Introduction to process control The new edition blends conventional topics with a modern perspective of integrated process operation control and information systems. Updated throughout it addresses smart manufacturing new data preprocessing techniques and machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts. It guides the reader to resources needed to solve modeling classification and monitoring problems. It introduces the link between process optimization and process control and links discussion of modern architectures of industrial computer control systems with real case studies and applications to pilot scale operations. It features exercises throughout and downloadable MATLAB toolboxes to reinforce learning