As Superstorm Sandy approached the East Coast in October 2012, grid operators at PJM Interconnection braced for the severe tests of people and equipment that often come with extreme weather. But, ...

As power generation embraces digitization, and looks for more reliability and flexibility, the need for advanced instrumentation and control systems grows. Power plant operators know the importance of ...

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) improved ethylene crackers operations, increased desirable olefin product yields, and reduced fuel consumption by implementing DCS-resident advanced control ...

Applied Industrial Technologies (NYSE: AIT) of Cleveland said it has acquired Advanced Control Solutions, a Georgia-based provider of automation products and services for machine vision equipment and ...

Distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers have long been used to regulate power plant operations, but advanced techniques that have been proven in refining and other industries ...

Partnerships between OEMs and industrial control system vendors often only involve the integration of PLCs or components in the machines. But with consumer behavior changing market demands—especially ...

Although digital control systems—distributed control systems, programmable logic controller, and other automation equipment—are present in practically every process safety management (PSM) facility ...