Author Patrick Bouwman explains how his book, Fundamentals of Process Control: Principles and Concepts, helps up-and-coming automation professionals build a solid foundation. What inspired you to ...

High-tech instrumentation and state-of-the-art modeling tools are helping power plant operators achieve best-in-class performance, meet pollution targets, and better predict failures. Calibration ...

The power generation industry is constantly evolving, with advanced technologies becoming more ubiquitous in power plants. Along with this evolution, instrumentation and control equipment continues to ...

This publication serves as a high-level introduction to systems engineering for instrumentation and control at nuclear facilities. Systems engineering is a holistic, interdisciplinary and cooperative ...

The nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants was originally built with analog instrumentation and control systems. Upgrading to a digital system is an important consideration for power producers as dome ...

On-line monitoring techniques have been under development over the past decades for a variety of applications in process and power industries. In the nuclear power industry, on-line monitoring ...

Large industrial plants–such as those in the oil, gas, electricity, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries–rely on electronic instrumentation to provide accurate, stable measurements to ...

Maintenance can be made more efficient, helping make operations more efficient and profitable, by leveraging new digital technologies. Conventional time-based preventive maintenance (PM) is widely ...

How self-tuning can support an adaptive control strategy. How Model Reference Adaptive Control can improve adaptability. The different types of MRAC. A certain amount of flexibility is always good to ...