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Surprise! Field-Based Control Beats DCS
It Is Evident That Device-Based Control Exceeds DCS-Based Control in Reliability and Performance

Drowning in Data, Starving for Information-2
McMillan and Weiner Tacked a Big Question, What Is Data Analytics?

Blocking and Tackling Are Still Required Skills
It Is Sometimes Easier to Get Classes on Advanced Process Control Than on the Basics of General Instrumentation and Control

Pumping Station Optimization, Part 3
The Optimization of Pumping Stations and Liquid Distribution Systems Can Save 25 Percent or More Energy

Process Controllers on Deck
See the Latest Developments in This Technology

Look to Valves for More Uptime
Thirty to Fifty Percent of Downtime Is Attributable to Equipment Problems

Digital Positioners Take Over
Alabama Power Upgrades Damper-Drive Actuators to Digital to Reduce Maintenance of Coal-Fired Generators

Simple, Strong and Easy-to-Use
User-Centered Design Makes Operators More Aware of Their Processes and Better Able to Respond Fast

Gas Blending Control; Pipe Schedule and Control Valve Size
Any Thoughts on Where to Go for Reference Material and/or Subject Matter Experts for Help with Controls Engineering Project? Is It Mandatory That Pipe Line Schedule Be Mentioned for Control Valve Sizing?

Field Calibrators Make Everything Better
Users Are Opening Their Eyes to How Much Clearer Their Data Is - and How Much Better Their Processes Can Run - with Field Calibrators

Igniting Future Engineers
National Programs Partner with Businesses and Trade Organizations to Encourage Students to Participate in Engineering-Related Activities

Siemens Industry Packages Burner Management Systems
Siemens Releases TR84.00.05 - Guidance on the Identification of Safety Instrumented Functions in Burner Management Systems

Optimized Plant Makes Tea in Moscow
Pepsi Brews Up Batches of Lipton Tea with a State-of-the-Art Plant

Breakthrough Oxygen Analyzer Technology
Yokogawa Corp. of America Introduces the TDLS220 Percent Oxygen Analyzer

Situation Critical
Bad Human/System Relationships Can Quite Literally Blow Up in Everyone's Face

Social Networking as an Automation Marketing Tool
Can automation vendors afford to ignore the marketing potential of social networking tools?

Free OPC-UA Server Unlocks Linux's Potential
California web-based SCADA pioneer Inductive Automation has introduced the first cross platform OPC-UA server on the market.

PLC Vendors Ride out 19.1% Market Contraction
Global PLC revenues in 2009 were down by an estimated 19.1% compared with 2008

Honeywell Brings Shell Technology to Wider Market
Honeywell has acquired rights to Shell Global Solutions' OTTER field data collection technology.

Tell Us What You Think
Taking the Pulse of Our Readership. You Have the Opportunity to Weigh In on Important Issues Surrounding Your Work as Process Automation Professionals - Training and Salary

Purdue Honors Honeywell's Norm Gilsdorf
Norm Gilsdorf, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, was among nine alumni of Purdue University's College of Engineering honored last month during the Distinguished Engineering Alumni program. He was named one of the "2010 Distinguished Engineering Alumni."

Growth Opportunities in 2010 for Automation
The Global Foresight Group has identified several industry segments that will generate growing demand for process instrumentation and automation (PI&A) products in 2010 and beyond.

Rockwell's Nosbusch Uncertain Shape to Manufacturing Recovery
Rockwell Automation chairman and CEO Keith Nosbusch said last year that the market was about to bottom out

DVCs Drive Digitization of the Process Industries
Emerson claims that the digital communication and diagnostic capabilities of its Fisher FieldVue changed the way all process control vendors monitor control valves

One More EU Compromise on Machinery Safety
The European Commission of Machine Builders In Unable to Meet the Deadline for the ISO and IEC Standards

Wireless Spotlight Moves to Orlando...
One of the more entertaining side-shows at ARC's Orlando Forum in February may well have been the four-day meeting of the ISA100.12 subcommittee

Recovery Turns Spotlight on M&A Prospects
U.K. companies look very affordable to U.S. predators.

While Home Wireless Is Poised for Take Off
The home automation wireless market looks set to explode