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AutoQuiz: How Do You Model Linear Relationships for a Large Number of Correlated Inputs?
AutoQuiz: What is the MOST appropriate technique for modeling linear relationships for a large number of correlated inputs where the equations are unknown? -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Minimize the Effect of Feed Upsets to the Top of a Distillation Column?
AutoQuiz: How to Minimize the Effect of Feed Upsets to the Top of a Distillation Column -
How to Avoid the 12 Common Pitfalls of RFID for Asset Tracking
Adopting radio frequency identification (RFID) asset tracking for the first time involves more than just slapping tags on traceable materials. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Measure Water Level in a Tank?
Level sensors detect the level of liquids and other fluids and fluidized solids, including slurries, granular materials, and powders that exhibit an upper free surface. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Calculate the Resistance of Copper Wire?
AutoQuiz: Calculating the Resistance of Copper Wire -
The Case for Diverse Tank Gauge Measurement Technologies
The oil industry must apply control & safety solutions to run operations efficiently, ensure compliance and protect personnel, assets and the environment. -
Process Plant Historians Deliver Insights and Improve Operations
Before the term “big data” was being used as part of the Internet of Things, plant historians were handling large volumes of time-synchronized data. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Calculate Highest Pressure Differences?
It doesn't matter the size of a container, its configuration, or from what a container is constructed. Pressure is the same. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Calculate Capacitance?
Capacitance is defined as the ability of a dielectric to store electrical charge. -
AutoQuiz: How Do Differential Pressure Transmitters Measure Level?
One can measure (infer) a liquid level by measuring a differential pressure (d/p) caused by the weight of the fluid column in a vessel balanced against a reference. -
AutoQuiz: How Do Thermal Level Elements Infer Level Measuring?
The Instrument Engineers Handbook (IEH) explains thermal level measurement. The simplest of these designs is where the sensor detects low level. -
AutoQuiz: Physical Measurements Arise From Which Fundamental Quantities?
The scientific and engineering community widely accepts the Systeme Internationale d'Unites (SI). Its base units are length, mass, moles, time, temperature, electric current, and light intensity. -
AutoQuiz: How Is Resistance Measured?
Circuits should be de-energized. Place the mode switch in “OHMS”, short the meter leads together, then press the “REL” button -
Design Automation Systems with a Focus on Diagnostics and Situational Awareness
Today’s powerful automation platforms offer more diagnostic and situational awareness capabilities than ever before; they just need to be put into service. -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Calculate Absolute PSI?
Absolute pressure is zeroed against a perfect vacuum. Gauge pressure is zeroed against the local atmospheric pressure. -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: The Tao of Measurement
The Tao of Measurement challenges many long-held assumptions on the measurement of time, length and area. -
AutoQuiz: What is Topology in an Industrial Setting?
Network topology is the arrangement of the various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network. It is the topological structure of a network and may be depicted physically or logically. -
AutoQuiz: What Component Within a Control Loop Can Be Manipulated?
View the the basic process of a control loop, highlighting the components and measurements within the loop -
AutoQuiz: How Do You Compute Electronic Pressure Transmitter Output?
Method is offered for converting milliamps to English units -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook
The Performance-based Fire and Gas Systems Engineering Handbook offers an understanding and tools needed to implement a performance-based FGS design.
