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April 2008
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CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management professionals. The publication reports on developing trends, illustrates successful applications, and updates the basic skills and knowledge base that provide the profession's foundation.
Articles
Loggers Keep Feeding Data-Hungry Users
Recorders and DAQs Have Survived the Advent of PCs, Adapted to Cooperate with Software-Based Historians and Continue to Serve in Applications Where Computers Can't Go
Sound Wave Principles
Life Would Be Simpler if There Were Fewer Complications
Which Way Wireless?
ISA100.11a and WirelessHART – Your Future Wireless
Control News from Europe April 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.
Asset Planning vs Activity Planning
Dick Morley Becomes Resigned to Air travel, Messes Up a PowerPoint Presentation and Remembers a Valuable Lesson
The Elephant in the Room
There’s an Elephant in the Wireless Room
4 The Situation
Get the Attention of IT and Corporate Management. Hand Them Section 4 of ISA-99 and Ask Them to WAKE UP!
April 2008 Web Highlights
What’s New This Month on ControlGlobal.com
Worry Wart
A Flood Around Your Ankles Is a Lot Different Than One Around Your Neck. So Pick Up Your Canoe and Get Moving
Orlando Plant Pioneers HMI Migration Strategy
Company’s standardization initiative passes crucial first test.
And the Cheapest Bus Is . . .
Bus ‘XYP’ Uses Cheaper Devices. Users Will Find It Cheaper Than Foundation Fieldbus
Process Hero
Simulation Software Rocks for Training, but Its Benefits Go Way Beyond Teaching to Aiding Design, Optimization, Maintenance and Life-Cycle Management. Here’s How Savvy Users are Gaining Simulation’s Full Advantages
The many faces of SCADA
Thought You Knew What A SCADA System Was? Think Again
PLCs and PACs
CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide
Split-Ranging Multiple Valves
Readers Write In and Question Split-Range Concept
The Shrinking Analyzer
NeSSI, Cost-Effective Preventive Maintenance, Confidence in the Solution
Power Supplies & Circuit Protection
An Overload on Any Circuit That Increases the Total Current to More Than 11A Will Cause the Power Supply to Go into Its Shutdown or Hiccup Mode
SOLA Flare Makes Compliance Easier
California Often Leads the Way in Environmental Legislation
Loops are Not Just for Continuous Processes
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.
Whither the Book? One Future of Reading
The Amazon Kindle’s Direct Internet Connection Promises to Propel E-Readers from the Margins of Geekdom to the Mainstream
News
Emerson First with WirelessHART
WirelessHART-enabled measurement and communications products and maintenance suite now part of Smart Wireless portfolio.
Schott AG Builds Solar Products Plant in New Mexico
Executives from Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, Governor Bill Richardson (D – NM) and local dignitaries break ground at the Schott Solar facility in New Mexico.
Chevron and Weyerhaeuser in Joint Venture
Chevron and Weyerhaeuser Announce a 50-50 Joint Venture Company
Rockwell to Buy Cedes’ Safety and Automation
Rockwell Automation Acquires Cedes' Safety and Automation Business
GE Fanuc Releases Proficy Workflow
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms releases Proficy Workflow
Radar Level Market Grows
Radar Level Measurement Technology Has Advanced Significantly