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Renee Bassett interviews ABB's Mohammad Alhyari about the evolution of distributed control systems — specifically,  ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus.

What is the best strategy to get the best rate of change in the PID for a manipulated variable, or is there a more elegant solution within the control strategy itself? Answer includes example applications and guidance on how PID tuning can meet objectives.

The RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio is a one-stop shop for industrial control panels, providing customers with exceptional convenience and superior reliability.

A vortex flowmeter design provides three independent safety measurements and a process control variable measurement in a maintainable meter body.

Experts from UniversalAutomation.org, OPAF, ExxonMobil and more tell how modern software techniques are improving process automation systems.

ISA automation pros including Greg McMillan discuss neural networks, major opportunities for AI today, and potential benefits for enhancing and supporting the daily activities of process control and automation professionals.

Russ Rhinehart asks the automation pros for their thoughts about the need for and use of simulation in process control.

Russ Rhinehart asks the automation pros for their thoughts about what scan time is needed in different process control applications.

Follow these recommendations to reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency, and stop overconsumption.

Francis Gregway “Greg” Shinskey, of North Tonawanda, N.Y., was born Oct. 29, 1931, and passed away peacefully in North Smithfield, R.I., on Sept. 25, 2021. He was 89.

Food plants make extensive lab based quality measurements to ensure product quality. Coriolis flowmeters can make some of these measurements in real time, saving time and money. From January 2021 InTech Focus.

In this hands-on course, you'll learn the basic terminology and building blocks of process control, as well as advanced process control techniques, using our control solutions. Learn how to evaluate and tune PID control loops and how to recognize when tuning is not the root cause of an issue. Working through real-time simulations, you’ll learn by doing and start thinking like an expert.

This 2-day course gives students the ability to read and understand P&IDs for the analysis of emergency situations; and for safety, environmental and regulatory compliance issues such as Process Hazards Analysis and HAZOP studies.

The program enables participating manufacturers to validate PlantESP’s contribution to improved production performance and bottom-line profitability prior to commercial licensing.

Control Station's LOOP-PRO TUNER PID controller tuning software is integrated within the PlantPAx engineering workstation.

The interactive training is provided by a live instructor, and includes hands-on practice using ExperTune’s “Virtual Classroom.”

By Don Morrison, Honeywell Process Solutions Key misconceptions are based on the common shortcomings of traditional model predictive control: complexity of configuration, speed of execution, interpretation of noise in the system, and over-active movement of the final control element. But an intelligently implemented MPC strategy can result in increased plant efficiencies over PID.

By National Instruments PID control is the most commonly used control algorithm in the industry today. PID controller popularity can be attributed to the controller’s effectiveness in a wide range of operation conditions, its functional simplicity, and the ease with which engineers can implement it using current computer technology. This paper covers some of the PID drawbacks and how to resolve them while improving performance in current implementations through changes in the algorithm.

August 6, 2007 Austin, Texas The course will focus on practical, useful ways to tune feedforward controllers in the processing industries without requiring advanced mathematics.