Top 5 Control Engineering articles October 14-20

Articles about PLC tag and address naming conventions, the Engineers' Choice Finalists, digital engineering practices, control engineering terms, and level instrumentation improvements were Control Engineering’s five most clicked articles from October 14-20. Miss something? You can catch up here.

By Chris Vavra October 21, 2019

The top 5 most read articles online, from October 14-20 for Control Engineering covered PLC tag and address naming conventions, the Engineers’ Choice Finalists, digital engineering practices, control engineering terms, and level instrumentation improvements. Links to each article below.

1. PLC tag and address naming conventions

Control programming tutorial: Learn about tag templates, common factory automation tag abbreviations, process control tag abbreviations, and five tag and address naming tips.

2. 2020 Engineers’ Choice Finalists

The official ballot is open for voting for Control Engineering North American print and digital edition subscribers, for a limited time. Cast your vote using CFE Media’s New Products for Engineers platform at www.controleng.com/NPE.

3. Digital engineering practices enhance technologies of tomorrow

Digitalization: By integrating digital, physical and virtual realities, digital engineering redefines product development and manufacturing. Digital engineering accelerates development of next-generation smart products, services and operations.

4. Control engineering: Basic terms explained

Back to basics tutorial: Understand the terminologies that comprise control engineering and what they mean for engineers.

5. API 18.2 recommendations improve level instrumentation

Updates to safety standards call for capable instrumentation to address safety and accuracy concerns.

The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on controleng.com, Oct. 14-20, for articles published within the last two months.

Chris Vavra, production editor, CFE Media, cvavra@cfemedia.com.


Author Bio: Chris Vavra is web content manager for CFE Media and Technology.