APC Performance, LLC, recently briefed ARC Advisory Group on the company’s “next-generation” solution for advanced process control (APC). As we learned, this is designed to provide many of the ...

Process manufacturers have been using advanced process control (APC) and online optimization technologies for several decades. Advances are being made on the business front, increasing manufacturers’ ...

In the manufacturing world, the word “retrofit” many times is feared to mean “lost production.” In other words, plants—or at least parts of plants—must be shut down for equipment to be upgraded. And ...

Advanced logic scaling has created some difficult technical challenges, including a requirement for highly dense patterning. Imec recently confronted this challenge, by working toward the use of Metal ...

It’s not, “You say ‘tomato’ and I say ‘tomahto.’ ” With advanced process controls (APCs), you either know what they are or you don’t. If you do know, you know they give for-real, money-in-your-pocket ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

Multivariable predictive control technology increased oil and gas production by 4% from BP PLC's Marlin tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico. While multivariable control technology is ...

Advanced Energy Industries AEIS and KLA KLAC both serve the semiconductor manufacturing equipment market. AEIS specializes in ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Gregory Shahnovsky is CEO of Modcon Systems, specializing in process analytics and AI-driven ...

There has been a lot of recent discussion about the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, data analytics, and cloud. All of these terms may seem new to some audiences in the industrial world. However, a ...

Marcus Hoversland, a UW graduate and process engineer at HF Sinclair in Casper, interacts with UW students in an “Intro to Chemical Engineering” class. UW has received a generous investment from HF ...