Operating extrusion lines at higher rates is a proven method to decrease costs and increase the profitability of a process. In the April 2025 issue, my article demonstrated the cost reduction and ...

This comprehensive book is an introduction to U.S. federal securities laws, including the legislative and regulatory process and judicial review. The guide begins with the framework of the U.S.

It’s hard to imagine now, but in the mid-1980s, the Internet came close to collapsing due to the number of users congesting its networks. Computers would request packets as quickly as they could, and ...

Process industry standards historically dictated that a separate platform be used for a safety system. But modern technology now enables fully integrated systems that can handle both the base process ...

This article introduces overall controller effectiveness (OCE) as a new, intuitive metric for evaluating PID loop performance in process industries. It tells how OCE helps process plant teams ...

Taizhou Electric Power Conversion and Control Engineering Technology Research Center, Taizhou University, Taizhou 225300, China ...

Even after 20 years or so, process control continues to be a confusing or misunderstood technology. A short description of process control is an accurate one—It’s a means of controlling manufacturing ...

Process control charts are an important application of statistical process control (SPC) that are used in the management of processes in various industries with the aim of maintaining consistency, ...

According to process control experts, a detailed and specific set of control valve requirements is more than necessary when it comes to good control loop performance. Control valve selection plays a ...

Large, continuously operating chemical plants and refinery processes are often faced with the need to measure critical flows that feed both interlocks and process control systems. Since these ...