Converging wireless architectures are forcing automation teams to navigate deeper into specialization, spectrum constraints ...

I believe the single most important factor is that the most accurate flowmeters have a close connection between the operating ...

Field-device diagnostics can improve instrument reliability, but diagnostics alone won’t deliver reliability gains ...

AMS Trex device communicator has been redesigned with new hardware, software and security for easier, expanded and more ...

IE5 synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) portfolio has added three smaller frame sizes (90, 100, 112) that cover 0.75 kW to ...

The article highlights how controls engineers and their employers can benefit from regional workforce development organizations like Manufacturing USA institutes, which help address the ongoing ...

We now know that properly designed process controls could have prevented the meltdown at Chernobyl. The causes of this accident were similar to those at 3 Mile Island seven years earlier. Both of ...

There are several techniques that enhance PID, termed advanced regulatory control. These were developed in the 1930s-40s and include reset feedback to prevent windup, override to prevent excessive or ...

Greg: In this month’s column, I have a conversation with myself while also taking on the role of being a mentor. In part 1, I focus on the challenges faced in the past that are still present and ...

For more than three decades now, the Control Readers’ Choice Awards have identified our readers’ favorite suppliers across a range of instrumentation and control technologies—from annunciators and ...

The automation marketplace has changed vastly from what it was 30 years ago, but many trends persist and intensified during this time. The first is the increasing emphasis on software and services.

An override control strategy employs two or more controllers in a configuration that allows one controller to act to maintain or regulate one process variable (the main controller) while another ...