Top 5 Control Engineering content: May 27-June 2, 2024

Control Engineering’s top 5 pieces of content over the past week includes PIDs, PLCs, MES and more.

1. PID spotlight, part 4: How to balance PID control for a self-limiting process

Control of a self-limiting process with a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller begins with learning the role of controller gain, integral and derivative in controlling the self-limiting process. Controller gain responds to the present, integral corrects based on the past, and derivative can be used to best-guess the future.

2. Back to the future of the PLC

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are not going away any time soon, and improving technologies combined with user demands will continue their evolution as a foundational automation platform.

3. Picking the right MES or automation solution for a life sciences application

Life sciences manufacturers have more automation options than ever, but choosing the right manufacturing execution system (MES) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to streamline and improve operations is not as difficult as it may seem.

4. PID spotlight, part 2: Know these 13 terms, interactions

Learning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller tuning begins with the basics: Definition of terms, the PID equation (multiple forms) and seeing how each of the PID terms functions independently from each other and separated from a process.

5. Automate 2024 Recap: How to accelerate automation’s benefits

Automate 2024 focused on bringing people and technologies together and making automation better and more focused on process and results.

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