Pain Relief for Open-Systems Complexity
Keith Larson sat in Honeywell Users Group Americas 2007 Symposium presentation held in June. See what he has to say.
One Man's Story - Part 1
Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to them at [email protected].
Distilation, Part 5: Multiple Products
In Part 5 of this series on distillation control and optimization, we find that adding a side-stream component to your process gives an additional degree of freedom, but makes it even more essential to not mismatch the variables.
Survey Snapshots Wireless Users
CONTROL recently conducted its first SP100 Wireless Survey of almost 500 readers about where and how they use wireless in their plant-floor applications.
Automation, Operators and the bottom line
Automation brings operator challenges as well as benefits. Addressing them means rethinking both control rooms and training.
Action Figures of Summer
Jim Montague talks about the few process control-related heroes found in the mainstream media and in less-hyped branches of literature and the fine arts.
Invensys Completes Cimnet Buy
Invensys has completed the acquisition of Cimnet. This acquisition is now being fully integrated into the Wonderware software business unit of Invensys.
Oil & Gas SCADA Market to Reach $1 Billion Plus
Over the next five years, the worldwide market for SCADA systems for the oil & gas industry is expected to grow at a growth rate (CAGR) of 8.9%.
Reader Feedback: Sox for Control Systems?
Read our argument, does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, particularly Section 302, which mandates a set of internal procedures designed to ensure accurate financial disclosure, apply to control systems?
Europe's Best-Kept Automation Software Secret Marks 20th Birthday
Here are excerpts from the August 2007 issue of Andrew Bond's Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.
One Ring to Rule Them All
Recently there have been a spate of product introductions of wireless networks that let you incorporate anything and everything into your control system: hazardous gas sniffers, man-down and personnel location services, other RFID feeds, intrusion alarms, safety shower alarms, and more.
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