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Greg McMillan

Gregory K. McMillan

Gregory K. McMillan retired as a Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc in 2002 and as a senior principal software engineer from Emerson Process Systems and Solutions Simulation R&D in 2023. Greg is an ISA Fellow and the author of more than 200 articles and papers, 100 Q&A posts, 80 blogs, 200 columns, and 20 books. He was one of the first inductees into the Control Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2001, and he received the ISA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, the ISA Mentor Award in 2020, and the ISA Standards Achievement Award in 2023.

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  • How to Optimize Industrial Evaporators

    How to Optimize Industrial Evaporators

    Model predictive control software identifies the dynamics and automatically incorporates them into the industrial evaporator controller.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    26 September, 2018 | 10 minutes
  • How to Calibrate a Thermocouple Temperature Transmitter

    How to Calibrate a Thermocouple Temperature Transmitter

    For critical industrial measurements, place the thermocouple in a bath or dry block or cross check the reading against another thermocouple.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    12 September, 2018 | 8 minutes
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