It feels like just yesterday! @Ashcroft is 160! #pauto #automation #mfg #manufacturing

Consider the lowly pressure gauge. Consider it well. From it, all of the control and automation in process industries follows as a logical progression. Happy birthday to the folks who started it all.

Here's the press release:

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ECM article on control system cyber security

The January 2012 issue of EC&M magazine cover story is an article: "How secure are industrial control systems within today's facilities from cyber threats"

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Fieldbus On-Line Diagnostics

Because off-line tools by their nature are unable to report back to the appropriate person when something happens the majority of FF Power Supply manufacturers either already offer or I am confident are working on developing on-line network diagnostic modules to continually monitor and report to a central system as soon as something happens so appropriate action can be taken.

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