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An application profile is essentially an agreement among a family of devices on how to structure Profinet data. Examples include ProfiDrive for drives and motors, or ProfiSafe for functional safety ...

This Research Topic aims to collect outstanding contributions in automation and control systems engineering research. The contributions must be associated with the field application of Advanced ...

I recently surveyed the on-site development of the control system for a large concentrated solar power station. This “first of a kind” facility offered many control challenges, such as balancing heat ...

With its D/3 Distributed Control System, NovaTech addresses the processing industry’s adoption of a standards-based approach to alarm management to avoid alarm flooding.

Proper process control includes ensuring the cleanliness of the incoming bare glass, determining the thickness uniformity of the glass, and measuring critical dimensions after each process step, from ...

In statistical process control, a state of statistical control is identified with a process generating independent and identically distributed random variables. It is often difficult in practice to ...