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What Are Best Cutover Strategies for Upgrading an Industrial Plant?
When retrofitting an industrial plant, review budget, schedule, financial justification for the project, as well as all areas of concern such as shutdown. -
How to Eliminate Lagging Plant Construction and Upgrade Project Schedules
Plant construction and upgrade projects often fall behind schedule, because the people managing them do not know how to keep them moving. -
Project Management Benchmarking Survey
By: Bill Lydon, Editor This article will share some of the key presentation points, and the lively discussion that followed, from the 2015 PAR Benchmarking Survey on Project Management. -
ISA to provide project management course for systems integrators
ISA and CSIA will collaborate on a web-based project management course customized to meet the specialized needs of system integrators. -
Optimize Your Industrial Automation System with a Resilient Design Strategy
There are usually few arguments against building a resilient automation system with a design strategy, which can respond to non-normal conditions. -
Portrait of the Automation Engineer as a Young Professional
Career advice for a new industrial automation engineer: seek knowledge, focus on effective communication, strive for excellence and get involved. -
Design Automation Systems with a Focus on Diagnostics and Situational Awareness
Today’s powerful automation platforms offer more diagnostic and situational awareness capabilities than ever before; they just need to be put into service. -
Is There Enough Focus on Cybersecurity for Municipal Infrastructure?
Maximum cybersecurity protection is possible only when cybersecurity protection is embedded deeply into a municipal infrastructure from birth. -
Automation Engineering Design Must Protect Against the Unexpected
Good engineering for automation projects requires thinking beyond the normal everyday conditions to design to protect against the unexpected. -
Control System Migration is a Major Learning Opportunity
A major migration project offers what is arguably the best opportunity to train the next generation of automation engineers and plant operators in a way that can yield benefits for many years to come. -
How to Achieve a Successful Industrial Automation Project Outcome
Bringing in professionals to help before a project gets off the rails makes the whole experience easier and less costly. -
What are the Challenges of Process Plant Upgrade Projects?
New process plant construction or upgrade projects launched using in-house resources often end up calling in outside professionals to help. -
The Industrial Automation Challenge: Finding Opportunity in Obsolescence
To keep up with the evolving automation landscape, we have to approach industrial control system obsolescence as an opportunity for operational improvement and cost reduction. -
Integrating DCS I/O to an Existing PLC
PLC I/O replaced with DCS I/O while keeping existing PLC sequence logic. -
How to Use Workflow to Achieve Business Integration in Manufacturing Operations
Using a workflow-based approach, manufacturing businesses and process industry companies can extend and leverage existing purpose-based systems, expose new functionality that was too complex to captur -
What Considerations Should You Make Before Upgrading a Critical System?
What Considerations Should You Make Before Upgrading a Critical System? -
RationalPlan offers Free Project Management Software
Starting with version 4.7 RationalPlan Single is distributed as freeware under all Linux operating systems. -
Project Management Is More Than a Disruption: It Is Real Work
Project Management Is More Than a Disruption: It Is Real Work -
Key Questions to Ask Before Migrating to High-Performance Industrial Control Graphics
Key Questions to Ask Before Migrating to High-Performance Graphics -
How Do You Make an Automation Buying Decision?
How Do You Make an Automation Buying Decision?
















