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AutoQuiz: When Does Cavitation Occur in Liquid Flow?
In cavitation, when the liquid drops below the vapor pressure around the vena cava, the liquid vaporizes. -
PID Power System Stabilizer for Damping Low Frequency Oscillations
This paper explores a two-level control strategy by blending a local controller with a centralized controller in a power system. -
What Is Frequency Domain and How Can It Be Applied to Industrial Pipeline Flow?
Knowing the frequency content of a time-domain depiction of a process variable helps expose the magnitude and frequencies of its frequency-domain component parts. -
AutoQuiz: What Happens When a Reset Action Is Added to an Industrial Controller Tuned for a Fast Control Loop?
Both gain and reset (integral action) act upon the error in the same direction, per a simplified proportional, integral, derivative (PID) control algorithm. -
Steps to Accessing the Value of the Digital Twin
By Eric Green, Dassault Systèmes Across all industries, there is increasing discussion regarding the benefits of implementing a digital twin. At its simplest, a digital twin is a virtual model of a process, product or service -- but not just a static model. -
Webinar Recording: How to Protect Vital Industrial Assets from the Industrial Internet of Threats
Learn about industrial control system cybersecurity solutions what companies can do to avoid situations that can potentially derail security initiatives. -
Industrial Cybersecurity Must Focus on Protecting Operational Technology
Despite widespread awareness of cybersecurity issues and availability of training competency & preparedness remain varied in the industrial landscape. -
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. -
Why Systems Integrators Need to Advance Beyond Traditional Instrumentation and Control Skill Sets
The only barrier for systems integrators in learning basic scripting languages is having a passion for making things work and knowing how to use Google. -
Opportunities for ISA Member Engagement Abound
ISA regional sections and industry divisions offer members industry networking opportunities at local meetings and international technical conferences. -
Does Your Company Have Vision to Leverage Disruptive Industrial Automation Innovations?
When technology that has the potential for revolutionizing an industry emerges, typically only a few companies with vision see it as attractive and leverage it. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calculate Steady State Gain for a Standard Pneumatic Instrument Loop
Gain is defined in industrial control theory as the change in input divided by the change in output. -
How Connected Buildings and Power Grids Make Cities 'Smart'
Smart cities are not just about installing digital interfaces in traditional infrastructure. They use technology and data to help us make better decisions & deliver a better quality of life. -
Does IIoT Live Up to the Hype?
Is IIoT really a game changer for the industrial automation and process control industries? Or is it just a trendy buzzword? -
AutoQuiz: What Are Common Terms Used to Quantify Dangerous Industrial Failures?
Spurious trips and nuisance trips are indicative of “safe” failure modes, not “dangerous” failures. -
Book Excerpt + Q&A: Situation Management for Process Control
Situation management is the competency, ability, and willingness of the human operator to properly and successfully manage the enterprise or activity under his or her charge. -
AutoQuiz: How to Measure the Resistance in a Circuit
Resistance is an electrical quantity that measures how a device or material reduces the electric current flow through it. -
Decentralized Control Strategy vs MPC Industrial Methanol Distillation
The authors developed a novel, robust practical control structure to regulate an industrial methanol distillation column. -
How Long Does It Take to Detect a Leak on an Oil or Gas Pipeline?
In pipeline leak detection, If we know upstream and downstream pressure and flow, we can make assumptions about what is happening on that piece of pipe. -
AutoQuiz: How to Calculate Uptime for an Automation System
The most important measure for production equipment support is operational availability, or “uptime.”
