Issue Archive

APC — Productivity Tool or Shelfware?
How YOU Can Improve the Chances for Success for Your MPC Project

Flowmeters, Multi-Lingual Keyboards, DCS/PLC Websites
Problems Selection Flowmeters? Problems Switching Between Languages and Alphabets in Control Systems? Problems Finding DCS, PLCs and Field Instrumentation Websites? Find Out How Our Experts Can Help

Save Money. Calibrate Less?
Have Our Calibration Skills and Practices Quietly Migrated to Being Largely "Plug-N-Play.”"Or Are They "Plug-N-Pray?"

Surfing through Control’s Blogs
If You Haven’t Bookmarked ControlGlobal’s Own Blogs, SoundOff! and Unfettered, You Should

Data Acquisition and Logging Gets on Track
Modern Data Acquisition Equipment Is Useful, Friendly and Inexpensive. You Can Use It Anywhere--Even in a Race Car

Energy Harvesters Come of Age
Designing a Wireless Sensing System with an Energy Harvester, Required Multiple Components to Be Optimized

The Components of FDT Technology: A Basic Introduction to DTMs and the FDT Frame
DTMs and the FDT Frame, How Do They Work?

Back to the Basics: Magnetic Flowmeters
Close to Being "Prince Flowmeter Charming," Magmeters Do It (Nearly) All

More Input on Intrinsic Safety
Safety Differences between North American Processing Plants and European Processing Plants

Bitten by the Microblogging Bug
More Interesting Than "What Am I doing Now?" Are the Answers to "What Am I Thinking Now?" and "What Do I Find Important Now?"

The Secret Life of pH Electrodes - Part 3
Bringing Back Experts to Wind Up Our Discussion of One of the Grand Old Tools of Process Control- the pH Electrode

PLCs and PACs
Control’s Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Take a Look at PLCs and PACs

Long-Term Process Analyzer Strategies
Users Look to Developing Technologies to Streamline Processes in This Difficult Market.

A Distinction with a Difference in SCADA Security
When It Comes to Protecting Your Assets, Security and Compliance Are Not the Same

How Safe is Safe? How Secure is Secure?
Functional Security: a Convergence of the Disciplines of Functional Safety and Control System Cybersecurity

What’s the Difference Between Security and Compliance? - The Long Answers
More on Protecting Your Assets, Security and Compliance

Rethink Sample System Automation
Rethink Sample System Automation -- NeSSI Provides New Tools to Tackle the Challenges and Improve Performance

Getting Real About Simulation
Emerging and Eye-Popping 3-D Graphics and Virtual Reality Technology Are Giving Plenty of Game to Process Control Testing and Training Simulators Integrated with Offline Process Control Systems

Spring Cleaning
The Current Economic Climate Has Many End Users and Engineers Realizing They Now Have Time for Non-Traditional Improvement Projects

OPC UA: The One and Only
OPC UA Is the Solid Foundation, Vision and Infrastructure of the OPC Foundation

Yokogawa top brass take 40% pay cuts
North American and European industrial automation vendors and commentators are in danger of becoming so obsessed with their own problems that they fail to notice quite how bad things have become elsewhere.

...while ABB process automation orders slump
The idea put about by a number of process automation vendors over the past year that the sector would be largely immune from the effects of the economic tsunami currently sweeping through the global economy was finally laid to rest when ABB reported its full year results for 2008 and, more ...

Virtual training story re-engages with reality
So what was that “revolutionary technology” that Invensys Process Systems (IPS) unveiled at a press conference during its 2009 Process Engineering Forum in Paris at the end of January, only to slap an embargo on the story until February 25 once the presentation was over?

Wonderware targets engineering productivity
Upheavals elsewhere in Invensys Process Systems (IPS) hasn’t prevented Wonderware from getting on with the day job, releasing updated versions of System Platform and InTouch and of the Object Toolkit for the ArchestrA architecture which underpins them.

American public supports investment in automation
Rockwell is hoping that the results of research it has sponsored into the attitudes of the American public toward modernizing industrial processes will encourage the U.S. government to provide incentives for manufacturers to invest in automating their plants.

Reorganized Siemens well-placed to ride out storm
Siemens has not as yet seen a significant decline in its automation business in the U.K. during the current downturn, Industrial Automation Systems general manager Brian Holliday told a lunch for the process and automation press

Bristol-Myers Squibb is first to opt for Syncade
Emerson Process Management only had to wait a matter of days after the launch of its Syncade Smart Operations Management suite at ARC’s Orlando forum before it was able to announce its first customer.

More Input on Intrinsic Safety
Competition in this arena is heating up, says ARC Advisory Group.

OSIsoft Europe Co-Founder Dies
Hans Meder, co-founder of Oil Systems GmbH passed away

Optimization markets will continue to grow — ARC
The real-time process optimization and training (RPO) and the process engineering tools (PET) markets are expected to grow at respectively 9% and 11% compound between now and 2013, despite the current global economic downturn, according to two new reports from ARC.

Wurldtech, Exida in Cybersecurity Deal
Joint Development of Future Cybersecurity and Safety Certifications