How complementary inspection and metrology techniques can detect smaller defects and distinguish among a wide range of defect types within a unified workflow.

Technology is changing and fast. Labor availability and skillset requirements are changing as well. Process control staffing of personnel makeup and skillsets have evolved over decades of iterations.

Industrial AI operates in the physical world. A compressor has a real operating envelope. A distillation column has hydraulic and thermodynamic limits. A reactor has temperature and pressure ...

Author Dr. R. Russell Rhinehart discusses his new book, Nonlinear Model-Based Control: Using First-Principles Models in Process Control, and explains why nonlinear first-principles models should be ...

The process control and instrumentation minor emphasizes developing skills and knowledge in theory, software and in the field. Students graduate ready to solve complex control problems in the chemical ...

Process manufacturers have been using advanced process control (APC) and online optimization technologies for several decades. Advances are being made on the business front, increasing manufacturers’ ...