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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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    Webinar 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.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    11 February, 2019 | 2 minutes
  • How to Get Started with Effective Use of OPC
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    How 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.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    14 January, 2019 | 5 minutes
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