Jens Wedege Petersen has little room for error in his work at DONG Energy’s Nybro Gas Treatment Plant on the western coast of Jutland. He and his fellow operators ...

Over the past few decades, various control disciplines like process, batch, motion and discrete control have been consolidated into a single, common automation architecture. This integration has ...

Process and electrical operators have traditionally accessed their data through two separate systems, making timely and proactive decision-making difficult. A new offering from Rockwell Automation ...

DeltaV version 16.LTS accelerates the path to an OT-ready enterprise operations platform to seamlessly integrate and optimize ...

First published in 2000. As told by Chris Monchinski, 2019–20 Vice President, ISA Standards & Practices Department. ISA-95 from its inception sought to solve an important issue in our industry: ...

Dynamic optimisation and model predictive control (MPC) are at the forefront of modern process systems engineering, offering robust methodologies to address the challenges posed by time-varying ...

At the end of February, PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group)—the consortium for open hardware specifications—introduced InterEdge, a modular architecture for process control systems ...

An Open Approach for a Smart and Affordable Bioprocess Control System The goal for upstream bioprocess development is to support and maintain the ability to rapidly develop and maintain manufacturing ...

In a 2018 survey of global supply chain executives, 21.8% stated that lack of visibility was the worst challenge they faced. The proportion for data management was the lowest, coming in at 1.3%, while ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...