Smart field devices based on HART, Foundation fieldbus, and Profibus had standards-based files to integrate them with control and asset management systems. The file types, EDD and DTM were not compatible with one another causing process manufacturers and automation...
As wireless technology continues to be used in process manufacturing facilities, those used in control applications are increasing. At the ISA Automation Week conference, Emerson's Terry Blevins, Mark Nixon, and Marty Zielinski authored the paper, Using Wireless...
PID (proportional-integral-derivative) control, a foundational control technology for process manufacturers, has been with us since the early 1900s. In a Control Engineering article, Evolving PID Tuning Rules - A Brief History, Starting With The Earliest PID...
A recent ControlGlobal.com article, Advanced Process Control Ain't Easy, concluded: The optimal solution is elusive, but perhaps the most promising path is to start with the simplest APC possible, one that delivers an acceptable percentage of theoretical benefits, but...
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...
If you ask many of the people around Emerson whose service with the company is measured in decades, the most likely response you'll hear is that "it's the people". I'm based in Austin, Texas and am surrounded by many of the DeltaV technologists, industry experts, and...
I caught up with Emerson's Terry Blevins who has been leading the standards efforts around Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) with his work as chair of the ISA SP104 committee. From the EDDL.ORG website:The Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL)...
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