Top 50 Automation Companies of 2021: Green Muscles In
WEBNov. 8, 2022. The Top 50 global and North American automation suppliers fend off recession with sustainability and digitalization. Larry O'Brien, Chantal Polsonetti, Mike Guilfoyle. The automation marketplace proved its resilience again in 2021 and returned to pre-pandemic levels. Despite advances in project engineering that reduced cycle times ...
How valve failure modes interact with controller actions and …
WEBDec 9, 2021 · Loop Control Distributed Control PLCs & PACs SCADA Multivariable Control Industrial Computers AI & ML. Manipulate. Motors Valves Actuators Drives. Visualize. HMI Operator Interface Alarm Management Recorders Data Acquisition Mobile Access. Network. Wireless Industrial Networks I/O Systems Power Supplies Remote Access. Manage.
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WEBAbout Us. In both print and online, Control serves the classically defined process industries—chemicals, oil and gas, food, paper, plastics, metals and textiles—as well as power generation and water/wastewater treatment utilities. Our mission is to serve the information needs of engineering, operations and management personnel whose job it ...
Understanding switch configurations - Control Global
WEBNov 25, 2019 · A: NO and NC are the fundamental blocks of understanding any logic, be it soft or hardware. Normal condition is defined as energized condition and when plant/equipment/machine is running in normal condition, logic is true. NC means normally-closed contact. NO means normally-open contact.
Dos and don'ts of control room design | Control Global
WEBApr 26, 2019 · A control room that has no room for future expansion of people or equipment. Control rooms with poor lighting, leading to employee complaints and higher rates of absenteeism. Noisy, congested control rooms with sub-optimal workflow adjacencies. Delays in design and construction schedules required to address changes.
Good grounding practices - Part 1 | Control Global
WEBNov 13, 2018 · Standard manufacturer’s recommended grounding practices for handling digital equipment should be followed. It's also common practice for raised-floor installations to specify a resistivity for the floor tile or a resistance to ground. For example, IBM specifies no greater than 2 x 1010 ohms to the ground reference.
How history, principles and standards led to the safety PLC
WEBMay 17, 2016 · The SIL 1 safety system is the most commonly used, and provides risk reduction in the range from 10:1 to 100:1. In the process industries, the highest SIL rating normally used is SIL 3. SIL 4 is only used under very special circumstances such as nuclear plants. SIL levels 1 to 3 represent a coarse scale of safety performance for the SIS.
Signal filtering: Why and how - Control Global
WEBJul 24, 2019 · Greg McMillan. Filtering is the modification of a measured or calculated signal—using an algorithm and/or logic—to remove undesirable aspects of the signal before it is used in a calculation or a controller. Examples in control are the feedback (or controlled) variable to a PID or APC controller, or the input to a feedforward controller.
How to select a flowmeter - Control Global
WEBJul 17, 2020 · How to select a flowmeter. Multiple flow conditions, scenarios and technologies evaluated at ISA Will-DuPage chapter meeting in January. Flow is the basis of material balance—what’s coming into a process and what’s going out. There are several ways to quantify flow: mass (units mass/time), volumetric (units volume/time) and velocity ...