Download a freely available PDF file of Process Automation Hall of Fame member Greg McMillan’s book, Process Control Case Histories.
Freely Available Educational Resource—Process Control Case Histories
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Designing & Specifying Process Automation Parameters to Drive Performance
A plant’s performance can be optimized at the intersection of capital equipment, production processes, and people. Done correctly from the start through the selection of technologies and how they are deployed can lead to higher levels of productivity, reliability, safety, and sustainability.
Embedded Tools Drive Better Loop Tuning
Properly tuned loops are critical to efficient, effective plant performance. However, constant changes in the plant environment mean that proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning cannot be a set-and-forget procedure. This poses a problem for many modern plants,...
101 Tips to Accelerate Your Process Automation Knowledge
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...
Need Tips on Having a Successful Automation Career?
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...
Trend from Industrial Use to Personal Use Reverses
It used to be that developments in industry found their ways into our homes. Today, the reverse is true more often than not. The technologies we touch in our homes impact industrial product developments. In today's guest post, Emerson's Anand Iyer, a control systems...
Automation Professional Khan Academy
Happy New Year! I took the opportunity to largely unplug from the grid over the past few weeks to rest, relax, rejuvenate and visit with family and friends. I hope you had the opportunity to do the same. Not completely unplugging, I had a chance to poke around and...
Hot Off the Press – New Control Loop Foundation Book
A few weeks ago, I highlighted a new process control fundamentals book by Emerson technologists Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon. Terry and Mark were burning the midnight oil to have the book, Control Loop Foundation - Batch and Continuous Processes, published in time for...
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