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ISA Webinars on Temperature and pH Control Solutions

Posted in Education on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012. No comments yet
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The ever-prolific Greg McMillan will be doing two February ISA webinars–one on temperature control and the other on pH control. The pH Control Solutions web seminar is on Wednesday, February 15 at 2-3:30pm EST. Greg’s description is that it: …covers the root causes of poor performance in pH control systems. The source of problems can [...]

Dealing with Deadtime is Process Control Job Security

Posted in Education, Process Optimization on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012. One comment so far
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I’ve heard ModelingAndControl.com’s Greg McMillan say this many times, “Without deadtime, I might be out of a job.” I found a reference to this quote on page 31 of his freely available eBook, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Control Room. He is more emphatic in a blog post, Without Dead Time [...]

Automation Professional Khan Academy

Posted in Education on Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012. No comments yet
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Happy New Year! I took the opportunity to largely unplug from the grid over the past few weeks to rest, relax, rejuvenate and visit with family and friends. I hope you had the opportunity to do the same. Not completely unplugging, I had a chance to poke around and came upon the Khan Academy. I [...]

Greg McMillan Temperature Control Solutions Webinar TODAY

Posted in Education, Temperature on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011. 3 comments so far
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In the spirit of “better late than never”, I wanted to highlight a live webinar by ModelingAndControl.com’s Greg McMillan. His topic will be Temperature Control Solutions and will share: …how to get the best temperature measurement and control performance for important unit operations in the process industry. It is recommended for control engineers, DCS configuration [...]

ISA pH Control Solutions Web Seminar by Greg McMillan

Posted in Education, pH Control on Tuesday, November 8th, 2011. No comments yet
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This Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 2-3:30pm EST (19:00-20:30 UTC), ModelingAndControl.com’s Greg McMillan will be a pH Control Solutions web seminar. Greg is also the author of the book, Advanced pH Measurement and Control, 3rd Edition. Here’s the seminar abstract: This seminar covers the root causes of poor performance in pH control systems. The source [...]

Control Loop Foundation Most Popular ISA Book

Posted in Education, Emerson Exchange on Thursday, October 20th, 2011. No comments yet
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Congratulations to Emerson’s Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon for winning the Raymond D. Molloy Award for the best-selling International Society of Automation (ISA) book of 2011. In a post, Hot Off the Press – New Control Loop Foundation Book, I described the book and shared Terry’s narrated short course he presented at last year’s Emerson Exchange. In [...]

Process Automation Event Season

Posted in Education on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011. No comments yet
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‘Tis the season of process automation-related events. Next week, the International Society of Automation (ISA) holds their ISA Automation Week in Mobile Alabama USA. You can follow the conversations and happenings online on their community page. The following week, October 24-28, the Emerson Exchange will provide a gathering of users of Emerson Process Management technologies [...]

Downloadable Fisher Specification Manager Software

Posted in Education, Final Control Element on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011. No comments yet
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I’m knee deep in preparations for our Emerson Exchange event the end of October and hope to have a sneak peek of my project to share with you soon—hopefully late next week. Well at least that’s the excuse I’m using for lighter and shorter than normal postings and participation in Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other [...]

Eliminating Confusion and Misinformation with Loop Performance Equations

Posted in Education, Process Optimization on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011. No comments yet
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Back in May in a post, Industrial Applications of PID Control, I highlighted a new book ModelingAndControl.com blog’s Greg McMillan was writing, PID Control in the third Millennium – Lessons Learned and New Approaches. In the post, Greg provided a free chapter for download, Industrial Applications of PID Control. I’ve received an email from Greg [...]

Ways to Build Your Process Automation Skills

Posted in Education on Thursday, September 8th, 2011. No comments yet
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One only has to look at some of the LinkedIn Career Discussions pages, such as the one in the DeltaV LinkedIn group, or on the Monster.com job board, to know that automation professionals are currently in high demand. If you are an engineer from another industry or do not yet have the skills required for [...]

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