Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

It’s not, “You say ‘tomato’ and I say ‘tomahto.’ ” With advanced process controls (APCs), you either know what they are or you don’t. If you do know, you know they give for-real, money-in-your-pocket ...

Advanced process control Since their inception in the early 1980s, multivariable model-based controllers have become the technology of choice for implementing APC applications. More than 5,000 ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

Japan's Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced Thursday that the company and Shell have jointly developed Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation, a software suite that speeds up and simplifies ...

Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...

Today, however, it seems APC is little talked about for an entirely different reason: It’s become a commodity. In the process industries, where APC got its start, this is certainly true. In my recent ...

Shenzhen Jewellok Technology Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of ultra-high purity fluid control and gas delivery solutions, today announced the continued expansion of its advanced product portfolio, ...

Increasingly tight tolerances and rigorous demands for quality are forcing chipmakers and equipment manufacturers to ferret out minor process variances, which can create significant anomalies in ...

Can KLAC's rising process control intensity, market-share gains and growing yield-optimization demand fuel its next phase of ...