Abstract
The use of “automation,” whether it be factory automation (FA), laboratory automation (LA), office automation (OA), or home automation (HA), has come to pervade almost every major field in modern society. Moreover, process automation (PA), as employed by process industries such as the petroleum, chemical, petrochemical, and steel industries, has seen the introduction of various forms of real automatic control both early and recently in its history, thus reflecting the development of process control through the years. This chapter describes the essential elements of process control beginning with feedback control, the core of process control, and leading up to sequential control, which has come to perform a fusion with feedback control via recently developed distributed control equipment.
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Senbon, T., Hanabuchi, F. (1991). Process Control. In: Senbon, T., Hanabuchi, F. (eds) Instrumentation Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12089-7_2
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