Issue Archive

...to Tango
Model-Predictive Control and Advanced Process Control Tools Are Helping Users Gain Efficiencies and Savings in Their Process Applications. Here’s How You Can Boogie to the Optimization Beat, Too

Steam Quality Measurement; Automation Levels
Talking About The Available Solutions for Steam Quality Measurement, the Definition of Automation Level 2 and the Effects of Not Following the Straight Pipe/Meter Run Requirements for Specific Flowmeters

Automation Profession: Dancing Backward in High Heels
Automation Is Being Recognized as a Profession, but the Bad News Is that You Need to Know More and More

Batch to Continuous
Converting from Batch to Continuous Brings Great Benefits, but Also Creates Automation Challenges

Calibration
Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Cover Calibration Resources

New Calibration Tools Improve Safety and Efficiency
Device Calibration Becomes More and More Demanding Every Day

Control Systems, We Know What You Need
We Know What It Is You Want, So Step Aside While We Give It to You

Novel Approach Enhances Control System Upgrade
Measures to Mock-Up Wiring and Limit Project Scope While Incorporating Operational Improvements Provided Significant Benefits

Connecting the DCS Dots
Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq Plants Facility Used a Plant Information System to Conenct All Its DCSs and Other Automation Systems for Efficient Production

Fixed-Price Projects
Should You Execute the Work on a Fixed-Price or a Time-and-Material Basis When Planning a Project for Your Process Plant?

Process Control's Role in Nuclear Waste Handling
Liptak Talks about the Role of Process Control in Nuclear Safety and How It Can Plays in Reducing the Risks Associated with the Transportation and Storage of Nuclear Wastes

Going, Going, Gone — Part 2
What Can Be Done to Save and Promote Process Control Expertise?

Safety Responses
What Went Wrong at Chernobyl and How Safe is Safe?

Creating a Safety and Security Culture
The Process Manufacturing Industries Are Inherently Dangerous. Accident Still Happen, Plants Blow Up, and People Get Injured

Technology Finds the Fountain of Youth
Computers Found the Fountain of Youth. Learn How They've Done It and How You can Remain Youthful Too

Hot Temperature Products
Automation FIeld Instruments to Measure Temperature

Wireless Mind
It's Easy to Say That a Lightbulb Must Go On Over Someone's Head, but It Can Be Very Hard to Make It Happen

Coriolis Flowmeter Market Grew in 2008
ARC Predicts Coriolis Flowmeter Market May Run Negative in 2009

Security Incident Info Now Open to Public
Security Incidents Organization Provides Access to RISI

Dow Wins Chinese Plastics Contract
Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. Selects Dow's Unipol Polypropylene Process Technology for Its New 200-KTA Polypropylene Facility

ABB Adds Service Contract to South Pacific Orders
ABB wins $19-million, three-year contract to provide onsite process control systems service and maintenance at Vale Inco's nickel and cobalt plant on the South Pacific island of New Caledonia

PAS Sets Out to Map the 'Automation Genome'
Automation assets contain production knowledge in how you make products

Byres and MTL Take Tofino Outside the Plant
Byres Security and MTL announced an extended protection beyond the plant to communications with remote sites including the Tofino cybersecurity solution

E+H Looks for Friends in a Hostile World
Appointment of Main Automation Contractors (MACs) on major projects creates serious challenge for independent instrument vendors

Is IOM Outsourcing the Crown Jewels?
Invensys Operations Management (IOM) transfer the Invensys Development Centre (IDC) in Hyderabad, India, to an outsourced service provider

Second Quarter Orders Give ABB a Dose of Reality
ABB publishes second quarter figures showing double-digit percentages drop

For OneWireless Read OneHoneywell
ARC's Larry O'Brien predicts big changes at Honeywell in his review of the recent Honeywell User Group meeting

Foundation, HART Added to Stardom Controller
Yokogawa adds to its FCN-RTU low-power autonomous controller support for Foundation fieldbus and HART

Automation Federation Gets Its Voice Heard
The Automation Federation claims two significant victories in its campaign for recognition of automation as a profession

National Instruments Feels the Pinch Too
National Instruments saw revenue for the second quarter of 2009 decline 28%