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Finding Freebies in Fieldbus

Can We Use the Standard Deviation Method to Flag a Suspicious Measurement?

Buyer Beware: SPD and UL Markings? Are You Buying or Selling the Right Product

Significant changes have taken place regarding Surge Protection Devices and UL 1449. With the changes has come different product marking requirements to identify...

Connectivity that counts

Today, much fruitful activity in the process automation realm is on the meaningful integration of applications with each other, so that true knowledge and...

Manufacturing pillars support U.S. economy

Manufacturing made the highest contribution (15%) to real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of all sectors between 2001 and today.

Coordinated Batch Execution is the Key Theme of the New Plant Architecture……..…….. A Status Update

Manufacturers consolidating production facilities around contract manufacturing and outsourcing models are reducing noncore activities so that costs can be decreased...

CC-Link Offers More than Just a Gateway to Asia

CC-Link, the fieldbus protocol which dominates the Asian market, but which has until recently largely been ignored in the European and North American markets

The Many Other Ways

Any one of us might be able to turn an insignificant idea into a competitive advantage that puts us on top.

Allen-Bradley Series B MicroLogix 1100 controller

Allen-Bradley Series B MicroLogix 1100 controllers include an onboard Ethernet Web server with the ability to notify users of production faults via e-mail.

Making Industrial Wireless Work: Introducing Apprion and The ION System

Whether you process chemicals, refine petroleum, generate power, produce paper or metals, you must continuously refine and optimize operations to deliver quality...

Beckhoff Automation's Extended Temperature Bus Terminals

Extended Temperature (ET) bus terminals have an operating temperature range for selected standard bus terminals and couplers of between -4 °F and 140 °F (-20 °C and...

Omega CT89 Series Temperature Chart Recorders

CT89 series temperature chart recorders accurately measure and record temperatures in air, gas, liquids, powders, solids and semi-solids using the stainless-steel,...

Advantech, Industrial Automation Group's IPPC-7157A 15" industrial panel PC

Industrial PC supports an ATX industrial motherboard with seven PCI/PCIe expansion slots

S88: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!!

As S88 becomes widely adopted within the batch industries operating companies are increasingly looking for reliable transfer of recipes between systems from...

Process Automation Hall of Fame

A Walk in the Hall. Manager/System Architect/Teacher: This Year’s Crop of Everyday Process Automation Heroes

Surface Acoustic Wave Technology-Based Temperature Monitoring of High Voltage and High Current Switchgear Boxes

Safety is a big concern when it comes to managing power distribution systems. High voltage and high current switchgear boxes serve an important role in establishing...

Automation Direct's Low-Cost TFT Touch Panel

TFT color touch screen HMI panel

Air Products Realizes Multiple Significant Gains with Alarm Management

Air Products was looking to make three improvements to their plant performance: a reduction in off-spec product, an increase in capacity by reducing cycle time, and...

Rockwell Automation Ramps Up Its Process Offering

Process Manufacturers Need Plant-wide Approaches to Automation and Optimization

Wisconsin "B'easts" build robots

FIRST Robotics Competition in Milwaukee showcases local high school team, co-sponsored by ABB New Berlin

Longwatch's Video Historian for Video Surveillance System

Video Historian acquires and stores video clips linked with process and manufacturing variables

Distillation control and optimization, Part 3

Control's Béla Lipták continues his series on control of distillation processes, this time focusing on managing reboiler flow, temperature, feed rate, loading and...

The ins and outs of I/P transducers

I/P transducers are relatively simple devices, but there are numerous factors to take into account before selecting one. This paper provides a complete understanding...

National Instruments' cRIO-9073 programmable automation controller

CompactRIO programmable automation controller combines embedded real-time processor and a user-programmable FPGA chip

Invensys to provide InFusion-based SCADA system for CHS liquid pipeline

CHS Inc. has selected Invensys to implement an InFusion-based SCADA system for Front Range Pipeline, LLC and Cenex Pipeline, LLC.

Integrated Electrical and Automation Systems

As process plants get larger and more complex, automation systems must handle an ever-increasing number of signals. At the same time, the number of electric...

So What Difference Was There Between Meetings?

Nick Denbow Compares All Three 2010 Conferences from Invensys, Rockwell and Honeywell

Bumpless pump sequencing

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question regarding problems with the control scheme for...

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 Professional

Targeting Batch Outcome using Predictive Control

The paper will present a new methodology for using predictive control to improve batch process outcomes. Predictive control refers to a situation in which data...

Noticias

Lea las últimas noticias del mundo de procesos automáticos

Keep the bus from slowing to a crawl

Process Automation: Ian Verhappen, Chair of the Foundation Fieldbus User Group and Vice President of Standards for ISA, offers his perspective and experience on the...

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?

Programmable Automation Controllers Find Their Niche…Everywhere!

In the beginning there was the relay, the timer, and the hardwired controller. Then, the PLC made these obsolete. Now, there’s the rise of the PAC, a hybrid of the...

Parker Hannifin, Instrumentation Products Div.'s Pilot Pro process sample conditioning system communications interface

Communications interface provides a link between plant process control operations and analyzer maintenance networks

Process Analyzer References

More on NeSSI, Alarms, Wireless, Security and Safety

Functional Safety and Security- It's Cultural

Fostering a "Safety and Security Culture" in Our Workplaces

Centralized System Approach For Part 11 Compliancy

The paper presents a case study on how the world’s largest pharmaceutical tablets manufacturing site achieved 21 CFR Part 11 compliancy on their manufacturing...

Lubrizol, Emerson Redefining Collaboration

Walt Boyes, editor in chief of Control, chats with Lubrizol's Bob Wojewodka and Philippe Moro, along with Emerson's Terry Blevins, on their project to embed batch...

Balluff's IO-Link Analog Plugs

IO-Link analog plugs, with their 14-bit high resolution, are the ideal choice for systems with limited instances of analog signals.

Lumenite's LASC-RTD/THM Liquid Level and Temperature Control Board

SENSITIVE LIQUID LEVEL/TEMP CONTROL BOARD

Beckhoff Automation's Compact Displays

Beckoff's energy-efficient industrial panels feature 5.7-in. displays, aluminum fronts with IP 65-rated protection, and 640 x 480 pixels resolution.

