This edition shows how the investment in a preventive maintenance program repays a company in longer equipment life, smoother operation, planning, and scheduling.

Preventive Maintenance

Business & Money

Joseph D. Patton Jr.

Management & Leadership

ISA: The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

A best-seller since the introduction of the first edition in 1991, Flow Measurement, 2nd Edition, is the leading authority on all aspects of the field, from the most basic principles and tips to advanced theory and applications. Rather than relying on the inherent limitations of a single author, this resource provides readers with authoritative material from specialists in every flow measurement technology used in industry. For this new edition, over 30 authors have rewritten, updated, and expanded virtually every element of this comprehensive reference. Editors expanded the scope of the book by adding new chapters on laminar flow elements, critical flowmeters, statistics for measurement, laboratory primary standards, and uncertainty in flow measurement. 
Beginning with chapters on the need for flow measurement, a brief history of the field, and physical properties of fluids, the text takes readers through basics such as the fundamentals of flow measurement, calibration, and installation and maintenance of flowmeters. Material in these early chapters emphasizes the importance of accuracy in measurements and ways of ensuring accuracy and avoiding equipment damage through correct forecast of operating conditions, flowmeter selection, installation, calibration, and maintenance. Fundamental considerations such as mixed-phase flow, piping effects, and flow conditioning are examined at length. The problem of attaining a meaningful flow signal through linearization, compensation, and totalization is also discussed. 
The book dedicates a whole chapter to each major technology including differential pressure flowmeters, critical flowmeters, laminar flow elements, magnetic flowmeters, mass flowmeters, open channel flow measurement, oscillatory flowmeters, positive displacement flowmeters, target flowmeters, thermal mass flowmeters and controllers, tracer dilution measurement, turbine flowmeters, ultrasonic flowmeters, variable area flowmeters, insertion flow measurement, custody transfer measurement, and sanitary flowmeters. An additional six chapters provide in-depth reference material on other related aspects of flow measurement that include flowmeter selection, uncertainty in flow measurement, laboratory primary standards, flow measurement proficiency testing, industry standards, and flowmeter specifications. 
This resource is an essential reference for control systems engineers, instrument designers, instrumentation technicians, calibration specialists, maintenance managers, technical sales representatives, training instructors, researchers, and anyone else who deals with flow measurement technology.

Flow Measurement: Practical Guides for Measurement and Control (Practical Guides for Measurement and Control,)

Science & Math

David W. Spitzer

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

Building on the knowledge and the goals of the best-selling book, Advanced Control Unleashed, this portable pocket guide goes beyond theoretical concepts and provides new insight into the implementation practices after the objectives have been defined and the technology decisions have been made. 
Recognizing the opportunity that models present to capture and exploit plant knowledge, the authors share their expertise on the concepts, procedures, and examples needed to construct and apply different models through the use of "state of the art" software for simulation and model predictive control. 
You don't need an advanced degree to get the most out of this pocket guide. Models Unleashed will help engineers closest to the application take advantage of their experience by embedding it in a model and a control system.

Models Unleashed: Virtual Plant and Model Predictive Control Applications

Engineering & Transportation

McMillan, Gregory K.

Cameron, Robert

Engineering

Many applications of variable speed drive technology fall in the cracks between traditional engineering disciplines. This book presents the electrical, hydraulic, chemical, and instrumentation information necessary for sound evaluation of variable speed drive applications. The author also offers hints for selling management on a retrofit project.

Variable Speed Drives: Principles and Applications for Energy Cost Savings

Are you trying to make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market today? Whether you're a novice industrial network user or someone who simply needs to brush up on the technology, Automation Network Selection will help you better understand and select the "right" network for a given application. 
Industry expert Dick Caro walks you through the various industrial networks (e.g., sensor, fieldbus, control, safety buses, and so on) and then gives you a perspective on the typical applications for industrial automation network technology. The emphasis is on the intended application for each network, rather than on the network protocol that is more typically discussed in most textbooks. 
With many projects requiring more than one network application, finding the network that best fits your needs is no easy task. This book will help get you started on the right path.

