PLC programming systems are widely used for process control and automation in various industries, such as manufacturing, chemical, oil and gas, and power generation.

William M. Hawkins is a member of Control's Process Automation Hall of Fame (2008) and author of the recently published book, Automating Manufacturing Operations: The Penultimate Approach, Momentum ...

As its name suggests, PLCopen’s mission is to promote control programming standardization. Other advantages are detailed by Jim Christensen, the president of Holobloc, the company that maintains and ...

A decade later, OOP permeated Control System Software Engineering applications with many commercially available libraries and applications. The very popular incarnation of these object-based process ...

Many process control and scheduling problems can be formulated as Markov Decision Process (MDP), which represents a multi-stage decision problem under uncertainty. For the past two decades, the ...

Abstract: A number of important problems from system and control theory can be numerically solved by reformulating them as semidefinite programming (SDP) problems, that is, linear objective ...

Process control. Process control as a whole is a hybrid process that is a combination of discrete batch and continuous production. “In order to control a process, like mixing or extrusion or something ...

UW’s process control and implementation minor prepares students to optimize processes and implement quality control systems in the manufacturing industry. ... The process control minor is an 18-credit ...