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  • April 29, 2019
  • Control Guru

What is data backfilling?

Manufacturing facilities across the process industries are increasing their adoption of plant-wide monitoring and diagnostic solutions. Essentially, they’re seeking to capitalize on existing investments in data as a means of

  • March 18, 2019
  • Control Guru

The “D” in PID Stands for: Do Not Use (Sometimes)!

The Derivative Term is not only the last letter in PID (i.e. Proportional-Integral-Derivative) it’s also the most maligned of the three. With its big kick, the Proportional Term provides an

  • January 31, 2019
  • Control Guru

What should you consider when tuning PID controllers?

Knowing how to tune a PID loop while satisfying its unique control objective is critical. Fortunately there is a group of descriptive statistics that characterizes a controller’s core performance attributes

  • December 19, 2018
  • Control Guru

What should you expect from Process Control training?

Searching for meaningful Industrial Professional Development courses can be frustrating. It’s generally understood that Process Control is an important aspect of a practitioner’s job responsibilities.

  • September 26, 2018
  • Control Guru

Fewer Metrics Leads to Better Results

Big Data and IIoT have captured the automation industry’s imagination. A key take-away from all that’s been written is that plant data holds the key to making many production processes

  • April 24, 2018
  • Control Guru

What is a Distributed Control System?

In a recent blog post we paid tribute to Dick Morley and his pivotal contribution to the process automation industry: the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Since the PLC and Distributed