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FeatureWebinar Recording: How to Build an Industrial Calibration System Business Case
The key element in creating a business case for calibration system is to build the business case for the entire lifecycle of the system. -
FeatureHow to Measure pH of Ultrapure Water in Power Industry Applications
To measure the pH of ultrapure water in the power industry, specialized sensors, meticulous installation, and proper maintenance required. -
FeatureThe Case for Diverse Tank Gauge Measurement Technologies
The oil industry must apply control & safety solutions to run operations efficiently, ensure compliance and protect personnel, assets and the environment. -
FeatureRemotely Managed Industrial Automation Cybersecurity
For ongoing cybersecurity protection, engaging a managed security service to improve your operational security posture is a good option. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: How to Prevent the Skilled Worker Shortage From Slowing Manufacturing Momentum
Manufacturing is gaining momentum, but how do we prevent the shortage of skilled workers from bringing it to a screeching halt? -
FeatureSuccessful Outsourcing Depends on Understanding Your Culture
Success in making an outsourcing selection depends on understanding one’s own internal strengths, weaknesses, and business requirements. -
FeatureVibration Sensor Monitoring and Calibration Protects Vital Plant Machinery
Simple and cost effective, vibration sensors measure the vibration in machinery bearings, helping to predict and forecast machine failure -
FeatureApplying Mechanical Integrity and Inspections to Asset Performance Management
Promote process equipment mechanical integrity and risk mitigation using risk-based strategies for asset performance management. -
FeatureISA-88 Standard Marries Plant-Floor Automation with MES Supervision
A best-practices approach like ISA-88 is seldom the wrong choice for marrying plant-floor automation with MES supervision. -
FeatureHow to Achieve Success in Your Automation Career
What are automation professionals doing to enhance our careers and support our own profession? -
FeatureUsing ISA-88 to Enhance MES Implementation
A comprehensive system design which includes both MES and plant-floor automation details will yield the most complete rewards. -
FeatureHow to Choose the Right Control Strategies, Automation Level and Instrumentation for Optimal Process Design
One of the largest water reclamation facilities in northern Virginia needed to expand the facility from 18 to 24 mgd to support future growth. -
FeaturePrimer: Distillation Column Loop Tuning
Fundamental to distillation column loop tuning is trust the operator, but verify the basics. -
FeatureSupplementing PID Feedback Control with Feedforward Action
A simple approach for addressing upsets by supplementing the PID’s feedback control with feed-forward action. -
FeatureSimple Enhancement of PID Control
Despite this default status as the "go-to" solution for feedback control, some processes simply aren’t well-suited for PID control. -
FeaturePortrait of the Automation Engineer as a Young Professional
Career advice for a new industrial automation engineer: seek knowledge, focus on effective communication, strive for excellence and get involved. -
FeatureIs There Enough Focus on Cybersecurity for Municipal Infrastructure?
Maximum cybersecurity protection is possible only when cybersecurity protection is embedded deeply into a municipal infrastructure from birth. -
FeatureThe Unsung Hero of Eliminating Unplanned Downtime: HMI/SCADA
Using the right HMI/SCADA system can significantly reduce unplanned downtime or unexpected delays, while simultaneously improving efficiency and safety. -
FeatureKey Considerations When Designing a Burner Management System
How to ensure a burner management system operates safely, within compliance and highly reliable. -
FeatureBatch Process Automation Can Make Continuous Processes Run Better
While most batch processes use automated procedures extensively, most continuous processes still use manual procedures. Manual operation has a high potential for problems due to the variability of how -
FeatureThe Importance of Auditing the Industrial Alarm Management System
While alarm performance monitoring measures alarm performance, periodic audit ensures adequate management and work practices for an alarm management system. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: How to Build and Secure Reliable Industrial Control Systems
Industry needs to continue to demonstrate how optimal and government-grade cybersecurity can be achieved to the satisfaction of senior control industry security and operating managers -
FeatureWhat are the Cost Benefits of Industrial Wireless?
