Control systems are exactly what you think they are: systems designed to control something. Perhaps a better way to put it is systems design control the behavior of something. The term “contr… ...

As technical innovation has cooled in basic process controls, attention is now shifting toward improved standardization to help reduce lifecycle costs. Basic process control systems—also known as ...

Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application ISA recently published the third edition of Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application by Harold L. Wade, ...

Control systems are all around us, and understanding them is going to make you much better at hardware design. In the last article — Beyond Control: The Basics of Control Systems — we l… ...

Over the past decade, power plant control systems have evolved from DCS-centered platforms with proprietary software, to open systems using industry standard hardware and software, and then to ...