Top Control Engineering articles this week covered topics including system integration challenges, digital transformation and AI in manufacturing.
1. GSIR 2024 expert Q&A: System integration challenges, trends
Five control system integrators reveal key automation technologies, trends, challenges, project management, convergence and cybersecurity in a roundtable format.
2. How to incorporate digital transformation into SCADA master planning
The critical integration of digital transformation into supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems master planning is important in enhancing operational efficiency, decision-making and predictive maintenance amid technological advancements and cybersecurity challenges.
3. New AI-powered closed-loop tools can revolutionize manufacturing in 9 ways
A software company applies artificial intelligence in nine key ways to empower workers, improve performance and enhance productivity in closed-loop machine-vision-based applications.
4. How to unlock design efficiency, standards for P&ID development
Standardization of process piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) is an integral element of any multidiscipline design project. By using consistent symbols and conventions, standardized P&IDs streamline communications among project stakeholders and provide a valuable document that is useful throughout the production plant or process lifecycle.
5. PID spotlight part 10: Heuristic tuning, deadtime-dominant self-limiting process
When a PID controller is behaving badly, do we start over? What if our open or closed loop tuning method got us almost there? Can we use what we see and a few simple rules to fix PID controller tuning in one or two easy steps? Using heuristic methods for loop tuning may be the answer. See also, part 9.
