I believe the single most important factor is that the most accurate flowmeters have a close connection between the operating ...

AI-driven automation, digital twin adoption and more are reshaping control system architectures and workforce skills ...

The Federal Drug Administration’s current cybersecurity requirements are not appropriate for addressing and avoiding medical ...

The article highlights how controls engineers and their employers can benefit from regional workforce development organizations like Manufacturing USA institutes, which help address the ongoing ...

Control serves the information needs of technical and managerial professionals, who specify, commission, maintain and optimize the process industries' investments in process control, instrumentation ...

In a previous article by the authors, “Deadtime compensation opportunities and realities,” evidence showed how simple implementation of deadtime compensation improves loop performance over and above ...

We now know that properly designed process controls could have prevented the meltdown at Chernobyl. The causes of this accident were similar to those at 3 Mile Island seven years earlier. Both of ...

There are several techniques that enhance PID, termed advanced regulatory control. These were developed in the 1930s-40s and include reset feedback to prevent windup, override to prevent excessive or ...

Greg: Specialists doing process control improvements are doing a disappearing act. While the biggest loss of expertise is in application of advanced process control (APC), the efforts to improve ...

The automation marketplace has changed vastly from what it was 30 years ago, but many trends persist and intensified during this time. The first is the increasing emphasis on software and services.

Modbus is a communication protocol for transmitting information between electronic devices over serial lines (original version) or via the Ethernet, and is commonly used in process and factory ...

For more than three decades now, the Control Readers’ Choice Awards have identified our readers’ favorite suppliers across a range of instrumentation and control technologies—from annunciators and ...