It's official: Sustainability Pays! @MIT and @BCG say it must be true! #pauto #automation #sustainability #mfg #manufacturing

Advocates of sustainable business and manufacturing practices, including me, have been saying for years that a sustainable enterprise is not only possible and practical, but that it is profitable beyond the low hanging fruit of energy savings from replacing light bulbs and the like.

Here's an article from our sister publication @SustainablePlant that says we have not been wrong.

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Are DOE and DHS helping to secure the infrastructure - or not?

I was very happy to see the recent S4 Conference validate what I have been saying for more than the past 10 years about the cyber vulnerability of control system devices. The S4 Conference opens some very serious questions about the effectiveness of DOE and DHS in securing critical infrastructure. Dale Peterson had publicized the Basecamp project for many months.

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Off Line Fieldbus Network Analysis Tools

The original network analysis tool was the National Instruments Bus Monitor, developed at approximately the same time as Foundation Fieldbus was being introduced. This tool was designed to monitor the data traffic on fieldbus networks. It was not until Relcom introduced the FBT-3 that a physical layer troubleshooting tool specific for Fieldbus was available. Prior to the FBT-3 the only options were multimeter and oscilloscope, with no way of knowing which devices were communicating when a signal trace went by.

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Industrial Computers, Part 1 PID on Your Smartphone? Maybe

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Hooking Up the Plant and the Enterprise

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"Tomorrow Is Not Cancelled"

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Protecting Blast Furnace Pressure Transmitters from Plugging

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Gas Chromatographs Rule

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Free Your Mind with OPC HDA ... and the Rest Will Follow

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Shared Documents Aid Valve Repairs

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Christmas at the Plant-Floor Level

The iPad and Other Mobile Devices Will Become Part of Your Everyday Tools to Get Your Job Done More...

Want Open Standards? Work at It

End Users Have to Insist Their Favorite Suppliers Support Open, Interoperable Solutions, or We'll Remain Saddled With the Closed, Proprietary Ones More...

The iPad Hits the Plant Floor

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