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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 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. -
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What Types of Process Control Models are Best?
First principle models can be used to gain a deeper understanding of cause and effects, process relationships, process gains, and the response to abnormal situations. -
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How to Get Rid of Level Oscillations in Industrial Processes
Use rate limiting when a ripple is significantly faster than a true change in the process variable. The velocity limit is the maximum possible rate of change of the level. -
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Webinar Recording: Loop Tuning and Optimization
Learn about the importance of process optimization and how to achieve it through better PID control from members of the ISA Mentor Program. -
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How to Optimize Industrial Evaporators
Model predictive control software identifies the dynamics and automatically incorporates them into the industrial evaporator controller.