How to Get Started in Asset Performance Management

Customers Can Enjoy Control-System-Class Device Management and Optimization Benefits in a Small Package

FasTrak SoftWorks' Profibus configurator software

Profibus Configurator makes Profibus network setup and I/O configuration simple

Safeguarding Your Plant Automation Systems with Change Management

The increased use of plant floor automation to achieve production goals has created a dependency on PLCs, PC control systems and programmable automation. These...

Automation Products Bulletin

Compiled by the editors of ControlGlobal.com and ControlDesign.com, this monthly e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the most current new products available to...

Improving PID Controller Performance

Proportional integral derivative (PID) control is the most commonly used control algorithm in the industry today. PID controller popularity can be attributed to the...

American Innovations' Wireless Monitor Systems

Space-Age wireless monitor uses satellite system

ISA announces call for papers for WBF Euro Conference

WBF – the Forum for Automation and Manufacturing Professionals – will hold it's bi-annual European WBF Conference November 13-15 at the Mechelen Conference Centre...

April 2008 Web Highlights

What’s New This Month on ControlGlobal.com

Ask the Experts: Instrumentation Books

Béla Lipták lists his most recommended books on Instrumentation

Communication, Configuration, Calibration

Industrial Ethernet: Critical Differences Between Commercial and Industrial-Grade Components

This white paper discusses important differences between the commercial–grade components used in enterprise Ethernet systems and the industrial-grade cabling,...

Brooks Instrument Low Flow Glass Tube Meters

Models 1250 and 1255 are the latest members of the Sho-Rate low-flow glass tube flowmeter line. They feature an easy-to-read scale with rotating lens for a 180°...

Nematron's ePC-Series industrial PCs

PCs have a depth of less than 3.0 in. (76.2 mm)

Securing IP control protocols

Is it impossible for all SCADA IP control protocols to implement a common security protocol? This "special to the web" article by SCADA security consultant Dale...

SensorS Magazine's Level Measurement Principles

The Principles of Level Measurement

Safety Starring in Efficiency and Sustainability Roles

Individual Machine Safety Becomes Intertwined with Issues of Overall Functional Safety, as Well as Efforts to Improve Efficiency, Reduce Scrap and Improve Sustainability

Emerson's Rosemount 2-Wire Non-Contacting Radar Level Transmitters

Emerson introduces Rosemount 2-wire non-contacting radar level transmitters for safety instrumented systems

K-TEK's MS41 magnetically actuated electric level switch

Switch's dual-compartment design protects switching mechanism from corrosive environments

Wisconsin Public Service Optimizes with CMMS

Wisconsin Public Service has had to respond to changing markets in electricity generation

Distillation Control and Optimization

Distillation is arguably the most complex unit operation in most processing plants. In this Ebook, “Distillation Control & Optimization,” Béla Lipták, one of the...

Understanding Cable Assembly Molding

While a molded cable assembly can offer significant advantages over a similar product of a mechanical construction, the art of insert molding remains somewhat of a...

Wireless Devices in the Factory Automation

An Overview of Adoption Trends

A Blueprint for the Real Time Enterprise

Manufacturing and production processes have had to be controlled and managed in real time from inception because they change in real time frames. This has been a...

The Eye for Plant Operator's Eyes

The plant operator has an extremely valuable and important responsibility: being the force and energy managing a capital enterprise easily worth hundreds of millions...

Givens Control Engineering's Plotting and Analysis Software

Allowing users to plot and analyze data to make quick conclusions

New Calibration Tools Improve Safety and Efficiency

Device Calibration Becomes More and More Demanding Every Day

Not Just Motor Efficiency: Look at the Whole System

While Upgraded Components Can Boost Energy Efficiency, a System-Level Review Is More Likely to Pay Off Big

SIS-TECH offers safety instrumented system training online

SIS-TECH Solutions, a provider of safety instrumented system products, training, consultation, and engineering services, is offering its PRISM Certified Training in...

Functional Security–Walking the Walk

When It Comes to Functional Security, How Do You Handle Security Updates?

Fieldbus Guide

We’ve been covering Fieldbus at Control for years now, and a complete archive of our material is available here. See our fieldbus resources.

Expanded flow diagnostics cast a wider net

Here’s how to use several methods, such as element status checking, to improve flowmeter availability, increase consistency, and reduce costs in many applications...

Highlights from the Invensys Customer Conference

Invensys Process Systems' Hesh Kagan outlined the company's strategy for making wireless a real and sustainable technology for process manufacturers at the Invensys...

SCADA & Industrial Automation Conference

This conference will be of interest to any organization that relies on industrial automation for growth and indeed business survival.

Reasons for Choosing a Diaphragm Seal for Pressure Applications

In many pressure applications, it is necessary to isolate the sensing element from the material being sensed.

Dwyer Instruments' PFG2 Process Filter Gage Series

The Series PFG2 Process Filter Gage is designed for determining the state of an in-line filter.

IMI's Series 176 High-Temperature Pressure Sensors

IMI Sensors' Series 176 high-temperature pressure sensors provide 24/7, consistent, reliable combustion dynamics data monitoring.

Rethinking SCADA Software For Modern Manufacturing -- Inductive Automation

SCADA software has gotten out of control. What if there was a better way to manage control systems? See how web-based software, open standards technology, and...

ISA’s SP100 committee merges working groups

Wireless Systems for Automation, ISA’s SP100 standards committee, has announced the approval of a motion to merge two working groups. ISA SP100.11, covering...

RTK Instruments' 725B alarm annunciator

Annunciator uses CANBUS communication and is supplied as a stand alone annunciator or with an integrated 1 ms event recorder

Passive Techniques for Reducing Input Current Harmonics

Events over the last several years have focused attention on certain types of loads on the electrical system that result in power quality problems for the user and...

Opto22's Automation Software Upgrade

Opto 22's PAC Project 8.5

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Monitors Environmental Emissions with the OSIsoft PI System

Formed in 2001 as the result of a government initiative to create competitive subsidiaries in the power generation industry, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company...

Understanding and Minimizing Your HMI/SCADA System Security Gaps

Protecting your HMI/SCADA system is critical but can be challenging due to complex, multi–layered technologies, cyber threats and other risks. This white paper...

Outdoor Digital Pressure Gauge

Omega Engineering's Low-Cost Flow Switch

Omega's new, low-cost ($100) FSW300 series of flow switches

Arch-Rivals Each Get Their Fifteen Minutes of Fame

UK PR consultancy CadenceFisher pulled off something of a minor coup last week by persuading arch-rivals Emerson, ABB, Siemens and Rockwell to present at the same...

