Top 5 Control Engineering content from the past week includes June hot topics, the Career and Salary Survey, good and bad PID tuning and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
Top 5 Control Engineering content over the past week covered June hot topics, the Career and Salary Survey, good and bad PID tuning and more. Links to each article below.
1. Control Engineering hot topics, June 2024
Control Engineering’s most clicked articles in June 2024 included stories on VFDs, the salary survey, PLCs and more. Miss something? You can catch up here.
2. Results are in: Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2024
Benefits and salaries increased. Leading automation technologies help resolve economic challenges and workforce shortages.
3. PID spotlight, part 5: What does good and bad controller tuning look like?
PID controllers have visual cues that you can use to identify performance problems. Improperly set controller gain, integral, and derivative offer unique patterns that you can use to guide your efforts to improve controller performance. See seven takeaways for better PID tuning.
4. Power quality, harmonics: How to select a variable frequency drive (VFD)
Part 2: Understand the advantages of 36-pulse input drive topology in medium-voltage (MV) motor applications and how medium-voltage VFD design mitigates harmonics and improves power quality.
5. 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.
The list was developed using CFE Media’s web analytics for stories viewed on controleng.com, July 15-21, 2024, for articles published within the last two months.
Chris Vavra, senior editor, Control Engineering, WTWH Media LLC, [email protected].
