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August 10 , 2005 - Volume VI, Issue 32
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From One Techie to Another: From India to America...and back? Featured Article: Implementing Performance Monitoring in Your Plant Product & Company News Featured CD: Sensors and Connectivity Catalogs CD Featured Products: 758 Series - PLC Control Fiber Optic Converters Panelmount Display and Digital Process Monitor New Job Opportunities Featured Training: Leadership Skills Toolbox Workshop New Auctions & Classifieds Dilbert Pick of the Week	AutomationDirect Offers New Potentiometers and Buzzers Recent additions to the AutomationDirect pushbutton line include 22 mm potentiometers and audible buzzer annunciators. The potentiometers are available in 5 and 10 Kohm models with a rugged metal housing and easy-to-wire screw terminals. Capable of accepting AC or DC voltages up to 250V, these are a great fit for simple speed or flow adjustment applications. The annunciators, available with or without a red LED indicator lamp, provide a simple buzzer alert tone for operators and can be easily installed in a standard 22 mm pushbutton cutout. Take a look online or call us at 1-800-633-0405.
From One Techie to Another
From India to America...and back? This week, I want to share with you an excellent article from Jim Pinto's August 5th eNews. Jim summarized a July 12, 2005 NY Times op-ed piece by Suketu Mehta. Suketu's family, like Jim, moved to America for economic opportunity. If you have any friends or acquaintances from India, you will probably agree with and appreciate this article. I have some personal Indian friends that are great people and extremely persistent. I've watched them work very hard to achieve success, success that they couldn't have achieved in India. I have one friend in particular that came to America to attend college, worked for a few years, got his MBA, got a great job with a global company in the Northeast, and is now a VP for that global company. Guess where? Back in India! As a society, America has become complacent after years and years of economic success. Some Americans have forgotten what it's like to work hard. Guess what? India (and China for that matter) is hungry for success and they will work hard to achieve it. So what do you do? Blame the Indians and Chinese? No! You find the drive to succeed! Here's Jim's summary of the Suketu Mehta's NY Times article or read it online at http://www.jimpinto.com/enews/aug5-2005.html#3...maybe it will help put things in perspective. * "Stories about big layoffs and huge offshore job expansions have aroused a primal fear in the Western world: that they might soon need to line up outside the Indian Embassy for work visas and their children will have to learn Hindi. Just as my parents had to line up outside the American consulate in Bombay, and my sisters and I had to learn English. "My father came to America in 1977 not for its political freedoms or its way of life, but for the hope of a better economic future for his children. My grandfathers on both sides moved from rural India to the big cities. Mobility is survival. Now we face the possibility that my children, when they grow up, will find their jobs outsourced to the very country their grandfather left to pursue economic opportunity. "The outsourcing debate seems to have mutated into a contest between the country of my birth and the country of my nationality. Of course I feel a loyalty to America: it gave my parents a new life and my sons were born here. I have a vested interest in seeing America prosper. But I am here because the country of my ancestors didn't understand the changing world; it couldn't change its technology and its philosophy and its notions of social mobility fast enough to fight off the European colonists, who won not so much with the might of advanced weaponry as with the clear logical philosophy of the Enlightenment. Their systems of thinking conquered our own. So, since independence, Indians have had to learn; we have had to slog for long hours in the classroom while the children of other countries went out to play. "When I moved to Queens, in New York City, at the age of 14, I found myself, for the first time in my life, considered good at math. In India, math was my worst subject, and I regularly found myself near the bottom of the class. But in my American school, the standards were so low that I was near the top of the class. If I were now to move with my family to India, my children - who go to one of the best private schools in New York - would have to take remedial math and science courses to get into a good school in Bombay. "Of course, India's no wonderland. A quarter of its one billion people live below the poverty line, 40% are illiterate, and the child malnutrition rate exceeds that of sub-Saharan Africa. But those Indians who went to the US have done remarkably well: Indians make up one of the richest ethnic groups in this country. During the technology boom of late 1990's, Indians were responsible for 10% of all