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Bringing Advanced Process Control Home

McMilland and Weiner Talk With Arnold Martin About Model-Predictive Control. Read the Column and Learn About Martin's Accomplishments and Perspective
Post Date: 09/26/2012
Author: Greg McMillan, Stan Weiner

How Process Leaders Use HART

Leading Process Plants use HART Communication to Get Their Best Performance
Post Date: 09/13/2012
Author: Control Global Staff

WirelessHART Takes Off

Interoperable, Backward-Compatible, Future-Proofed, WirelessHART Is a Powerful and Flexible Industrial Wireless Standard
Post Date: 09/12/2012
Author: Control Global Staff

The Once & Future Protocol

HART Is the Most Widely Used Communication Protocol in the Process Industries and the Best Choice for the Future
Post Date: 09/11/2012
Author: Control Global Staff

All Roads Lead to HART- Get Connected Now!

Why? HART Is the World's Number One and Most Often Selected Communication Technology
Post Date: 09/10/2012
Author: Ron Helson

SCADA Update Protects Potable Production

Windsor Utilities Commission Bolsters Its Water Production System With Data Tracking-and-Tracing Capabilities and Some Wireless Controls
Post Date: 09/07/2012
Author: Jim Montague

How Can Incompatible DCS and Asset Management Suppliers Get Along?

One Throat to Choke: When a Site Has an Installed Base of Incompatible DCS and Asset Management Suppliers, It May Have to Revert to the Host's Offerings
Post Date: 09/04/2012
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Wireless a Matter of Choice

End Users Get to Choose Which Protocol Meets Their Needs the Best
Post Date: 08/27/2012
Author: Wayne Manges

Using a DTM to Simplify Joining a BULLET WirelessHART Adapter to a Wireless Network

This Article Outlines the Steps Required to Add an Adapter and to Configure It to Join the Wireless Networking Using a Device Type Manager (DTM)
Post Date: 08/23/2012
Author: Garry Cusick

Is HART Fact or Fiction?

HART is Here to Stay, but End Users Still Need to Be Educated to Get Its Full Value
Post Date: 08/22/2012
Author: James Powell, Stefan Gross

Industrial Networks: Priorities and Pigeon Holes

Nebulous Networks and Virtualized Computing Can Be Better Understood by Organizing Them into Approachable, Function-Based Segments
Post Date: 08/07/2012
Author: Jim Montague

Foundation Fieldbus - Can We All Just Get Along?

A Factor Slowing the Adoption of Wireless Communications in the Process Industries Is Concern and Confusion about Standards
Post Date: 08/06/2012
Author: Nancy Bartels

Wireless Comes of Age

Even in the Notoriously Conservative Process Industries, Wireless Has Moved Past the Early Adopter Stage and Into Day-to-Day Operations
Post Date: 08/06/2012
Author: Nancy Bartels

WirelessHART vs. ISA100.11a -- What's the Difference?

Both Standards Contain Many Similarities and They Also Contain Many Differences
Post Date: 08/06/2012
Author: Mark Nixon

Commission and Diagnose a Device Communication Problem from the Comfort of the Control Room?

FDT Can Reduce the Start-Up Node Commission Time by Up to 80%
Post Date: 08/01/2012
Author: Kristen Barbour

Easier Commissioning with Wireless

With a Capable System, the End User Is Mouse-Clicks Away From Knowing 99% of What He Needs to Know About the Device Without Ever Lifting a Wire
Post Date: 07/30/2012
Author:

Right Place and Time for Wireless Workstations

Smart Wireless Mobile Worker Solutions for Everyone
Post Date: 07/12/2012
Author: Dan Hebert

Smart Pipe--One Bus to Rule Them All

What Revolutionary Technology Is Coming Along That Will Kill Fieldbus?
Post Date: 06/05/2012
Author: John Rezabek

What's the Best Defense Against Stuxnet?

A Comparison of Which Tools Are the Best for Finding Stuxnet in a System
Post Date: 05/28/2012
Author: Morteza Rezaei

Protocol Transformation Defense Against Cyber Attack

This Article Discusses how XMPP Can Offer Packet Inspection at an Endpoint Prior to Transformation to Another Protocol
Post Date: 05/24/2012
Author: William J. Miller