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Process Control

Is MPC or Advanced Regulatory Control Right for Me?

The decision to implement an advanced control application using model predictive control (MPC), advanced regulatory control (ARC) or some combination in a continuous process plant is more than a technology decision. Both tool sets can perform well, but users must take support for the implemented application into consideration. Before MPC, if the process...

Latest Control News

May 14, 2013

Education Outreach: From Sensors to B2MML

May 10, 2013

Emerson Opens Americas Headquarters for Valve Automation Technologies

May 10, 2013

ABB’s Joe Hogan to Step Down as CEO

May 9, 2013

Festo Shows Innovative Gantry at Hannover

May 9, 2013

Beckhoff Links Operator Displays up to 100 m

More Control News

Product

| May 2, 2013

Box Computer

The BC50I is designed for data-heavy industrial computing applications.

Column

| April 30, 2013

Is MPC or Advanced Regulatory Control Right for Me?

The “culture of MPC” might unduly influence some companies to implement MPC, when in some cases, advanced regulatory control implemented right in the DCS control blocks might actually provide the best

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Sign up to receive timely updates from our editors and download this FREE Special Report exploring the most widely adopted protocols for fieldbus, Ethernet and wireless networking in the process industries, as well as the latest trends in wireless applications.

Column

| April 28, 2013

SPC for the Real World

SPC, or statistical process control, has been around for a long time. While everyone’s heard about it, not many people are doing much with it.

Column

| April 26, 2013

Choosing the Right SPC Vendor for Your Company

A company had recently decided to globally deploy an SPC solution independent from the work it was doing in ERP, EQMS, and MES.

Product

| April 25, 2013

All-in-One Touchscreen Panel PCs

These budget-priced industrial multi-touch panel PCs and multi-touch panel computers are available in a wide variety of types.

Product

| March 18, 2013

Fanless Computers

The TPZ-1300 fanless computer from the Topaz Line features I/O connectivity, wireless support, and duty-specific performance processors with long life support.

Product

| February 22, 2013

Industrial Mobile Handheld Computer Uses the Android 2.3 Operating System

With a 3.5-inch resistor-type touch panel, the IMX-2000 is readable in sunlight for outdoor purposes.

Product

| January 29, 2013

Open-Frame Industrial Panel PC

The PPC3-12 panel PC is a ready-to-mount color flat panel display subsystem with a resistive touchscreen and 1.66 GHz single board computer based on the Intel Atom processor integrated into a chassis

Product

| January 24, 2013

Rugged Box Computer Gets an Upgrade

The modular BC50M (formerly the BC1) is now available with AMD's new Embedded G-T16R APU and offers an average power consumption of just 2.3 W or a thermal design power (TDP) as low as 4.5 W.

Primer

| January 23, 2013

External-Reset Feedback: One PID Solution Explained

The external-reset feedback technique enables directional move suppression, provides a slow approach to a normal or optimum operating condition and provides fast getaway from an abnormal condition.

More Headines

Product

| January 21, 2013

Embedded Computer with ARM9 Processor

The R9-4100 combines RISC processing power with serial and digital I/O capabilities in a compact form-factor.

Product

| January 15, 2013

Digital Valve Controllers with Profibus PA Communications

The Fisher Fieldvue DVC6200p Profibus PA digital positioner makes the line available to PROFIBUS PA users.

Feature Article

| December 7, 2012

A New Approach to Conveyors

Different products can be conveyed on a single line and moved in different directions, while an operator has complete control over the speed and direction of movement of the conveyed food products by

Case Application

| December 5, 2012

PC-based Automation Enhances Food Processing Machines

Machinery can be managed, monitored and controlled with greater ease, development time is down and end users are happy.

Column

| November 29, 2012

New Columnist Greg McMillan on PID Control

A unified approach to advanced control can make utilizing the full power of PID less of an art and more of a documented, fast and straightforward procedure.

Fieldvue DVC6200p

Product

| November 14, 2012

Profibus PA Added to Digital Valve Controller Line

The Fisher Fieldvue digital valve controller family now includes the Fieldvue DVC6200p Profibus PA digital positioner.

Perspective

| November 8, 2012

Fully-Automated Threaded Insert Installation

Fully-automated threaded-insert installation could dramatically change the way aluminum components and structures are assembled in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries.

Case Application

| November 8, 2012

Controls technology leads to breakthrough in PTI-compliant marking

This Florida grower and shipper looked high and low for an automated method of marking palletized cases of produce. Finally, it built its own.

Product

| October 17, 2012

Temperature Transmitter with Sensor Drift Alert

The Rosemount 644 temperature transmitter features microprocessor and ease-of-use improvements, as well as a modular design that enables customized functionality at each process point.

Product

| October 17, 2012

Touch Panel Computer with External Hard Drive Kit

The TPC-1750H, a 17-in. touch panel computer with an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, is designed to operate in temperatures between 0°C~45°C.

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