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What is Industrial Automation?

Today, one of the fastest growing businesses is industrial automation. The operation of modern process industry would be very difficult without automation. There are lot of automation engineering,...

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What is DCS?

A Distributed Control System (DCS) is an automated control system that monitors and provides instructions to different parts of a machine. Commonly used in manufacturing equipment, a DCS utilizes input...

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What is Programmable Logic Controller?

A PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER (PLC) is an industrial computer control system that monitors input makes decisions based on its  program to control outputs to automate a process or machine.   The...

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Career option for Control Engineers

Career option for Control Engineers A control engineer is responsible for designing, developing, installing, managing and/or maintaining equipment which is used to monitor and control engineering...

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What is Process Flow?

Process Flow A method of  stages involved in performing a certain business procedure. A type of process flow popular among business managers might take the form of flow charts that show inputs or...

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Future of Industrial Software

The industrial software is applicable right from when a plant is built, through to commissioning and operation. Models that are used in the design of a plant can also be used when running it to...

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The Future of Industrial Automation

The automation of control processes has been around for a long time and has evolved from the early days of manual controls through switches and relays to today’s sophisticated control systems. The...

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Roles and Responsibilities of SCADA, DCS and PLC Programmer (Control System...

Control System engineers develop skills in specific control disciplines such as: advanced process control (APC); distributed control systems (DCS); programmable logic controllers (PLC); supervisory...

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How to Pass NCEES PE Certification Exam?

The Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) exam will test your ability to practice in a particular engineering discipline competently. It is designed for engineers who have gained at minimum four...

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What are the skills required to become control system engineer?

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the following qualities are required for automation engineers: A firm understanding of software development and computer programming Equipment...

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ISA Certified Control Systems Technician® (CCST)

ISA’s Certified Control Systems Technician® (CCST®) Program provides a non-biased, third-party, objective assessment and confirmation of a technician’s skills. CCSTs are skilled in pneumatic,...

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What are the Information Required for starting a Control System Project?

The major projects are based on the competitive analysis, execution planning and definition performed during the FEED stage. The FEED is the most critical stage where it will influence the design at a...

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What is Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID)?

A P&ID (piping and instrumentation diagram), depicts the piping and other components of a process flow. P&ID commonly used in the automation and control system engineering field. It is used for...

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Process Control of Storage Tank after Downstream Section of Petroleum Industry

After completion of the refining of petroleum crude oil and of raw natural gas last part of the downstream process is storage of petroleum products, for that ambient pressure, temperature and level...

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How Automation Helps Oil and Gas Industry?

SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) simplify complex processes in oil and gas industries. Geographically dispersed industries like oil and gas pipelines, water distribution and wastewater...

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Industries for Automation

We live in a world where traveling is the trend. Have you ever wondered how the traffic is controlled so efficiently that makes traveling fun? Who controls the traffic?  Count the various household...

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What is PLC?

A Programmable Logic Controller, a PLC, is everywhere in life. In most industries, these are essential in making sure that devices and machinery work properly. They take an input, run code, give an...

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What is HMI?

What is HMI in Control Systems? Before we look at the answer to this question, let us first give a look at  the whole concept of men and machines. The last few decades have seen high speed...

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Fault Detection and Diagnosis for PLC

For every PLC controlled plant, the larger percentage of its faults are commonly in the actuators and sensors as well as its wiring and not in its PLC. The faults inside PLC are most likely in the...

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Basics of ESD Process Control

The basic principle of the ESD process control is grounding conductors, and that includes people at the ESD protected workstation. Wrist strap is the very first line about the defense contrary to ESD....

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How Actuators Work?

All valves need effective means in which they could be operated such as actuated and cycled. There are different options in-order-to achieve that, including; gears, handwheels, levers, and actuators....

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Difference between Continuous and Batch Process

For a long time, the food industry has relied on a large-scale continuous process. At the outset, the production facilities for new products used to be a batch process produced on a larger scale...

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Introduction for Field Signal

A successful ablation and planning in the EP electrophysiology laboratory is importantly dependent in acquiring intracardiac, multiple or low amplitude signals at the numerous presence of sources of...

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Top 5 PLC Programming Software

Most electrochemical processes are now automated with the use of digital computers or commonly known as Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). An example of this process includes automatic control for...

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