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July 2008

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CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management professionals. The publication reports on developing trends, illustrates successful applications, and updates the basic skills and knowledge base that provide the profession's foundation.

Articles

Unlocking the Secret Profiles of Batch Reactors
How to Find Out What’s Really Going On In Your Process

Collaboration Given New Meaning at ABB Event
StatoilHydro’s Integrated Operations Earned $1.5 Billion in Added Reserves Last Year, with Expected Savings of $60 Billion by 2015

Disturbing Remarks
The Memories of Loops Gone Bad and Processes Gone Wild

SCADA Software Keeps Eye on Big Picture
Truly Useful Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Software Never Dies

Foreseeing the Future of Process Automation Technologies
<i>Control</i> Editors Make Prognostications on the Future of Automation Technologies. We Have These on Video

Fuel Cell of the Future
Process Control Will Play a Key Role In the Transition From the Fossil/Nuclear Economy to the Solar-Hydrogen Economy of the Future

Ready for Control in the Field?
When The Loop’s Valve Positioner Loses Power, the Loop Will Experience an Upset No Matter Where the PID Is Solved

Skills Shift to Software
Engineers Must Now Keep Up with a Lot of Microsoft Hot Fixes and Software Patches to Solve Vulnerabilities

Contenders or Pretenders?
Both Leaders and Followers Need to Cultivate Their Skills to Create a Successful Process Automation Environment

The Future and YOU
Manufacturing Isn’t Going Away, Toffler Pointed Out, Any More Than American Agriculture Went Away A Hundred Years Ago

Process Instrumentation’s Final Frontier
The Development Took Five Years—for An Analyzer Whose General Principles of Operation Have Been Known for Many Years

Continuous Level Measurement; Noise Filters
“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták. Béla and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, recruited from among the co-authors of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook 4th Edition, are “in the box” all month answering process ...

Reader Feedback: July 2008
Covering Intrinsically Safe Systems and Asking, How to Preserve Instruments/Valves In A Closing Plant?

Going With the Flow
Control’s Monthly Resource Guide

Managing Batch Processes in 2020
Senior Pharmaceutical Executives Agree, the Motif of Batch Manufacturing Will Change Dramatically In the Next Dozen Years

Contenders or Pretenders? Expanded Coverage
Read Our Expanded Coverage, Including the System Integrator’s View

News

PLC Software Tops Usage Survey
SCADA and alarm management are runners up. Integration and business intelligence applications don’t score so well.

Ed Diehl to Lead CSIA
Meet Control System Integrators Association's New Chairperson

Fisher Valves Now SIL3-Certified to IEC 61508 Standard
Emerson Now Has SIL 3 Certification

ISA84 SIS Certificate Programs Available
ISA Offers Three New Certificate Programs

OMAC has new name and mission

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