Scale, Modularization Focus of CompactLogix Developments

Rockwell Automation Addresses Machine Builder Needs With New Integrated Motion and Safety Capabilities

Control/ARC 2010 Top 50 Automation Companies

Walt Boyes, editor of Control, and Larry O'Brien of ARC discuss the issues and the background of the annual Top 50 report.

Measurement Computing's DAQFlex

DAQFlex is a framework that combines a small footprint driver with a message-based command protocol.

Intrusion detection and cybersecurity

Presented here are the current intrusion detection and cyber security monitoring techniques used in enterprise networks that can provide early identification of...

Dwyer Instruments' Series PBFV butterfly valves

Thermoplastic butterfly valves for chemical and wastewater applications

Pro-face America's APL3000 industrial PCs

Industrial PCs include Advanced Data Protection and Factory Alert Monitoring

Alarm management for regulated industries

Process automation: This article on regulatory drivers for alarm management systems summarizes key best practices, and things the process industry can do to help...

The 10 truths of safety instrumented systems

Here are the 10 truths that will make you better able to engineer a new safety instrumented system, or to properly grandfather your existing system and better ensure...

R. Stahl’s 9418 Explosion-Protected Mini-Terminator

Terminating resistor is suitable for explosion-protected FF H1 and Profibus PA installations

Implementing Automated Batch Control of a Biotechnology Manufacturing Facility using S88.01 concepts – A Case Study

Genentech Inc. recently completed the design, construction and automation of a new, multipurpose, biotechnology drug, bulk-manufacturing facility in the United...

Danish Water Company Connects with CC-Link Fieldbus

The challenge was to increase the output capacity, increase the number of boreholes, increase the whole system including the reservoir capacity without effecting...

MTS's Temposonics Linear-Position Sensors

MTS Sensors' Faster Update Rate Enhances Performance in Plastics Industry

Control Valve Handbook, 4th Edition

The Control Valve Handbook has been a primary reference since its first printing in 1965. This fourth edition presents vital information on control valve performance...

How's Your Fieldbus Resume?

What Kind of Qualifications Should You Be Displaying to Qualify for the Jobs That Are Available?

Managing Previously Unmanaged Assets

How Wireless Remote Monitoring Enables Low-Cost Data Logging and Control Economically meeting requirements for monitoring of mobile assets and remote...

Optimization Solution White Paper

Honeywell has continuously demonstrated the benefits of advanced process control technology in improving profitability through improved process stability, increased...

Control Software

The Latest in Functionality and Features for Control Software

Supercritical Fluid Technologies' SFT-20 Carbon Dioxide Pump

Pump delivers flow rates of 200 ml/min

Integration

Read Dan Hebert's Article "Integration Operations to Enterprise" and other online resources on Software Management and Integration Systems

How End-Users Want To Be Sold To

Learn how to create customer focus organizations and meet challenges/opportunities of the 21st century.

A Practical Approach to Alarm Management, Part Two: Rationalization Based on Need and Risk

In Part One of this white paper series, Crawling into Alarm Management, we discussed simple and straightforward nuisance alarm reduction. That methodology - while...

Applying S88, S95 and B2MML in Dairy Enterprise

This paper describes an end-user project at Arla Foods with the use of the B2MML schemas as a corporate standard for communication between business systems and ES...

Wireless Ethernet: Ready for Industrial Prime Time?

Explore the use of wireless Ethernet in industrial applications

Emerson and Dust Networks ally for wireless, in-plant applications

Emerson Process Management has announced that it is using Dust Networks’ Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP) as the communications technology for its new in-plant...

Trends in Manufacturing: Operations for Sales and Marketing Professionals

Watch this Video and Learn What the Challenges are in Sales for Manufacturing Operations

Control and Automation Maturity Models in Brewing

How do we choose the correct level of automation for a specific process area within the production facility? How does that facility drive a migration of its control...

Davis Instrument's Modular Calibration System

MODULAR CALIBRATION SYSTEMS

Security is more than hating Microsoft

In his June editorial for CONTROL, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes believes we are picking unfairly on the security flaws of Microsoft, while ignoring the wider...

Data logger size matters

New requirements and regulations are constantly being foisted on you and your plant, and many of these requirements necessitate acquisition and recording of data....

Piezometers for Flow Measurement; Level Gauges

How Is a Piezometer Ring Used to Measure Flow?

Manage Your Account | Control Global

Schneider brings Citect field operations in–house

Integrating Citect SCADA and MES Software

Becoming NERC CIP-Compliant

What you need to know to be compliant with the new mandatory compliance standards.

CAT5e Ethernet Patch Cables

Just Because They Haven’t, Doesn’t Mean They Won’t

At the SANS Conference in January, CIA Representative Tom Donahue Revealed that the Agency Had Documentary Evidence of Attacks on Utilities Outside the U.S. Of...

Exhibition and Conference Replaces Conference and...

International Society of Automation (ISA) announces that the current show would be the last

Readers Respond

This Month, Our Readers Respond to Our Latest Articles on Wastewater Management, Wireless Standards and Process Controls

Software for Your Every Process Need

Here are applications for every aspect of your process automation environment

Wireless Workers Unchained

Wireless Workers Are Already Roaming Around Process Plants Worldwide. Might Your Facility Be Next?

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

Yokagawa's Two-Wire Magnetic Flowmeter

AXR is the world's first two-wire magnetic flowmeter which employs an advanced "dual-frequency excitation" method

Rockwell Adds Integrated Architecture Capabilities

Rockwell's Latest Integrated Architecture Version

Flexibility, Powerful Performance from Magnetrol Ultrasonic

Magnetrol’s new Echotel Model 355 Transmitter Can Handle Applications That Were Unthinkable Just a Few Years Ago

Interface for Ethernet and Serial Networks

Process plants are no stranger to discrete automation systems.

ifm efector's TK Series Switch

DIAL A TEMP

The Straight Scoop on Stuxnet

Stuxnet, the scary new virus in town, may make you want to rethink your control system security. Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, and ARC's Bob Mick sort...

Who Are Your Bandwidth Hogs

As industrial Ethernet networks grow in number and importance, keeping the right traffic on – and off – the network becomes essential The use of Ethernet for...

