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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence—part 2

    Greg McMillan
    There are changes the process industry can make for better safety performance
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    Improving safety performance: compliance vs. competence, part 1

    Greg McMillan
    Why the process industries need practical improvements in business policies, and how to do it
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    Achieving plantwide, multivariable control

    Greg McMillan
    These practical techniques help eliminate compartmentalization of multivariable control
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    One wish for 2024—more APC

    Greg McMillan
    We conclude this modeling and control series by asking engineers to use simulations to achieve more prolific and productive APC
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    Inferential measurements are the future

    Greg McMillan
    Online inferential measurements can offer accuracy for flow, temperature and pH performance
    Powering Plant Optimization And Safety
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    Control Talk: Powering plant optimization and safety

    Greg McMillan
    How dynamic simulation and process control can help operators make the most of their opportunities
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    AI & ML

    Control Talk: Machine learning, deep learning and nonlinear controls

    Greg McMillan
    Why you should be intrigued, and why you should be cautious
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    Loop Control

    Foray into feedforward control

    Greg McMillan
    There may be many more opportunities to preemptively correct for a measured disturbance via feedforward control than we realize.
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    Best practices in column control distilled, part 5

    Greg McMillan
    Greg concludes his conversation with Mark Darby and Doug Nicholson about optimal distillation control
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    Flow

    Realizing ratio control

    Greg McMillan
    Proactively keep units in balance without waiting for feedback correction
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    Loop Control

    The concealed PID revealed, part 5

    Greg McMillan
    This Control Talk column appeared in the February 2022 print edition of Control. To read more Control Talk columns click here or read the Control Talk blog here. Greg: In Part...
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    The concealed PID revealed, part 4

    Greg McMillan
    Understand PID subtleties to improve and optimize loop and process performance