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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 -
The Autonomous Workplace: Robotics Developers Focus on Safety
The “Automation Age” is the most influential period of technological advancement since the invention of the steam engine. -
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 -
Simple Robust Auto-Tuning Rules for 2-DoF PID Controllers
Technical focus on the problem of providing simple tuning rules for a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) PID controller with robustness considerations.


















