Content: Overall Plant Design --
Auditing Existing Plants for Upgrading --
Project Management and Documentation --
Operator Training, Commissioning, and Start-Up --
Flowsheet Symbols and Functional Diagramming for Digitally Implemented Loops --
Historical Data Storage and Evaluation --
Integration of Process Data with Maintenance Systems --
Applications, Standards, and Products for Grounding and Shielding --
Concepts of Hierarchical Control --
Analog or Discrete Input/Output, Costs and Signal Processing --
Estimating the Costs of Control System Packages --
Designing a Safe Plant --
Hazardous Area Classification --
Intrinsic Safety Rules for Fieldbus Installations --
Purging and Inerting Systems --
High-Integrity Pressure Protection Systems --
Process Safety Management --
Redundant or Voting Systems for Increased Reliability --
Network Security --
Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation --
Reliability Engineering Concepts --
Intelligent Alarm Management --
Safety Instrumentation and Justification of Its Cost --
International Safety Standards and Certification (ANSI/ISA-S84, IEC 61511/61508/62061, ISO 13849) --
Control Center, Workstation, and Logic Design --
Operator Interface Evolution --
Virtual Reality Tools for Testing Control Room Concepts --
Upgrading the Control Room --
Manufacturing Platforms and Workstations --
Workstation Hosts: Design Concepts and Classification --
Integration of DCS, PLC, HMI, and SCADA Systems --
Integration with RTUs, Multiplexers, Fieldbuses, and Data Highways.