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What Is Functional Safety?
Functional safety requires automatic protection or correction. Every specified safety function must be carried out and meet the set level of performance. -
Siemens launches nationwide Process Automation Innovation Tour
The traveling tour is designed to bring the latest innovations in automation, instrumentation, networking, and cybersecurity right to the doorstep of the process industries. -
How Process Historians Turn Data Into Actionable Information
Process historians were once simply software packages that stored and presented real-time process data, but today historians are being used for much more. -
AutoQuiz: Why Must Voltage Be Reduced Along with Frequency in a Variable Frequency Speed Controller?
To maintain a constant (rated) flux density, the applied voltage must also be changed in the same proportion as the frequency (per Faraday’s law). -
How New Technology Is Enabling Wider Application of Wireless Valve Control
Although few engineers now hesitate to use wireless for monitoring purposes, wireless valve control has not enjoyed such success. -
How to Implement Secure, Remote Access to an Industrial Automation System
The two main ways to implement secure remote access are with a hosted VPN and with a traditional VPN.A hosted VPN works well in most applications and is much simpler to implement and support.t -
AutoQuiz: What Process Confirms That a Company Meets the Needs of Customers and Complies With Statutory and Regulatory Requirements?
ISO 9000 is a family of international quality management systems standards designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory an -
Alarm Management and DCS Versus PLC/SCADA Systems
There are very few if any chemical or refinery units that would not benefit from state-based alarming. -
How to Reduce Control Valve Noise
Understanding and reducing noise from control valves is an important consideration for the process industries, especially those close to residential areas. -
AutoQuiz: What is “Slip” in an AC Induction Motor?
Slip is usually expressed as a percentage, and varies by motor, from nominally 0.5 percent for very large motors to about 5 percent for small, specialized motors.. -
The Role of Standards and Regulations in a Pipeline Leak Detection Plan
One of the important objectives of a leak detection plan is specifying the required sensitivity. The two usual ways of doing that begin with either a leak hole size or a percent of mainline flow crite -
An Optimal Fuzzy Logic Controller for Urban Traffic Networks [Technical]
One of the main difficulties in modern cities is large number of vehicles. Traffic signal control has a crucial role in transport safety & smoothness of traffic flow. -
AutoQuiz: What Factors Affect the Reynolds Number for a Flowing Fluid?
The Reynolds Number for a flowing fluid can be generalized as the ratio of kinetic (or inertial) forces divided by viscous forces. -
How to Use Passive Loopback Process Simulation for Factory Software Deployment
Passive loopback process simulation will provide a low-cost, first-order approximation of how the plant will react to the software. -
Why Are Process Automation Projects So Difficult to Manage?
Specialized project team knowledge and skills are required for integrating automation system components and technology. -
AutoQuiz: Identify Three Levels Within the Manufacturing Computer Systems Hierarchy
The manufacturing computer systems hierarchy is defined in ISA-88 and ISA-95 by Level 0 through Level 4. -
Webinar Recording: 10 Essentials of a Successful Upgrade or DCS Migration
The thought of an industrial system upgrade or a DCS migration can inspire fear, uncertainty and doubt about how such a major project moves forward. -
Edge Analytics Can Help When Cloud Computing and Big Data Fall Short
Big data analytics is valuable, but cannot be used for all industrial needs. Edge analytics can help where big data falls short. -
How Virtual Reality Makes Industrial Training More Immersive and Meaningful
With advances in computer and graphical processing, virtual reality for training personnel has now become practical for process industries. -
AutoQuiz: What Are the Limitations of an Analog Multimeter?
An analog voltmeter works by passing a current through a coil that is suspended between two permanent magnets.
