Like Laying One Stone on Another
Object-Oriented Programming’s Building-Block Approach Means Faster Development Times and Increased Quality and Troubleshooting Efficiency

Data Analytics in Batch Operations
When Batch Processing Is Critical to Your Operation, Imagine the Worth of Knowing the Predicted Value of Quality Parameters

Green Energy Can Stop Recession
Storing Solar Energy for the Night

Why Is Safety So Hard?
Are Accidents Caused by Poor Safety Standards or by Poor Implementation?

Control News from Europe May 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.

Solution to an Energy Riddle?
The Ultracapacitor Combines the Best Features of Batteries and Capacitors—Long-Term Storage and Instantly Available Power in Large Quantities

Cavitation in Control Valves
How Should I Minimize or Maximize Cavitation in Control Valves?

Industrial Networking: The Next 20 Years
Despite All the Advances in Digital Field Networks Over the Years, Most Plants Still Rely on Technology That Matured Some 40 Years Ago

Saving Energy at the Swimming Pool with VFDs
Variable-Frequency Drives Reduce Energy Costs and Protect Motors at South Windsor, Conn., Pool Complex

Sometimes You Just Have to Let Go
ISA has decided to use the compliance institutes as a way to recover the lost revenue from the dying ISA show

Protecting the Wild Diaphragm with Nanotech
Learn About ABB's New Diaphragm Material, Diaflex

Don’t Blink Twice. You Might Miss It.
Finding <i>Control's</i> Magazine Exclusive Articles Has Never Been So Easy

Everything Old is New Again
A Specific Tool May Be obsolete, but the Mental Process That Went into Addressing the Problem It Solves Remains as Instructive as Ever

Playing the Field
If Most of Loops Are Distributed to Field-Solved PID, What Are the Chances You Could “Hot Swap” Your Host Just Like a Field Device?

May 2008 Feedback
Readers Want Answers on Safety and Wireless Issues

Safety Life-Cycle Planning
How planning can provide cost-effective design and successful project execution

Grow Up, Get Down, Get Green
Increasingly Capable Drives and Motor Controls Are Moving into More Diverse, Smaller-Ticket Applications, as Well as Helping Users Gain the Operating Efficiencies to Meet Green Initiatives

Everything Fieldbus
<i>Control’s</i> Monthly Resource Guide

Feeding on Feedforward
This Month’s Topic—Feedforward Control

Running Up the Heat with a New RTD
Weed Instrument Model 3312B is the Solution for the Severe Load Probe Application

Making It Work: The Dow/ABB Collaboration
Lessons Learned from Years-Long Collaboration Benefit ABB, Dow and the Rest of the Process Industry

FIRST Robotics Picks National Instruments
FIRST Uses CompactRIO by National Instruments in Next Competition

|<i>Control</i> and ACS Sponsor Cybersecurity Conference
Cybersecurity Conference Focuses on System Reliability

Siemens’ “exiderdome”—and the “Wow Factor” Begin U.S. Tour in Chicago in July
The exiderdome’s show piece is the 1,500 sq-ft movie screen used for high-tech, HD video presentations.

EE Academy Seniors attend Yokogawa Technology Fair|
Marshall High School Students Talk with Industrial Automation Experts at the Yokogawa User Conference