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 this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...