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By Jon DiPietro Track: Human Performance Nearly nine out of every 10 employers are looking to social media to find employees, and almost three-quarters of them will search for your online profile before you come in for an interview. What will they find?

By Steve Huffman Track: Human Performance As competitive pressures increase, automation professionals will need expanded skill sets in an ever increasing system integrated world. This session deals with Automation Federation’s strategies and efforts to meet the workforce challenge.

By Danaca Jordan Track: Control Performance During Wednesday’s Control Performance Track session on "Efficient Operations Starts with Control Performance," we will use an ongoing case study to demonstrate how process control improvements can still be accomplished around a hectic schedule.

By Flávio P. Briguente (Monsanto) and Greg McMillan (CDI Process & Industrial) Track: Control Performance In batch processes, control becomes more complicated because of the variability of level, pressure, and concentrations. For this particular case, the process consists of a batch reactor, an external shell-and-tube heat exchanger with cooling tower water flow on the shell side.

At ISA Automation Week, Perpetuum will show how their Vibration Energy Harvesters can eliminate the need for battery replacement even at data collection update rates faster than 5 seconds.

By Marion Skerrette Track: Asset Performance This presentation seeks to examine areas of the business such as loop tuning, plant monitoring, facility management, planning, HSE, and alternate routes.

Growing at a compound annual growth rate of 22.5 percent, cellular shipments are expected to reach 2.1 million in 2018.

The GSM-PRO app enables remote control of the I/O modules from iPhones and Android smartphones.

Sercos is making recordings of webinars on the topic of “CIP Safety on Sercos & EtherNet/IP” and “Common Sercos III and EtherNet/IP Infrastructure” available free and on-demand.

JSC NIAEP-ASE will use the software to support the whole lifecycle of a nuclear plant – from engineering & design phase to decommissioning.

Tatsoft signs Optimate to cover Australia and Sterling-ES for the Mid-Atlantic region of the US.

To best meet the rising demand for official EtherCAT Conformance Tests, the EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) has expanded the EtherCAT testing services.

October U.S. cutting tool consumption totaled $176 million, up 13.1 percent from September’s total but down 5.8 percent from October 2012.

The share of new generator sales that use fossil fuels is forecast to decline as growth in the renewables and nuclear sectors ramps up.

ISA will begin developing a certification program as part of a $23 million federal grant to fund two-year degree programs in “Mission Critical Operations” at five North Carolina colleges.

FANUC merged all of its operations in the Americas into a single company named FANUC America , headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

At the SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremberg, Sercos International displayed twelve demo points from different manufacturing companies as well as exhibits from more than twenty companies.

American Midstream is using the software to handle both their regulated and non-regulated pipeline data in the same database by creating multiple secure environments with independent configuration.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Four North American members presented why they support PI standards and are members of the board. User presentations further highlighted that existing plants have many types of networks that can benefit from efficient gateways and proxies to further enhance automation with new controls and instruments.

October U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $435.02 million, up 10.2% from September but down 3.2% when compared with the total of $449.44 million reported for October 2012.