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Five Ways to Increase Your Automation Game via Controls Migration Without Decreasing Employee Morale

In the industrial manufacturing sector, the term “automation” often raises concerns about job security. However, when done properly, modernizing your facility is more about empowering your workforce than replacing them. By implementing a strategic controls migration, you can enhance your processing capabilities to meet your company’s goals without harming team morale. A successful migration shifts Full Story

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How Control Engineers are Incorporating AI into their Workflow

We asked multiple team members this question and more – here were their combined answers: How do you use AI in your daily routine? Magnum Systems’ controls integration team uses AI every day in some manner. For instance, when a team member collaborates with another subject matter expert, whether internal or external, it always depends Full Story

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Normalizing Material Delivery – Dry Ingredients

Batch recipes are often created considering a fixed amount of dry ingredients and liquids. Many dry products used in recipes are moist, featuring a measured amount of dry products and water. This poses a challenge for batch operators who mix the ingredients using assumed ingredient quantities and qualities. Source vessels hold ingredients, the properties of Full Story

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The Top Five Benefits of Tuning PID Loops in Process Control Systems

Process control systems are the backbone of efficient and reliable manufacturing operations, ensuring predictability, stability, and optimized performance across various industries. Whether managing the precise control of temperatures, pressures, or flow rates, these systems play a vital role in delivering consistent output, reducing waste, and upholding safety standards. At the heart of many process control Full Story

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Exploring the Benefits of Enterprise Architecture with Inductive Automation’s Ignition

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies face numerous challenges such as data fragmentation, operational inefficiencies, and the need for real-time decision-making. To overcome these obstacles, many organizations are turning to enterprise architecture solutions that offer a holistic approach to optimizing operations. One such solution is Inductive Automation’s Ignition, a powerful software platform that offers Full Story

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Embedded Engineers as Trusted Advisors

The legacy walls between areas and disciplines inside of a manufacturing plant have melted away, leaving behind a complex, inter-woven tapestry of interconnected workers and departments.  The speed at which technology advances inside of plants would make it nearly impossible for most organizations to support all systems via internal personnel.  The internal support teams of Full Story

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Benefits of a Campaign Manager

Batch processing facilitates the repetitive, tightly controlled manufacture of many things.  This type of operation is ideal for large scale manufacturing where products are assembled and modified in a series of stages or steps.  When connected to a batch management software system, the number of ingredients, execution stages, and degree of processing complexity which can Full Story

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12 Batch Implementation Design Considerations

Batch systems are used for maximizing quality control, minimizing cost, and reducing loss by manufacturing smaller batches compared to a mass production model, which is why companies in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries rely on them. The audience of a batch system is varied, and therefore the proper implementation of a batch Full Story

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ECS Delivers True Long Term Success as Trusted Advisors

People and organizations leverage trusted advisors in all facets of life.  Whether it is something as commercial as an auto mechanic or as intimate as a primary care physician, attorney, or wealth advisor, trusted advisors play a role just about everywhere.  They maintain deep, current knowledge in specialized fields, and they stand ready to support Full Story

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KNOW YOUR LOOP BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT TO TUNE YOUR LOOP – PART 2

In the last article for this topic, we discussed the importance of field data collection and the importance of a methodical approach to PID tuning.  I introduced the concept of the bump test and that its results would help guide the steps and equations used in proper tuning.  Here I will explore that concept in Full Story

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