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Creative Computing for Control
PC-Based Control Is Taking Over in a Variety of New and Upcoming Process Industry Applications. Here Are Some of the Most Innovative Solutions

The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match
Industrial Ethernet Is Faster, Can Use Standard Wireless and Has More Topology Options

Relief Valve Blowdown Rings; D/P and Straight Runs
Readers Ask: When It Comes to Safety Relief Valves, What Is Best? Using Two Blowdown Rings or Ones? and Can We a Transmitter Be Installed Above Pipe Taps?

Bringing the Lincoln Paper Mill Back from the Dead
Lincoln Paper Wasn't Even a Zombie Company. It Was Dead. Closed. Kaput. Then New Owners Brought in Multivariable Testing to Help Resurrect It Through a Top-to-Bottom Revamp of Procedures, Processes and Plant Culture

Implementing MVT
Tomorrow Is Promised to No One

Process Automation Industry: When an Apology Is Just Not Good Enough
We Can't See Most Tragedies Coming, but There Must Be Dozens of People Who Could Have Seen the West Fertilizer Disaster Coming

Electric Power Utilities Are Not as Cyber Secure As They Say They Are
An Orderly Strategic Advance to the Rearward: The Cybersecurity of Electric Power Utilities Depend on How You Count It

Our Control Experts Deal with Process Dynamics
McMillan and Weiner Ask James Beall How He Approaches the Challenge of Intertwined Problems That Have Evaded Solution. See What He Had to Say

IEEE 802.11 Evolution Continues
The Demand for Speed and Bandwidth, Including Backhaul and Emergence of New Applications Are the Drivers for the New Standards

The Process Automation Assisted by Audio
Our Articles Get Accompanying Audio and Video Recordings. Check Them Out

Fieldbus is Dead! Long Live Fieldbus!
The Competing Communications Technology That Presumably Will Replace All These Buses, Including Process Fieldbuses, Is Ethernet

Motors and Drives Grow Up and Graduate
Motors and Drives Have Been Moving Up to Variable-Speed Control for Better Accuracy, but Now They're Also Increasing Power Density and Efficiency and Even Coordinating More Closely With PLCs and Intelligent Systems

Automation Could Have Prevented Fukushima, 2
Bela Liptak Discusses Automatic vs. Manual Operation of the Emergency Cooling Systems, and the Roles the Bad Designs of Control and Block Valves Played in this Nuclear Accident

Killing Model-Based Control Dead Time
Dead Time Compensation Can Improve PID Controller Performance, but at the Cost of Robustness

Multivariable Testing: Getting the Measurements Right
Before You Begin to Implement MVT, Make Sure You're Measuring What Can Be Quantified

Solving the Process Safety Puzzle
Integrated Safety Systems Offer One Solution, but No One-Size-Fits-All Fix Exists

What You Need to Know about Fieldbus Now
Fieldbus Online. Check Out This Month's Resources

The Power of the Loop
The LPD is 100% DCS/SCADA/Ethernet-Compatible with Its Serial I/O Capabilities

New Website Look for Omega.com
Customers now have an easier interface that can be recognized anywhere

ASCO Numatics Announces 2013 Engineering Scholarships
Now accepting applications for its 2013-14 ASCO Numatics Industrial Automation Engineering Scholarship program

MIT Technology Review Names ABB HVDC Among Top 10 Technologies
Development of hybrid HVDC breaker will help shape the power grid of the future .

Siemens Believes in the Manufacturing Renaissance
America has a training gap. It isn't a skills gap. Until we put the burden on those who train, rather than those who need to be trained, we'll never solve the problem