Issue Archive

Armoring Up for Safety
Eastman Chemical Uses FISCO and Advanced Diagnostics to Implement Intrinsically Safe Fieldbus in a Hazardous and Corrosive Environment

Opportunity Out of Crisis
What Would Happen if ISA's Leadership Began to Creatively Restructure and Reorganize the Organization?

Do Not Be Afraid
We Don't Fear Technology Taking Over Our Jobs, We Fear Having to Use New Technology at the Workplace

Diffusing Bubble Bombs
Proper Valve Sizing for Severe Service Can Help Lessen Wear and Damage from Cavitation

Shell's Long-Time Push for Fieldbus
What's Next? Making Foundation Fieldbus Systems More Mature. Meaning, Making Them More Broadly Applicable in Projects

Industrial Computers, PACs and PLCs
See the Latest Products Available for Your Industrial Computing Jobs

Show Me the Money – Part 1
The Best Way to Keep Your Job, Save our Profession, and Do Wonderful Things Is to Quantify the Benefits of Process Control Improvements. Money Talks

Pumping Station Optimization - Part 1
Liptak Describes the Pumping Process to Then Show How to Control and Optimize Pumping Stations

Level Sensing Resources
Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Talk Level Sensing Field Intruments

Standard Issues
An Automation Standard Makes It Easier to Justify New Technology Because Others Have Walked the Same Path

Machines Have Their Say
Machines Are Getting Better at Telling Us What's Wrong with Them. More and Better Sensors and Sophisticated Algorithms Make Predictive Maintenance Practical—and Help Close the Loop Between the Plant Floor, EAM Systems and ERP

Wireless Reluctance and Dancing Engineers
Readers Enjoy Our Colorful Pocess Control Articles and Tell Us That the Acceptance of Wireless Is Not Just Psychological.

Wireless or Fieldbus?
Is Wireless Easier to Integrate with Legacy Systems than Fieldbus? Since Wireless Emerged as Viable Option, Users Have Been Pleased to Find That Wireless Connects Easily with Their Old System

Where Invensys Operations Management's Going From Here
Execs outline future direction at North American client conference.

Emerson Execs Talk Economic Trends, Nanosensors
Emerson's Steve Sonnenberg and John Berra Offer Their Take on the Economy, Sustainability and the Future of Wireless

Huntsman Goes Big With Wireless
Meet one of the largest and most ambitious industrial wireless application networks to date

Emerson Overturns 35 Years of Industry Thinking on I/O
Emerson puts emphasis on ease of use as DeltaV S-series overturns 35 years of industry thinking on I/O

IOM Rrekindles User and Staff Enthusiasm
IOM succeeds in generating some real excitement of its own

EC Plays Hokey-Cokey with Safety Directive
Confusion over the implementation of European Union directives is nothing new, but two U-turns within a month must make something of a record even by European Commission standards.

Fieldbus Foundation Puts Its Weight Behind PROLIST
The Fieldbus Foundation has become the latest organization to sign a copyright agreement with PROLIST International

Frost & Sullivan Says EMEA ACS Services Market to Double
Frost & Sullivan is predicting that the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) Services Market will almost double between 2008 and 2015

Enough with the Ecosystems!
Where does this word "ecosystem" or rather its use in the particular context of our industry, come from and what, if anything, does it actually mean?