Alcoa World Alumina L.L.C. is one of the world’s largest producers of metallurgical grade alumina, the raw material for the aluminum smelting process. The Point Comfort Operations is Alcoa’s only ...

Distributed control systems and programmable logic controllers have long been used to regulate power plant operations, but advanced techniques that have been proven in refining and other industries ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

In this article, as in industry, advanced process control (APC) refers primarily to multi-variable control. Multivariable control means adjusting multiple single-loop controllers in unison, to meet ...

In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 18, Richard Kunnes, MD, managing principal and CEO of The Sevenex Group, discussed the importance of resource optimization ...

Biopharmaceutical manufacturing may come in a wide variety of forms, but each iteration of unit operation needs to align with a strict amount of operational parameters and structures in order to ...