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Promoting Operator Effectiveness
Operator effectiveness is often overlooked but is an area that can improve the performance and safety of your control system or plant. -
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Common Types of Pneumatic Valves
The primary function of a pneumatic valve, also known as a directional control valve, is to switch airflow. -
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Advantages of Pairing Experienced and Novice Automation Professionals
The addition of new people to the automation profession provides a great opportunity to avoid "reinventing the wheel," -
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How to Create a P&ID
P&IDs should generally follow ISA symbols for the basic instruments. If you follow that symbology, most anyone can read and understand the P&IDs quickly. -
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How to Get Rid of Level Oscillations in Industrial Processes
Use rate limiting when a ripple is significantly faster than a true change in the process variable. The velocity limit is the maximum possible rate of change of the level. -
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Why Industrial Cybersecurity Needs to Start at the Top and Be Embraced by All
Organizations that invest in a cybersecurity culture are unlikely to be a cybersecurity disaster news headline. -
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An Overview of the Control Loops for Batch, Fed-Batch and Continuous Reactors
A look at how many of the loops can be the same and how all reactors benefit from a more extensive application of feedback control. -
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Opto-Isolator Based Linearization Solution for a Thyristor-Driven Pump
In this paper, an opto-isolator based linearization technique of a typical thyristor driven pump has been proposed. -
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Considerations for Selecting A Controller- or Server-Based Batch Sequencer
Considerations for Selecting A Controller- or Server-Based Batch Sequencer -
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Why Bypassing the Factory Acceptance Test at Startup Is a Bad Idea
Rushing to startup, taking shortcuts, or bypassing the FAT typically means many engineering mistakes and problems that will need to be fixed later. -
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7 Drivers of Digital Transformation
What are the most important drivers of a successful digital transformation? -
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How to Select the Optimal Temperature Sensor for Industrial Applications
How to Select the Optimal Temperature Sensor for Industrial Applications -
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The Enigma of Process Knowledge
Cryptography is a good way to enhance understanding of the more esoteric portions of a journey to understand the difference between what is stochastic and what is deterministic. -
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AutoQuiz: Unique Feature of a Pneumatic Differential Pressure Sensor/Transmitter
In a pneumatic transmitter, the nozzle faces a baffle, so, as the measured pressure increases, the baffle moves toward the nozzle. -
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Ask the Automation Pros: What Are the Consequences of an Overemphasis on Reducing Project Cost?
In the latest post of the Ask the Automation Pros blog series, the pros discuss potential consequences of an overemphasis on reducing industrial automation project costs. -
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How to Optimize Closed-Loop Control Through a Better Understanding of the PID Equation
A better understanding of closed-loop control, and how to tune it, can be found by looking at the individual parts of the PID equation and the effect of each on the controlled output -
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Castles in the Air
Some lessons on analytics in manufacturing from semi’s fault detection and classification culture. -
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AutoQuiz: How to Calculate the Rated Torque for a Motor
The volts-per-hertz ratio (V/Hz) controls the torque of a motor. -
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Fractional Order PID Controller for Quadruple Tank Process [technical]
A new type of self-tuning, dual-mode adaptive fractional order PID controller for a quadruple tank process -
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AutoQuiz: How is the Reynolds Number Used in Flow Measurement?
For the Reynold's number, the inertial forces in the numerator are given by the product of mass (density), fluid velocity, and pipe diameter.


















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