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Plant managers, project managers, and engineers build and operate plants and processes that make extensive use of automatic control systems. Almost always, these control systems are a significant part of total investment and are strategic to business success, safety, health, and environmental protection, yet their design, installation, tuning, and maintenance is handed over to others - control engineers. This is at it should be. Control is a specialized, fast-changing field. However, managers are responsible for the investment and project managers are responsible for the project. To be sure the controls meet all project needs, these managers need the ability to oversee the control work, understand the issues at hand, participate in decisions and choices, and own the results. This book opens the door for those who are not control experts to wisely, rather than blindly, employ control experts, minimize project risk, and maximize operating success.It is not a difficult book to read but does require focus and digging through the details and logic presented.I was concerned that it was copyrighted in 2003, a long time ago in the world of industrial control. That proved not to be a problem, the ideas and issues presented are to a great extent universal and timeless.
