Which rock song has "calibration" in first line of its lyrics?

Can you guess? Think back for a moment or two. It's a few years old now. I always thought it might have been good to blast it through the sound system at the opening of the exhibit halls at ISA Expo or one of the many other tradeshows and user groups that we cover each year. However, it would be hard to find a powerful enough boom box for a freelance effort in this iPod era. Oh well. Anyway, it's quite an uplifting tune. Even the opening guitar riff should clear some cobwebs and recharge some mental batteries on this Friday afternoon. Give up?

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Medical device and pharmaceuticals - where is ICS cyber security

December 2011, I attended the POLCYB meeting in Los Angeles. A major pharmaceutical manufacturer attended. The pharmaceutical representative mentioned they had not addressed ICS cyber security as they had simply not considered it and there was no regulatory driver.

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HART/IP

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The Difference Between Process Control & Management

According to Webster control is “to exercise restraining or directing influence over” whereas manage is “to exercise executive, administrative, and supervisory direction of”.  Subtle but distinctly different.  While process control may be necessary to ensure safety and proper operation it is process management that makes money for t

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Fundamentals of Process Modeling for ISA Certification of Automation Professionals (CAP) Tips

Here are the new sections on process modeling fundementals for the next edition of the Guide to the Automation Book of Knowledge that is the primary resource for the ISA Certification of Automation Professionals (CAP) Program. The following includes text that may not fit into the page allocation for Chapter 12 on process modeling.  

12.1 Fundamentals

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Electric Power Utilities Are Not as Cyber Secure As They Say They Are

An Orderly Strategic Advance to the Rearward: The Cybersecurity of Electric Power Utilities Depend on How You Count It More...

The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match

Industrial Ethernet Is Faster, Can Use Standard Wireless and Has More Topology Options More...

AspenTech Breaking New Ground in Simulation, Model-Based Control

Resurgent Software Maker Showcases Innovations at OPTIMIZE 2013 More...

Relief Valve Blowdown Rings; D/P and Straight Runs

Readers Ask: When It Comes to Safety Relief Valves, What Is Best? Using Two Blowdown Rings or Ones? and Can We a Transmitter Be Installed Above Pipe Taps? More...

Our Control Experts Deal with Process Dynamics

McMillan and Weiner Ask James Beall How He Approaches the Challenge of Intertwined Problems That Have Evaded Solution. See What He Had to Say More...

Free Your Mind with OPC HDA ... and the Rest Will Follow

How Do I Access the Data Files/Tables on Your HDA Historian? More...

Creative Computing for Control

PC-Based Control Is Taking Over in a Variety of New and Upcoming Process Industry Applications. Here Are Some of the Most Innovative Solutions More...

Control Room Designs Revolutionize Work Environments

See How Control Rooms Were Originally Designed and How Differently They Are Designed Today More...

Fieldbus is Dead! Long Live Fieldbus!

The Competing Communications Technology That Presumably Will Replace All These Buses, Including Process Fieldbuses, Is Ethernet More...

Bringing the Lincoln Paper Mill Back from the Dead

Lincoln Paper Wasn't Even a Zombie Company. It Was Dead. Closed. Kaput. Then New Owners Brought in Multivariable Testing to Help Resurrect It Through a Top-to-Bottom Revamp of Procedures, Processes and Plant Culture More...