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On Becoming an Automation Professional
A young college student charts his path on the way to becoming an industrial engineer. -
What Your DCS Knows But Won't Tell You
What Your DCS Knows But Won't Tell You -
Alarm Floods and Their Connection to Plant Incidents
Alarm Floods and Their Connection to Plant Incidents -
Should You Use Current or Voltage in Analog Transducer Readings?
By CAS Data Loggers Both types are low-cost and easy to find, and both have advantages and disadvantages depending on the environment in which they are being used. -
Demystifying the Semantic Model
Automation.com, August 2012 By Jay Funnell, et al, Honeywell Process Solutions A semantic model promotes a lower total cost of ownership within data environments used for operational, production and asset management functions. Here's how it works. -
CISCO's Connected Industries Business Unit poised for growth
Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Cisco's newly-formed Connected Industries Business Unit, recently created to help customers realize the benefits of the transition to Ethernet and IP in manufacturing plants, launched a new switch series and is reaching out to a broad base of potential partners. -
Process Automation Vision at DuPont
Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Yiannis Dimitratos of DuPont Engineering is charged with developing a competitive position in automation and process control technologies and shared his thoughts at the Siemens 2012 Automation Summit about future plant and automation developments. -
Niagara Summit 2012 - Fascination & Passion Continues
Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Building Automation summit, Steve Fey, President of Tridium, shared his thoughts on industry topics and provided an update on Tridium products. Topics included mobility growth, Web development, and security. -
Automation Industry Career Tip: Learn New Skills and Explore Technological Advances
An emerging opportunity is learning how to mine information from an asset management system and an instrument management system. -
Advantages of Pairing Experienced and Novice Automation Professionals
The addition of new people to the automation profession provides a great opportunity to avoid "reinventing the wheel," -
Automation Federation Partners with NC High School for Automation Curriculum
Automation Federation Partners with NC High School for Automation Curriculum -
Intelligent Device Management Standards Committee Seeks Members
Intelligent Device Management Standards Committee Seeks Members -
Siemens Digital Plant Vision
Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Raj Batra of Siemens discusses how the process industries are moving to digitizing plants with virtualization and describes how greater productivity can be achieved with higher level software approaches for programming applications. -
ISA Toronto Day at Canada’s Wonderland
ISA Toronto Day at Canada’s Wonderland -
Asian OPC InterOp Report: 22 Products Pass Interoperability Tests
Fourteen vendors successfully tested 22 OPC products at the three-day Asian Interoperability (IOP) Workshop, an event sponsored by the OPC Foundation and hosted by the OPC Japan Council this past June in Tokyo, Japan. -
Why Control Panels Can Be a Source of Risk in Retrofit Projects
Project management is really just risk management, and a large source of risk to an automation project is the control panels. -
Design of Emergency Steam Load Shedding System Using Dynamic Simulation
Design of Emergency Steam Load Shedding System Using Dynamic Simulation -
Good Customer Service in the Process Industries Goes Beyond Tech Support
One of the most overlooked aspects to providing good customer service is ensuring that employees feel invested in their jobs and are part of a corporate team. -
Autotuning of a new PI-PD Smith predictor based on time domain specifications
Autotuning of a new PI-PD Smith predictor based on time domain specifications -
Moving Automation Data Over USB
By John Rinaldi, Real Time Automation This article examines USB and its applicability for factory floor applications. It addresses the history of USB, the technology, the advantages and limitations of USB in the factory floor environment and how USB will most likely be deployed in the coming years.
