An entertaining guide on how you can successfully organize a business for maximum efficiency and profits - written by a successful entrepreneur who built a very profitable manufacturing company. Explore strategies on how to get started in business and how to sustain success as your company grows. The easy-to-read, often witty, text covers how to start your own business, how to manage, role of incentives, value of meetings, budgets, computer communications, why smaller is often better in business, mergers, acquisitions and much more. Learn from author Hans Baumann's extensive business experiences as a corporate officer with several major multi-national corporations. His straightforward often blunt analysis of mergers, business fads, and other issues makes this an engrossing, must read book, for any follower of business trends and the automation industry. Hans Baumann is a prolific technical writer, the holder of over 120 patents, and co-author of a university study on the relationship between profitability and company size.

The Ideal Enterprise: Managing by the Law of the Sphere

Hans D. Baumann

Reference

Vantage Press

A reference for novice instrument engineers faced with the actuality of designing a control loop in a process plant, and realizing that in addition to all the fancy stuff, they need a final control element, something like a cross between a piece of plumbing hardware and a pneumatic logic system. Includes shortened sizing and noise equations that ca

Control Valve Primer: A User's Guide

Instrumentation Systems &

This up-to-date work on final control elements presents theoretical and practical information in an easy, conversational style, which makes it an excellent reference for experienced instrument and process engineers as well as students who are new to the field. The book begins with a basic explanation of the function and purpose of control valves, explaining the various types of valves that are available along with their features and limitations. It also provides: • Directions for selecting the best valve for a given service and the right flow characteristics • Simplified equations for sizing control valves for liquids and gases under normal and special conditions, such as flashing and laminar flow • Directions for minimizing environmental problems, such as noise produced by turbulent or cavitating fluids and aerodynamic noise • Solutions to dynamic instability problems • Methods for improving control loop stability • Discussion on related safety issues such as "fail-safe" action and cybersecurity Many reference tables provide information that will be invaluable in valve selection, such as valve materials, temperature ratings, and valve dimensions. Also, for the benefit of international readers, examples and equations are presented in metric as well as U.S. customary terms and measurements.

Fluid Mechanics of Control Valves: How Valves Control Your Process

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

International Society of Automation

Control Valve Primer: A User’s Guide, Fifth Edition

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