Starting with the sensor, measuring and controlling temperature is an essential building block of process industries. Automatic control in continuous processes uses industrial control systems to ...

Only through proper troubleshooting and then solving the underlying problems can control loop performance be improved. Process design certainly plays a role in control loop performance, but experience ...

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...

Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

Temperature is among the most widely measured parameters in industrial process control and automation applications. The Novato reference design transmits temperature measurements from remote sensors ...

Designed to simplify the integration of Knight® heating boilers into multiple temperature hydronic heating systems, the Smart System™ Multi Temperature Loop Control (MTLC) accurately controls up to ...

Omron’s new E5AR 1/4 DIN and E5ER 1/8 DIN temperature/process controllers multi-loop models allow for integrated control of multiple zones or environmental factors such as temperature, pressure, and ...

Industrial control systems can be categorized in two types: open-loop and closed-loop systems. The open-loop control system is a continuous control system that provides no feedback from its output.