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Webinar Recording: How to Get the Most Out of Control Valves
The data that is really needed when selecting and sizing a control valve is rarely understood and specified. -
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. -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control
This intermediate-level book explains the application of basic and advanced regulatory control strategies for the wet process industries. -
You Have a Voice in Helping to Shape ISA’s Future
ISA President Steven Pflantz encourages ISA members to make a more conscious effort to talk about ISA and their experience. -
How to Become a Small Business Defense Contractor
It may seem intimidating to sell to the government, but the opportunity is there if you are financially sound, well prepared, and persistent. -
AutoQuiz: What Type of Electrical Enclosure Resists Corrosion and Provides Protection?
NEC 2002 defines an enclosure Type 4x as ideal for outdoor use and resistant to splashing water, windblown dust, hose directed water, and corrosion. -
Why the Life Sciences Need Robotics
Powerful market forces are driving exciting changes in the use and design of laboratory automation and robotics. -
How to Use Real-Time Analytics to Achieve Operational Excellence
Real-time analytics enable manufacturers to make smarter, better, faster decisions to achieve greater productivity from existing equipment. -
AutoQuiz: What is the Coriolis Effect?
Using the Coriolis effect that causes a laterally vibrating tube to distort, a direct measurement of mass flow is obtainable using a Coriolis flowmeter. -
How to Leverage ISA Standards to Achieve Sustainable Benefits During Industrial Project Design
Leveraging ISA standards during the industrial project design phase can enable companies to achieve sustainable benefits. -
Modern DCS Graphics: Level 1 Overview Displays
Level 1 DCS overview displays can help eliminate keyhole & tunneling effect some operators may experience from focusing on level 2, 3 & 4 control graphics. -
Modified Smith Predictor-Based Cascade Control of Unstable Time Delay Processes
An improved cascade control structure with a modified Smith predictor is proposed for controlling open-loop unstable time delay processes. -
How to Overcome Challenges of PID Control and Analyzer Applications via Wireless Measurements
An enhanced PID controller simplifies tuning and improves loop stability and reliability for loops dominated by discontinuous measurement updates. -
AutoQuiz: What Flowmeter Does Not Use an Obstruction?
A magnetic flowmeter is a volumetric flowmeter, which does not have any moving parts and is ideal for wastewater applications or any dirty liquid. -
Webinar Recording: How to Calibrate Analytical Instruments
Learn how to document “one-sided” calibrations, such as pH/ORP and gas sensors/analyzers. The approach can apply to meters, DCS and PLC inputs. -
FIRST Participants Show What an Open, Creative Mindset Can Achieve
ISA President Steven Pflantz says ISA members can learn from the bright, extremely motivated youth participating in FIRST and other STEM programs. -
Industrial Risk Avoidance: Proactive Instead of Reactive Maintenance
Transforming an industrial plant’s calibration system to a fully automated system. -
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. -
How to Improve Industrial Productivity with Loop Calibration
Logical & careful planning of loop testing strategies results in improved control performance without compromising plant quality, reliability, or safety. -
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.
