In today's competitive environment, process industry companies are focused on two key objectives: profitability and delivering value to customers. However, these objectives are often disparate goals ...

Numbers matter, stresses Allan Griff, an engineering consultant to the plastics processing industry and extrusion expert. He will explain why they matter and how they can help solve myriad problems ...

In past columns, I've written about measurement of the key process variables in extrusion: Melt temperature, melt pressure and motor load . . . the vital signs. However, I shouldn't assume that all of ...

The most important factors involved during sintering process are temperature, time and furnace atmosphere. The influence of these factors on the sintering process is described below:5 Sintering ...

Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

Batch failures in biomanufacturing are rarely unpredictable. The warning signals appear in process data long before a culture collapses or a critical quality attribute drifts out of specification, but ...

Volumetric flow, flow velocity and temperature measurement – three of the most important variables which help to ensure efficient process control. So, wouldn’t it be convenient if you could measure ...