Turck's PS300 Series Pressure Sensors

PS300 series pressure sensors for hydraulic applications feature a rugged, IP69K-rated design to withstand harsh environments.

Carrying Serial Devices into the Future

Go through the history of serial devices and their future.

Emerson Valve Acquisition Boosts Presence in India

Emerson announced it has acquired full ownership of the Fisher Sanmar Limited joint venture

Igniting Future Engineers

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

Practical Process Safety Podcast

Boom! Factories have been going boom and managers have lied to the CSB. Walt Boyes and ARC’s Larry O’Brien discuss what appears to be a crisis in process functional...

Overcoming Concerns about Wireless PACs and I/O in Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation Flirts with Wireless The automation industry increasingly finds wireless attractive, and for several reasons. - Running a wired...

What Drives Choices of Industrial Heat Control Systems?

Design Engineers and Engineering Managers Say that Core Heating and Control Technologies They Use will Change in the Next Two Years

A Flow Stream Approach for Process Cell Modularization

Many S88 implementation reports raise the issue of Process Cell breakdown into its lower level components (Units, Equipment Modules and Control modules). From the...

Industrial security and compliance

This paper talks about each of the areas of concentration for process sucurity in detail -- people, processes and technology -- as well as the priority of developing...

Chemical Plant Reduces Energy Costs with Profit Controller

Watch this brief video to learn how one chemical plant was able to increase their production capacity by over 3% while using less energy and lowering emissions.

Emerson Gets a Vetting on Many Topics by EU Press

Emerson's approach to international standards and the lack of any real promotional references to PlantWeb and Foundation Fieldbus in these latest presentations.

The Horse with Stripes

IT Security Professionals Profess to Be “Industrial Cyber Security ," Yet, It Takes More to Function Properly in the Industrial Controls Environment

Wireless Control in the Field

Users Will Have to Exert Their Influence with Suppliers to Get Control in the Field Implemented in WirelessHART

Hunting Know-How

Everyone Wants to Gather and Preserve the Knowledge of Veteran Process Control Engineers. However, Few Know How to Turn Expertise into Useful Information that...

Moore Industries' Net Concentrator System

UP TO 64,000 DATA POINTS

Signal-Conditioning for Temp Sensing

The Adventure of Smarter Automation - Part 1

Introduction to the vertical sectors that Advantech eAutomation focuses.

A User’s Guide to Pressure Measurement

A Complete Precision Pressure Measurement Handbook Covering the Fundamentals of Pressure Measurement, Deadweight Pressure Testers, Calibration of Deadweight Testers,...

Honeywell's Smart Pressure Transmitters

SMART PRESSURE

King-Gage

Integrated level measurement solution combines data acquisition

Simulation Breaks Out

Process Simulations Are Bursting Their Former Boundaries and Storming into Optimization, Model-Predictive Control, Abnormal Situations Management and Closing In on...

Operational Concept Document: A Process- Based Integration of Production IT Solutions in a Pharmaceutical Plant

Pharmaceutical plants tend to increase the integration between their business systems and their control systems to improve their response to market requirements. A...

Selling the Cool

Want kids to become automation engineers? Convince them the job is cool.

Integrated Controls Keep Cement Plants Nimble

Evolution and Benefits of Cement Plants’ Automation and Control Systems Technology

General Recipe: Multiproduct Facility Design; Technology Transfer

The crucial task for engineers involved in designing manufacturing facilities is to determine the most efficient way to dimension process cell equipment to achieve...

35 Years of Extraordinary PID Innovations

The Best Tuning of a PID Controller Is Knowledge of the Process Dynamics

Omega's Infrared Thermometer with Circle/Dot Laser Sighting

The OSXL450 is an economical, non-contact thermometer that is simple to operate.

Caso: Ingenio Plan de Ayala S.A. de C.V.

Ingenio Plan de Ayala es uno del los más importantes ingenios de azúcar en la zona norte de México.

How To Be A Contender

The Control/ARC podcast features ARC Vice President Dave Woll discussing what it takes to be a 21st-century automation professional, whether as a manager or...

Honeywell Voice of the Customer Goes Virtual

Honeywell's Peggy Hewitt talks with Control's Walt Boyes about <a href="http://www.letstalkprocesscontrol.com" target="blank">w...

Batch Best Practices and Strategic Automation Helping Smaller Companies to Better Business Performance

With the introduction of S88.01, the impending introduction of S88.00.02 and the drive to automate batch production from the transmitter to the corporate offices,...

More Fiber in Your Network Diet

It is extremely difficult to eavesdrop on fiber-optic connections, guaranteeing a high degree of security.

Advantech, Industrial Automation Group's UNO-4678 embedded automation controller

Embedded controller starts at $1555

Manufacturing excellence aided with predictive analytics

NOVA Chemicals recently implemented a RPM decision support system to drive its manufacturing excellence program, resulting in improved decision making to influence...

Can a cheap flowmeter be good?

The reason I was there was to ask the Fermilab engineers why they would use a “cheap flowmeter” to measure a parameter so absolutely critical to their cutting-edge,...

Multifunctional USB DAQ Module

USB-4704 DAQ module is a 48 kS/s, eight-channel, 14-bit, multi-functional module with analog I/O, digital I/O and counter functions.

Precise Flow Control

ISA Safety Division Symposium & Training

The 2006 ISA Safety Symposium, to be held May 23-24 in Houston, will provide an in-depth look at today's safety technologies and procedures through presentations and...

PlantPAx Continues Rockwell Automation’s Process Push

The Next Generation of Process Control, Asset Optimization and Decision-Support Tools

The Challenge of Designing, Building and Shipping Robust and Secure Products

The Mu-4000 Security Analyzer has emerged to help QA integrate optimized negative testing without impacting productivity. It delivers metrics related to service...

Process Control Domain - Security Requirements for Vendors

This document specifies requirements and gives recommendations for IT security to be fulfilled by vendors of process control and automation systems to be used in...

Brewing a recipe for collaborative success

Process Automation: Coors has found that embracing the human element can short circuit organizational drag. Add information literacy skills and the five disciplines...

