Control/ARC Process Automation Podcast Series

 

The Control/ARC Process Automation podcast series library contains audio interviews of some of the biggest names in process automation. Listen to or save mp3 or mwv file interviews of various subject-matter experts on industrial controls.

 

 

 

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Process Sustainability Podcast

June 21, 2011
There's a lot more to truly going green than efficiency, which is why experienced end users are scrambling to master process sustainability. In this podcast, Wil Chin of ARC Advisory Group and Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, discuss how process sustainability is evolving, typed of applications where it's emerging, and where its going in the future.

Podcast: Information Wants to Be Everywhere

April 19, 2011
The slick, convenient, user-friendly tablets and smart phones that are so popular on the home front are making inroads into the workplace. In this podcast, Ralph Rio of ARC Advisory Group and Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, discuss the trend, the vision of real-time process information on demand everywhere all the time, and the reality of making it happen in the process environment.

User-Centered Design at Work Podcast

March 22, 2011
More process control engineers are recognizing that operational errors cause most process slowdowns and shutdowns. The March 2011 cover article explores how some innovative users are preventing these user-based problems. Executive editor Jim Montague interviews ARC's senior process analyst Dave Woll to comment on the users' preventative measures.

Control/ARC 2010 Top 50 Automation Companies

January 12, 2011
Walt Boyes, editor of Control, and Larry O'Brien of ARC discuss the issues and the background of the annual Top 50 report.

Condition Monitoring
November 29, 2010
How big is big-time condition monitoring? Jim Montague interviews ARC Advisory Group's research director, Wil Chin, about the November cover article's assertion that unused diagnostic capabilities existing in plants can be used to start or improve a condition monitoring program, and whether doing so is actually possible. Listen to this podcast.

The Straight Scoop on Stuxnet
October 19, 2010
Stuxnet, the scary new virus in town, may make you want to rethink your control system security. Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, and ARC's Bob Mick sort out the hype, hysteria and hoop-la and get to the nitty gritty of what this computer worm, aimed directly at control systems, means for your cybersecurity plans.

Knowledge Management and Staffing Podcast
July 27, 2010
Executive editor Jim Montague speaks with ARC's Senior analyst and expert Tom Fiske. This month's topic is knowledge management and staffing.

Sustainability in the Process Industries
June 30, 2010
Control's digital managing Web Editor Katherine Bonfante, talks to ARC's Vice President Greg Gorbach on sustainability. What is sustainability? What factors influence sustainability efforts in the process industries? 

Podcast: Process Safety
May 25, 2010
Executive Editor Jim Montague talks with ARC's Research Director Larry O'Brien about process safety questions in the automation industry today. Listen to this podcast and learn more about the industry and its safety.

Podcast: Wireless Workers
April 20, 2010
They've thrown off their hardwired chains, are roaming plants at will, and getting a lot more done than their cable-bound counterparts. ARC analyst Ralph Rio and Control executive editor Jim Montague talk about what wireless workers are up to, how they do it and how others can do it, too.

Podcast: User Centered Design
March 22, 2010
ARC Senior Analyst Tom Fiske and Control's Walt Boyes share a deep interest in User Centered Design. This month's Control/ARC podcast lets them discuss it with insight.

The Control/ARC Process Automation Hall of Fame and Brain Drain
2/16/2010
Control's Walt Boyes talks with ARC's Larry O'Brien and Tom Fiske about the top automation professionals.

The 50 Largest Automation Companies
12/14/2009
ARC's Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick talk with Walt Boyes about vendors, rankings, mergers, acquisitions, technology trends and things end users need to watch for.

Predictive Maintenance, Wireless Sensing and Machine Connectivity Advances
11/17/2009
Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, and ARC Advisory Group's research director, Ralph Rio, discuss how the advances in predictive maintenance, wireless sensing and machine connectivity are affecting EAM and the way companies now do maintenance.

Fieldbus Architectures
10/28/2009
Fieldbuses are maturing, cooperating better, getting easier to use, and are being adopted in new and different applications. In this podcast, Larry O'Brien and Will Chin, research directors for automation at ARC Advisory Group, explore and analyze some of these trends surrounding the recent evolution of the major fieldbuses and their likely future.

Batch Operations
09/17/2009
This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series examines batch operations. The podcast includes commentary and insights by John Blanchard, ARC’s principal analyst. He is interviewed by Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor.

Wireless Gets Easier Podcast
08/20/2009
Most folks now believe wireless can work in their process applications, and veteran users are proving it. This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series examines wireless in the plant. The podcast includes commentary and insights by Harry Forbes, ARC's senior automation analyst, and Wil Chin, ARC's research director for automation. They are interviewed by Jim Montague, Control's executive editor.

The Effects of Web 2.0 on Collaborative Engineering
07/16/2009
Walt Boyes and ARC analyst Dick Slansky discuss the effects of Web 2.0 on collaborative engineering and product lifecycle management-- a fascinating discussion, especially for everyone over 30!

PAT Is Not Just for Pharma – Podcast
06/19/2009
PAT has shown huge promise yet Pharma has been slow to adopt. ARC's Paula Hollywood talks with Walt Boyes about the value and benefit the process industries have seen with PAT.