the start-ups in Silicon Valley. And in this year's national spelling bee, the top four contestants were of S. Asian origin. "There is a perverse hypocrisy about the whole jobs debate, especially in Europe. The colonial powers invaded countries like India and China, pillaged them of their treasures and commodities and made sure their industries weren't allowed to develop, so they would stay impoverished and unable to compete. "Then the imperialists complained when the destitute people of the former colonies came to their shores to clean their toilets and dig their sewers; they complained when later generations came to earn high wages as doctors and engineers; and now they're complaining when their jobs are being lost to children of the empire who are working harder than they are. "The rich countries can't have it both ways. They can't provide huge subsidies for their agricultural conglomerates and complain when Indians, who can't make a living on their farms, then go to the cities and study computers and take away their jobs. Why are Indians willing to write code for a tenth of what Americans make for the same work? It's not by choice; it's because they're still struggling to stand on their feet after 200 years of colonial rule. "Of course, it's heart-wrenching to see American programmers - many of whom are of Indian origin - lose their jobs and have to worry about how they'll pay the mortgage. But they are ill served by politicians who promise to bring their jobs back by the facile tactic of banning them from leaving. This strategy will ensure only that our schools stay terrible; it'll be an entire country run like the dairy industry, feasible only because of price controls and subsidies. "But we have a resource of incalculable worth right here to help us compete: the immigrants who've been given a new life in America. There are many more Indians in the US than there are Americans in India. Indian-Americans will help America understand India and trade with it to our mutual benefit. Just as Arab-Americans can help us fight Al Qaeda, Indian-Americans can help us deal with the emerging economic superpower that is India. This is the return of the gift of citizenship. "And just in case, I'm making sure my children learn Hindi." * I personally believe there are are a few morals to this story. The world is much bigger than our own "American" back yard. Embrace your global neighbors! Remember the law of evolution...Survival of the fittest. The fittest will win! Work hard and take care of yourself. No one will do that for you. Balance, balance, balance. Enjoy the rest of this e-news! Rick Zabel
Featured Article
Implementing Performance Monitoring in Your Plant Much of industry recognizes that optimized controller performance increases plant efficiency. There are now case studies in every industry showing the benefit of continual assessment and diagnoses of controller performance. But how do you get started with performance monitoring? This paper outlines the 5 steps. Read full article by Tom Kinney and John Gerry of Expertune, Inc. More articles and white papers on various automation topics More application stories using various automation products
Product Announcements & Company News
Hear all about it...industry news is published on our site daily. Here are the latest news headlines for your review...use the following links to read the full article. Check out our Daily News Headlines page frequently to stay up-to-date on the industry events. Product Announcements: NI's New Compact FieldPoint High-Current Relay Module Ideal for Industrial Control Applications 8/9/05 NI's New Machine Vision Board Combines FireWire with Industrial Digital I/O 8/9/05 TURCK Announces a New Non-Invasive Liquid Level Sensor: levelprox 8/9/05 Rockwell Automation Announces New Propack Data PMX MES Release for Life Sciences Companies 8/9/05 ASI Introduces New Wire Termination and Installation Tools 8/9/05 JAI PULNiX Introduces TMC-73M Tiny CCD Machine Vision Color Camera 8/9/05 National Instruments Releases the LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit 8/9/05 National Instruments Introduces New Online LabVIEW Tools Network 8/9/05 Baldor Launches 12-axis PCI-bus Motion Controller 8/8/05 Banner Introduces PICO-GUARD™ Points - Non-Contact Fiber Optic Safety Elements for Flexible Perimeter and Access Guarding 8/8/05 Banner Engineering Introduces New WORLD-BEAM® QS30 Series Sensors 8/8/05 OEMs Reduce Costs and Simplify Installation With New Smart Motor Controller Component Kits From Rockwell Automation 8/8/05 Canfield Connector Introduces OSV - Combination Optical Sensor / Solenoid Valve 8/8/05 Applied PDA Software Introduces New Pocket PC Software for Data Collection from Industrial Devices 8/8/05 PMD Introduces Ultra-high Performance Motion Processor 8/8/05 Dickson Company Introduces Temperature/Humidity Mapping Guide for Industrial Processors 8/5/05 E Instruments Introduces New MicroCal 20 DPC Calibrator 8/5/05 Microscan Introduces New Quadrus MINI Mega Pixel Imager 8/4/05 Rockwell Automation Offers Stainless Steel Motor