industrial process control systems
1Industrial and Financial Systems — Infobox Company company name = Industrial and Financial Systems, IFS AB company company type = Public (OMXS: [http://www.se.omxgroup.com/stockinfo.aspx?stock=SSE995 isin=SE0000189946 IFS B] ) foundation = Linköping, Sweden (1983) location =… …
2Industrial control systems — Industrial control system (ICS) is a general term that encompasses several types of control systems, including supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), and other smaller control system… …
3Industrial process imaging — Industrial Process Imaging, or Industrial Process Tomography are methods use to form an image of a cross section of vessel or pipe in a chemical engineering or mineral processing, or petroleum extraction or refining plant. [ McCann, H and Scott,… …
4Collaborative process automation systems — Distributed control systems (DCSs) evolved intO PROCESS AUTOMATION SYSTEMS (PAS) by the inclusion of additional functionality beyond basic control. The evolution of PAS into the CPAS will add even more capability. In the next phase of their… …
5Control engineering — Control systems play a critical role in space flight Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors. The practice uses sensors to measure… …
6Control system security — is the prevention of intentional or unintentional interference with the proper operation of industrial automation and control systems. These control systems manage essential services including electricity, petroleum production, water,… …
7Industrial Real-Time Fortran — (IRTF) was developed, during the decade of 1970 1980, to augment the Fortran language with library bindings useful for process and device control, and I/O. Also included in IRTF was a set of bit manipulation functions which were eventually… …
8control system — Means by which a set of variable quantities is held constant or caused to vary in a prescribed way. Control systems are intimately related to the concept of automation but have an ancient history. Roman engineers maintained water levels in… …
9Systems engineering — is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed. Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult… …
10Industrial engineering — is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment,… …
