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How to use Mobile Devices to Improve Operator Effectiveness
How to use Mobile Devices to Improve Operator Effectiveness -
Concentration Measurements of Bubbles in a Water Column Using an Optical Tomography System
Concentration Measurements of Bubbles in a Water Column Using an Optical Tomography System -
A Robust Data Treatment Approach for Fuel Cells System Analysis
Technical paper focuses on the implementation of a practical approach for fuel cells system data analysis. -
How the Right Automation Can Turn Your Electricity Bills into a Competitive Advantage
Even businesses with complex, energy-intensive production processes can control electricity use without compromising production. An advanced demand management system enables key strategies. -
Automation Offers a Competitive Advantage in the Dairy Industry
Automation offers a key competitive advantage in the dairy industry. It is time to upgrade or replace aging PLCs, drum timers and selector switches. Invest in technologies that will squeeze out 1 or 2 -
Putting Big Data to Productive Use in Manufacturing
Process industries can leverage big data to realize value through compelling manufacturing use cases. Get familiar with big data terminology, technologies, and techniques. -
How to Reduce Development Time and Industrial Project Risk by Testing and Proving New Code
If a piece of code is to be replicated many times, always have two different people independently test it whenever possible. -
Automation Week 2013: most thought-provoking and far-reaching technical program ever
Automation Week 2013: most thought-provoking and far-reaching technical program ever -
First Principles for a Deeper Understanding of Industrial Automation
Conceptual knowledge should be sought to see the commonality in seemingly different industrial application requirements. -
Nine Technologies to Watch for the Automation Industry
Many of the hottest technology trends today represent a convergence of largely internet and IT-based enabling technologies. -
Big Data Focus at 2013 ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium
Big Data is Big News in just about every corner of our digitally connected world. Leveraging massive amounts of process data archives is a game changer for practically any industrial process, enabling -
Use Field Analyzers to Measure Key Component Concentrations
Field analyzers enable a higher level of control, such as model predictive control, to improve product quality and process efficiency and capacity. -
What Are the Opportunities and Challenges for Alternative Energy?
How can we produce enough sustainable energy while avoiding unacceptable environmental consequences? ISA's book, Future Energy, explores the options. -
How to Use Simulation and Virtual Plants for Process Improvement
First principle models & experimental models in a virtual plant offer powerful tools for process control improvement and an operator training system. -
Always Design in Spare Capacity to Allow for Industrial Plant Expansion
A common rule of thumb for most systems is to add at least 25 percent spare capacity to the original design. -
Flexible-Structure Control: A Strategy for Releasing Input Constraints
Process output can be brought back to the set point only by activating an auxiliary manipulated variable -
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing, & the Economy
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing & the Economy -
Automation Week: Partners Technical Content Line Up
Automation Week: Partners Technical Content Line Up -
How to Leverage Remote Video Monitoring for Industrial SCADA and HMI Systems
Software and hardware technologies are now available to create a comprehensive remote video monitoring solution. Advanced video management software technologies now provide integration of live video i -
Automation Week: Human Performance Track
Over the past decades, industrial automation benefits have often been determined based on the cost savings achieved by headcount reductions. Today, in most industrial organizations staffing is at crit















