A visual look at the lifetime of knowledge sharing that Greg McMillan has created and delivered to automation professionals around the globe.
Lifetime of Sharing Automation Knowledge
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Greg is in elite company in the Process Automation hall of fame and has published numerous books to help process control engineers improve their skills. He founded the ISA's mentor program to share his expertise and advance the skills of the next generation of process control engineers.
Posts by or with Greg McMillan
Improving Reactor Control Performance
Emerson’s Greg McMillan will present Control Strategies to Improve Reactor Performance at the October 11-13, 2023, Mary Kay O’Connor Safety & Risk Conference. Greg will share several examples from his book, Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control.
Future of Automation and Control
Over at the ISA Interchange blog, an interesting set of questions about the future appeared from the ISA Mentor Program.
AI and Machine Learning in Process Control
Emerson’s Greg McMillan tackles this topic in a ControlGlobal.com article, Control Talk: Machine learning, deep learning and nonlinear controls. In the article, Greg interviews Ineos Group’s Vivek Dabhholkar.
Answers to Process Control Challenges
In this ControlGlobal.com article, The unrecognized challenges of process control, process automation Hall of Famer Greg McMillan poses as mentor and mentee, asking and answering some challenges that process control engineers face.
Control Valve Modeling and Control Best AIChE Spring Meeting Paper
Greg McMillan wins best paper/presentation in his category for his Control Valve Modeling and Control entry. Here are 33 best practices that Greg shares from the paper.
Connecting with Experts in the Spring Event Season
March 12-16, is a face-to-face meeting in Houston, Texas, the 2023 Spring Meeting and 19th Global Congress on Process Safety. Some of the Emerson presenters and topics include: Jacob Tardoni—Mapping an Evacuation in Real-Time: Digital Mustering with Wireless Personnel Location Technology; Greg McMillan—Best Practices in Column Control Distilled, and Control Valve Response Modeling and Control.
Building Your Process Control Knowledge and Expertise
Five important process control articles by Greg McMillan are now again available to help your advance your process control knowledge.
Distillation Column Control Best Practices
Emerson’s Greg McMillan and CMiD Solutions’ Mark Darby discuss the best practices in distillation column composition control strategies. Right from the opening of the part one article, you can get a good sense of the technical depth and experience shared by both Greg and Mark.
A Century of Powerful PID Control
Here is a 5-part series on ControlGlobal.com by Process Automation Hall of Fame member Greg McMillan, The concealed PID revealed.
pH Modeling and Control at AIChE Spring Meeting
pH control can be extremely challenging due to exceptional nonlinearity and sensitivity particularly when strong acids and strong bases are used. Advances in electrode design and signal selection can greatly help. The need to reduce oscillations from valve resolution limit and backlash can be addressed by valve design and use of a PID feature.
PID Algorithm ISA Technical Reference
At AIChE Spring21+17th GCPS, James Beall presented, An Activity Report on the Newly Formed ISA 5.9 Subcommittee on the PID Algorithm, to address the lack of no standards or technical references related to the Proportional, Integral, Derivative (PID) control algorithm.
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