Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

Neural prostheses have recently shown considerable promise in proof-of-concept animal experiments 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and in human clinical trials 10,11,12,13 for partially restoring motor output in ...

Control valve selection plays a crucial role in optimizing control loop performance, and engineers must consider factors beyond just cost, leakage class and pressure drop. As explored in a Control ...

The importance of motor trajectory profiles and how they’re used in brushless DC (BLDC) motor control to minimize vibration and smooth out other performance issues. Why the PID loop is the most widely ...

The specification of load current transient response at the output of a power supply is subject to requirements related not only to the load transient demand itself—specifically load current step ...

Every plant in the process industry most likely has several control loops that do not perform well. Although there are many factors that may negatively affect control loop performance, a few of these ...

HOUSTON, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PAS today announced the expansion of its leading ControlWizard Control Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) technology with full multivariable predictive control (MPC) ...

PID (proportional, integral, derivative) control has existed for decades and there are many tools available to help implement PID to tune process control systems, thereby making it generally easy to ...

To help designers maximize performance and efficiency in these systems, Microchip Technology Inc. has introduced the new PIC18 Q10 and ATtiny1607 families, featuring multiple intelligent Core ...

How to define the performance criteria of a digital control feedback system, such as a PID control system. How to define the speed and resolution of the control DAC and the sense ADC by using the ...

PAS, the Global Alarm Authority and Publishers of 'The Alarm Management Handbook', Adds SASOL to Its Growing List of Multi-Site Corporate Customers HOUSTON, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- PAS, a global ...