AI-driven automation, digital twin adoption and more are reshaping control system architectures and workforce skills ...

The Federal Drug Administration’s current cybersecurity requirements are not appropriate for addressing and avoiding medical ...

Control serves the information needs of technical and managerial professionals, who specify, commission, maintain and optimize the process industries' investments in process control, instrumentation ...

Moore Industries-International, Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of exceptionally rugged, reliable and high-quality field and DIN rail-mounted instrumentation for the process ...

There are several techniques that enhance PID, termed advanced regulatory control. These were developed in the 1930s-40s and include reset feedback to prevent windup, override to prevent excessive or ...

We now know that properly designed process controls could have prevented the meltdown at Chernobyl. The causes of this accident were similar to those at 3 Mile Island seven years earlier. Both of ...

The automation marketplace has changed vastly from what it was 30 years ago, but many trends persist and intensified during this time. The first is the increasing emphasis on software and services.

A pressure relief valve (PRV) is a safety device designed to protect a pressurized vessel or system in case of an overpressure event. An overpressure event refers to any condition that would cause ...

Axial and centrifugal compressor control is exceptionally challenging due to the extraordinary speed and severity of problems, and the extreme consequences in terms of plant safety and performance.

In a previous article by the authors, “Deadtime compensation opportunities and realities,” evidence showed how simple implementation of deadtime compensation improves loop performance over and above ...

On Aug. 11, 2025, I had an opportunity to brief some congressional House Homeland Security staffers on issues raised from the July 22 U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, “Fully ...

Q: I need help calculating bending moments, so I can correctly-configure a 10-roll straightener to straighten tubes. The roll straightener consists of five rolls on the top and five rolls on the ...