Expand Your Library with these Automation Fundamentals from ISA Publications!
Hone your skills and advance your automation and control career by studying and implementing the practices and insights in these ISA resources.
The Condensed Handbook of Measurement and Control, Fourth Edition
N. E. Battikha
This is an authoritative and indispensable resource for anyone who is responsible for selecting and implementing measurement and control devices for process automation applications.
Control Valve Primer: A User's Guide, Fifth Edition
Hans D. Baumann
Hans Baumann, holder of more than 150 patents and author of more than one hundred publications in control valve technology, shares his expertise on designing control loops and selecting final control elements.
Wireless Control Foundation: Continuous and Discrete Control for the Process Industry
Terrence Blevins, Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, and Willy Wojsznis
In this book, the authors address the wireless communication concepts and terminology that are needed to apply wireless control in the process industry. The control system interfaces and wireless field devices described in this book are based on wireless standards for industrial settings and can be used in monitoring and control applications.
Control Loop Foundation: Batch and Continuous Processes
Terrence Blevins and Mark Nixon
This book is written to act as a guide for engineers, managers, technicians, and others who are new to process control or experienced control engineers who are unfamiliar with multi-loop control techniques. After the traditional single-loop and multi-loop techniques that are most often used in industry are covered, a brief introduction to advanced control techniques is provided.
Control System Documentation: Applying Symbols and Identification, Second Edition
Thomas McAvinew and Raymond Mulley
Documentation changes and the evolution of control systems engineering and design work over the past decade are included in this edition. It is the intent of the authors to help people communicate ideas and concepts through the use of symbols and identifiers.
PID Controllers: Theory, Design, and Tuning, Second Edition
Karl J. Aström and Tore Hägglund
This book examines the auto-tuning and adaptation features of several commercial controllers, including digital PID controllers, and discusses measures for dealing with specific challenges such as reset windup, long process dead times, and oscillatory systems.
Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition
Bill R. Hollifield and Eddie Habibi
In this second edition, various problems of alarm systems are covered with precise guidance on how they come about and how to effectively correct them. The authors have vast experience in the different plants, processes, and environments requiring effective alarm management.
MES Guide for Executives: Why and How to Select, Implement, and Maintain a Manufacturing Execution System
Bianca Scholten
Bianca Scholten covers MES selection, what to expect during implementation and initial use, the advantages of using a single MES for multiple sites (and how to develop one), and return on investment considerations. The author also provides a bird’s-eye view of the widely adopted ISA-95 standard to facilitate effective, efficient communication between company systems.
Applying S88: Batch Control from a User's Perspective
Jim Parshall and L. B. Lamb
From designing better processes to combining recipes with equipment control to executing validation test plans, this book offers an introduction to ISA-88 as well as expert insights into applying it. Parshall and Lamb’s clear, lighthearted style makes this the ideal introduction to ISA-88 for control engineers, project engineers, technicians, operators, and many others.
Advanced Control Foundation: Tools, Techniques, and Applications
Terrence Blevins, Willy K. Wojsznis,
and Mark Nixon
101 Tips for a Successful Automation Career
Greg McMillan and Hunter Vegas
This book leverages two lifetimes of hard-fought lessons learned and can help beginners avoid many of the technical and career pitfalls the authors found along the way. With 60 years of automation and control experience, the authors have installed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment and managed thousands of projects.
Fundamentals of Process Control: Principles and Concepts
Patrick F. Bouwman
This book explains the fundamental principles, concepts, and theory of process control and provides detailed examples of how they are applied in industrial processes.