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ASM Alarm Management Guidelines and ISA-18.2: How Do They Stack Up?
The ISA Standard and the ASM Consortium Guidelines Both Offer Important Information About Alarm Management. Although Their Approaches Differ, They Complement One Another

Shrink-Proof Your Career
Read This Article and Find Out Why Boyes Says That Automation Professionals Have Been Less Hurt by the Recession Than Other Professionals

How's Your Fieldbus Resume?
What Kind of Qualifications Should You Be Displaying to Qualify for the Jobs That Are Available?

The Latest Data Acquisition Tools
Find Everything from Field-Mountable Video Recorders to Cell Phone DAQ Here

Break Through: Fieldbus Protocols
Fieldbus Protocols Continue Pushing into Mainstream Process Applications, and Innovative Users Are Forcing Their Network Infrastructures to Evolve Along with Them

What's Green and Safe and Makes Lots of Pulp?
The Celulosa Arauco Pulp Mill. Environment, Safety and Quality Goals Realized in Successful Start-Up

Get Your Process Analyzer Info Here!
This Month We Cover Process Analyzers

Going, Going, Gone - Part 3
If the Industry Wants Access to Its Consultants, It Should Insure Their Prospective Retirees Have No Outside Interests

Voices From the Project
Shouldn't Process Automation Technology Be Easier to Engineer, Implement, Operate and Maintain?

Readers Discuss Safety Issues
Our Readers Follow Our Automation Safety Articles and Write Us Telling Us Their Thoughts

Simulation Software Not Just for Rocket Scientists
Simulation Software Makes Our Professional and Personal Lives Easier. How Is Simulation Software Connected to You in Your Life?

Automation: Time to Unspecialize
Hyper-Specialists Will Research More and More About Less and Less Until They Know Everything About Nothing

The Water Works
The City of Carlsbad Municipal Water District's SCADA System Monitors the Transportation, Distribution and Treatment of Water for the Entire Community

Control Valve Market Drops, Backlogs Shrink
No rebound until 2011, says ARC.

Alarm-Management Best Practices Book
Second Release by ASM of Its Series of Best-Practice Publications on the Prevention of Abnormal Situations

Invensys Gets Virtually Real
Invensys Reveals Its New EYESim Virtual Reality Immersive Training Solution

Emerson Sees Process Management Margin Fall
Emerson reported net sales for the third quarter down 22%

GE Dissolves Its 23-Year Joint Venture with Fanuc
GE and Fanuc dissolve their 23-year-old GE Fanuc Automation Corporation joint venture

Power Generators Opt for ABB's SCADA Solution
Brookfield Renewable Power, one selects ABB's Network Manager SCADA solution to monitor, control and manage its entire fleet of power generation facilities in North America.

Replicated ESD Systems Cut Commissioning Time
HIMA Paul Hildebrandt upgrades HIMA ESD (Emergency Shutdown) system at Lanxess' hexane oxidation plant

Flatter Architecture Is Key to Oil & Gas Success
Rockwell shows off PlantPAx

As If You Needed It...
Metso starts negotiations on permanent employee reductions and temporary lay-offs

Experience Shows Users Need FDT and EDDL Support
Vendors argue about the advantages and disadvantages of FDT and EDDL technology, but users reckon that they need both if they're not to be compromised in their choice of equipment and devices.

Yokogawa Claims First with Multi-Vendor PST
Yokogawa's new software introduced as an optional extension to its Plant Resource Manager (PRM) device asset management package creates the world's first multi-vendor Partial-Stroke Test (PST) solution for Emergency ShutDown (ESD) valves

Industrial Ethernet Still Outpaces Automation
According to a newly published report from IMS Research, Ethernet continues to gain favor with users over the rate of installation of Ethernet nodes in industrial automation networks

Emerson Picks exida for SIS Certification
exida's growing involvement in evaluation and certification services has been highlighted by two recent projects for Emerson Process Management

NI Jins the Wireless Revolution
NI WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) platform combines LabVIEW with a range of low-power wireless measurement nodes