Article: Lowering your environmental entropy.(Guest Dialog)

You might recall from some of your engineering courses the concept of 'entropy' in determining overall plant efficiency and performance. Much of your plant improvement activities ate actually geared to lowering the entropy of your plant's processes to improve its efficiency. But you might be surprised to learn that entropy applies to your plant information as well. Claude Shannon, known as the Father of Information Theory, worked out information entropy equations at Bell Labs in the late 1940s. The entropy of data is related to its uncertainty. The higher your data uncertainty is, the higher its entropy. High entropy in your plant process results in a high heat rate and ...

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