Practical Process Control

Practical Process Control introduces process control to engineers and technicians unfamiliar with control techniques, providing an understanding of how to actually apply control in a real industrial environment. It avoids analytical treatment of the numerous statistical process control techniques to concentrate on the practical problems involved. A practical approach is taken, making it relevant in virtually all manufacturing and process industries.

There is currently no information readily available to practising engineers or students that discusses the real problems and such material is long overdue.

What type of process - what kind of control?
Measurement devices
Control devices
Cyclic (on/off) control
Programmable logic control (PLC) systems
Continuous control
Distributed control systems (DCS)
Operator interfaces, displays and graphics
Compressed air
Choice of system and installation
Engineering check-out. pre-commissioning