We continue to hear stories of an increasing experience shortage in the process industries due to the retiring "baby boom" generation. This shortage manifests itself in numerous job openings for process manufacturers and automation suppliers including Emerson Process...
PID control is the workhorse of process automation. At this week's AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety, Control Talk blog's Greg McMillan and Eastman Chemical's Héctor Torres presented their paper, A Unified PID Control Methodology to...
One of the very active U.S. universities in the field of engineering and automation is Oklahoma State University. Their OSU Automation Society was founded several years ago and its purpose is to spread awareness and promote automation and control systems as a...
I had the pleasure of beginning my process automation career in New Orleans, Louisiana working as a Conoco systems engineer on offshore oil & gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. New Orleans' food, festivities, sights and sounds are firmly embedded in my memories....
Over the past several months, process automation hall-of-fame member Greg McMillan has been sharing tips from his 101 Tips for a Successful Automation Career book. These tips appear as weekly blog posts over at the ISA Interchange blog. Today's post, Tip #19: Always...
Just a quick post to let you know about two ISA web seminars being conducted by Control Talk blog's Greg McMillan. The first is on pH Control Solutions and will be February 13 from 2:00-3:30pm EST. You can find the webinar price here. These webinars are designed for...
Today must be the day to make you aware of January 16 webinars. I have another one to share with you, Simplify PID Tuning to Meet Process Objectives, by Control Talk blog's Greg McMillan. The webinar is scheduled for 12:30-1:30pm EST (9:30-10:30am PST) on Jan 16. You...
Update: The ControlLoopFoundation.com site is no longer operational. Two questions came together for this blog post. The first was by a young engineer, not too far from a recent engineering degree. He had gained some experience as an instrumentation technician, but...
Controlling your process based on pH is usually a tricky matter. Control Talk blog's Greg McMillan and Emerson's Dave Joseph presented a short course, Adventures in pH Control, at last week's Emerson Exchange conference in Anaheim. It was a best in conference winner...
Update: Greg has published a post, Checklist for Compressor Surge Control Tips which should give you some things to consider for your centrifugal and axial compressors. Orginal post: It's great to questions from automation professionals from some of my posts built up...
There is another great book coming out for automation professionals. Just in time for the 2012 ISA Automation Week conference, Control Talk and ISA Interchange blog's Greg McMillan along with Hunter Vegas have written 101 Tips for a Successful Automation Career. In...
There is much talk about process automation experience being lost as the wave of baby boomers retire. One man of action, ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan, has moved beyond talk into action. A few weeks ago, he announced on the ISA Automation Week website in a...
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