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    Plummer Forest Products in Post Falls, Idaho, endured a fire and had to rebuild its control system quickly.
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    Dealing with deadtime

    Patrick J. Dixon
    How Plummer Forest Products quickly overcame a fire and devastation to its control system by implementing high-performance automatic control on very complex interacting loops ...
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    Face-off: Smith Predictor vs. deadtime compensated PID

    Peter Morgan
    A performance comparison of the Smith Predictor and deadtime compensated PID
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    A complex DCS quandary

    John Rezabek
    How PID loops were enhanced, and why it’s beneficial but confusing
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    Deadtime compensation opportunities and realities

    Peter Morgan
    The benefits of implementing controller integral action by using filtered, positive feedback
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    Ensuring the right controller is in charge

    R. Russell Rhinehart
    Taking a by-the-numbers look to override control and external reset feedback
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    The unrecognized challenges of process control

    Greg McMillan
    Some challenges of the past are possibly even more problematic today
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    Remembering F. Greg Shinskey

    Greg McMillan
    Stories from those whose careers were shaped by the process control legend
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    To cascade or not to cascade?

    Sometimes it makes sense to spring for a feedforward approach
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    The concealed PID revealed, part 2

    Greg McMillan
    Five key informational objectives of the ISA 5.9 technical report
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    The concealed PID revealed, part 1

    ISA committee 5.9 aims to clarify and promote PID capability with technical report
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    Do your control loops play nice?

    A position controller can tame conflicts among multiple variables
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    Variations in the PID algorithm

    R. Russell Rhinehart
    Care is needed, as the same vocabulary may imply different mathematics