In today's competitive environment, process industry companies are focused on two key objectives: profitability and delivering value to customers. However, these objectives are often disparate goals ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

The first step in conducting a regression-based study is to specify a model. In real applications, this is usually the most challenging step - deciding which variables “belong” in the model and which ...

Flow measurement is one of the most important aspects of process control after pressure and temperature. This is one of the variables most used and important for most of the processes in a variety of ...