I followed my April 2010 call for renewal of process control and IT practice with editorials on purpose in August, performance in October and consequences in December. Now I turn to selection of contr..
In my April 2010 editorial, I initiated and justified a call for renewal of process control and IT practice in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) with a review of the basics. In August 2010, I ..
In August 2010, I followed Allan Kern’s “Continuous Improvement or Core-Competency editorial”1 with a review of the purposes of process control and IT in the HPI. After 50 years, it is ..
In April 2010, I followed Allan Kern’s automation reassessment editorial1 with a call to renew the practice of process control and IT in the HPI. Now I follow his thoughtful July 2010 editorial2 ..
Allan Kern, Zak Friedman and I have offered numerous ideas to strengthen the practice of process control.1-4 Allan Kern inaugurated a fundamental assessment of process control engineering practice in ..
Earth's temperature is a chemical process system. Review of control system engineering of Earth's thermostat with anthropogenic CO2 in 1997 proved it will never work because it is an unmeasurable, uno..
While I have promoted proper control system performance indicators18–25 since 1964, like Dr. Y. Zak Friedman,1 I also am aware of some deeper problems with realizing its full commercial potential..
First, thanks to Dr. Y. Zak Friedman1 for referencing my July 1997 HP editorial.2 I commend him for using HP publications from more than a decade ago in his editorial. While I appreciate Dr. Friedman'..
A recent HP editorial1 showed the effect of advanced process control (APC) with inferential models on alkylation isostripper iC4 lost to an nC4 side draw (Fig. 1). From trend data for the two periods ..
Clifftent optimizes risky tradeoffs at limits