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Pronova BioPharma Recognized with PlantWeb Excellence Award

Emerson Presents 2009 PlantWeb Excellence Award

Best Presentations Honored at Users Exchange

Best in Track Winners Announced at Lunch Ceremony

Goodbye, Orlando. San Antonio, Here We Come!

Mark Your Calendars for Next Year's Emerson Exchange

DeltaV SIS Expands Scope, Boosts Speed

Sometimes Bigger Really Is Better

Human-Centered Design Institute Drives Ease of Use

Emerson Talks about the Company's Newly Established Human-Centered Design Institute

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A Successful Conference Requires Experienced and Dedicated Individuals

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Usability Project Forums

Do You Have Confidence in Packaged Safety Logic?

Pre–engineered safety function blocks can save engineering and testing time, but deviate from the traditional code-intensive approach, notes a forum contributor. "If the supplier is IEC 61508-certified, do you have confidence that the advanced safety function blocks work as intended?"

Shouldn't Process Automation Technology Be Easier to Design, Implement and Maintain?

The community reacts to the assertion that perhaps it should. Application complexity and the desire to keep costs down work against better usability. Still, contends one contributor, usability has improved in recent years: "You should have tried it 25 years ago!"

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