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Gregory K. McMillan
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FeatureIncreases In Instrument Application or Installation Issues
Mike Laspisa shares a Q&A with various experts regarding instrumentation specification expertise, covering topics such as selection and installation. -
FeatureThe Best Level for Optimization and Organization in the Smart Factory
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program answer questions about optimization and organization in smart factories. -
Feature9 Automation Engineers' Ideas and Principles for Everyday Working Life
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program share their ideas and principles for everyday working life as an automation engineer. -
FeatureWhat Are Some Ways to Improve and Prioritize Feedforward and Fast Feedback Control?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program answer a question about how to improve and prioritize feedforward and fast feedback control. -
FeatureWhat Are Some Opportunities for Wireless Measurement and Control?
An automation professional from the ISA Mentor Program answers the question: 'What are some opportunities for wireless measurement and control?' -
FeatureHow Can We Improve Operator Trust in a PID Controller?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program answer the question: 'How can we improve operator trust in a PID controller?' -
FeatureElectrical Engineers in Automation: What Are the Success Stories?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program answer the question: 'Have there been many success stories of electrical engineers in automation?' -
FeatureHow to Quickly Identify Tuning Mistakes
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'How can one quickly identify tuning mistakes?' -
FeatureHow Can We Develop and Motivate New Automation Professionals?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'How can we develop and motivate new automation professionals?' -
FeatureWhy Are Engineers So Against Derivative Action?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'Why are engineers so against derivative action?' -
FeatureWhat Factors Affect Dead Time Identification for a PID Loop?
Automation professionals from the ISA Mentor Program address a question they received: 'What factors affect dead time identification for a PID loop?' -
FeatureAlarm Management and DCS Versus PLC/SCADA Systems
There are very few if any chemical or refinery units that would not benefit from state-based alarming. -
FeatureHow to Manage Control Valve Response Issues in the Field
A sensitive flow measurement is needed to identify the installed flow characteristic online. -
FeatureHow to Use Industrial Simulation to Increase Learning and Innovation
New projects expose automation professionals to more learning opportunities to continue to grow their skill sets and expertise. -
FeatureHow to Avoid Using Multivariable Flow Transmitters
Coriolis meters provide the only true mass flow measurements, which offer a very accurate density measurement as well. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: Lessons Learned During the Migration to a New DCS
DCS migration topics: proper setting of tuning parameters, controller output scales, anti-reset windup limits, grounding, wiring, & configuration practices. -
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Webinar Recording: Small Batch Manufacturing
Tips and lessons on the use of anti-reset windup limits, override control, isolation valves, smart alarms, mass flowmeters, and the enforcement of low-flow limits. -
FeatureHow Often Do Measurements Need to Be Calibrated?
The ISA recommended practice is not on the process of calibration but on a calibration management system -
FeatureBasic Guidelines for Control Valve Selection and Sizing
Control valves often determine the capability of the control system. Poorly sized and selected control valves will make tight control impossible regardless of the control strategy or tuning employed. -
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What Are the Opportunities for Nonlinear Control in Process Industry Applications?
MPC for batch operations can be achieved by translation of controlled variable from batch temperature or composition with a unidirectional response to the slope of the batch profile. -
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How to Implement Effective Safety Instrumented Systems for Process Automation Applications
Systematic failures in industrial systems are best addressed through the implementation of a protective management system, which overlays a quality management system with a project development process -
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Webinar Recording: The Amazing World of ISA Standards
ISA standards offer a wealth of knowledge and guidance to provide safer and more reliable and effective automation systems. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: Simple Loop Tuning Methods and PID Features to Prevent Oscillations
Simple tuning methods and the PID features that can be used to prevent the oscillations that plague our most important loops. -
FeatureSolutions for Unstable Industrial Processes
Negative resistance also known as positive feedback can cause processes to jump, accelerate and oscillate confusing the control system and the operator. -
FeatureWhat Skill Sets Do You Need to Excel at IIoT Applications in an Automation Industry Career?
The Industrial Internet of Things offers much greater availability of data to provide the knowledge needed to sustain and improve plant safety, reliability and performance. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: Practical Limits to Control Loop Performance
Learn the contribution of each PID mode, why reset time is orders of magnitude too small for most composition and temperature loops, and other PID controller issues. -
FeatureHow to Get Started with Effective Use of OPC
OPC is a client/server protocol. The server has a list of data points (normally in a tree structure) that it provides. A client can connect to a server and pick a set of data points it wishes to use. -
FeatureWebinar Recording: PID and Loop Tuning Options and Solutions for Industrial Applications
Learn the benefits of knowing your process and PID capability, with a focus on process behavior, loop objectives and different industrial applications. -
FeatureHow to Improve Loop Performance for Dead Time Dominant Systems
Dead time is the source of the ultimate limit to control loop performance. -
FeatureHow to Setup and Identify Process Models for Model Predictive Control
Sometimes the design will need to change during a step test as you learn more about the process.