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Top 50 Automation Companies 2009
The 50 Largest Automation Companies Around the World Keep On Keepin' On Despite the Recession

Top 10 Procurement Mistakes
Read about the 10 Supplier Pricing Procurement Mistakes Organizations Face

Control Software
The Latest in Functionality and Features for Control Software

December Conversations
Can Specialists Actually Do Good Without a Broad Understanding of Both the Field of Application and the Technology for It?

ISA: What Is There to Do?
ISA's Executive Board Needs to Hire a Turnaround Specialist, Not Another Association Manager - or Divvy Up the Money and Go Home

A Quiet Little KISS from Kontron
Kontron's KISS 1U Short938mITX Embedded Computer Offers Long-Term Support, Flexibility, Scaleability and Adaptability, As Well As a Amall Footprint to Pack a lot of Computing Power in a Small Space

A Logical Path to Device Criticality
If You're Aiming to Improve the Usefulness of Your Digitally Integrated Intelligent Field Devices, There's Help Available to Help You Get Moving Down This Road

Model-Based Control of Fast Processes
Online Visitor Asks About Applications That You Wish You Could Use APC on, but Can't Do Because of the Speed, Cost and Complexity of Traditional Approaches to Advanced Control

Picking a DCS: Who Decides and How
Here Are the Results of a Survey of Who Makes This Important Buying Decision and What Criteria Come into Play

Playing Well with Others
Process Analyzers Can Use OPC Xi and OPC ADI to Communicate with Control Systems

Involving the Uninvolved
Persistence and Slow Chipping Away Are the Only Ways to Open Paths to Community Members That Are Otherwise Cut Off and Uninvolved

Show Me the Money - Part 2
Showing the Monetary Benefits of Projects as Much as the Technical Achievements

First Annual Valuable Digital Content (VDC) Awards
The VDCs Honor Our Editors and Contributors, for Covering the Process Automation Industry by Gathering Information, Analyzing Data and Presenting the Findings in News Form. See Who the Winers Are

Lower Energy Costs and Sustainability Go Hand in Hand
But legislative uncertainties complicate strategies for manufacturers.

NAMUR Confirms WirelessHART for Process Applications
NAMUR Support WirelessHART

IEC to Impose Two-Headed Monster for Wireless Standard? | Control Global
The long-awaited convergence of the rival ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards for device-level wireless networking in the process industries isn't going to happen.

Honeywell Puts (Some of) Its Faith in Virtualization
Process automation system users adopt the twin concepts of open systems and COTS technologies, but there has been a downside.

Exhibition and Conference Replaces Conference and...
International Society of Automation (ISA) announces that the current show would be the last

National Instruments Sees Growth in Third Quarter
National Instruments believes it detects signs of an end to the recession

Iconics Claims to Be First with Windows 7
Iconics's Genesis64 HMI/SCADA package is the first manufacturer software certified on Windows 7

Fieldbus Markets Poised to Resume Growth
European market for fieldbus devices in the process industries are predicted to grow.

exida Introduces Triple 'Holistic' certification
Safety consultancy exida offers a holistic evaluation

Yokogawa Focuses on BPCS-SIS Integration
Yokogawa releases new versions of both its Centum VP control system and of the ProSafe-RS integrated SIS

Greg Shinskey in a Box?
ExperTune captures the knowledge of process control guru F. Greg Shinskey

World Market for IPCs to Grow
The world market for embedded panel Industrial PCs (IPCs) will grow