Keep Your Systems Secure – One Patch At A Time
Why aren’t control system patch management best practices higher on a manufacturer’s priority list?
Control Loop Tuning: Get Started with a Few Simple Rules
Understanding proportional gain and integral time’s functions in control loop tuning values and how they work together is important.
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Independent Protection Layers – Are We Inherently Safe?
Explore how each protection layer performs in a real-world hazardous environment. A safety risk can arise at anytime, anywhere, due to any combination of factors. What happens if an abnormal situation occurs? Is your first line of defense solid or does it have a few potential
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PID Controller Loop Tuning Made Simpler
From complex mathematical algorithms to various tuning techniques, loop tuning often presents itself as a black box that requires a certain mathematical artistry to open. One way to open this box is to ask, “What kind of process is being controlled?”
Industrial Modernization Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
Lead Your Facility into the Modern World with a Main Automation Contractor The industrial world as we know it is changing – fast. Legacy system obsolescence, cybersecurity vulnerabilities and innovative smart technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), digital twin/thread, cloud and mobile computing,
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DCS Migration Best Practices Open the Door to the Modern World
A new digital age has dawned for manufacturers, and many must update or migrate their outdated distributed control systems (DCS) to stay competitive and meet ever-changing consumer demands. Their legacy systems have served them well, but as technology evolves, change is inevitable. In 1959, for instance,
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Manage Expectations for Project Scope
When a client and system integrator share goals, the potential for success is maximized for a project if the expectations are managed and the project has a clear vision.
Pick Your Dream Team for Control System Migrations
For a while now, the buzz on the industrial street has been about modernizing or digitally transforming legacy systems in facilities. Many manufacturers have already started to move forward and reevaluate their processes and systems. Some have even begun using the new innovative technologies on the
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Major Oil Refiner Migrates to New DCS Platform
A major oil refiner partnered with MAVERICK to support an eight-year, multi-phase program to migrate multiple refinery business unit process areas.
DCSNext®: Keys to Innovation
Scott Hayes, DCSNext Portfolio Manager at Rockwell Automation and MAVERICK Technologies, talks you through the keys to innovation while migrating to a new distributed control system.
