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Organic Wireless Growth Must Be Managed
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Technologies Compete for Bandwidth.

PLCs and PACs
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CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

Process Hero
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Simulation Software Rocks for Training, but Its Benefits Go Way Beyond Teaching to Aiding Design, Optimization, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Management. Here’s How Savvy Users are Gaining Simulation’s Full Advantages

Loggers Keep Feeding Data-Hungry Users
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Recorders and DAQs Have Survived the Advent of PCs, Adapted to Cooperate with Software-Based Historians and Continue to Serve in Applications Where Computers Can't Go

White Papers: In Depth Research

GE Fanuc’s Proficy Becomes Reality for Collaborative Process Automation
Author: GE Fanuc
Posted: 03/10/2008
It is a significant competitive advantage for an automation supplier to offer an open and collaborative production environment that embraces standards and can address the full scope of automation and control applications from process to discrete and motion applications. Download this white paper to learn more about collaborative process automation.

PACs for industrial control, the future of control
Author: National Instruments
Posted: 02/07/2007
As the technological differences between PC and PLC wane, a new class of controllers is emerging for engineers who require higher loop rates, advanced control algorithms, more analog capabilities, and better integration with the enterprise network. The Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) describes this new generation of industrial controllers that combines the functionality of a PLC and a PC.

A disciplined approach to control system development
Author: Watlow
Posted: 09/22/2006
This article explains the basic method to rapid control system development, as well as ways to create a reliable system model that a virtual controller may be developed against.

Implementing MPC to reduce variability by optimizing control valve response
Author: Emerson Process Management
Posted: 12/12/2005
In this paper, a model predictive controller is configured to simultaneously manipulate a small valve and a large valve, eliminating the problems inherent in split-ranged and valve-position controllers.

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