Six times during the previous year the local utility supplying power to a large soap manufacturing plant in the Midwest suffered power outages, shutting down the plant’s production lines. Each time ...

At first glance, GetScale’s cameras might seem like just another factory surveillance system. The startup, however, wants to make life easier for engineers and assembly-line workers by allowing them ...

Fractilia, the industry leader in high-accuracy stochastics metrology and control, today announced that its FAME 300(TM) system has been adopted for production use by a top-five semiconductor device ...

This post sponsored by Texas Instruments. It’s hard to compete with a modern factory when the factory you’re working in has equipment that may qualify as antiques. Sure, it’s served you well through ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On October 15, 2019, IBM Japan, Ltd. and Panasonic Corporation’s subsidiary, Panasonic Smart Factory Solutions Co., Ltd. (hereafter "Panasonic"), announced that the ...

The process control and instrumentation minor emphasizes developing skills and knowledge in theory, software and in the field. Students graduate ready to solve complex control problems in the chemical ...

Byron K. Wallace, Chevron’s cybersecurity process control network vulnerability assessor “What would you do if you were hacked?” began Byron K. Wallace, Chevron’s cybersecurity process control network ...

Over the past decade, the functionality of different control systems has been merging. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) now have capabilities once found only in distributed control systems (DCSs) ...

Process control can be viewed as the executive portion of a unit process. It provides the means to direct a process so that it produces the desired results. It is complementary to the role played by ...

Aim: To demonstrate the potential of in-line nanoparticle size measurements using the NanoFlowSizer (NFS) as a PAT method. To achieve real-time process control by establishing automated regulation of ...