If the rotating equipment and boiler are a plant’s brawn, then a control system that efficiently integrates myriad plant functions is its brains. Luckily, in a power plant, we can perform a brain ...

Distributed control systems are powerful assets for new and modernized power plants. Thanks to three product generations of technology innovations, these systems now provide new benefits — including ...

The control systems world is changing. Historically, process control systems—which include all industrial control, process control, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed ...

Layered security is a practice that involves implementing multiple security technologies in each layer of a computing system to reduce the risk of unauthorized intrusion. Exposure to intrusions ...

A plant manufacturing a wide range of polymers, polyesters, fiber intermediates, and petrochemicals needed to determine the best way to update the industrial automation system. The complex ...

A century-plus of steam-generated power production has shown the importance of water and steam chemistry. Just one boiler tube failure in a conventional unit or heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) ...

An asphalt plant control system consists of a computer (PC) and in many cases a programable logic control (PLC). The PC and/or the PLC provide commands in sequence to field equipment to allow the ...

KENNESAW, Ga. — To help chilled water systems reach their efficiency potential, Carrier ® has further enhanced the ChillerVu ™ plant control system to include the new chilled water system optimizer.

A Japanese semiconductor plant shows how autonomous control based on artificial intelligence is becoming reality. As process control technologies advance, one concept gaining prominence is autonomy.