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Object architectures in an increasingly services-oriented world
By Paul Miller
Standard services make the IT underpinnings irrelevant, allowing end users to focus on the business at hand.

IEC 61508 Product Approvals – Veering Off Course
By Angela Summers, SIS-TECH
Upon close examination it appears that the product approval process of IEC 61508 (1) has veered seriously off course, possibly rendering many safety instrumented system (SIS) applications less reliable than expected or required.

Process Plant 2025
By Nancy Bartels
One-person-and-a-dog operations? Wearable HMIs? At-home control rooms? Or more of the same ol’, same ol’?  Here’s what may be on the horizon.

I Am Robot and I Am Home
By Jeff Harrow
Jeff Harrow talks robots, synthetic biology, nano-things and other developments you’ll miss if you blink.

Andrew Bond's European News
By Andrew Bond
Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.

Previous Magazine Exclusive Articles

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• Asset Planning vs Activity Planning
• Training and Keeping Your Employees
• Field Calibration of Magnetic Flowmeters: Case Study
• Is Better Safety a Matter of Semnatics?
• Why the Status Quo Isn't
• Semiconductor Fab Control
• Reliability Requirements for Process Analyzer Systems
• Do You Know Who Made Your Valves?
• Intrisic Safety Supports North Sea Retrofit
• Upgrading a Wastewater SCADA System
• Caro's SP100 Report
• Process Analyzer System Safety and Ergonomics, Part I
• Controlling the Distillation Column
• Single Loop Integrity Returns to the Mainstream
• Getting into Enclosures