ISA100.11a: Half Baked to a Schedule

If this Standard's Not Done, It Shouldn't Be Leaving the Oven

Advantech Introduces New Fieldbus I/O

The ADAM-6100PN Supports Profinet and the ADAM-6100EI Supports EtherNet/IP for Communications

Cabling Requirements for Harsh Environments

This white paper will explain the difference between traditional commercial controlled environments and harsh, industrial environments as well as the type of cabling...

Siplace Brinda Flexibilidad y Calidad Electrónica

Solución Mas Rapida de Colocación Automática de Componentes

Everything Old is New Again

A Specific Tool May Be obsolete, but the Mental Process That Went into Addressing the Problem It Solves Remains as Instructive as Ever

Beckhoff Automation's EK1501 EtherCAT coupler and EK1521 junction terminal

EtherCAT coupler and junction terminal feature glass fiber technology for expanded networking distances

How Nice Is That “Nice-Looking Sales Rep” Really?

Take an Exclusive Look at What's to Come in Our November Issue of Control Magazine

Refined Integration

ABB Review takes a look at the project in Petrobras’ REPAR refinery. This project is a state–of–the–art electrical integration for a refinery, it uses System 800xA...

AutomationDirect introduces new tutorial site

AutomationDirect has announced the launch of its new Video Tutorial and Training website, learn.automationdirect.com.

Key Performance Indicators

KPIs are an excellent performance measurement tool that businesses in many different sectors employ to improve performance. The key to KPIs is finding a way to...

Exitoso Seminario de Endress+Hauser Para el Mercado Minero

Chilean Customer Advisory Mining Forum by Endress+Hauser

Achieving Next-Generation Connectivity

Industrial-strength Ethernet, bolstered by its wireless component, is giving facilities the tools they need to operate lean and mean and succeed in an uncertain...

Siemens Develops a Dynamic Turbine Simulator for Steam Turbine Controller Examination

Learn How To Create A Real-Time Simulator Test for A Steam Turbine Controller Factory

Moore Industries-International's Hazardous Duty Pressure Transmitter

HAZARDOUS DUTY

Siemens' Simatic HMI Panel PCs

Simatic HMI Panel PC Ex and Simatic HMI Thin Client Ex are designed for hazardous zones 1∕21 and 2∕22 and eliminate the need for complex and expensive enclosures or...

ISA launches Automation Standards Compliance Institute

Group to be link between standards development and implementation.

Enclosures Ensure PC Survival in Aseptic Environments

Pharmaceutical manufacturers need PCs on the processing floor, but even the most rugged industrial PC won't survive without the proper enclosure.

AutomationDirect's Sensors and Encoders

AutomationDirect Adds Sensors for Food and Beverage Industry

Wireless Concerns in Industrial Applications

Why is Lack of Interoperability in Wireless a Concern in Industrial Applications?While the available potential for wireless deployment in factory automation...

Searching for the One True Network

October's cover story in Control is the search for the One True Network, as chronicled by John Rezabek, our intrepid On The Bus columnist. Walt Boyes,...

AD Products' Premier Series fiberglass enclosures

Fiberglass enclosures provide extra protection for electrical components in food processing and chemical processing

Flow Technology

The Latest Products for Measuring and Tracking Flow

The right tool for the job

The next horizon for portable HMI applications may be the cell phone, which is cheap, ubiquitous, and produced in larger annual quantities than any consumer...

Amazing Results Highlighted in Food & Beverage Forum

Green Planet Farms Discusses the Productivity Improvements Enabled by Its Adoption of a Plant-Wide Logix Architecture

PC–Based Controls Help Freeze Escalating Energy Costs

Freezing Energy Costs. The World’s Largest Producer of Frozen French Fries Uses PC-Based Controls to Freeze Escalating Energy Costs

Elecsys Corp. zONe Guard

zONeGuard provides a security solution for industrial communication networks that ensures data encryption and authentication.

PODCAST: The Control/ARC Top 50

ARC's Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick talk with Walt Boyes about vendors, rankings, mergers, acquisitions, technology trends and things end users need to watch for.

MTL releases control system updates that leverages ArchestrA technology

MOST's process control system, Matrix v. 8.0, leverages Wonderware's Industrial Application Server to automatically manage and coordinate the development,...

Model-Based Control of Fast Processes

Online Visitor Asks About Applications That You Wish You Could Use APC on, but Can't Do Because of the Speed, Cost and Complexity of Traditional Approaches to...

COTS takes a back seat as DeltaV locks out intruders

New Proprietary Technology to Supplant Existing COTS Devices

Industrial PCs take new forms for new jobs

As the boundaries defining traditional industrial PCs used in manufacturing disappear, they’re morphing into new, fanless, diskless forms, and taking on tasks once...

Company Profile: Maple Systems | Control Global

Maple Systems Inc. a leading manufacturer of touchscreen operator interface terminals (OITs), human machine interfaces (HMIs), industrial computers, graphic OITs,...

Rittal Hygienic Design Enclosures

Rittal’s new Hygienic Design (HD) enclosures provide the ultimate solution where cleanliness and sanitation are paramount.

A Practical Approach to Alarm Management, Part One: Crawling Your Way into Alarm Management

Alarm management and rationalization of alarms is not complex. It requires no proprietary algorithms or special education. It is structured application of basic...

E-T-A's Electronic Circuit Protector Combines Electronic Trip Features and Active Current Limitation

Approved Electronic Circuit Protection vs. Thermal-Magnetic Circuit Breakers

Living in an Online World

Today’s World Should Be Prepared to Live in the Cyber-World

Redundant Power Allows `Live Maintenance´ of IS Segments

Fieldbus Intrinsic Safety Concept

Special rules for tuning level controllers

Process automation: Loss of level controls can kill a process in a heartbeat, so tuning them properly should be a priority. F.G. Shinskey reports on the different...

Ethernet Ring Redundancy

Connecting unmanaged Ethernet switches in a loop or ring configuration can cause a network storm. Read this white paper to learn solutions that can help you avoid...

Electro Standards Laboratories' Model 7810 single-channel, 8-position HD-15 switch

Network switch offers point and click operation with security of password protection

Honeywell’s wireless considered at 2006 User Group conference

Securing manufacturing and control systems

This ISA Technical Report provides recommendations and guidance for effectively using electronic security technology to protect manufacturing automation and control ...

Next-Gen Pacs

DMI Acquisition Strengthens Emerson MES Offering

Walt Boyes, editor-in-chief of Control, interviews Frank Grywalski, president of Emerson/DMI, along with Bob Schiros of DMI and Bob Lenich, director of data management...

