"This book is about process control as it is practiced in batch process industries. That means mostly recipe-driven procedural control and the equipment entities that make recipes relatively simple. The book does not include discussions of implementing most basic control@ like temperature and pH control. There are many books on the subject of process control. The ISA 88 series calls it basic control relative to procedural control@ which does not have a wide selection of books. It does not cover specific control systems or computer operating systems or database applications for batch control@ but does talk about those things in general. Purpose This book is intended to update ISA's ""Batch Process Control"" book with the findings of SP88@ both as discussion of 88.01 and as experience in applying 88.01@ and to update the technology in the first edition."