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How to Achieve Pilot-Scale Process Control Flexibility and Agility
Make the pilot lab more flexible, accurate, and productive while maintaining the Class 1, Division 2 hazardous area classification. -
Why Bypassing the Factory Acceptance Test at Startup Is a Bad Idea
Rushing to startup, taking shortcuts, or bypassing the FAT typically means many engineering mistakes and problems that will need to be fixed later. -
An Introduction to Operations Research in the Process Industries
Operations research concepts are well-known in the field of project management and are evident in Gantt charts and critical path method organization and planning. -
AutoQuiz: What is the Risk in Using Standard ROI Ratios to Invest in an Automation System?
ROI equations do not account for lost opportunity to collect investment interest on money diverted to fund an automation project or the time value of money. -
What Should a Plant Manager Do During the First 90 Days on the Job?
Learn five "must-do" activities that every new industrial plant manager should build into initial plans to ensure everything kicks off in the right direction. -
Basic Guidelines for Control Valve Selection and Sizing
Control valves often determine the capability of the control system. Poorly sized and selected control valves will make tight control impossible regardless of the control strategy or tuning employed. -
Webinar Recording: Future-Proof Your Automation Solutions with Standards-Based Design
A practical way to achieve sustainable benefits with the proper application of ISA standards during the system design phase of an industrial automation project.. -
Four Quick Tips for Making Smart, Strategic Decisions at Your Industrial Plant or Facility
Making smart, strategic decisions is linked to the ability to define the needs of the business or application, your goals, and the purpose, and finally to execute based on those criteria. -
Key to Achieving Positive Business Results: Manage Risk Throughout Industrial Automation Infrastructure
By modernizing production systems, industrial companies can maximize their efforts throughout the enterprise and be proactive about all facets of risk management that affect people, brand, and busines -
The Seven Key Aspects of Automation Projects for Project Managers
Automation projects are the final stage of a bigger project and have time limitations; team member qualification and project scope definition are critical. -
The Three Most Desirable MRP Software Features for Manufacturers
For manufacturers, material requirements planning (MRP) software is one of the key elements to running a smooth manufacturing operation. -
What Do Design Engineers Need to Know about Brushless DC Motor Technologies
The disruptive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and next-generation smart manufacturing, also known as Industry 4.0, is placing demands on designers to develop motion-enabled solutions that are powerful, small, precise and efficient. -
Redefine and Transform How You Execute Automation Projects
Improving on what has always been done can only result in incremental improvements at best or continued complications. We have to redefine and transform how we execute automation projects. -
How to Obtain Accurate Industrial Project Cost Estimates
Getting funding for a large-scale automation project depends on proving ROI, so an accurate project cost estimate is paramount. Calculating such an estimate needs to follow a methodical process to avo -
How to Optimize Application Engineering to Keep Projects on Time and on Budget
Customization of products that deviate from vendor and industry standards leads to a number of problems on projects. Engineering and as-built documentation costs can increase because of the deviation -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Mission Critical Operations
Mission-critical specialists are in-demand in a variety of critical infrastructure areas, focused on events that could result in serious consequences, such as loss of life, harm to the environment or -
Best ISA Webinars of 2017
An ISA roundup of some of the best educational industrial automation industry webinars presented in 2017. -
When and How to Use Derivative Action in a PID Controller
The least frequently used mode in a PID controller, derivative is more useful when dead time is not pure dead time but is a series of small time constants. -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Condensed Handbook of Measurement and Control
ISA book is an authoritative resource for anyone responsible for selecting & implementing measurement & control devices for process automation applications. -
How to Manage Pipeline Valve Positioner and PID Tuning
In general use the highest valve positioner gain that does not cause oscillation. For pipeline flow and pressure control, oscillations are not filtered.
