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Michael Taube
Michael Taube is a principal consultant at S&D Consulting, Inc. Serving the greater process industries as an independent consultant since 2002, he pursues his passion to make things better than they were yesterday by identifying the problems no one else sees or is willing to admit to and willingly “gets his hands dirty” to solve the problems no one else can. Due to the continued occurrence of individual injuries and fatalities, as well as large-scale industrial incidents, he collaborates with operational excellence and safety culture experts to promote a real and lasting cultural shift in the process industries to help make ZERO Incidents a reality. Michael graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering.
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Ask the Automation Pros: What University Projects Are Needed to Support Process Control?
Like a lot of things in engineering and construction, it’s hard to teach everything and risky not to, but getting it right the first time saves time and money.By: R. Russell Rhinehart, Mark Darby, Gregory K. McMillan, Peter Morgan, Michael Taube, Matthew Howard, Héctor H. Torres, Pat Dixon, Julie F. Smith, Bob Heider, George Buckbee, Michel Ruel, Edward J. Farmer24 June, 2026 | 15 minutes
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