Grow Up, Get Down, Get Green

Increasingly Capable Drives and Motor Controls Are Moving into More Diverse, Smaller-Ticket Applications, as Well as Helping Users Gain the Operating Efficiencies to...

Omega's Wireless DIN Rail Monitor & Controller

wiSeries Wireless DIN Rail Monitoring and Control Device

GF Piping Systems' Type 568 lug style butterfly valve

Butterfly valve's lug style design is intended specifically for dead-end service

Virtual Instrumentation for Next-Generation Testing

Read this white paper to learn how Virtual Instrumentation can be an innovative solution.

Seeing deeply into process control technologies

Executive Editor Jim Montague finds that even if there’s nothing new under the sun, what’s truly new may be a deeper understanding and appreciation of what we...

BIMP's Metrology Dictionary

Calibration Dictionary on worldwide uniformity of measurements

Kinder Morgan Canada Taps Matrikon Alarm Manager for More Consistent, Efficient Pipeline Management

With Alarm Manager, Kinder Morgan Canada will be able to identify bad actors and ensure all alarms are configured in a way that maximizes safety and efficiency. By...

Manufacturers Ambivalent About Benefits of Social Media

Manufacturers are struggling with the question of whether "social media" applications have any value to their operations

Hidden Treasures

OPC Connection Channel, Our Well-Guarded Online Treasure

Safety Instrumented Systems

Editor in chief Walt Boyes reports and interprets Control’s latest readership survey. This time we asked our readers about their understanding and usage...

Invensys' Foxboro PH12 Series Sensors

Foxboro PH12 Series precision electrochemical sensors provide unique electrode technology in the 12-mm form factor.

Hart Keeps Paint Flowing

Digital Fieldbus gives Meter Maintenance & Controls in Redlands, Calif. a wide variety of configuration options.

CONTROL invites you to "Ask the Experts"

ControlGlobal.com presents "Ask the Experts," a new department moderated by noted process control authority and columnist Bela Liptak. Save yourself the hefty...

UTEP Boosts Engineering Curriculum

The University of Texas El Paso is moving ahead with its plans to become a center for advanced engineering and manufacturing education.

Introduction to Biofuels

Bioenergy? Biomass? What Is It, and Is It Beneficial to Our Industry?

Why Companies do Well?

Walt Boyes, Paula Hollywood and Wil Chin Discuss Companies' Performances in the Readers' Choice Awards 2007

The Challenge of Device Integration

The last decade has seen a sustained increase in the acceptability of fieldbus solutions for process automation needs. While the underlying reasons for this trend...

Rockwell Automation's Allen-Bradley Extreme Environment Panel PC

The Allen-Bradley Extreme Environment Panel PC combines intrinsic safety with the capacity to withstand extreme temperatures.

Hach Company's Open Channel Flowmeter

The Sigma flowmeter, Model 920, was designed for dual-channel or redundant collection system flow monitoring.

Understanding OPC and how it is deployed

This whitepaper is the first in a series on the security of OPC (OLE for Process Control) and focuses on providing an overview of the widely-used industrial...

A Mass of Bubbles

My Fluid is non-Newtonian, contains about 5% deliberately-entrained air and suspended solids in the form of gel beads and seeds. How can I make my Coriolis mass...

Intelligent Automation for Filtration Basins

Find out how Festo can provide for automated control of 28 filtration basins

PIMS Designed for UK Pharmaceutical Plant

Fusion PIMS Is a Zero-Footprint, Web-Based Reporting and Data Entry Tool Now Being Used by Industrial Technology Systems (ITS)

Process Automation Roadmap Points Out New Features

Process Automation Roadmap Forum

Unraveling the Complexities of Level Detection

Sensing options enable users to choose the sensor most appropriate per application. However, making this choice is not often easy, and can become confusing. This...

Using Wireless Sensors for Energy Monitoring

This paper examines the application of SensiNet in some specific applications of building and facility energy management. Several major categories of energy...

Systems merge but “we won’t leave anyone behind”

Jean-Marie Alliet’s Technology Update

Readers' service scores

Find out who won as readers broadcast their opinions on the best suppliers in the process control and automation industry in CONTROL magazine's 13th Annual Readers'...

If Machines Could Talk

How Does the Automation Industry Deal with Downtime Caused by Technology or Alarm Management Failure?

Design Methods to Defer Costs on Batch Projects

This paper analyzes two methods of deferring costs associated with the installation of batch automation systems. The first defers cost by postponing the...

Finding the Root Cause of Process Upsets

Today's process plant is a complicated place. Multiple raw materials combine with multiple energy streams to produce primary and secondary products. Process...

Emerson Process Management, Mobrey Measurement Div.'s wireless float switch solution

Float switch solution combines Mobrey float switch with Rosemount 702 wireless discrete transmitter

Take Care Of Your Pumps And They'll Take Care Of You

The old saying, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," may have been coined by process and plant engineers tired of repairing or replacing pumps. Adding...

21CFR11 Compliance and Automated Manufacturing

21CFR11 took effect in August 1997 with little observed regulatory activity. However, that has changed and increasing numbers of FDA warning letters are being...

Rockwell Price Triggers New Round of Rumors

An Independent Rockwell Is More Valuable Than It Would Be Either Merged or Acquired

Right Message, Right Person, Right Time

Data Doesn’t Always Equal Information. Why Can’t We Get Alarm Information to Our Operators in a More Meaningful Way?

Attack of the Mutant Chicken Foot!

Consider a Simple "Chicken Foot" or "Star" Topology for Your First Fieldbus Job

Endress+Hauser's Tank Gauging System

TANK GAUGING SYSTEM

Beckhoff Automation LLC's CP-Link 3 for HMIs

CP-Link 3 makes it possible to connect up to 255 Ethernet panels or Panel PCs

User-Centered Design at Work Podcast

More process control engineers are recognizing that operational errors cause most process slowdowns and shutdowns. The March 2011 cover article explores how some...

Interactive Intrinsically Safe Barrier Selection Website from R. STAHL

R. STAHL introduces its free service, allowing their online visitors to select intrinsically safe barriers or galvanic isolators in two ways.

2009 Salary Survey

High Anxiety; Not Much Change. The Numbers In Our Survey Have Changed Little in the Last Year; the One Thing on the Rise Is the Anxiety Level, Making the Process...

