Organisations promoting Control Engineering
Covers non-commercial organisations that promote the application of control
engineering.
UK Government Supported Organisations
Technology Transfer Groups
Internet Based Groups
General Engineering Resources
UK Government Supported Organisations
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Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme - was run by ETSU and
which published very comprehensive and useful case studies and good practice
guides, including a guide to reducing energy costs in industry through
advanced computing and control. These reports are now available through the
Carbon Trust web-site, under Publications
and listed in the full list of publications. Some seem to be available for download.
Technology Transfer Groups
- Process Control and Optimisation Consortium based at the Texas Tech
Univeristy, USA, is a partnership between industry and the Department of Chemical Engineering to assure
relevant process modeling, control and optimization research focused on industrial problems.
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Process Control Consortium - at the University of Connecticut
seeks to enhance the profitability and competitiveness of
our members through research, training and technology transfer
in the methods and practices of automatic process control.
- Inpact Industrial Network - a
group at Newcastle University that specialises in Statistical Process Control
of Industrial Processes
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http://www.ncaf.co.uk - Neural Computing
Applications Forum whos aim is to promote the exploitation of neural computing
technology for industrialists, academics and business people
Internet Based Groups
General Engineering Resources
- www.controlsweekly.com -
a very useful resource devoted to promoting education in the controls and automation industry.
On it are links to thousands of good, free, online web resources that have all be personally visited
and assessed to be of good quality and useful.
- Unit Calculation and Conversion
Centre for measurements, currencies and world time, etc.
- Pi Theorem - this Freeware windows
software makes it possible to check the validity of physical laws. It
computes the dimensional analysis using an experimental design method.
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