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AutoQuiz: What Is the Dead Band of an Instrument?
The dead band is the range through which an input signal may vary, upon reversal of direction, without initiating an observable change in output signal. -
Industrial Pervasive Sensing Reduces Costs and Prevents Downtime
Industrial pervasive sensing devices lower energy requirements and reduce maintenance costs. -
Book Excerpt + Author Q&A: Detecting Leaks in Pipelines
Successful leak detection depends on a productive confluence of several situationally dependent technologies. -
AutoQuiz: How to Simultaneously Optimize an Interacting Dead-Time Dominant Process with Multiple Constraints
Model predictive control excels at dead-time dominance and simultaneous optimization while accounting for future prediction of proximity to constraints. -
Webinar Recording: Model-Predictive Controllers for Cost Optimization
How to develop a proper control system for separation of multiple batch components by vacuum stripping. -
DC Servomechanism Parameter Identification: Closed-Loop Approach
Closed Loop Input Error (CLIE) approach for on-line parametric estimation of a continuous-time model of a DC servomechanism functioning in closed loop. -
AutoQuiz: What are the Closure Members in Globe and Butterfly Valves?
A butterfly valve has a circular body and a rotary-motion disk-closure member. The physical blocking mechanism in a globe valve is a plug. -
Successful Automation Engineers Build Relationships and Collaborate
Learn and share knowledge via discussion groups, articles, user group meetings, ISA meetings, Web meetings, and trade events. -
ISA Needs to Change, but How?
ISA President Steven Pflantz says change requires a mindset shift. The organization needs to view change as an ongoing reality, not a temporary phenomenon. -
Robust SDRE Filter Design for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
Remedy for effects of modeling uncertainty, measurement noise & input disturbance on performance of the standard state-dependent Riccati equation filter, -
Webinar Recording: Beginner's Guide to Vacuum Control
Understanding fundamental principles & limitations of process equipment is key to developing a proper control system for separation of multiple batch components by vacuum stripping. -
Primer: Electromagnetic Flowmeters Simple to Operate, High Accuracy
Electromagnetic flowmeters, aka magmeters, have become one of the most common flow metering technologies over the past 50 years. -
Webinar Recording: How Machine Learning is Advancing Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have significantly accelerated the application of predictive maintenance on the plant floor. -
Dynamic Simulation and Control in Natural Gas Processing Plants
Technical benefits derived from employing dynamic simulation and control of operational transients of natural gas processing plants -
AutoQuiz: What is the Cause of a High Process Variability?
An oversized control valve will operate next to the seat where the friction and stick slip is greatest. -
Leadership Requires Embracing the Demands of Change
Steven Pflantz, president of ISA 2017, stresses that achieving ISA's potential lies in willingness and ability to change and act as a catalyst for it. -
How to Solve Common Problems with Industrial Alarm Systems
An industrial automation alarm system is a powerful aid, showing the right time to take the right action to prevent an undesired consequence. -
How ISA and Automation Federation Leadership Helped Secure Industrial Control Systems
As a result of work by ISA and the Automation Federation, IEC/ISA 62443 will play a prominent role in securing control systems for industry in the future. -
Webinar Recording: ROI of In-Line Optical Spectroscopy in Process Manufacturing
The benefits and ROI of of using optical spectroscopy solutions in-line to measure moisture in real time. -
Electromechanical vs Digital: Time to Make the Switch?
Electromechanical switches have their place in the modern plant, but a digital upgrade could pay off in many applications
