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Radiometric or gamma level/density instruments are most often used in applications where other measuring techniques fail.

The Ukrainian power grid cyberattack was triggered when an employee opened an Excel spreadsheet attachment of an email.

A dead-weight tester apparatus uses known traceable weights to apply pressure to a fluid for checking the accuracy of readings from a pressure gauge or pressure transmitter.

IIoT enables machine builders to provide better service and support to customers and improve equipment availability.

By Bill Lydon, Automation.com The Digital Twin has become one of the most powerful concepts of Industry 4. 0. The implementation of model-based, real-time, closed-loop monitoring, control, and optimization of the entire manufacturing and production process, the Digital Twin concept is helping organizations achieve real-time integrated manufacturing.

ISA’s Process Industry Conference offers a turnkey experience for gaining important foundational knowledge and training.

Receipt verification is an industrial systematic process by which a site verifies that what was specified and ordered is actually what is received.

Pieplein leaks produce flow at locations and times associated with the leak event. The occurrence, size, location, stability, and impact are all stochastic.

High variability in dynamic characteristics of a crude oil refinery distillation column poses a challenge in manufacturing quality byproducts.

The substitution method may reveal the component that is the cause of the problem.

Tips and lessons on the use of anti-reset windup limits, override control, isolation valves, smart alarms, mass flowmeters, and the enforcement of low-flow limits.

Every configured device added to an industrial network can act as a barrier to getting information to where it needs to be.

A database record is a single row of information in a table.

ISA sponsors professional meetings featuring exciting conference presentations throughout the year. Many other opportunities abound in training, certification, standards, and editorial.

Industrial and manufacturing operations data analysis is a different type of “big data” challenge than those faced in e-commerce, social media, search, or other domains.

Organizations that invest in a cybersecurity culture are unlikely to be a cybersecurity disaster news headline.

For a direct-acting controller, the resulting output movement is in the same direction as the movement of the process variable.

The partnership in digital twins was launched in June 2019 and is part of Semcon’s increased focus on digital services. The goal is to start the first project with EDRMedeso during the autumn.

Manufacturers are under increasing pressure to do more with less to improve financial results. The Industrial Internet of Things is a key solution.

Integrating product lifecycle management with manufacturing systems synchronizes bill of material and routing information.