Further to my requests in this magazine for people to contribute control experiences of their own to these Case History articles, I am very pleased to introduce this two-part article by Etienne Wannenburg ...
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Virtually all feedback control courses worldwide are presented theoretically. This is understandable, feedback control theory was largely developed back in the early 1900s by some of the world’s leading ...
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The problem I was recently commissioned to investigate a heating problem by a client who tests ore samples by heating them to various temperatures. The heating rate is defined by either step changes ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the ...
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The elements of a control loop normally consist of the process itself, the measuring transmitter, the controller and the final control element. The latter, in the vast majority of loops, consists of an ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the ...
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I was recently performing some optimisation at a large chemical plant and was reminded that during the daily hustle and bustle and general high pressure of an instrument and control practitioner, one ...
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Poor control loop strategy: minimum flow control. The universal, almost complete lack of knowledge of practical control never ceases to astound me. Very few people have any understanding of the basic ...
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Frequency analysis: auto and cross correlation.       Introduction by Michael Brown I recently spent two days with Dave Ender of Techmation in Phoenix, Arizona. It was an arduous trip taking approximately ...
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Michael Brown is holding a series of his well known courses on practical process control in Johannesburg. The courses are unique and invaluable to novices, as well as to experienced practitioners in the ...
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Protuner tuning in practice Case History 113, published two months ago described the theory behind the Protuner tuning methodology. But how well does it work in real life? This article describes just ...
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Protuner tuning methodology revealed.       Introduction by Michael Brown Techmation has never previously published details of its patented Protuner tuning technology, which as far as I am aware is completely ...
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