Control Engineering's top articles this month covered topics including generative AI, closed loop tuning and industrial robot safety considerations

Control Engineering’s top articles this month covered topics including generative AI, closed loop tuning and industrial robot safety considerations.
1. Rising to the Challenge: Engineering Leaders Under 40, Class of 2024
Discover how these 35 engineering professionals are making a significant impact in automation, controls, and beyond.
2. Generative AI benefits for asset lifecycle management
Generative AI is driving rapid improvements in asset lifecycle management, building on previous AI enhancements and unlocking new possibilities for operational efficiency.
3. PID spotlight, part 8: Closed-loop tuning for self-limiting processes
Closed-loop tuning can be used to tune a PID loop. How is it done? What data do I collect? What calculations are required? How well will it work? What problems might I run into? See “How to execute a closed-loop test in four steps” and two warnings.
4. PID spotlight, part 7: Open-loop tuning of a self-limiting process
Tuning a new PID controller begins with an open loop step test. What are the steps? What data do I collect? What calculations are required? How well will it work? What problems might I run into? Also see three tips and two limits.
5. Industrial robot safety considerations, standards and best practices to consider
As industrial robots become more integral to manufacturing processes, ensuring their safe operation is crucial as well as making sure workers are protected.
6. Operational technology cybersecurity: Easier said than done
How do engineers deal with construction challenges associated with implementing cybersecurity in operations technology? This article will discuss the lack of experience system integrators have with cybersecurity and the lack of experience cybersecurity implementation firms have with design/bid/build project delivery.
7. The evolving industrial process safety world
Process manufacturers must digitally transform or modernize their legacy process safety systems to keep people and their facilities safe.
7. PID spotlight, part 6: Deadtime? How to boost controller performance anyway
Lengthy deadtime adversely affects the PID control of any process. Knowing the process lag/deadtime ratio will tell how well (or not) a PID controller will work. Can your PID controller be a hero? See “Quick-start PID tuning tips to tune many controllers quickly” and 10 graphs to help.
8. Industry 4.0 is the springboard to a holistic automation future
As organizations evaluate the results of their Industry 4.0 investments, many are seeing them as the foundation of a boundless automation future.
9. How OEMs use Cartesian systems to improve control systems
Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are leveraging Cartesian systems, which allow intricate movements and complex operations simultaneously across multiple axes.
10. Time to replace a DCS with a universal control system?
Control Engineering China analysis: What is a universal control system (UCS), and should it replace distributed control systems for future process control applications? What are UCS advantages?