Process control systems are essential for industrial engineering, as they monitor and regulate the performance of complex processes, such as manufacturing, chemical, or power generation.

Learn six aspects of designing a process control system that is easy to maintain for chemical engineering processes, such as objectives, variables, strategies, hardware, software, and maintenance.

When I started my career, a typical plant had multiple instrument and electrical engineers. However, 20 years later a maintenance manager, typically a mechanical engineer with responsibility for all ...

The DCS can validate both a process control system and meet building automation requirements. Likewise, having a PLC-based machine level controller, such as Schneider’s Modicon M172, in HVAC systems ...

Process engineering and optimization rated higher than the next-highest topic (maintenance and reliability) by a factor of 2:1, and higher than every other topic by a factor of at least 4:1. Process ...

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has equipped Version 8 of its Simatic PCS 7 process control system with a host of new functions.The new features range from improved data exchange and an ...

Our research is at the interface of automatic control, machine learning, and optimisation, we emphasise the computational and inferential thinking of process systems. We develop fundamental ...

We need to be careful with units. The process gain, as we’ll see in a future article on tuning, is largely used to determine the controller gain (K c). We’ll see that controllers installed in ...

Process control is often presented as hierarchical layers, as displayed along the vertical axis of Figure 1. At the bottom is the hardware of process control – a layer, one would think, essential to ...

PlantPAx process control system expansion includes integration of ICS Triplex SIL 3 fault-tolerant technology. For manufacturers looking to better integrate process control and process safety ...

The Merlin weigh belt system combines accurate in-line weighing with integration into process control systems. It measures yield, density, average weight, blending products together along with batch ...