Fast Switching Relays

KING-GAGE's LevelBAR v2 Indicator

KING-GAGE LevelBAR v2 display provides High visibility continuous indication of tank liquid level.

Looking for Ways to Improve Our E-mail Alerts

Help Us Improve Your Newsletter Experience by Participating in a Short Online Survey and Enter to Win a $50 AmEx Gift Card

Recycle, Reduce Energy Costs

To Control the EAF Temperature and Reduce the Number of Reheats, Nucor Developed a Low-Cost Scale and Weighing Control System

Pro-Face America's GP-Pro EX version 2.2 HMI application development software

HMI software includes multimedia capacility, remote PC access and built-in control logic editor

Back at the SP100 ranch...

ISA’s SP100 Industrial Wireless standardization committee continues its heavy schedule of teleconferences, email debates and frequent face-to-face meetings.

Controls for Drilling Oil and Gas Wells

The Drilling for Oil and Gas Will Be With Us for Some Time, the Only Contribution Our Profession Can Make Is to Improve the Safety of These Processes

ISaGRAF’s Control Software Environment

Control software environment allows you to create local or distributed control systems with a variety of automation products.

White Papers y Casos

Lea los Ultimos White Papers y Casos en Español

Automation Direct's UL 489 Miniature Circuit Breakers

The Eaton WMZT series miniature circuit breakers have been added to AutomationDirect's product offering of circuit protection devices.

Wago's Removable Storage and PLCs

This brief white paper discusses techniques for using USB or flash memory devices to achieve this goal.

iKey's flat panel monitors

Touch screen monitors are NEMA 4X certified

Fluid Components' ST51 Flowmeter

ST51 flowmeter is ideal for the monitoring industrial plant greenhouse gases.

PSUG meeting to be held prior to Automation Fair 2006

Join your industry leaders and peers at this year's Process Solutions User Group meeting, to be held two days prior to Automation Fair 2006 Oct. 23-24 in Baltimore, MD.

How to select control valves, Part 2

When it comes to selecting and sizing control valves and positioners, this article not only helps you pick the right one for the right job, but also includes a...

Reduce Sensor Impact Failure

Utilities Kingston Implements Plant-Wide Control System to Streamline Wastewater Treatment Plant

Utilities Kingston, owned by the City of Kingston, Ontario, is an international leader in the wastewater treatment field. The $103 million CDN expansion of the...

Logic Developer Process Edition Function Blocks

Delivering increased precision and enabling advanced regulatory control strategies for continuous process control. Process control in the most generic sense...

Industrial PC

Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, tries to answer some questions about the changing nature of industrial PCs and asks for readers to contribute their...

Temperature Sensor for Corrosive Fluids

Process Performance Improvement - Part 1

Gaining a Perspective on Tools and Metrics for Process Performance

The Secret Life of pH Electrodes – Part 2

Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner Continue Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Glass pH Electrode

Advantech Launches Fully Functioning SCADA Client App

Advantech, First Company to Launch a Fully Functioning SCADA Client App for The Apple iPhone and iPad

What is OPC in 2010? It is all about the tag

OPC Is Three Letters That Are a lot of Things to a lot of Different People, but What It Really Boils Down to Is Moving Data and the Tag

Wireless Pressure

So You Can’t Retire—Now What?

If Your 401K or Pension Plan Has Lost Its Value, Take a Look at Your Skills and Your Training. Now May Be the Time to Look at CAP or CCST Training

New Features on Opto22.com

Interactive Website Tools Provide Visual Interface for Selecting SNAP PAC System Components

Automated Batch Scheduling and MES Integration Using a Hierarchical Based, Batch Control Software Architecture

After years of advancement in the batch control industry--particularly within the area of standardization using S-88 and S-95--today’s automated batch control...

The Tofino Solution Protects the Network

MTL Instruments and Byres Security have finally released the first integrated hardware/software suite of cyber security applications designed specifically for use on...

New Guises, Protections for Industrial PCs

Computers are Taking on New Forms to Perform New Assignments on the Plant Floor

More on Digital Valve Technology

Online Resources on Digital Valve Technology

Extronics RF Calculator

Want to know if your 802.11 wireless network will work?

15 case-in-points of common control myths

In a time-proven tradition of subjecting everything to scrutiny and ridicule, columnists McMillan and Weiner offer up the following 15 examples used to help...

New York Consortium Explores Smart Grid

Researchers Are Working to Develop a 'Smart Grid' to Make Energy Systems Cleaner, Safer, More Efficient and Reliable

IDEC's Automation Organizer

Automation Organizer is a software suite that combines IDEC’s PLC WindLDR and OI WindO/I-NV2 software with new system configuration software (WindCFG), giving users...

Phoenix Contact's ILC 150 VLC Controller with Steeplechase VLC 7.2 Software

Embedded controller and flowchart-based programming tool

Automation Products Group's RST-50014 Input Controller

With Automation Products Group's new input controller special programming software is required.

Age is No Issue

Evolution of automation systems to improve return on assets

McCrometer's Multi-Mag Flowmeter

Marsh Multi-Mag flowmeter measures flow conditions in tough municipal and industrial water applications, including low flows, wide flow ranges, flows containing sand...

Sustainable Process Automation

What Does Sustainability Mean for the Process Industries and How Do We Achieve It? Read White Papers, Articles, Podcast and More Resources to Help You Define and...

Correlation flowmeters expand technology

Just when you thought there were more than enough flowmeter technologies, along comes a new kid on the block, presenting new options for gauging and measuring fluid...

PLC Market Growth

Programmable Logic Controller Worldwide Outlook Estimates A worldwide PLC Market Growth

Browsing ControlGlobal.com Can Be Fun-and Funny!

Comics, Videos and Podcasts. Reading the News Is Entertaining Too!

How to Use Fluke Network Analyzers to Troubleshoot Industrial Ethernet Networks

Network systems automate many of today’s factories and plants, controlling tasks such as data gathering, process control and production automation. Industrial...

This Modules a Snap

Evolving Best-Practices Through Simulation-Based Training

Training the Field Operator of the Future Simulators are widely recognized as essential to process control training as they facilitate the propagation of a...