Practical Process Safety Podcast
05/19/2009
Boom! Factories have been going boom and managers have lied to the CSB. Walt Boyes and ARC's Larry O'Brien discuss what appears to be a crisis in process functional safety in this month's Control/ARC Podcast edition.

Podcast – Virtual Reality Simulation in the Process Industries
04/15/2009
In the April edition of the Control/ARC Podcast series, Walt Boyes and ARC's Tom Fiske take a look at what was until only very recently science fiction, and has now become science fact–– the future of high fidelity virtual reality simulation in the process industries.

Enterprise Integration Podcast
03/17/2009
Walt Boyes and ARC's Bob Mick discuss enterprise integration: how to do it, why to do it, and what the future will be for it. Mick provides insight into standards-based integration, and what the effect of the schism in the OPC ranks will be.

How to Be a "Readers' Choice" Company
01/29/2009
Control's Keith Larson and ARC's Larry O'Brien and Wil Chin discuss the ways companies make themselves rank high in our annual Readers' Choice poll, and what end users want from those companies.

2008 Top 50 Automation Vendors
12/16/2008
As the economy crashes, process automation is poised to ride it out. Walt Boyes speaks with ARC Research Directors Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick on the state of the process automation economy, and the Control/ARC Top 50 automation companies.

Protecting Our Cyber Infrastructure
11/14/2008
Cybersecurity is one of the pillars of protecting our critical infrastructure. It was profiled in one of the November Special Edition stories, and Bob Mick, ARC's vice president of enterprise systems joins Control's Walt Boyes to put cybersecurity in perspective — and offer agreement and disagreement with what the article said.

Searching for The One True Network
10/08/2008
October's cover story in Control is the search for the "One True Network," as chronicled by John Rezabek, our intrepid On The Bus columnist. Walt Boyes, Control's editor in chief talks to Larry O'Brien, research director for process automation for ARC Advisory Group about fieldbus in this month's edition of the Control/ARC Monthly Podcast Series.

Podcast with ARC on "Domino Theory"
09/16/2008
Control contributing editor Rich Merritt, conducts a wide-ranging interview with ARC Advisory Group principal analyst John Blanchard on a variety batch-related topics and trends. The interview is a follow-up to Merritt's "Domino Theory" batch cover article in the September 2008 issue of Control. The two discuss the ISA88 standard's history, whether the word "batch" can be mentioned to continuous control users, how ISA88's documentation procedures can help users, and where ISA88 and ISA95 may be headed in the future.

The Shocking Truth About Wireless - Podcast
08/19/2008
ARC wireless expert Harry Forbes joins editor Walt Boyes in a far-ranging discussion of wireless based on Control's August cover story.

How To Be a Contender

07/16/2008
The Control/ARC podcast features ARC Vice President Dave Woll discussing what it takes to be a 21st-century automation professional, whether as a manager or as a team member.

Process Analytical Technology
06/17/2008
In this edition of the monthly Control/ARC Podcast Series, Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, and Executive Editor, Jim Montague, speak to ARC’s John Blanchard and ask him what are the market forces and technology trends affecting process analytical technology (PAT). Is it just the FDA, or are there real, valid reasons to use PAT?

Asish Ghosh on Process Safety
05/13/2008
In this edition of the monthly Control/ARC podcast series, Walt Boyes and ARC's Asish Ghosh talk about process safety and why it seems so hard to accomplish, even after years of trying.

Control/ARC Podcast: Tom Fiske
04/30/2008
Faking It Can Be A Good Thing
Control Executive Editor Jim Montague and ARC Senior Analyst Tom Fiske talk about the benefits of using sophisticated simulation software for plant design, control system checkout and employee training. The right simulation software can save millions of dollars, ease plant start-ups, improve plant safety and help the next generation of process operators develop their skills. Fiske says that, among other things, simulation software is the teaching tool perfectly in tune with the learning habits of the iPod and Wii generation.

Enterprise Integration with ARC's Bob Mick
03/19/2008
Control's Dan Hebert and Walt Boyes talk about Enterprise Integration with ARC's Bob Mick. This is a rocket-fast tour through the world of enterprise integration by a world class expert from both the vendor and end user side. Mick is passionate about what the value of integration can be, and informative about the perils and pitfalls too.

Professional Development with Dick Hill
02/14/2008
We have candidates for the Hall of Fame, but for how long? Walt Boyes and ARC's Dick Hill discuss professional development and how to get new, younger people into manufacturing and automation so that at the end of their careers, they will be eligible for the Hall.

The Readers' Choice - Why Companies do Well?
01/16/2008
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes and ARC expert analysts Paula Hollywood and Wil Chin discuss why companies do well (or not) in the Readers' Choice Awards, and what levels of service vendors need to provide for today's end users.

Top 50 Process Automation Companies
12/19/2007
Listen to Walt Boyes, editor in chief of Control Magazine, and Larry O'Brien, Director of Research at ARC Advisory Group, speak on the ARC/Control Top 50 Process Automation Companies. Learn what their projections for the industry are in the upcoming years.