Process Automation Media Network

ControlGlobal.com's Process Automation Media Network contains a wealth of audio and video interviews conducted with some of the biggest names in process automation and instrumentation. CONTROL is exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market and reports on developing trends, illustrates successful applications, and updates the basic skills and knowledge base that provide the profession's foundation.

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Listen to or save audio and video file interviews of various subject-matter experts from the industrial controls industries.

 Our Toilets Are Not for Customers!
03/03/2008
End users now have much more power to improve or hurt a brand image, and many automation vendors are slow to realize what this means.

 EAM - Is there a "there" there?
02/25/2008
Managing editor Nancy Bartels talks about process manufacturers who are integrating EAM with SCADA or other control systems. They are taking advantage of factory floor data to optimize maintenance operations and support the transition to preventive and predictive maintenance models.

 Industrial PC
02/18/2008
Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, tries to answer some questions about the changing nature of industrial PCs and asks for readers to contribute their thoughts as well. Many industrial PCs no longer need the keyboard and screens of the past and can run in headless configurations on DIN rails, on boards and in chips. So how is it possible to define, write about and use them? Are the enclosure-based PCs of the past still useful? All these questions prompted a variety of answers.

Peter Terwiesch of ABB
02/18/2008
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes, asks Peter Terwiesch, chief technology officer for ABB, how the foreseen recession could affect industries serving automation businesses, automation vendors, and automation end-users.

Professional Development with Dick Hill
02/14/2008
We have candidates for the Hall of Fame, but for how long?

 Top 10 and The Lost Companies
02/11/2008
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks about the most popular articles of 2007 on ControlGlobal.com, and why we built the Directory of Lost Companies wiki.

 Tips for Identifying Counterfeits
02/04/2008
To help users identify counterfeit devices, the alliance between U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American Council of Independent Labs (ACIL) has drafted several recommendations. These tips include looking for and inspecting certification marks, checking for inferior packaging and/or missing parts or product information, and only buying from suppliers who are well known to you.

 Selling the Cool
01/25/2008
Want kids to become automation engineers? Convince them the job is cool.

 Walt Boyes interviews Dan North
01/22/2008
North Predicts a Recession. What Would the Effects Be on the Economy, and on the Process Industries?

 What About Wireless?
01/21/2008

 Back to the Basics: PC Based Control
01/18/2008
Re-visiting the Basics of Automation

 The New Web
01/15/2008
Learn What Suggestions Bryan Singer has for Building a Reliable Ethernet Network

 Why are There Fewer Engineers Every Year?
01/08/2008
Walt Boyes Reports on Why There are Fewer Engineers Every Year

 Upgrading Control Systems
01/07/2008
Find Out Why People Upgrade Control Systems and What the are the Best Ways to Do a System Migration

 The Readers' Choice - Why Companies do Well?
01/03/2008
Walt Boyes, Paula Hollywood and Wil Chin Discuss Companies' Performances in the Readers' Choice Awards 2007

 Top 50 Process Automation Companies
12/04/2007
Walt Boyes and Larry O'Brien talk on 2007 Top 50 Process Automation Companies

 The light at the end of the tunnel
12/04/2007
More training is needed in manufacturing.

  Building Simple Automation Software
09/25/2007
If we can design HMI software to work with Legos, we can surely design automation software that is simple, easy to use, and forms building blocks for control systems. Walt Boyes comments.

  Cybersecurity in Process Automation Systems
09/04/2007
Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks with Honeywell Fellow and industry expert Kevin Staggs about cybersecurity in process automation systems, and about benchmarking Honeywell products and software against the MU Security MUSIC suite of tests.

  Survey says use of OPC in process control applications is on the rise
In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Executive Editor Jim Montague comments on a recent survey about the impact of object linking and embedding for process control. Listen and learn about OPC's present and future direction in the process industries.

  Why are automation professionals the Rodney Dangerfields of high tech?
05/15/2007
In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes wonders why we as an industry don't get the respect we deserve. Afterall, we’ve been doing networking since before there was Ethernet and computers since before companies had IT departments.

Foundation fieldbus – Working today, preparing for tomorrow
02/27/2007
This presentation, offered as an exclusive podcast for the Process Automation Media Network, explains how fieldbus is being used today in process automation applications, how it will be used in the future, and how the unique requirements of different projects are being met.

Yon on wireless
02/09/2007
In this podcast for the Process Automation Media Network, Dr. Gene Yon, president of Adaptive Instruments at Accutech, provides his perspective on industrial wireless to CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes.

   SCADA: Big changes – From telemtery to data to infomation management
01/29/2007
SCADA is changing rapidly, and the end users agree. In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes notes that the technology is in fact highly volatile, with many challenges and changes coming in the next few years.

