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April 7, 2004 - Volume V, Issue 13 (Published almost every week) |
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In the March issue of Control Magazine, Walt Boyes wrote an interesting article (The Failure of Nerve?) about why manufacturers are exporting jobs overseas. Manufacturers and processors are attracted to the lower operating and labor costs associated with overseas facilities. In the article, Walt essentially puts the blame on out-of-touch management and accounting practices. Could manufacturers have prevented this workforce tragedy by more efficiently managing their plants and processes? Good question! I'm not an industry analyst, but I do see what's going on in our industry.
The reality is manufacturing jobs continue to go overseas. Even though our economy is improving and the manufacturing industry is picking up, those jobs will probably never come back to the US. Unemployment remains very high. How are we ever going to replace all those jobs? No one seems to have an answer to this question. This topic has become an issue in the current race for the presidency. Unfortunately, neither candidate really has the answer to this question either. It seems our government and the manufacturers are the only ones that can turn this around. Can the government offer businesses enough incentives to keep or even bring jobs back to the US? Can manufacturers really change their management and accounting methods in order to increase productivity and profitability? I guess we'll just have to wait this one out.
Let me leave you with this...I saw an interesting bumper sticker the other day that pretty much sums it up for me. It read "I love my country but fear my government." My faith is with the manufacturers, at least for the time being.
Automation Engineering Book Winners Automationtechies.com and IDC Technologies would like to congratulate the following people as being the first ten to correctly answer the two questions from our Recent Contest. Each winner was able to choose one of twelve IDC Technologies Automation Engineering books as their prize (a $50.00 value). There were a total of 101 contest participants.
1. Alan R. Clendenning (IN)
And, the correct answers were Question 1. - Pin 2 Question 2. - 32
Thank you to everyone who participated in our contest!
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Hierarchical State Machines in the Automation Process Often during the process of supporting, modifying or re-engineering automation software, I have found myself making the same conclusion: "This is a Hierarchical State Machine trapped in the body of a C program, struggling to get out!" It seems that many programmers tackle a problem in the A to Z approach, creating a program that is chained to the original programmer's concept of how the process is to be automated. The result is a system that is difficult to support, suffers from instability, and is difficult to add or modify functionality. This article will introduce you to the concept of a Hierarchical State Machine (HSM) and show you how this approach works so well in software engineering for the automation industry.Read full article by Steve Elliot, Copperline Consulting Services, Inc.
Other articles and white papers on various automation topics Other application stories using various automation products
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News Headlines - Automation, Process Control & Instrumentation News
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More Information on Siemens Programmable Safety Controller
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'Explains why those motivation posters are such big sellers'
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