Issue Archive

Around the Loop
Analog or Digital Process Controllers? It’s Clearly a Digital World.

Can You Do Asset Management Yourself?
Building an Asset Management (AM) System Is Sort of Like Building a Race Car. You Can Put a Vehicle Together with Parts and Labor, or You Can Buy One Already Built. Can You Do Asset Management Yourself? Of Course You Can. But Can You Afford To?

Bean Control Engineers Needed
There Are Too Many Parasites Waiting to Steal Working People’s Money, and Executive Editor Jim Montague Thinks Engineers Could Protect Them from Financial Worst Practices

Features of Calibration Management Software
CMS Offerings

Calibration Web It
Calibration Online Resources

Catching the Drift
Calibration Software Beats Spreadsheets for Managing Complexity, Reducing “Field Trips” Without Risk and Even Predicting the Next Time an Instrument Will Drift Out of Spec

Fanless PC for Rugged Deployment
Steath's LittlePC Products Serve In Space-Challenged Designs Around the World

FDT Technology – Delivers a Hole In One!
Implementing Best-in-Class Devices for Control and Monitoring Applications

Finding Freebies in Fieldbus
Can We Use the Standard Deviation Method to Flag a Suspicious Measurement?

The Future of Nuclear Energy
If Global Carbon Emissions Were Cut by 15% by 2050 by the Increased Use of Nuclear Power, 1,070 Plants Would Need to Be Built at a Cost of $5 Trillion.

More Golly-Whiz from Google
Is the iPLC to Be Found by Watching What Google Is Doing?

Process Automation: Harder, More Profitable
Success in Factory Automation Is No Free Ticket for Success in Process Automation

Clearing the Integration Hurdles
Control System/ERP Integration Is More Profitable and Technically Easier Than Ever, but Non-Technical Challenges Remain

Job Hunting in a Tough Economy
Are You Ready to Re-Enter the Automation Job Pool and Compete with Other Professionals Just as Qualified as You? Here Are Things You Can Do to Stand Out from the Crowd

Let SQL Serve
SQL Server Is Easier to Implement and Better for Clients

Make Business Case First
The Biggest Integration Challenge Is Not Technical, It’s Identifying the Business Objective of Linking the Control System to the ERP Systems

Middleware Melds Manufacturing Info
Integration Projects Use Some Type of Middleware

Feedback: Mongrel Americans? – Nuclear Power Approach
Readers Asks for Additional Information on Nuclear Power

It’s Not Just a Job
Welcome to the Hotel Automation. You Can Check Out but You Can Never Leave

Old Valves, New Tricks
Whether by Adding Intelligence and Networking or by Refining Traditional Hardware, Actuators and Positioners Continue to Gain New Capabilities to Help Their Users Operate More Efficiently and Reliably

How to Predict the Next Deviation
Using CMS to Bring the Maintenance of Calibration Management to Predictive Mode

Pressure
Control’s Monthly Resource Guide. This Month, Covering Pressure

The Secret Life of pH Electrodes – Part 2
Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner Continue Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Glass pH Electrode

Solar Power Plants, Orifice Vent Holes, District Heating
Readers Ask: When and Where Is the First Solar-Hydrogen Power Plant Being Built? What Is the Use of Vent Hole in the Orifice Plate? How to Upgrade Buildings' Heating Systems from "Leningrad Design" to a Current Design?

Surviving the Slowdown
This Recession Will Progress as Most Recessions Do—without 30% Unemployment, Soup Kitchens or Bread Lines

Sustainability, Interrupted
Sustainability Makes Business Sense as Well as Good Policy. The Public will Demand It and Science and Technology Will Make It Happen

You, Your Job and the Economic Crisis–Before and After
Don’t Let the Crisis Get the Best of You. Stop, Analyze the Situation, and Then Take Action

Ulf appoints ex-SAP Bhattacharya as overall supremo of Invensys Process Systems, Wonderware and Eurotherm
Under the banner of what is called “The IA Transformation Project," what appears to be planned is the integration of IPS, Eurotherm and Wonderware into a single entity.

Low-key launch for ABB’s SIL 3 integrated SIS
Four years after the original launch, the long awaited SIL 3 version has arrived, heralded not with fanfares and separate North American and European press launches at prestige locations, but by a two-page press release announcing that, “its controller received its SIL 3 certification from TÜV in...

ARC bows to inevitable and revises forecasts
The new forecasts will be made available to ARC’s clients via its on-line Market Intelligence Service (MIS) which provides subscribers with the most up-to-date data within a searchable relational database.

Honeywell shocker still reverberating
Last month’s shock announcement of the retirement of Jack Bolick and his replacement as president of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) by Norm Gilsdorf continues to reverberate around the industry.

Son of PlantScape renews Honeywell’s PLC challenge
Such systems have in the past been characterized by attempts to reduce the engineering and configuration effort required of the user and, hence, the overall cost of ownership through the use of preconfigured displays and prebuilt algorithms.

Emerson targets InFusion — just don’t call it MES
Emerson Process Management has traditionally been the most reluctant of the mainstream process automation vendors to get involved in the murky world of MES.

“Severe deceleration in demand”
Just how much the discrete sector of the automation industry is now hurting can be judged from the first quarter figures from Rockwell Automation.

Still buddies
Rockwell and Endress+Hauser have further strengthened their relationship by releasing a new set of device integration tools

Metso cuts jobs as paper industry demand falls
Metso is starting negotiations to reduce the workforce in its units in Finland which serve the paper and pulp industry.

Consumers Set U.S. Manufacturing Priorities
Survey Shows Consumers Want Safe, Clean, Economic and Automated Manufacturing

INSIDER briefs
News briefs from the INSIDER

Bhattacharya takes Eberhart’s Old Spot at Invensys
New Apointee to Fill COO Vacant Spot at Invensys Process Systems

Apprion Offers Free, Online Wireless Training
Apprion Offers Online Wireless Education Resource

Lynda J. Patterson New CSIA President
Control System Integrators Association Elects New President