   Why traditional automation marketing has to change
01/22/2007
New to ControlGlobal.com is Automation Minute. In this videocast, Control Editor in Chief Walt Boyes notes that suppliers who aren't thinking about new ways to work with their end users risk being steam rolled over by those that do. The Internet has given us the ability for this to happen, and what can happen usually does. 

Open is as Open Does: Upgrade and Migration for DCS the Foxboro Way
12/12/2006
Betty Naylor-McDevitt has worked her way up through both the technical and engineering and sales and marketing tracks at Foxboro to become one of the recognized experts on DCS systems, and the Foxboro I/A Series system in particular. As Marketing Director for Foxboro, she shares her view of upgrading, migration, and open systems with Editor in Chief Walt Boyes.

Into the lion's den: Tata's interest in the U.S process automation market
10/09/2006
Krishnakumar Nagarajan, head of plant automation solutions for the Engineering and Industrial Services practice of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), explains his company’s interest in penetrating the process automation market in the United States.

Suppliers are from Mars, System Integrators are from Venus
08/23/2006
National Instruments' Jack Barber talks with Editor in Chief Walt Boyes about NI's Alliance Partner Program, what it means for suppliers to work with system integrators, and how both can benefit from the relationship.

2006 AutomationXchange PAT Roundtable
08/22/2006
Pfizer senior manager team leaders, Lou Pillai and Martin Warman, join the company’s director of process and technology global sourcing, Jeff Miller, in a discussion on PAT with our editors.

Finesse introduces new bioreactor control OS
08/13/2006
Walt Boyes talks with Larry West, executive vice president of California-based Finesse, LLC. Boyes and West discuss the introduction of TruBio, the first truly open configurable bioreactor control OS.

Process optimization in oilfield production
07/11/2006
Pavilion’s Matt Tormollen, and Halliburton’s Richard Ella, join Editor in Chief Walt Boyes in a conversation about the development of a complete virtual reality simulation model for optimizing oil fields for production.

Talking MOLA with Thermo's David Faulkner
06/29/2006
Walt Boyes revisits his old career at Texas Nuclear as he talks MOLA (moisture online analyzer) with David Faulkner, product manager with Thermo Electron Corp., the successor to the old Texas Nuclear. Faulkner is excited that the new MOLA for steel plant coke moisture detection and control is one of the first new products to come from Thermo since the consolidation of many of its small acquisitions.

National Instruments' LEGO podcast
06/26/2006
NI's Ray Almgren and John Field talk about the company’s partnership with LEGO that will include a built-in version of LabView in every Mindstorm robotics kit shipped this Christmas.

A discussion on wireless with David Kaufman
06/21/2006
Walt Boyes talks wireless with Honeywell's David Kaufman, director of new business development for Honeywell's Industrial Measurement and Control Business Unit. Kaufman and Boyes discuss Honeywell's proposal for a product architecture, and a draft for the upcoming RFP from SP100.

Who's gonna fill those shoes?
06/16/2006
Walt Boyes, editor in chief of CONTROL magazine, is passionate about what has to be done in order to make sure the next generation of process automation professionals is ready to provide institutional knowledge when we've retired. Boyes describes what companies currently are doing, and what companies and process automation professionals can do to help avert the upcoming demographic disaster.

Talking alarm management with Eddie Habibi
06/09/2006
PAS founder and CEO Eddie Habibi discusses ways to improve your alarm management system. Habibi’s newly released book fills a void in an area within the process industries that has been kept under wraps until now.

Interview with Transpara Inc.'s Michael Saucier
06/06/2006
CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews founder and CEO of Transpara Inc., Michael Saucier, on the company's first new product: a Visual KPI software application that delivers rich scorecard data and trends to mobile devices.

The ARC Benchmarking Consortium
04/27/2006
CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews ARC's John Wason and Dick Hill on the state of the Benchmarking Consortium after the first two quarters of data has been received.

Interview with AquaSensors' Bruce Bathurst
04/26/2006
CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews Bruce Bathurst about the company’s unique and innovative series of all-digital, fieldbus-equipped wet chemistry parametric sensors.

ARC Benchmarking Consortium at Age 1
03/02/2006
Hercules' Gary E. Lipson talks to CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, about his participation in ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in this "special to the web" podcast on ControlGlobal.com.

Emerson Solves Wireless Problems
02/26/2006
Emerson’s Director of Technology, Bob Karshnia, talks about his company’s solutions for wireless, the standards work being done by SP100 and the HART wireless working group.

Interview with Elpro Technologies' Graham Moss
02/13/2006
Elpro’s general manager, Graham Moss, discusses the state of wireless in industrial environments, and expresses his opinions about SP100, Wireless HART, the usefulness of mesh networking in process plants, and why he thinks it won't work.

Intrerview with Matrikon's Mike Brown
12/19/2005
CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, discusses the state of process optimization and real time process management with one of the people who invented the discipline, Process Optimization Guru Mike Brown.