Sheri Kasprzak

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APC 2.0 spotlight, part 1: What is APC 2.0?

March 7, 2025

Figure 1: Audience applause followed the announcement that ExxonMobil Resins Finishing Plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is operating using the Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS), as described at the 2025 ARC Industry Leadership Forum by ARC Advisory Group. The open architecture, standards-based system and its hardware and software components are “replaceable, interchangeable and interoperable,” said David DeBari, R&D team leader, ExxonMobil. Courtesy: Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering

Control Systems

New insights: 100-controller ExxonMobil Open Process Automation

AI and Machine Learning

AI’s challenges and opportunities at the industrial edge

Courtesy: Emerson

DCS, SCADA, Controllers

The future of automation lies beyond a system-of-systems approach

Industrial Networking

These emerging technologies are coming to the industrial ethernet

Figure 2: Data security in the generative AI era needs to span the entire AI pipeline: the data, the models and the usage. Courtesy: IBM

These three priorities are critical for data security

February 18, 2025

Table 1: Lambda integrating process PI tuning constant calculations for proportional-integral (PI) controllers. Courtesy: Ed Bullerdiek, retired control engineer

PID spotlight, part 15: Open loop tuning of near integrating process

February 17, 2025

Courtesy: Fisher

Choosing the best control valve style for your application

February 13, 2025

Courtesy: IBM.

Edge and Cloud Computing

Improving visual inspections with AI and edge computing

February 12, 2025

Courtesy: WTWH Media

How to mitigate the ongoing Salt Typhoon telecom hack: CISA

February 12, 2025

How to manage data collection and distribution on a unified platform

February 12, 2025

Courtesy: Hargrove Controls & Automation

How to achieve flexibility with platform-agnostic SCADA

February 11, 2025

Courtesy: Ed Bullerdiek, retired control engineer

PID spotlight, part 14: How open loop tuning works in an integrating process

February 10, 2025

How to maximize the benefits of arc flash hazard analysis

February 7, 2025

How motor controls impact everything from energy efficiency to costs

February 7, 2025

Courtesy: WTWH Media

Latest automation mergers, January 2025: Motion, process controls; vision

February 7, 2025

Smith predictor

Control Systems

Is the Smith Predictor a process engineer’s crystal ball?

February 6, 2025