With Full Washdown Capabilities 8/4/05 Danaher Motion Redesigns Deltran PT Wrap Spring™ Clutch/Brakes for RoHS Compliance 8/4/05 Korenix Launches World’s First 4/8-Port Wide-Range Temperature Serial Cards 8/4/05 HEIDENHAIN Publishes New Incremental Modular Encoder Literature 8/4/05 Intermec Ranked #1 in Worldwide Market for Rugged PDAs 8/4/05 Fieldbus Foundation Releases Enhanced ITK 4.61 Test Kit 8/4/05 Bud Expands Grabber Style Hand-held Enclosure Line 8/4/05 TURCK Introduces New Sensors and Connectivity Catalogs CD 8/3/05 SERCOS Introduces Controllers for SERCOS III , the New Ethernet-based Implementation of the SERCOS interface® for Motion Control 8/3/05 Study Finds Siemens on Top in Programmable Safety Systems 8/3/05 Company & Organization News: Numerical Mathematics Consortium Proposes Open Standard for Algorithm Development 8/9/05 Modbus-IDA Adds Two New Directors to Board 8/9/05 Frost & Sullivan Honors InduSoft with 2005 Entrepreneurial Company Award 8/5/05 FKI Logistex Promotes Stephen Legg to Director, Product Technology and Development 8/5/05 Emerson Global Users Exchange to Feature More Than 300 Presentations, Workshops and Short Courses 8/4/05 Allen Vail Joins Omron Electronics LLC as Vice President of Finance 8/4/05 Leading Biotech Company To Host Fieldbus Seminar 8/3/05 Schneider Electric Announces Success of the Bond Issue 8/3/05 Application News: Emerson Digitally Automates Shanghai SECCO Petrochemical Complex 8/8/05
Featured CD
Sensors and Connectivity Catalogs CD TURCK Inc. has released a new Sensors and Connectivity CD (B0010) that combines their two largest catalogs in one convenient CD. The CD has many advantages over the printed Sensors and Connectivity catalogs, making over 1200 pages accessible through one easy to use, navigate and transport CD. Designed in PDF format for optimal maneuverability, the user simply needs Adobe Acrobat to view the catalogs. Bookmarks and quick link buttons let the user quickly locate desired information and move from catalog pages, to menus, to selection guides with the click of a mouse. Quick links also connect to catalog sections such as raw cable (reelfast ®), sensor mating cordset, and mold on connector options. Click here to request your Free CD
Featured Products
WAGO Corporation 758 Series - PLC Control with PC features... new white paper. More Information on 758 Series - PLC Control
Phoenix Contact Fiber Optic Converters allow complete isolation of Interbus, Profibus, Modbus, DeviceNet, CANopen, RS-232 & RS-485 networks. More information on Fiber Optic Converters
Endress+Hauser RIA452 versatile color Panelmount Display and Digital Process Monitor with recording capabilities. More Information on Panelmount Display and Digital Process Monitor Request Product CD or Endress+Hauser Assistance
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New Jobs
Here's a list of new jobs posted on Automation.com: IT Engineer, IS Application Support: Richmond, VA - Wyeth 8/08/2005 Sr. Inside Applications Engineer - Training: Vernon Hills, IL - Mitsubishi Electric Automation, Inc. 8/04/2005 Automation Specialist: Dallas, TX - Siemens Energy & Automation 8/04/2005 Automation Specialist: Houston, TX - Siemens Energy & Automation 8/04/2005 PLC Programmer: Dallas, TX - automationtechies 8/09/2005 Motion Controls Engineer: DFW/East, TX - automationtechies 8/09/2005 Project Manager: DFW/East, TX - automationtechies 8/09/2005 To view other recent job postings, please use our Job Search Function.
Training & Seminars
Leadership Skills Toolbox Two-Day Workshop The CSIA (Control & Information Systems Integrators Association) is sponsoring Ted Garnett's two-day seminar for your management and potential leadership personnel. Ted Garnett won "best in conference" honors for a third year running at the National CSIA conference this year in Memphis with this active participation event. Now they're making this high caliber workshop available to our members and other CSIs through this regional delivery, bringing Ted close to your people so you can get your hands on these tools! Location TBD (Airport hotel) Chicago, August 15-16 Atlanta, September 19-20 Cost: $1250 per person Send one or two of your rising stars to this program. You WILL reap the rewards. Click here for more information on this course Browse other training courses, seminars and web-seminars
New Auctions & Classifieds
eBay hosts over 6500 auctions for industrial automation, control and instrumentation products. From PLCs to sensors, from motor controls to robotics...Use the links below to browse the latest new, used and surplus automation products by category: Control Systems & PLCs Drives & Motion Control Fieldbus, DeviceNet, Ethernet Instrumentation Operator Interface Panels Power Supply, Circuit Breakers Relays, Timers, Counters Robotics Sensors Switches Temperature Controllers Valves & Flow Controls Wiring, Connections & Cables Other
Dilbert Pick of the Week
There may be a good reason your employer asks you not to discuss your raise with your co-workers.
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