (IP). .

The problem of global output feedback control for a class of nonlinear time-delay systems

By Peter Bilello, CIMdata PLM is approaching and in some cases already achieving the status of a business platform. Now PLM-as-a-platform, or the “platformization” of PLM, is morphing into new ways of going about the business of innovation.