April 2010 Issue Preview
Ad Closing: March 11, 2010| Material Closing: March 18, 2010
Cover – The Mobile Automation Professional
The Wireless Worker. How close are you to walking around a plant with a mobile HMI terminal? Closer than you think, says Control’s Senior Technical Editor, Dan Hebert.
Supervisory Control
A new brew. Brewery in a box helps brewers make the best beer.
Flow
“Water is Money and Accuracy Counts.” How one company is using wireless flowmeters to help conserve water from the Delores River in Colorado for area farmers and ranchers.
Online Exclusives
Controllers: “A Simple Single Setting Controller Yields PI Performance” by Robert L Heider, PE, Washington University , St. Louis, and Zachary Wegmann, Abengoa Bioenergy. The authors present a simple velocity control algorithm with output modification that has equivalent proportional-integral controller dynamic performance. The controller can be easily configured in most DCSs and PLCs.
Data Acquisition
Jim Montague explores the new forms these devices are taking, checks whether other devices are co-opting some of these capabilities and examines some of the new ways that DAQ information is being used, such as in simulation and other kinds of analysis.
Our Columns:
Control Report – Jim Montague’s take on all things control-related
Control Talk – McMillan and Weiner in Part 3 of a four-part series on “Drowning in Data; Starving for Information.”
Control Online – Digital managing editor Katherine Bonfante covers three-months worth of the best of www.controlglobal.com.
Ask the Experts – Béla Lipták and friends answer real-world control questions.
Other Voices – Part 1 of 2 on “Safety & Security: Two Sides of the Same Coin” by security and safety gurus Eric Byres and John Cusimano.
On the Bus – Our fieldbus expert, John Rezabek takes on “The Failed Fieldbus Blame Game.”
Roundup Focus— Process Analyzers
Resources Focus— PLCs & PACs
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