Issue Archive

A Level Playing Field
Your Operators Need to Move From a General Overview Down to Detailed Information

A Seven-Step Process
Control, Maintain and Periodically Evaluate the HMI. See the Other Steps to Take

All Quiet on the Wireless Front
End Users Have Voted With Their Feet, Ignoring Standards Wars and Moving Ahead With Useful Apps

Bone Up on Safety Online
This Month We Touch On Safety Systems and Safety Tools

Developing a Good HMI
What Information Should Be Emphasized?

Easy Oscilloscopes for All Buses
Troubleshooting Fieldbus Is Rarely Straightforward. One Might Need to Disconnect Segments and Shoot Them With Oscilloscopes and Meters

FDT--Your APP for Smart Device Information Integration!
See How FDT Provides the "Enabling" Features for Process Automation the Same Way the "App" Does for "Smart Phones"

Firewall Needed Between AT and IT?
Should the Business IT Group or the Controls Group Load the DeltaV Machines?

Color Code
Beware the Color-Code Trap

HMI Extra-Credit Reading
See Information on High-Performance HMIs

I/O and Terminal Blocks Available Here
Here's Some of the Latest in I/O Technology

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PID World Tour--The Final Performance
Read the Conclusion of McMillan, Weiner and Congiundi's Tour of PID World

Proper HMI Graphics Should Look BORING!
The Difference Between Poor HMI Graphics and High-Performance Ones

Protecting ICSs from Electronic Threats, II
ICS Security Is a Lifecycle Process that Begins With Conceptual Design of a System and Continues Through to Its Retirement

Proprietary Protocols Hang Tough
More Than a Dozen Companies Now Manufacture Proprietary Wireless Field Device Networks

Radar Technology for Level Measurement
Precise Knowledge of the Grain Level in UCML's Storage Silos Is Essential to Production. Radar Measurement Is the Key

Remote Emergency Shutdown Device for Oil Production Platform
ENI Petroleum Needed a Reliable Communications Link Between Its Control Room and Its Drill Ships

Risky Business--How to Optimize a Hydrocarbon Processing Plant
It's All About the Trade-Offs

Really, Really, Really Cyber Secure
It Is Now Clear That Machine-level, Embedded Controllers, Such as PLCs, PACs and DCS Controllers Are Vulnerable From Both Inside and Outside the Plant

Shared Pains in the Neck
Most Professions and Industries Are Facing the Same Brain Drains, Struggles With IT, Going Green Questions and How to Use Social Media

Summer and Stuxnet
Talking Plant Cybersecurity in the Light of Stuxnet. With No Certifications for Control System Cybersecurity, Anyone Can Be an Expert. Who Does an End User Believe?

Two Things Your HMI Should Have
Find Out What Features Your HMI Should Have

The Ultimate HMI
What Your Operators Need to Know and the Best Way to Show It to Them

ZigBee Not a Wireless Also-Ran
Only 1.47% of Our 2011 Wireless Survey Respondents Say They Used the Zig-Bee Protocol

Baldor-ABB Gives $1 Million to UA Fort Smith
The gift will establish the John McFarland and Baldor Scholarship for Technology and Applied Sciences.

Efficiency, Sustainability Driving Global Growth for Festo
Company Grabs Attention With Its Bionic Bird

FDT Technology Recognized as ANSI/ISA Standards
We're excited to hear that ISA is moving U.S. support and adoption of FDT standardization forward

Rose Corrosion and Techtools Settle Out of Court
Rose and Techtools have paid Cosasco an unspecified sum of money