James Beall

James Beall is a Principal Process Control Consultant at Emerson Automation Solutions with 40 years of experience in process control and instrumentation. James worked for Emerson for 20 years. Prior to Emerson, James worked for Eastman Chemical Company for 20 years. His areas of expertise include process instrumentation, control valve performance, control strategy analysis and design, advanced regulatory control and multivariable, model predictive control (MPC). He is a contributing author to Process/Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook, Sixth Edition. He spends most of his time in plants implementing process control improvement projects in all process manufacturing industries.