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How much is process control like IT?

Hi, Interested in views on how amenable or otherwise an industrial process control environment is to management under '...
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posted by bxvarley
18 comments posted 20yrs posted by bxvarley

Machinery's Handbook 26th Edition

I bought the 26th edition, hardcover Machinery's Handbook (Industrial Press), about one year ago, give or take a month...
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posted by tberlin
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SLC5/04 & Excel Query

A number of years ago I wrote a Lotus 123 spreadsheet (with some help), that monitored in real time, analogue inputs to...
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posted by address
3 comments posted 20yrs posted by address

VB.NET and Serial Device Server

Hi All I am fairly new to control and was hoping some of you might point me in the right direction. I have a serial dev...
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posted by iragless
3 comments posted 20yrs posted by iragless

Motion Controllers

All of the work I've done to date has involved writing custom code for custom boards -- and it works pretty well. Now I...
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posted by tim
18 comments posted 20yrs posted by tim

Unity gain F/B v. Compensator in F/B

I'm sure this is a naive question but I have been using software ( provided by a kind gentleman on this NG, was it Jerr...
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posted by andrewpreece
12 comments posted 20yrs posted by andrewpreece

closed-loop function

IN the unity output feedback case, when the open loop transfer function is known, what is the command to get the closed-...
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posted by sunshinenewton
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Return control in power steering

Hi all, I would like to know more about return control in electrical power steering. How it can be implemented in power...
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posted by byju.ganga
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Damping control in power steering

Hi all, I would like to know about "active damping" and "active torque damping" in electric power steering in 4 wheel v...
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posted by byju.ganga
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Siemens Simatic STEP 7

Hi! I'm about to make my first project in Simatic STEP 7. I've programmed "a lot" of PLC. Mitsubishi GX IEC Dev. and Be...
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posted by daniel
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by daniel

Khalil - nonlinear systems

Hy all, I'm looking for the book: 'nonlinear systems' - written by Hassan K. Khalil if someone has a pdf copy or someth...
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posted by gustcomer
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Stupid Question-- Why not Open-loop?

Consider a unity feedback system consists of a plant P(s) and a controller C(s), the closed-loop transfer function will...
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posted by sunshinenewton
44 comments posted 20yrs posted by sunshinenewton

Can a plc control a closed loop process?

Hi there Guys, I am a final year engineering student. In my final year project I will be using a closed loop process to...
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posted by shayglenn
3 comments posted 20yrs posted by shayglenn