Issue Archive

Is Field-Based Control Really All That?
Recent Studies Shown That the Fieldbus-for-I/O-Only Approach Is Likely a Source of Compromised Performance and Unknown Latencies

The Scoop on Data Acquisition
Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Cover Data Acquisition

Drowning in Data; Starving for Information - 1
This Is the First of a Four-Part Series on Past, Present and Future Challenges and Opportunities Presented by the Deluge of Data Now Available to Automation Professionals

The Worlds Largest Foundation Fieldbus Project
Reliance Petroleum Limited Needed Foundation Fieldbus to Manage the Most Complex Refinery in the World

Airport Kabuki and Functional Security
What do 9/11, the Detroit Bomber and ICS Security Have in Common?

HMIs on Display
See the Latest in High-Contrast Screens, Compact Displays and Other Goodies

Instrumentation as a Foundation for Profit
What Is the Real Value of Instrumenting Production Processes? Control Engineers Know It. Do You?

ISA100.11a Security
What Happens to the Process When the Devices Fails?

Leading Lights
The Process Automation Hall of Fame Adds Four New Luminaries

Adaptive Level Control
Exploring the Complexities of Tuning Level Controllers and How an Adaptive Controller Can Be Used in Level Applications

NeSSI Keeps Chipping Away
The Plucky Sampling Sensor Initiative and Its Advocates Keep On Encouraging Users to Gain the Many Benefits That Its Standardized Hardware, Communications and Microanalytic Specifications Can Bring to Process Analytical Systems

Orifice Rangeability
Can We Re-Calibrate a Transmitter with Orifice Elements Ranging from 0 to 10000 Kg/hr for Lower Range Instead of Changing the Transmitter Over All?

Professional Patience
Innovators Must Not Be Held Back by Obstacles, Endless Resistance, and the Likely Lack and Withholding of Recognition and Reward

Honeywell Gets Rights to Shell's Operator Rounds Technology
Honeywell has acquired rights to technology developed by Shell Global Solutions for gathering field data and helping industrial plants to safely increase production, while reducing maintenance and operating costs.

BP-Husky to Invest $400 Million in Toledo Refinery
Two Catalytic Reformers and a Hydrogen Plant to Be Replaced

GEIP in Asset Management Deal with Metso
GEIP continue to invest in their product and solution platforms allowing customers to compete and succeed in this challenging economy

Industrial PC Market Driven by Technology Advances
The market for industrial PCs is driven by an increasing rate of technological advances in hardware and software

MooreHawke, P+F Get First H1 Device Coupler Registrations
First vendors to have products registered under the Fieldbus Foundation's fieldbus H1 device coupler registration process

FDT Group's Schulz Believes FDI Cooperation Will Drive Further Standards Harmonization
EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) Renamed the FDI Cooperation

Mitsubishi Joins Ranks of Rest of the World Elite
Mitsubishi Joins Control's Automation Top 50 Vendors of the Year

Control in the Field Does Make Business Sense
The Business Value Proposition of Control in the Field

ANSI Puts Wireless Ball Back in ISA's Court
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) confirmed to ISA shortly before Christmas that it must hear the appeal filed by Control magazine

IOM Europe Seeks to Establish Its Own Identity
Giuseppe Caltabiano's Appointment Is Further Evidence of the "Wonderwarization" of IOM

Smarter Panels Offer Hope After Drastic Decline
The worldwide market for operator panels suffered a drastic decline in 2009

HART 2009 Plant of the Year
The 2009 HART Plant of the Year Award was won by Mitsubishi Chemical's ethylene plant at Kashima, Japan