Welcome to the ACTC Industrial Control Resource Centre

This Resource Centre is part of the services of the Applied Control Technology Consortium to its members and the larger industrial control community. It is intended to compliment the many existing control engineering resources that are currently available on the Internet, by being much more industry focussed. This is reflected in the division of the resources into Applications, Technologies and Systems.

You will find below a breakdown of the entire Resource Centre to help you find information quickly. These resources are made up of deliverables produced by the ACTC, those that are available on the Internet and also interesting and relevant articles. Please note that the ACTC deliverables are only available to ACTC members, so please look on our Internet site to see if your company is a member and, if not, what the benefits of joining are.

The Resource Centre is still under going major construction. We would be delighted to hear from anyone wishing to add relevant links to these pages. Please email us with your links, suggestions and comments on this site. We will try to incorporate these into our developments.

Applications

   Process Control - in general and applications otherwise not explicitly listed below

   Power Generation and Distribution

   Metals Processing

   Food and Drink Manufacture

   Servo-mechanisms

   Automotive

   Aerospace

   Marine Systems

   Pulp and Paper

   Oil and Gas

Techniques

    Self-tuning and Adaptive Control

    Classical Control - anything not covered under PID

    Discrete Time Control

    Condition Monitoring and Fault Tolerant Control

    Filtering, Prediction and Smoothing

    Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control

    Genetic Algorithms

    Model Based Control Techniques - anything not covered under Predictive Control

    Neural Networks

    PID Control

    Predictive Control

    Robust Control

    Statistical Process Control

    System Identification

    Restricted Structure Control

Control Systems

   An Overview of Industrial Control Systems

   Control Systems Hardware

    DCS (Distributed Control Systems)

    PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers)

    Embedded Controllers

   Commuications Protocols for Industrial Control Systems

   Sensor and Actuators

   Alarm Handling Systems

Routes for Control Systems Design and Improvement

    An Overview of Control Systems Design and Improvement Routes

   Dynamic Systems Modelling

   Discrete Event Modelling

   Simulation Methods - see also the various CACSD Tools (below)

    Computer Aided Control Systems Design Tools

    Matlab/Simulink

    Matrixx/SystemBuild

    ProcessACT/UNAC

    ADAMS

    Easy5

    Beacon

    Mathematica

    Others

    Commissioning and Tuning Tools - see also PID Control

Miscellaneous

   Companies

   Academic Groups

   Organisations and Groups - non commercial

   Control Engineering Standards