A stepper motor is a permanent magnet or variable reluctance DC motor that has the following characteristics: It is able…
Servo motors are continuous motion mechanisms that use feedback signals to provide position and velocity control in a closed loop…
A smart sensor is the integration of a sensor with an analogue to digital converter (ADC), a processor and digital…
Most modern PID controllers have the following features: Manual versus automatic modeOutput trackingSetpoint trackingAlarm capabilitiesProcess variable (PV) characterization and dampingSetpoint…
In direct digital control (DDC) a single computer is able to carry out PID control for multiple loops at the…
Process and Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs), also called Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and Loop diagrams are construction and documentation drawings that…
In some processes, it is a common requirement for two flows to be kept in precise ratio to each other…
Feedforward control is based on principle of pre-emptive load counter-action i.e. if all major loads (i.e. disturbances) on a process…
We know very well that closed loop control provides increased performance over open loop control. So it would be rational…
The ladder diagrams are universally used as a symbolic and schematic way to represent the interconnection between the elements in…
