While programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and advanced controls proliferate in many industrial operations, thermal processes often are the exception that proves the rule. 

Sandvik Coromant won a Technical Excellence Award (TEA) from Ford Motor Company for a tool and process monitoring application. 

In 2018, a glass products manufacturing company in Ohio presented its automation engineers with a new project: Data from manufacturing lines needed to appear in a web-based user interface (UI) already in use by company supervisors.

Emerson agreed to acquire Intelligent Platforms, a division of General Electric (GE). Intelligent Platforms’ programmable logic controller (PLC) technologies will allow Emerson, a supplier of automation for process and industrial applications, to provide customers broader control and management of their operations.

Approximately 350,000 people, mainly primary and secondary students, attended the largest science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) event in the United States April 7-8 in Washington, D.C. One of the biggest draws at the USA Science & Engineering Festival (USASEF) was a computerized game based on an actual industrial automation and control system. It was located at an exhibit sponsored by the International Society of Automation (ISA) and its umbrella organization, the Automation Federation (AF).

Honeywell’s ControlEdge programmable logic controller (PLC) received ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) Level 2 certification by exida, the ISO 17065-accredited certification body that conducted the assessment.

Chemical process control students at one West Virginia University campus will be able to gain hands-on experience with real-time measurement and control equipment to measure temperature, pressure, flow and level utilizing programmable logic controller (PLC) hardware and software.

Millenium 3 is designed to control, measure, monitor and log data for water applications.

Oven and furnace controls have progressed rapidly in the last five years in an effort to provide tighter temperature uniformity, enhanced data-acquisition and storage capability, scalable architecture, improvements in the user interface and communication, and data security.

Considering the number of variables present, gaining precise control of a process heating application can be a difficult task.