Automation Network Selection

Computers & Technology

Dick Caro

Certification

Need to get up to speed on one of the leading fieldbuses on the market today? 
This pocket guide provides a basic overview of PROFIBUS operations, installation and configuration, wiring schemes, troubleshooting, and tips and tricks. A simple and convenient reference to enable engineers and technicians to quickly retrieve the essentials for successful understanding and deployment of PROFIBUS. Also useful for engineering management seeking a summary understanding of Profibus. Illustrative figures and technical tips are provided for quick reference.

PROFIBUS: A Pocket Guide

Ronald W. Mitchell

Networking & Cloud Computing

This new enlarged and updated edition of a best-selling classic provides a unique balance between control system theory and effective application, covering every major control system element, from sensors to final control elements, in the context of overall control strategies and system design. Contributing subject experts give time-tested, practical advice on the application of each system element.This edition provides updates on a range of topics including Internet communications, industrial communications network hardware and software, open systems, wireless networks, enterprise computing, and computer and control system security. Other sections introduce the new generation of distributed controls and digital automation systems, and present migration strategies for expanding and upgrading existing systems. Practical issues such as the use of standards and sound documentation for project management are emphasized throughout.Ther chapters include: Sensors; Analyzers; Process and Process Control; Final Control Elements; Computer Technology; Control System Theory; Analog and Digital Control Devices; Distributed Control Systems; Programmable Controllers; Ergonomics, Human Factors, and Safety Aspects; and, Systems Application and Engineering Practices. As a bonus, the book comes with the full text and graphics on a CDROM so that you can have access from your bookshelf or from your PC for ultimate convenience.

Fundamentals Of Industrial Control: Practical Guides For Measurement And Control

D. A. Coggan

Technology

This newly revised best-seller teaches the practice of process control for the wet process industries. It stresses the study of real, imperfect processes rather than system theory and gives guidance on how engineers can best apply their own experience, intuition, and knowledge of the particular process. The text summarizes the general characteristics of processes and control loops and discusses feedback control and its nuances. The latter part of the book addresses advanced control techniques. New topics covered in the book include tuning feedback control loops, multiplicative feedforward control, other control techniques (e.g., split-range control, cross-limiting control, floating control, techniques for increasing effective valve rangeability, and time proportioning control), and more. The reader will learn the bottom-line benefits of these advanced strategies. Examples from the commercial world are given. Suitable for beginning or experienced process control engineers.

Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application

Harold L. Wade

This newly revised edition of Programmable Controllers discusses all phases of programmable controller applications from systems design and programming to installation, maintenance, and start-up. Used as a resource by thousands of technicians and engineers, this applications-based book provides a clear and concise presentation of the fundamental principles of programmable controllers for process and machine control. Increased coverage of all five standard PLC programming languages - Ladder Diagram, Function Block Diagram, Sequential Function Chart, Instruction List, and Structured Text Â- and the addition of numerous programming applications and examples clearly explain each programming language.

Programmable Controllers, Fourth Edition (Resources for Measurement and Control)

thomas-a-hughes

This comprehensive review of calibration provides an excellent foundation for understanding principles and applications of the most frequently performed tasks of a technician. Topics addressed include terminology, bench vs. field calibration, loop vs. individual instrument calibration, instrument classification systems, documentation, and specific calibration techniques for temperature, pressure, level, flow, final control, and analytical instrumentation. The book is designed as a structured learning tool with questions and answers in each chapter. An extensive appendix containing sample P&amp;IDs, loop diagrams, spec sheets, sample calibration procedures, and conversion and reference tables serves as very useful reference. If you calibrate instruments or supervise someone that does, then you need this book.

Calibration: A Technician's Guide

Cable, Mike

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