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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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  • Feedforward Control Enables Flexible, Sustainable Manufacturing

    Feedforward Control Enables Flexible, Sustainable Manufacturing

    Feedforward provides preemptive corrective action for production rate and grade changes enabling key PID controllers to provide consistent product quality.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    01 May, 2017 | 13 minutes
  • PID Controller Tuning Rules

    PID Controller Tuning Rules

    Safety, equipment and environmental protection, process efficiency and capacity, product quality, and control system maintenance depend on PID tuning.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    17 April, 2017 | 9 minutes
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