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AutoQuiz: What Are the Characteristics of a Piston Actuator?
An actuator is a device that applies the force necessary to cause a valve's closure member to move. -
How to Use the Cloud to Store and Distribute Manufacturing Data
The cloud is expanding and becoming valuable for improving manufacturing systems. -
AutoQuiz: How Is Fluid Velocity Affected When the Pressure Drop Across a Valve Increases?
The pressure drop refers to the change or drop in pressure from the upstream side of the valve to the downstream side. -
How IIoT Revolutionizes Real-Time Plant Maintenance and Analytics
Data from automation and monitoring systems, leveraged with analytics, monitoring, and reporting, creates the basis for a real-time maintenance program. -
AutoQuiz: What Is the Most Appropriate Technique for Modeling Linear Relationships?
The multivariate statistical-process control excels at modeling unknown linear relationships for a large number of inputs that could be correlated. -
AutoQuiz: How to Minimize the Effect of Feed Upsets to the Top of a Distillation Column
A distillation tower has feed upsets that are measured and used to create a feed forward signal. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calculate the Transfer Function
A transfer function is a mathematical representation of the relationship between the input and output of a system. -
What Are the Benefits of Connected Manufacturing?
Connected manufacturing gives everyone in the organization a voice, from the shop-floor employees to the CEO. -
AutoQuiz: Which Orifice Plate Is Used to Eliminate Damming of Material at the Top or Bottom of a Pipe?
Orifice plates are in a straight run of smooth pipe away from valves and fittings so they do not interfere with the restrictor and readings. -
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation: Critical Components for Sustainable Processes
Flow measurement and instrumentation are critical components for making usage visible to manage sustainable processes and operations. -
AutoQuiz: Which Fuse Has the Quickest Response to Over Currents?
Certain types of fuses have a very high speed of response to over currents. They provide excellent short-circuit component protection. -
Separating Hype from the True Value of Industrial Big Data Analytics
Perhaps no other new technology comes with more promise to manufacturing executives than big data analytics for manufacturing and the process industries. -
IoT Is Ready for the Process Industries
For on-site & off-site analysis, industrial IoT delivers data to the right personnel without requiring connection to the plant’s real-time control system. -
AutoQuiz: Optimal Beveled Orifice Angle for Flow
An orifice plate inserted in the line causes an increase in flow velocity and a corresponding decrease in pressure. -
Automation Professionals Are Catalysts for Change in Manufacturing
As manufacturing marches on, automation professionals find themselves in the best position to improve the industry. -
Bilateral Control of Master-Slave Manipulators with Constant Time Delay
Study of a novel teleoperation controller for a nonlinear master-slave robotic system with constant time delay in communication channel. -
AutoQuiz: Standard NFPA Wire Colors
NFPA's mission is to reduce fire and other hazards via scientifically based consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education. -
AutoQuiz: Characteristics of a Control Valve
A rotary valve has a flow closure member that rotates in the flow stream to modify the amount of fluid passing through the valve. -
AutoQuiz: Best Strategy for Finding Efficient Operating Points with Complex Shifting Process Conditions
Real-time optimization with a detailed process model is the best approach to fining the most efficient operating points. -
Simulation and Stability Analysis of Neural Network Based Control Scheme for Switched Linear Systems
Researchers propose a new adaptive neural network based control scheme for switched linear systems with parametric uncertainty and external disturbance.
