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Where possible, use a diaphragm actuator sized to meet at least 150% of the maximum thrust or torque requirement.

To achieve a successful industrial automation project implementation, it’s important for everyone to be involved with the process.

Understanding Safety Life Cycles

By Bill Lydon, Editor This new initiative, supported by CISCO, Rockwell Automation, Panduit and ODVA, supports IP network convergence between the enterprise and plant floor. The Industrial IP Advantage website and activities are an agnostic way to share best practices, information, and educate the industry to accelerate adoption of IP technology.

Pick your team members wisely, lead by example, and always convey the highest expectations of performance. Your team will deliver.

By Paul Hodge & Joe Bastone, Honeywell The advantages of optimized project workflow can be realized at both ends of the project schedule. The benefits are essential to ensuring control systems pose the least risk to project schedule and allow for safe, efficient and reliable plant startup and operation.

Even businesses with complex, energy-intensive production processes can control electricity use without compromising production. An advanced demand management system enables key strategies.

By Bill Lydon, Editor PAS has developed a new product to sync "as built" documentation with the current installed system, eliminating wasted man-hours, decreasing MTTR (Mean Time To Repair), and aiding with cyber security requirements and regulations.

By Rick Zabel, as originally published in InTech Here are the results from our 2013 salary survey of automation professionals. With an average annual salary of $106,772 in the U.S., job satisfaction has reached an all-time high of 85%. At the end of the article, the author provides a recipe for achieving the highest possible salary.

Your industrial plant or facility must have a proper defensive design so that the network, control devices & systems are cybersecurity hardened.

Use a sliding stem valve with diaphragm actuator and digital positioner whenever size and process conditions permit.

ISA Training and Education in November: Learn, Advance, Succeed

Automation offers a key competitive advantage in the dairy industry. It is time to upgrade or replace aging PLCs, drum timers and selector switches. Invest in technologies that will squeeze out 1 or 2

By Bill Lydon, Editor As Industrial Ethernet protocols have proliferated on the factory floor, IP devices have become vulnerable to cyber threats. Ironically, while the importance of cyber security protection is being emphasized, the industrial Ethernet protocol associations have no firm plans to migrate to new Ethernet standards that offer higher cyber security protection.

This article provides an overview of both protocols and discusses their key strengths and applications. It also discusses which one works best in which applications – although there is some overlap in what each can do. What’s more, they can complement each other in joint applications.

A good paycheck is nice, but if you find yourself dreading the return to work each morning it may be time to consider job options elsewhere.

Enterprise batch records expand the idea of electronic batch records to the entire manufacturing operation.

Process industries can leverage big data to realize value through compelling manufacturing use cases. Get familiar with big data terminology, technologies, and techniques.

By Bill Lydon, Editor To learn more about the Belden's Certified Industrial Network Program, I talked with Brian Oulton, Director of Initiative and Vertical Marketing at Belden. Here is a transcript of that interview.

Pipeline and inline control loops have no back mixing and hence no process time constant in the response of the outlet to changes in the inlet.