Industrial wireless deployment saves significant costs compared to an equivalent wired installation, resulting in savings of 20 to 30 percent in simple configurations. -
FeatureSix Considerations for Choosing the Best-Fit Motor Control Technology
There are many motor control options. Focus on application requirements and choose the best fit to reduce downtime, improve efficiencies & reduce costs. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: How to Use Calibration Tools for Accurate Process Temperature Measurement
Using proper calibration tools and practices ensures true (or accurate) process temperature measurement. -
FeatureHow to Drive Continuous Improvement in the Process Industries with Actionable Information
Today's industry operations generate plenty of data. The challenge is in gaining greater visibility to plant intelligence. -
FeatureHow to Protect the Operational Integrity of Industrial Infrastructure
Taking measures to manage industrial technology upgrades and ensure control systems are safe is key to protecting the operational integrity of plant infrastructure -
NewsISA101 HMI Standard Nears Completion
The HMI standard defines the terminology and models to develop an HMI and the work processes recommended to effectively maintain it throughout its life cycle -
FeatureWorkforce Development is a Team Effort
Workforce development can be turned it into a major competitive advantage for the industrial automation industry. -
FeatureIEC vs. NEMA Motor Controls: Select the Best Option for Your Application
NEMA and IEC standards for motor controls evolved separately with distinct intentions, creating the differences apparent today. -
FeatureMillennials Are Ideal Candidates for Industrial Automation and Manufacturing Careers
Millennials are looking for meaningful careers; tey want to make a difference. They are ideal candidates for industrial & automation careers. -
FeatureControl System Migration is a Major Learning Opportunity
A major migration project offers what is arguably the best opportunity to train the next generation of automation engineers and plant operators in a way that can yield benefits for many years to come. -
FeatureBest Location to Calibrate Instruments: Field or Workshop?
Deciding whether to calibrate instruments in the field or workshop is not a simple choice. The two methods often complement each other. -
FeatureInnovations in Butterfly Control Valve Technology
In an effort to advance control valve technology, industrial designers have developed new butterfly valve innovations. -
FeatureSix Emerging Trends in the World of Industrial Robotics
Close collaboration between humans and robots, working as colleagues on assembly lines and in other applications, will be a large part of the future of industrial robotics. Robots will need to develop -
FeatureHow to Cut New Construction Project Costs Using Smart Transmitter Technology
Smart transmitter technology can affect the future maintenance costs over a plant’s lifecycle. -
FeatureReaching the Next Industrial Level with Packaging Machine Communication Standards
Packaging machines must deal with high speeds, multi-axis motion control, advanced vision systems & frequent involvement of several different vendors in one installation. -
FeatureEffective Alarm Management Planning Using ANSI/ISA-18.2
Using the ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 standard for alarm management early in the DCS selection and specification stage can eliminate a number of project problems. -
FeatureHow to Select a pH Sensor for Harsh Process Environments
Choosing a pH sensor for use in harsh process environments requires careful consideration of numerous key factors. -
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How to Achieve a Successful Industrial Automation Project Outcome
Bringing in professionals to help before a project gets off the rails makes the whole experience easier and less costly. -
FeatureHow to Select the Right Industrial Network Ethernet Cable for Reliability and Performance
Selecting the right Ethernet cable can make the difference between success and failure of any network communications infrastructure and its systems. -
FeatureWhat are the Challenges of Process Plant Upgrade Projects?
New process plant construction or upgrade projects launched using in-house resources often end up calling in outside professionals to help. -
FeatureManaging Industrial Control System Cybersecurity
There are many things a business can do to manage its cybersecurity. Improving the reliability & uptime of systems delivers a high return on investment. -
FeatureThe Industrial Automation Challenge: Finding Opportunity in Obsolescence
To keep up with the evolving automation landscape, we have to approach industrial control system obsolescence as an opportunity for operational improvement and cost reduction. -
FeatureProcess Control Systems for Industrial Applications
The process of specifying, choosing and testing a process control system for an industrial application can be long, time consuming and risky. -
FeatureHow to Change Thinking Patterns to Generate New Ideas
Are you stretching your thinking beyond the obvious to find new solutions? Changing thinking patterns can free your mind to generate new ideas. -
FeatureThe Internet of Everything Delivers Smart Manufacturing
There is a greater transition to “smart manufacturing” environments which use standardized IP-centric networks to leverage the Internet of Everything. -
FeatureTraining Effectiveness: The Importance of a Personal Touch
As part of the training process, it is important to set personal goals for employees aligned with business goals. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: Critical Task of Pressure Instrumentation Maintenance
Pressure instrumentation maintenance is a critical and daily task, yet proper procedures for managing and calibrating these instruments are often overlooked or not understood. -
FeatureHow to Integrate Multigenerational Industrial Automation Systems
You may have to follow the path of a cross-platform, multigenerational upgrade or migration to upgrade your automation system. -
FeatureTemplated Manufacturing Systems: Are They Worth The Extra Effort?
