To summarize some of the key points and concepts for teaching: Do not…
Area refers to the size of two-dimensional surface. Volume refers to…
Temperature measurement devices may be classified into two broad…
The very purpose of physics is to quantitatively describe and explain…
The vast majority of modern process transmitters (both analog and…
Virtually any mass above absolute zero temperature emits…
Multiple accessories exist for pressure-sensing devices to function…
Every flow-measuring instrument exploits a physical principle to…
A great many precision instruments use the principle of balance to…
“Feedforward” is a rather under-used control strategy…
I remember first learning about the world-wide Internet, and wondering…
Volumes could be written about poor diagnostic technique. The…
Most people reading this book have likely had the experience of…
One of the most common, and most useful, pressure measuring…
Regulating the electric power sent to an electric motor is a task…
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but…
Diagnostic ability is arguably the most difficult skill to develop…
Light has long been used as a long-range signaling medium. While…
Current is the name we give to the motion of electric charges from a…
Those familiar with industrial instrumentation will find much within…
Mechanical pressure-sensing elements include the bellows, the…
Much has been written about the benefits of robust PID control.…
Cyber-security seems to have its own vocabulary, ranging from unwieldy…
A machine in the broad sense of the word is any device designed to…
Like so many other industrial data networks, FOUNDATION Fieldbus is an…
(Will be addressed in future versions of this book)
An engineer named Bob Metcalfe conceived the idea of Ethernet in 1973,…
A limitation inherent to pneumatic valve actuators is the amount of…
AC induction motors are based on the principle of a rotating magnetic…
Process analyzers measure the concentration of specific substances for…
Control valves are supposed to deliver reliable, repeatable control of…
Control strategies such as cascade, ratio, feedforward, and those…
An important performance parameter for transmitter instruments is…
A bridge circuit is basically a pair of voltage dividers where the…
In a manually-controlled process, a human operator directly actuates…
Steam boilers are very common in industry, principally because steam…
Two extremely important principles in electric circuits were codified…
A fundamental principle in instrumentation system troubleshooting is…
One of the marks of a successful problem-solver is a habit of applying…
