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Peter Morgan

Peter Morgan is an ISA Senior Member with more than 40 years of experience designing and commissioning control systems for the power and process industries. He was a contributing member of the ISA-TR5.9 PID committee for which he won the ISA Standards Achievement Award, and he has had a number of feature articles published in Control magazine. He was inducted into the Control Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2026.

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    How Can We Improve Data Historian Use?

    In the latest edition of the Ask the Automation Pros column, the pros discuss how to set up a data historian to transform data into information that can be used for process monitoring, diagnosis, prediction, optimization and continuous improvement.
    By: Erik Cornelsen, Hunter Vegas, Michel Ruel, Peter Morgan, Gregory K. McMillan
    12 October, 2026 | 12 minutes
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    Ask the Automation Pros: How Can We Enhance Control System Reliability?

    In the latest edition of the Ask the Automation Pros column, the pros share strategies for enhancing control system reliability.
    By: Peter Morgan, Hunter Vegas, Erik Cornelsen, Gregory K. McMillan, R. Russell Rhinehart, Bob Heider, Edward J. Farmer
    15 September, 2026 | 13 minutes
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    Ask the Automation Pros: What University Projects Are Needed to Support Process Control?

    Like a lot of things in engineering and construction, it’s hard to teach everything and risky not to, but getting it right the first time saves time and money.
    By: R. Russell Rhinehart, Mark Darby, Gregory K. McMillan, Peter Morgan, Michael Taube, Matthew Howard, Héctor H. Torres, Pat Dixon, Julie F. Smith, Bob Heider, George Buckbee, Michel Ruel, Edward J. Farmer
    24 June, 2026 | 15 minutes
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