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ISA Transactions Shares 50 Years of History
ISA Transactions Shares 50 Years of History -
Automation Federation Goes to Washington: Cybersecurity and the Shortage of Skilled Manufacturing Workers
Automation Federation Goes to Washington: Cybersecurity and the Shortage of Skilled Manufacturing Workers -
Art to Part Manufacturing Shift
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Art to Part has been a vision since the 1970's to have a holistic computer aided product design to manufacturing process. The technology is available today, but manufacturers also need to make organizational changes to fully leverage it. -
How to Use a Coriolis Meter for Mass Flow and Concentration Control
Coriolis meters can be used for measuring liquid flows in batch, fed-batch and continuous operations. -
Manufacturing Cloud ERP – What Can We Agree Upon?
By Pat Garrehy, Rootstock After more than a decade of controversy, there is agreement on many of the benefits and evolution of Cloud ERP. Will it eat into SAP's and Oracle's business? -
Onshoring with Automation
By Will Selby, Automation GT Companies that are tired of poor quality manufacturing in third-world countries are coming back to the U.S. Automation makes it possible. -
The Cure for the Automation Workforce Crisis
Retiring workers are leaving a huge void in the process industries, but new blood hasn’t rushed to fill it. Even new opportunities like shale oil extraction haven’t attracted the workers they require. -
Siemens Serves Users by Adding EtherNet/IP
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor The addition of an EtherNet/IP stack to the Siemens Sinamics drives offers another option and makes life easier for users and machine builders. The Sinamics S120 drive products now support Profibus DP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and Ethernet TCP/IP. -
Tofino Security Appliance Thwarts Cyber Attacks
By Bill Lydon, Editor The Tofino Security Appliance and its management software withstood a variety of sophisticated reverse engineering attacks conducted by Digital Bond, the world's most respected sources for control system security research. -
Benefits and Shortcomings of Vortex Flowmeters
Vortex flowmeters are a good choice for measuring the flow rate of any reasonably clean fluid where measurement at very low flows is not required. -
Webinar Recording: Straight Talk on DCS Migration
Four top DCS migration experts discuss topics and trends surrounding DCS migration, using examples of multiple platforms from across the field. -
Flexible-Structure Control: A Strategy for Releasing Input Constraints
Process output can be brought back to the set point only by activating an auxiliary manipulated variable -
Industrial Ethernet – Too much of a good thing?
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor Industrial Ethernet networks and protocols have become a workhorse of automation systems. But how extensively should it be used? Ethernet is not ideal in all applications. Consider the good, the bad and the ugly. -
Guide to Effectively Executing Compressor Control Retrofits
Improving existing compressor control systems improves operations and energy efficiency -
Automation & Control Trends in 2013
Automation.com, January 2013 By Bill Lydon, Editor This article is an update to my 2012 Trends Article and expresses my thoughts on major automation and control trends for 2013 and beyond. These opinions are based on a wide range of inputs from users, suppliers and industry consultants, and from attending numerous events. -
How Equipment and Operating Conditions Affect Process Dynamics
Simple material and energy balances can be developed to understand the effects of equipment design and operating conditions on process dynamics. -
Asset Management: Moving from a Reactive to a Predictive Business
Automation.com, January 2013 By Nuris Ismail & Reid Paquin of Aberdeen Group Unplanned downtime, inability to maintain planned production rates, safety and environmental incidences are all problems that can be traced directly to recurring equipment failure and operation mismatches in production rates and capacities. -
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of Differential Pressure Flow Devices?
Each type of differential pressure flowmeter has a variety of pros and cons but the sheer number of types provides many options to the engineer -
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing, & the Economy
Things to Come: Predictions for Automation, Manufacturing & the Economy -
Why a Virtual Plant Is Crucial for Process Control Improvement
A virtual plant provides uses the actual plant’s control system & operator interface crucial for training and all levels of process control improvement.
