Tutorials for Automation & Controls

April 1, 2009

Access all current and historical Control Engineering editorial tutorials. Tutorials How-to information covering Industrial and Process Automation, Discrete Control, Mechatronics, Green Manufacturing, System Integration, and Information, Process, and Machine Control.

Designing PID responses

Peter Welander, April 1, 2010

Aggressive PI control set point tracking There are many ways of setting PID strategy to make a controller respond the way you want it to. It all depends on what you think should happen. More

Mechanical Engineering Career Assessment

Mark T. Hoske and Renee Robbins, Control Engineering, April 1, 2010

Assess your career - Look at where you've been, your interests, and where you want to go, suggests the 2010 Control Engineering mechanical engineering career survey. While three-quarters of those practicing mechanical engineering are positive about their jobs, there’s a need for more application-based education. Control Engineering salary survey respondents also expressed greater appreciation for the business value of good engineering. More

4 strategies for managing engineering contractors

Tim McAward, Kelly Engineering Resources, March 24, 2010

Engineering organizations seek to manage costs while recruiting and retaining good talent. Here are 4 key strategies to better manage engineering contractors. More

SR motor anatomy: See inside switched reluctance motors

Frank J. Bartos, P.E, Control Engineering, March 9, 2010

Simplest possible 1-phase SR motor (a) illustrates the switched reluctance principle. In the more practical 3-phase motor (b), energizing stator phase pair B (for position shown) produces clockwise torque; energizing phase pair C produces conter-clockwise torque. Design variations include more motor phase, stator poles, and rotor poles. Simple electromechanical structure of switched reluctance (SR) motors offers benefits of robustness and reliability by eliminating permanent magnets, rotor bars, and more – tutorial. More

Feedforward control

Vance VanDoren, Ph.D., P.E., Control Engineering, March 1, 2010

Here’s how to augment feedback control with feedforward control. More

Control Engineering industrial wireless coverage

Mark T. Hoske, January 27, 2010

Wireless resources: More than three years of wireless industrial technology, tutorials, and case history articles from Control Engineering are gathered in one place for easy reference. Bookmark this page! More

Video tutorial: Differential pressure flowmeters

Peter Welander, February 16, 2010

DP video Using differential pressure to calculate flow is a very basic and common method. Here’s how it works. More

Motor control terms, braking

Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering, February 1, 2010

Are there differences in servo drives and servo amps? What are the different kinds of motor braking strategies? ‘Brake’ now for motor learning. More

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