Control systems are exactly what you think they are: systems designed to control something. Perhaps a better way to put it is systems design control the behavior of something. The term “control ...

Over the years, control relays of various types have been used by the hundreds — even thousands — to control nearly every function in commercial and industrial processes. Today, many of those ...

Control systems are all around us, and understanding them is going to make you much better at hardware design. In the last article — Beyond Control: The Basics of Control Systems — we looked at an ...

Multiple inventory control methods exist including aggregate control, item level control, ABC analysis, economic-order-quantity and lot-size methods. Small companies that find it difficult to ...

Part 1 offers an up-close look at an IGBT device, and how to select one. Part 2 takes an in-depth look at an IGBT datasheet. Number 6: Control System Grounding Part 1 focuses on increasing control ...

Home automation is a method of controlling home appliances automatically for the convenience of users. This technology makes life easier for the user, and saves energy by utilizing devices according ...

ISA recently published the third edition of Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application by Harold L. Wade, Ph.D., PE. In this Q&A feature, Dr. Wade highlights the focus, ...

Monitoring takes the form of sensors and intelligent devices connected to a digital processor. These monitored values are used for computing and then controlling some sort of real-world action. Many ...

A client emailed me, "I struggle when the plane is initially ascending. I don't feel any anxiety while descending/landing. I know, I know -- it's crazy. I sometimes find myself white-knuckling it for ...

The illusion of control is a mental bias leading people to overestimate the control they have over the outcome of events. Even when the outcome of situations is demonstrably a matter of chance and not ...

Electromechanical actuators are mechanical actuators where the control knob or handle has been replaced by an electric motor. The rotary motion of the motor is converted into linear displacement. The ...