Window into Operations
New Functionality Expands the Value of the HMI

The Horse with Stripes
IT Security Professionals Profess to Be “Industrial Cyber Security ," Yet, It Takes More to Function Properly in the Industrial Controls Environment

Time for Plant and Corporate IT to Grow Up
Both The Plant and Business Sides of the Enterprise Must Grow Up and Work Together, Because the Role of the 21st-Century Plant Has Changed

This Month’s Web Highlights, Feb 2008
What’s New This Month on ControlGlobal.com

Paving the Way for Bus Technology
I’ve Had Great Success on Projects, Especially Upgrades and Retrofits, Where I Was Able to Get an Experienced Board Person and/or Front-Line Supervisor Assigned to the Job

Readers’ Feedback February 2008
Our Readers Have a Lot to Say About Our Articles. This Month, We Get Responses on Control En Español, Selling Engineering to Kids And More

Schneider/Square D and Opto 22 Score Points for Community Service
Work with Habitat for Humanity and Grants for Green Projects Leave Their Marks

Emerson Acquires The Automation Group
TAG Becomes Part of Emerson Process Management

American Industrial Partners Buys Brooks Instrument
New Company, Brooks Instrument, LLC

ARC Sees Shift in Ethernet Value Proposition
Over the next 5 years, the Worldwide Market for Ethernet-Based Devices and I/O Will Grow 27.5%

Watch Your Mouth
Did We Truly Need to Replace Programmable Logic Controllers with Programmable Automation Controllers? Why Not Just Call Them Computers and Leave It at That?

Process Automation Hall of Fame
A Walk in the Hall. Manager/System Architect/Teacher: This Year’s Crop of Everyday Process Automation Heroes

Six Sigma Alarm Management
Six Sigma Methods Bring Order to Alarm Chaos at Monsanto’s Soda Springs, Id., Phosphorus Plant

Staying on Top of Temperature
CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

It’s Back-to-School Time for Fieldbus Training
Why Specialized Training Is Becoming So Important and What Programs Are Available to Fill the Need…

Keeping on the Level
Measuring the Level of Solids Can Be Tricky. Ultrasonic and Laser Measurement May Be the Answer

Hall of Fame Extras
Read the Extra Material We Couldn't Fit in our Print Edition of Process Automation Hall of Fame

Process Analyzer References
More on NeSSI, Alarms, Wireless, Security and Safety

What’s Keeping Process Analyzer Engineers Up at Night?
NeSSI, Alarms, Wireless, Security and Safety—for a Start

New Module Simplifies Three-Phase Power Measurement
The 750-493 provides low-cost, three-phase power measurement of an electrical supply network, while allowing maximum flexibility and connectivity

Does Valve Size Matter? Ethernet or Modbus?
“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority, Béla Lipták. In this column, he and other experienced process control engineers welcome questions concerning process measurement, control and optimization. If you would like to be on our team of “experts”, ...

The Status Quo Isnt
Web Applications May Be the Next Big Thing in Computing. Are You Ready?

The New Breed of Industrial PC
Our goal was to provide the product capabilities of a traditional industrial computer in a small, powerful size at a price point our customers need

Life on the Edge of the Idea Economy
Automation Professionals Will Be the Agents and Enablers of the Transition to an Economy Based on Ideas and Information

Deal or No Deal
Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner bring their wits and more than 66 years of process control experience to bear on your questions, comments, and problems. Write to them at controltalk@putman.net.

Greg’s Articles on Valve Dynamics
See McMillan's Resources on Valves

Capital Preservation, Businesses’ Life Blood
If They Were Called ‘Instrumented Capital Preservation Systems’ Instead of Safety Instrumented Systems, Every CEO Would Insist the Company Invest in Them

Control News from Europe February 2008
Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.

Automation Products Group's PT-500 liquid level/pressure transmitter: Submersible, 4-20 mA signal while submerged up to 450 ft.
Submersible, 4-20 mA signal while submerged up to 450 ft.

Sensor Electronics' SEC DIR dual gas analyzer: Sense water, vapor, CO2, hydrocarbons, ethylene oxide and more
Sense water, vapor, CO2, hydrocarbons, ethylene oxide and more

Moore Industries-International's TFZ FOUNDATION fieldbus temperature transmitter: Installs on the same segment with all standard FOUNDATION fieldbus devices
Installs on the same segment with all standard FOUNDATION fieldbus devices

Spartan Scientific's Series APV-10 remote air pilot valves: 2-way, 2-position valves control air, fluid, fluid emulsions and water
2-way, 2-position valves control air, fluid, fluid emulsions and water

HMS Industrial Networks' EtherNet/IP to Profibus X-gateway : Plant-floor devices on Profibus communicate with devices on EtherNet/IP and vica versa
Plant-floor devices on Profibus communicate with devices on EtherNet/IP and vica versa