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 ...

I was nursing a lukewarm vending machine coffee recently when I overheard two fresh-faced engineers complaining about the PID tuning process and coming up with ways to tear down centuries of control ...

Control valve selection plays a crucial role in optimizing control loop performance, and engineers must consider factors beyond just cost, leakage class and pressure drop. As explored in a Control ...

We began to capture these relationships diagrammatically, focusing on the mechanisms through which each theme affected BCS testing as well as the interconnectivity between them. Eventually, this ...

Scientists in Switzerland have created a system-dynamics model for the adoption of PV and heat pumps in Swiss residential buildings up to 2050. They have examined several scenarios to see how the ...

PID loops are a central component of modulating boiler control systems with applications ranging from basic steam header pressure control to cascading 3-element drum level control. A modern ...

This paper presents a pinning-based switching control approach for the charging and cell balancing of supercapacitors. The developed supercapacitor energy storage system is modeled as a cyber-physical ...

That is why you can get much better control with ML modeling. You also can model how the process and equipment evolves over time. For example, every time you run a batch through the PECVD chamber you ...