Defines and illustrates the principles of industrial process control. Mechanical and automatic feedback control systems are compared and the film shows how automatic electronic control can be refined to handle a wide range of applications from huge and complex plant to the milling of a precision curve involving accuracies of 1/10,000th of an inch.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321838
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial efficiency
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial equipment
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial productivity
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Process control
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Automation
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Electronics
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)