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The League of Competent People
The World Needs Saving and Only We Can Save It by Working Together. Lets Start Investing in STEM Education and Jobs

Precious Water
Don't Take Water for Granted. See How New Controls Maintain the Reliability of Water Production System and Read Case Studies on Water Collection and Treatment Applications

Misplaced ICS-CERT Priorities
If Not Asked, ICS-CERT Can't Help

Taking on Industrial Control Security Issues
What's It Going to Take Before We Start Getting Real about Industrial Control Security Issues

A Charming New Facility
Recycled Equipment, a New Automation System, Electronic Marshalling and Remote I/O All Go into a Greenfield Sulfuric Acid Plant

Magmeter Maintenance, Feed-Forward Variations; Robots
What Maintenance Is Required for a Magmeter? And What's the Difference Between "Positional Feed-Forward" and "Incremental Feed-Forward" in PID Control?

Saving Steam Saves Money
Matt Brewing Co. Reduced Energy Cost to Brew Beer by $230,000 per Year Using Mass Flow Instrumentation

Addressing Control Applications Using Wireless Devices
How Wired and Wireless Transmitter Installations Differ in Closed-Loop Control Applications and What Changes Are Required in the PID

Readers' Feedback April 2012
Readers Agree and Disagree With Our Editors. See Our April 2012 Letters to the Editor

Distributing Production Data
Using Remote Monitoring Sites, Dart Oil and Gas Uses Flow Computers to Monitor and Record Gas Flow Data

What's the Best PID Execution Time?
We Still Should Remember the Nyquist Sampling Theorem

Ten Process Analyzer Applications

PLCs and PACs--What You Need to Know Now
PLCs and PACs 101

Optimized, Small-Footprint Coriolis Flowmeter
ABB Introduces Their Latest Design to their Coriolis Mass Flowmeters, the CoriolisMaster

What Happened to the E and T in STEM?
Schools Today Keep Emphasizing the S and the M, but Hardly Concentrate on Teaching Engineering and Technology Areas of Manufacturing, Construction, Communications and Transportation

Maximize the Success of Your Control System Implementation with Standards-Based Object-Oriented Design
Find Out What Are the Benefits of Using Object-Oriented Design Principals in the Design of a Modern Process Control Solution

Process Manufacturing and Society's Current Values
Society Has Devoted the Last 40 Years to Passing the Message That Manufacturing Is Dirty, Dangerous and Unrewarding

New Paradigms for Lab Control Systems
What a Lab Control Systems Can and Should Do for Commercialization of Biopharmaceuticals

Prototyping for Small and Large APC Applications
DuPont Uses Simulation and Rapid Prototyping Tools to Select, Justify and Implement Advanced Process Control (APC) in Many More, Smaller Applications

Microbrewery Grows Big With Micro PLC
Coastal Electric Uses Idec's Micro PLC to Automate Greenflash Brewing's New Plant in San Diego and Preserve Its Small-Batch Processes, While Brewing Five Times More Beer

Spring Is in the Air and Safety on Our Minds
Here Is Hoping for a Safe Spring and a Wonderful Summer for You and All Your Control Systems

The Future of Process Manufacturing
What Are You Going to Do When Your Most Experienced Operator Retires?

Optimizing Process Operations From Afar
AOC Resins Uses Remote Wireless Connections to Access Their Seven Process Plants Across North America from Its Corporate Headquarters

Remote Access Goes Mainstream
Remote Access Is One of the Fastest-Growing and Most Quickly Accepted New Technologies to Ever Hit the Process Control Industry

Selling Diagnostics to Management
Managers Are Paid the Big Bucks to Make Decisions That Many Times Boil Down to "How Much Insurance Do I Want to Buy?

CABA and ISA sign memorandum of understanding

Infinity Charter School Team Wins Nanoline Contest
Middleschoolers Win Trip to Germany, for Their Smart, Solar, Mobile Charging Station

ISA Opens Two New Membership Grades
ISA has added two new membership grades, Automation Community Member and Automation Affiliate Member, for automation professionals.

EtherNet/IP Now Standard in Asia
The National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China has adopted EtherNet/IP

Wireless Standards a Mixed Blessing for Process Industries
Competition Between Standards Leads Automation Customers to Fear That Wireless Is Emerging as the Next Platform for the Automation Fieldbus War