Larry Balcom, process control technology leader at DuPont Performance Coatings, in Front Royal, Va., was facing a problem. When he looked at issues in his manufacturing process that were inhibiting ...

Due to hardware and software limitations, batch control systems have evolved as two distinct parts: equipment control in the distributed control system (DCS) or programmable logic controller (PLC), ...

ISA-88.00.03-2003 standardizes equipment-independent batch recipes for consistent manufacturing, integration and efficient process control.

The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) and the Open Modular Architecture Controls Users’ Group (OMAC), announced recently that Make2Pack, a joint working group sponsored by World ...