If you have heard industry pundit Jim Pinto speak, or read his barbed writings or laugh-out-loud poems, or subscribe to his popular e-newsletter, you’ll enjoy this book. This book is loaded with critical analysis of the changing face of industrial automation; predictions about future automation technology trends—the best of his articles on marketing and distribution; and his highly rated fieldbus commentary.
Format: Softbound Book – 2004 ISBN: 978-1-55617-864-1 Length: 205 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $25.00; List: $25.00 www.isa.org/unplugged
Basic and Advanced Regulatory Control: System Design and Application, 2nd Edition Harold L. Wade This revised best-seller teaches the practice of process control for the wet process industries. It stresses the study of real, imperfect processes rather than system theory, and gives guidance on how you can best apply your own experience, intuition, and knowledge of the particular process. The text summarizes the general characteristics of processes and control loops and discusses feedback control and its nuances. The latter part of the book addresses advanced control techniques.
Format: Softbound Book – 2004 ISBN: 978-1-55617-873-3 Length: 372 pages; Weight: 2 lbs. Member: $89.00; List: $99.00 www.isa.org/regcontrol
Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition Lawrence (Larry) M. Thompson This class-tested book gives you a familiarity with electricity and electronics as used in the modern world of measurement and control. Integral to the text are procedures performed to make safe and successful measurements of electrical quantities. It will give you a measurement vocabulary along with an understanding of digital and analog meters, bridges, power supplies, solid state circuitry, oscilloscopes, and analog to digital conversions. Where possible, applications are used to illustrate the topics being explained. This book will enhance student success in any industrial or technical school setting where basic technician training is to take place.
Format: Softbound Book – 2006 ISBN: 978-1-55617-988-4 Length: 383 pages; Weight: 2 lbs. Member: $79.00; List: $89.00 www.isa.org/basicelectricity
Bob Connell
A practical tutorial on the mathematics essential to the process control field, written by an experienced process control engineer for practicing engineers and students. This quick-and-easy review of the mathematics common to the field, includes chapters on frequency response analysis, transfer functions and block diagrams, and the Z-N approximation.
Format: Softbound Book – 2003 ISBN: 978-1-55617-813-9 Length: 200 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $49.00; List: $59.00 www.isa.org/basicmath
Boiler Control Systems Engineering Jerry Gilman This book addresses issues to be considered when defining measurement transmitters and specification for transmitters. Final control elements are reviewed as to characteristics and sizing. Engineering details on control systems and the setup of the various control functions are covered with specific examples of boiler control including configuration and tuning.
Format: Softbound Book – 2005 ISBN: 978-1-55617-907-5 Length: 144 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $59.00; List: $69.00 www.isa.org/boilereng
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