I am currently doing a search for individuals with strong Process Safety Analysis (PHA) or Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) experience in either the petrochemical, refining, paper or power industries. There are a series of opening available, in locations around the country. Travel may be considerable, but it may be possible to office from home […]
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To achieve best overall plant operation, it is often necessary to coordinate the operation of equipment in multiple process areas. In Chapter 16 of Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes, some examples are given where multi-loop techniques may be effectively used for such coordination. One of the examples from this chapter is power […]
IT can help create a secure network connection to the industrial plant floor. It can be ideal for a machine builder to monitor and connect to a piece of equipment in a plant remotely. However, how many machine builders have tried to cross that invisible barrier? As soon as you mention you want to open […]
Just Like Distributed Control, Distributed Safety Is Coming Soon to a Process Plant Near You, Maybe Your Own In the beginning, all control was distributed in the field near each particular process. Much of this control was manual, with islands of pneumatic-based automation. Then came the inaptly named “distributed control system,” which was, in […]
As mentioned in my previous blogs on the book Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes, the application examples included in Chapter 16 illustrate the various ways single loop and multi-loop control techniques may be used automate plant control. The second workshop exercise in this chapter allows the reader to explore the different features […]
The control systems commonly used in the process industry are based on the single-loop and multi-loop techniques described in Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes. Some combination of these techniques is often required to meet product specification and plant throughput targets. The application examples included in Chapter 16 of Control Loop Foundation are […]
Summary – Senior Project Manager with over thirty years engineering experience with DCS’s (Fisher DeltaV, Honeywell, Moore APACs, Siemens T3000) and PLC’s (Allen Bradley) in multiple industries (utilities, paper, chemical). Experience includes the specification, design, installation, start-up of field instrumentation and control systems (DCS, PLC), the design, implementation and tuning of control loops and Mimic […]
Defense in depth: It’s more than just the technology By Jason Urso The biggest cybersecurity vulnerability could very well be a belief—the belief that a cybersecurity system, even a good one, is guaranteed to stop every threat, every time. This is simply not true. Due to ever-changing cybersecurity threats, a cybersecurity program must be designed […]