Why you should consider templated manufacturing systems when investing in a new factory solution. -
FeatureThe Proper Implementation and Common Mistakes of Sequential Function Charts
A brief overview of sequential function charts, describing proper implementation and common mistakes. -
FeatureIndustrial Big Data Analytics: Present and Future
Big data storage and fast processing capabilities need to become one hybrid system. -
FeatureHow Manufacturing Firms Use Remote Management Support Strategies
Remote management is now recognized as a best practice to creating strategic advantages by lowing cost and improving efficiency. -
FeatureHow FDI Technology Meets the Device Integration Needs of Your Plant or Facility
FDI technology is a device integration technology that plays a key role in addressing device management in an operating plant. -
FeatureHow to Create Working Information Capital Within Your Process Industry Enterprise
Creating a standardized, enterprise-wide benchmarking system helps manage the complexity among various manufacturing processes, while reducing competitive risk. -
FeatureWireless Process Instrumentation: An End-User's Perspective
Wireless technology for process instrumentation has the potential to bridge key gaps in a variety of industrial applications, including asset management solutions, monitoring, and noncritical alarming -
FeatureIntegrating DCS I/O to an Existing PLC
PLC I/O replaced with DCS I/O while keeping existing PLC sequence logic. -
FeatureHow Vision Technologies Enable Machines and Robots to Adapt to Evolving Manufacturing Line Circumstances
Advances in digital integrated circuits are now paving the way for the proliferation of vision into diverse mainstream automated manufacturing platforms. Cost-effective vision processors with depth-di -
FeatureMobile HMI Technology Enters a New Era
New HMI solutions offer multitouch functionality so users can scroll, zoom, expand & rotate items via familiar smartphone gestures, such as swipe and pinch. -
FeatureTop 10 Differences Between ICS and IT Cybersecurity
Understanding the different needs of ICS and IT system security leads to cooperation and collaboration between historically disconnected camps -
FeatureWhat Does a Successful Enterprise Asset Management Implementation Look Like?
Enterprise asset management is a way of thinking, a discipline, and ultimately a culture that increases equipment life and production uptime. -
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FeatureWebinar Recording: How to Design a High-Performance HMI
How graphics development results in an HMI that can enable operators to proactively identify problems and respond quickly. -
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The Art of Level Instrument Selection
Successful level instrument design starts with an uderstanding of the application & strengths & weaknesses of the available level measurement technologies. -
FeatureBecoming an Automation Professional: Network, Educate, Innovate
New automation professional describes how to achieve success in the industry. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: Six Steps of an Industrial Calibration System Implementation Process
How to avoid the pitfalls of implementing a calibration process change. -
FeatureFour Myths About Why We Have a Shortage of Engineers
The myths about why there is a lack of qualified, experienced automation professionals in the industrial automation profession. -
FeatureCreating Twenty-First Century Learning Systems
A highly skilled workforce is the lifeblood of any successful company, industry, or national economy. -
FeatureLeveraging Big Data at Manufacturing Plants in Real Time
Changing the paradigm from inspect and reject to predict and prevent is the focus of big data. -
FeatureHow Do You Pick a Flowmeter?
A real-life guide to measuring flow by selecting the right flowmeter -
FeatureWhat Considerations Should You Make Before Upgrading a Critical System?
What Considerations Should You Make Before Upgrading a Critical System? -
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How to Get out of a Calibration Rut
Many companies with an existing enterprise system typically have only established (but not updated) a maintenance management system. While the system manages calibration tasks like scheduling, and tal -
FeatureIndustrial Automation Industry Exploring and Implementing the Internet of Things
The industrial automation industry is starting to explore and implement Internet of Things concepts and technology. -
FeatureHow to Improve Motor Performance and Lower Downtime
Out of all the energy consumed by U.S. manufacturers annually, induction motors make up 50 percent of the load.