Articles and News

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.

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.

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.

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.

An emerging opportunity is learning how to mine information from an asset management system and an instrument management system.

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

Intelligent Device Management Standards Committee Seeks Members

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

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.

Project management is really just risk management, and a large source of risk to an automation project is the control panels.

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.

Design of Emergency Steam Load Shedding System Using Dynamic Simulation

Autotuning of a new PI-PD Smith predictor based on time domain specifications

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.

Use a PID control to eliminate manual actions and scheduled actions whenever a reasonable PV measurement is available.

Automation.com, August 2012 By Bill Lydon, Editor Greg Bodenhamer is responsible for Schneider Electric's internal integration and services group and has been building a program to cooperatively work with independent system integrators. The overall goal is to put the customer first and provide the most effective and efficient solution.

By Peter Seeberg and Jürgen Lange, Softing The third part of this series of articles outlines ten key reasons that have led to the development of an entirely new technology generation, the OPC Unified Architecture.

Connectivity is great for consumers and businesses, but the owners and operators of large and dangerous industrial processes ask a different question.