Field-device diagnostics can improve instrument reliability, but diagnostics alone won’t deliver reliability gains ...

AMS Trex device communicator has been redesigned with new hardware, software and security for easier, expanded and more ...

IE5 synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) portfolio has added three smaller frame sizes (90, 100, 112) that cover 0.75 kW to ...

I believe the single most important factor is that the most accurate flowmeters have a close connection between the operating ...

The Federal Drug Administration’s current cybersecurity requirements are not appropriate for addressing and avoiding medical ...

AI-driven automation, digital twin adoption and more are reshaping control system architectures and workforce skills ...

The article highlights how controls engineers and their employers can benefit from regional workforce development organizations like Manufacturing USA institutes, which help address the ongoing ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of our Readers’ Choice Awards, a program that broke new ground in the process control and instrumentation arena when our first winners were unveiled back in the ...

In 2017, Control’s sister publication, Control Design, published an article demonstrating how an Arduino single-board microcontroller for do-it-yourself applications could control a flow loop when ...

Modbus is a communication protocol for transmitting information between electronic devices over serial lines (original version) or via the Ethernet, and is commonly used in process and factory ...

In a previous article by the authors, “Deadtime compensation opportunities and realities,” evidence showed how simple implementation of deadtime compensation improves loop performance over and above ...

The automation marketplace has changed vastly from what it was 30 years ago, but many trends persist and intensified during this time. The first is the increasing emphasis on software and services.