Market Moves: Industrial Sustainability - Jun 11th, 2024
 
 
Companies are investing in low-carbon processes, circular economies, and more.
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June 11, 2024
From the Editor

To off lead off this week’s Industrial Sustainability missive, it’s my pleasure to introduce the latest book by process controls authority and longtime columnist for Endeavor’s Control magazine, Béla Lipták. I’ve personally worked with Béla going on four decades now, and his Instrument Engineer’s Handbook has long been the go-to reference for process control practitioners worldwide.

In his latest effort, Controlling the Future, Béla brings his wide-ranging perspective to the question of climate change as only a multivariable control engineer could. As current editor-in-chief of Control Len Vermillion discusses in his review, Béla applies his fifty years of expertise in controls to analyze the multivariable processes involved in their totality (by looking at their capacitances, inertias, accelerations, time constants, feedbacks, tipping points, integral accumulations and interactions between their component subprocesses) before predicting the overall, dynamic behavior of non-industrial process such as AI or climate change.

I think you’ll enjoy Béla’s insights and Len’s review, too.

   Keith Larson, Market Leader

 

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