Matrix SafetyNet is a SIL 2 safety system that is built on the same control platform as the vendor’s Matrix Process Automation System, enabling users to address process control and functional safety ...

When Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) were first adopted by the process industries in the mid 1980s, they typically were Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) systems. These systems were significantly more ...

Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus hardware solutions that ...

Industry is moving toward closed-loop control of continuous processing. Fotosearch/Eriko Koga/Comstock/Getty Images; Dan WardSince FDA issued its report, Pharmaceutical Current Good Manufacturing ...

At one time, process historians were simply software packages used to store and present real-time process data. Today, however, historians are being used to do much more. Process historians are being ...

Integrated data and cloud-based solutions can be used for process optimization. In the past, process control data were used simply to control the process. With the explosion of data collection and ...

When it comes to process-control systems, reliability is crucial and failure can be costly or dangerous. A combination of good design practices, component selection, and testing can enhance ...

ISA recently published the third edition of Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application by Harold L. Wade, Ph.D., PE. In this Q&A feature, Dr. Wade highlights the focus, ...