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Ask the Automation Pros
This long-running series of discussions, curated by 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient Greg McMillan, gathers responses from ISA subject-matter experts on technical topics important to industrial automation professionals, academics and students.
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How Can we Improve Logic Control Contact Status Awareness and Operator Response?
ISA Mentor Greg McMillan answers the question, "How Can we Improve Logic Control Contact Status Awareness and Operator Response?" -
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How Do You Get the Best From the People Working on Your Project?
Greg McMillan discusses how to get the best from people working on your project in the "Ask the Automation Pros" -
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Ask the Automation Pros: How Do You Improve Use of Analyzers for Continuous Control?
Greg McMillan discusses how to improve the use of analyzers for continuous control -
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Base, Best, and Ideal Practices for Mill Optimization
Greg McMillan discusses base, best, and ideal practices for mill optimization in his July Mentor post -
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Is Data Noise in Process Control Degrading Performance?
Greg McMillan discusses the topic, "Is data noise in process control degrading performance?" -
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Are We Facing Broad Change?
Greg McMillan and Russ Rhinehart discuss the idea of facing broad change -
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How Can We Improve Control of Dead Time Dominant Applications?
From Greg McMillan and the ISA Mentor Program team. -
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What are Considerations in Combining Process Control and Safety Systems?
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What are the Diagnostics/Expertise Needed for FOUNDATION Fieldbus?
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How Do We Improve Response to Continuously Changing Conveyor Setpoint?
What would be a good control strategy to regulate a process in which the setpoint is continually changing?










