Issue Archive

Beginner's Guide to Differential Pressure Level Transmitters
The Not-So-Straightforward Basics of This Measurement Technique

Five of Automation’s Biggest Hits
Meet the Process Automation Hall of Fame Inductees of 2009

Endress+Hauser Goes Gamma
Gamma Nuclear Process Instrumentation

Community Talk
Our Readers Want Their Voices Heard. See What They Had to Say This Month

Hidden Treasures
OPC Connection Channel, Our Well-Guarded Online Treasure

Honeywell Brings DCS Power to Smaller Sites
Honeywell Process Solutions Introducing its Experion LS Control System

Is Switching Worth the Effort?
Are the Gains of Moving from Paper-Based Procedures to an Automated Electronic Calibration System Worth the Effort?

What Will It Take to Keep Us Cyber–Safe?
How Are Different Companies in the Automation Industry Approaching Cybersecurity Issues? Are They Working Towards Protecting Their Assets?

Magnetic Flowmeters, Nuclear Plants
Are You Having “Reverse Flow” Sensor Problems? Do You Know How to Select the Right Software Package to Test a Nuclear Power Plant Softaware System? Check Out the Problems Our Readers Encounter and See the Advice Our Experts Offered Them

New 'HART' for an Old Standard
Has HART 7 Given This Old Standby a New Lease on Life?

OPC Helps Keep the Lights On
Implementing OPC Security Is Key to Ensuring That Only the Right People Have the Access They Need to Ensure the Lights Stay On for Everyone

The Secret Life of pH Electrodes–Part 1
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Glass pH Electrode

MOM–MDM CRUDS Matter More than Politics of Ownership
The MOM-MDM Paradox

Process Automation Key to Obama’s ‘New Era’
President Obama's Initiatives to Resolve the Economic Crisis Call on the Skills of America’s Engineering, Manufacturing and Process Automation Professionals

Intrinsic Safety: A Foreign Concept
Intrinsically Safe I/O Is All the Rage in the Rest of the World, but Not Here in North America. What’s the Problem?

Short on Specifics
<i>Control</i> Strives to Give Readers Specific Content They Can Use to Make Their Processes and Applications More Efficient and Make Their Stressful Jobs a Little Less So

Slowly But Surely
The Market for Miniaturized, Modular Sampling Systems Has Yet to Emerge, but NeSSI Evangelists Remain Confident

Still Sexy After All These Years
Going Green and Plant Integration Keep HMIs Looking Good.

The Future Horizon Plant
More Perceptive Visions Are Neeed to Best Utilize Productivity Tools Commercially Available Now

Training Wheels for Fieldbus
Even in Lean Times, There Are Ways to Get a Fieldbus Testbed If You Think Creatively

Norm Gilsdorf New Honeywell President
Experienced Global Exec Takes Reins from Retiring Jack Bolick

AVG’s Kumar Challenges Big Three
Auto Makers Are Spending Close to $1.2 Billion per Year on Automation Control Products

Longbow Survey Shows Flat Demand
Last Three Months of 2008 Show a Flat or Negative Demand in Manufacturing

Paulett Eberhart Leaves Invensys
Invensys to Appoint New President and CEO of IPS

New Delivery Models Drive LIMS Market
The LIMS Market Is Expected to Grow to More Than $400 Million by 2013

WBF Postpones 2009 Conference
WBF 2009 Conference Postpone Due to Current Economic Crisis

Process automation majors lose two CEOs in a week as Eberhart, Bolick depart; Henriksson, Gilsdorf step in
For an industry to lose one CEO in a week may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

ABB warns of weakening market conditions
While the operational performance of the group remains broadly at the level of the first nine months of 2008, the volatility of major commodity prices and exchange rates is expected to have a negative impact.

Instrument companies charged over Buncefield
The mills of the U.K. criminal justice system as it relates to health and safety issues grind exceeding slow, but they get there in the end.

Independence is key to growth — Punzenberger
Austrian owned SCADA vendor Copa-Data claimed to have defied the current market trends when it briefed the U.K. press shortly before Christmas.

WBF breaks with ISA in bid to regain MES initiative
The decision to separate from ISA is of particular importance at a time when MES and enterprise integration issues dominate the automation industry agenda.

Axeda acquires Questra
The former rivals will now go to market under the Axeda brand, but the company says that it will continue to support both existing product lines indefinitely.

MTL redundancies exploit synergies with Cooper
It’s almost exactly 12 months since the announcement of Cooper Industries’ agreed £140m bid for MTL

Honeywell adds security to TÜV certified program
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) is claiming to be the first manufacturer to offer both security and safety certification courses for the process industries under the umbrella of the TÜV Functional Safety Program.

Indian DCS market grows
The Indian DCS market grew at 20% compound over the past three years and is predicted to grow at just under 15.2% compound between now and 2012, according to ARC’s newly published ‘Distributed Control Systems Outlook for India.’

Yokogawa completes Wytch Farm project
Wytch Farm is Western Europe’s largest onshore oil field

SPS/IPS/DRIVES show to cover process industries
While most automation shows have steadily declined or simply disappeared in recent years, SPS/IPC/DRIVES has gone from strength to strength.

New personnel-tracking system
Extronics, the Congleton, UK based specialist in intrinsically safe and explosion proof technologies, has introduce a new Automatic Mustering and Personnel Location system based on Aeroscout Wi-Fi network technology.