The two most common categories of process responses in industrial manufacturing processes are self-regulating and integrating. A self-regulating process response to a step input change is ...

Batch failures in biomanufacturing are rarely unpredictable. The warning signals appear in process data long before a culture collapses or a critical quality attribute drifts out of specification, but ...

Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...

I recently surveyed the on-site development of the control system for a large concentrated solar power station. This “first of a kind” facility offered many control challenges, such as balancing heat ...

BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) has become one of the most important technologies of SOA (service-oriented architecture) and enables easy and flexible composition of services into business ...

Multi-variable model-based control is a technology known to provide superior performance over traditional single-input-single-output control strategies. Originally developed for petroleum refineries ...

In today's industries, quality inspection in semiconductor manufacturing is critical. Many traditional fault detection and diagnosis techniques have been developed to determine the existence of trends ...

As DRAM technologies scale to increasingly tighter pitches, the patterning requirements exceed the limits of conventional single-exposure DUV lithography. In advanced nodes such as D1b (1-beta), ...