Issue Archive

Better Manage Your Business, Your Plant
Plant-Level Wireless Networks Are Already Ensuring Physical Security and Tracking People and Assets

Think Beyond the Wire
Innovative First Movers Gain Competitive Advantage, Even as Last Barriers to Widespread Adoption Fall

Measure and Gather New Process Data
Wireless Transforms the Economics of What’s Feasible and the Physics of What’s Possible

Boost Your Workforce Productivity
Mobile Connectivity Keeps Workers in Touch with the Information They Need

How to Measure pH Inside a Tank; Increasing Scan Times
“Ask the Experts,” on ControlGlobal.com, is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták. Béla and his cadre of leading experts in process automation, recruited from among the co-authors of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook 4th Edition, are “in the box” all month answering process ...

Intrisic Safety in the Digital Age
In Which We Sort Through the Complexities of Building Intrinsically Safe Fieldbus and Ethernet Networks in Hazardous Plant Areas

Is PAT a Silver Bullet?
Ready to Kill Some Werewolves? Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) Are Beginning to Inject Quality-by-Design (QbD), Model-Predictive Control, Risk Management and Other Well-Known Process Control Methods into Long-Resistant Pharmaceutical Applications

PAT Expanded Coverage
Expanded Coverage, Videos About Broadley-James, Audio Interviews, and PAT Stories and Other Resources from Control’s Sister Publication, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

IEC 61508 Product Approvals – Veering Off Course
Upon Close Examination It Appears That the Product Approval Process of IEC 61508 (1) Has Veered Seriously Off Course, Possibly Rendering Many Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Applications Less Reliable Than Expected or Required

I Am Robot and I Am Home
Jeff Harrow Talks Robots, Synthetic Biology, Nano-things and Other Developments You’ll Miss If You Blink

Process Plant 2025
One-Person-and-a-Dog Operations? Wearable HMIs? At-Home Control Rooms? Or More of the Same Ol’, Same Ol’? Here’s What May Be on the Horizon

Control News from Europe June 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.

Them as Can, Do
Informing the Government of the Problem Is Good, but It Might Be Better for ISA to Spend Some Serious Money Doing Something About It

Gasoline and Technology— Two Things We Can’t Live Without
Technology, Like Gasoline, Is Something We Don’t Know How to Live Without Any Longer

Object Architectures in an Increasingly Services-Oriented World
Standard Services Make the IT Underpinnings Irrelevant, Allowing End Users to Focus on the Business at Hand

Feedback: June 2008
Is Hydrogen Safer Than Gasoline?

Interoperability Barrier No. 1: The CIO
According to AMR, 60% of Most IT Budgets Are Spent Attempting to Deliver to 2002 Expectations

Fieldbus for Safety Instrumented Functions
FF-SIF Transcends the Limitations of Conventional Safety System Design by Introducing New and Innovative Ways of Thinking About Safety

Paralyzed by Profits
Unrestrained Prosperity Is a Disease, so It’s Tragic That Drug Manufacturers Don’t Want to Take Their Medicine. Just Like The Rest of Us

Loop Controllers
CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

A Mixed Bag
<i>Control’s</i> 2008 Salary Survey Reveals Some Industry and Economic Shifts. Our Veterans Grow Strong Within the Process Control Industry and Their Job Roles, but Where Are Younger Professionals Going to Come From?

Purge/Pressurization Challenges Reduced at the Outset
Pepperl+Fuchs’ 6000-series Type X/EEx Purge/Pressurization System Offers Versatility to Customers

First-Principle Versus Data-Driven Models
Cost and the Time and Skill Required to Develop an Application-Specific Model have Been Barriers to Using First-Principle Modeling Tools

Handheld OI Focuses on Safety, Security, Lower Costs
Facilities Can Integrate Machine Data into Existing Enterprise Systems

Siemens Exiderdome Redefines the Road Show
When All’s Said and Done, Exiderdome Will Have Hosted Some 200,000 Individuals from Around the World

Technology Drives the Pace
Pressure Transmitters Add Communications, Enhanced Diagnostics and Higher Accuracy

Waste Not, Want Not
Monitoring Wastewater Assets with OPC

Foundation Fieldbus SIS on Display
Vendors Show Off Prototypes at Amsterdam Meeting

Yokogawa Has World’s First Foundation Fieldbus Device DTM
DPharp EJA V2.5 device Now Certified

NCyboSoft Wins DOE Grant
The Importance of Improving the Stability, Robustness and Performance of the Actuation System Can’t Be Overstated

New ISA100 Group for WiHART Convergence
New ISA Subcommittee Addresses Options for Convergence of the ISA100

Honeywell, Wood Group Offer Turbine Control Solution
More Power-Generation Companies Are Upgrading Their Older Control Systems