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Consider State-Based Control
This under-utilized approach can enhance operations and the bottom line.

Plants Take Measurement to a Higher Level
More capable devices promise immediate and longer term benefits.

Case Study: Instruments Tame Troublesome Slurry
Two-step approach allows resin plant to more accurately dose additive.

Rethink Sample System Automation
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NeSSI provides new tools to tackle the challenges and improve performance.

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White Papers: In Depth Research

Improve plant operations with process control
Author: Honeywell
Posted: 02/25/2008
Operations, startups, shutdowns, emergency procedures, bringing equipment to intermediate safe operational states and changeovers can all be significantly impacted by your refineries’ procedural operations. Find out how to improve your operations through process control improvements.

Improve Plant Safety and Availability through Advanced Measurement Diagnostics
Author: Rosemount
Posted: 12/21/2005
Advanced diagnostics, some of which are available today, will go beyond alarming transmitter failures to actually predict impending failures in the complete measurement system. This will significantly reduce unscheduled shutdowns, and also reduce the risk of onscale failure.

Measurement Best Practices
Author: Rosemount
Posted: 10/05/2005
This 9-page PDF discusses way in which you can ensure your measurements are accurate, repeatable and reliable.

Technical handbook from Magnetrol
Author: Magnetrol
Posted: 04/04/2005
This technical handbook from Magnetrol gives important conversions, chemical properties, equivalents and pipe data.

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Timeless Resources

Process Engineering: National Instruments test and measurement whitepaper database
National Instruments developer zone has a plethora of whitepapers on instrumentation. The database covers both hardware and software needs.
Process Engineering: Measurement Technology whitepapers
This whitepaper database from Rosemount covers many areas of instrumentation including safety-instrumented systems.

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