Baldor Electric's BSM25 and BSM33 brushless DC motors

Upgrade to brushless technology

No–Compromise Batch Automation

Small manufacturers with batch or sequence–oriented processes can finally stop settling for less. A new generation of fully featured process automation systems can...

Paralyzed by Profits

Unrestrained Prosperity Is a Disease, so It’s Tragic That Drug Manufacturers Don’t Want to Take Their Medicine. Just Like The Rest of Us

Failed Bus Blame Game

If You Allow Yourself to Be Dour, Defeated and Critical of Your Selected System, You Could Be Headed for Disaster

General Monitors' TS4000 toxic gas detector

Gas detector has been third-party certified for SIL 2 applications

Simplify Control System Building

Tel-Tru Manufacturing's P611 pressure transmitter

P611 pressure transmitter uses an industrial silicon glass fused sensor that maximizes cycle life in the presence of pressure spikes, vibration and aggressive fluid medi

Thermal anchors improve temperature uniformity

This white paper supports the case for the use of a thermal anchor for temperature uniformity over a range of temperatures, which can dramatically reduce design and...

Automation Direct's Analog CPUs

AutomationDirect offers three analog CPU models featuring two analog inputs and two outputs

Look, kids! Real automation heroes!

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the automation stalwarts whose contributions to the art and practice of the discipline earned them a spot as inductees into the...

Successful Alarm Management in Seven Steps: An ADGAS Alarm Management Improvement Project

In 2004 ADGAS commissioned PAS to assist with a comprehensive DCS alarm management improvement project. The project included developing a site–wide alarm philosophy...

Situation Critical

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

The Cyber Security Standards Landscape

The Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Chemical Sector

EE Academy Seniors attend Yokogawa Technology Fair|

Marshall High School Students Talk with Industrial Automation Experts at the Yokogawa User Conference

Hawk Measurement's Orca sonar transducers

Sonar transducers are designed for improved sensing of interface levels in Clarifiers and especially thickeners

Process analyzers avoid meeting standards

Process Automation: Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt's Product Roundup of process analyzer systems and components finds that most manufacturers are avoiding...

Meridium's Asset Health Indicators in v3.3.1 of the APM software package

Asset Health Indicators provide visibility to critical aspects of asset strategies ensuring that all aspects of equipment conditions are monitored

How to manage your fieldbus project

This paper discusses the relationship and workflow, both internal and external, that an organization needs to follow to successfully manage and complete a fieldbus...

Banner Engineering's DX99 Node Housing

Banner Engineering now has a compact metal housing for its intrinsically safe DX99 wireless node product line.

Ross Controls' L-O-X Valve Family

OSHA-compliant valves have 1/4 and 3/8 in. port sizes

Schneider Electric's Modicon M340 PAC

Modicon M340 PAC provides numerous cost and performance advantages over comparably priced PLCs.

Dual-Core Embedded Computer

Users embrace automation services

A new survey by Larry O'Brien, process automation research director at ARC Advisory Group, shows "a clear shift away from purchasing automation services from large...

Profinet Incorporado Eleva el Rendimiento del Sistema en Familia de PC Industriales

La división Industry Automation de Siemens ha equipado con una interfaz Profinet las placas base de la robusta familia Simatic PC de PC industriales.

Copa-Data Moves Fast with Windows 7 Certification

Austrian SCADA- vendor Copa-Data has had its zenon 6.50 industrial process control and visualization software certified as "Compatible with Windows 7" by Microsoft....

Brooks Instruments' Cleanroom Facility Production of Mass Flow Controllers

New Cleanroom Facility Increases Production of Mass Flow Controllers for the High Tech and Electronics Industry

Omega's Level Measurement Orientation

Omega's "Transactions in Measurement & Control" series

Costs Abound with Regulatory Noncompliance: Lessons Learned on ERP Implementation

Over the past several years, the pharmaceutical industry has plunged headfirst into ERP systems implementation. This broad-based effort motivated by Y2K and aging...

Better Fieldbus "Control in Field" Saves Time and Headaches

Invensys' Charlie Piper Demonstrates New I/A Series Control System Capabilities

Web Poll

ControlGlobal.com Wants to Hear From You. Participate in Our Monthly Polls!

Jury Duties

The Old "Don't Say Anything Defense" Doesn't Work Anymore. Neither Does the "Corporate Parent Didn't Tell Us" Defense..

AF and ISA to Collaborate With the IET

The Automation Federation and the IET have signed a formal agreement to collaborate on efforts to advance and grow the automation profession.

Upgrading pneumatic control loops

Energy Savings Opportunities

In a previous white paper, "The First Step" we provided an overview of three methods to improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions in refineries and...

ISA announces publication of electricity and electronics resource

ISA has announced the publication of "Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition" by Lawrence (Larry) M. Thompson.

Is there a Tricorder in your near future?

Handheld technology is growing by leaps and bounds as control engineers and operators learn they can use the wireless devices. Problem is, few vendors have taken...

Radar Transmitter Keeps Processes on the Level

All of Us Are Familiar with Glitches with Electronics in Industrial Applications—Especially Interfaces with Process Materials

ASM Alarm Management Guidelines and ISA-18.2: How Do They Stack Up?

The ISA Standard and the ASM Consortium Guidelines Both Offer Important Information About Alarm Management. Although Their Approaches Differ, They Complement One Another

What Is the Surge-Trap SPD?

The Surge-Trap is a branded surge protection device (SPD)that utilizes Mersen's patented thermally protected metal oxide varistor (TPMOV) technology. This technology...

Honeywell Stresses Wireless and Tank Gauging

Jean-Marie Alliet, from Honeywell in Belgium, and Jason Urso, vice president and chief technology officer, explained the major technology developments within Honeywell

AutomationDirect's Inductive DC Proximity Sensors

AutomationDirect has extended its offering of industrial sensors to include the PEW series of stainless steel DC proximity sensors.

AutomationDirect Ranked as One of Atlanta's Best Places to Work

AutomationDirect has been named one of Atlanta's Best Places to Work in 2010 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Performance Comparison of Flexible Detector Designs

The purpose of this paper is to present test results of recent measurements on a scintillating fill fluid (i.e., liquid scintillator filled) detector and a...

Wago's 758 Series IPCs

The 758 Series IPCs pair CoDeSys V2 software, Linux OS, IEC programming languages and multiple onboard fieldbus protocols for real-time control applications.

Pepperl+Fuchs VisuNet KM915 and KM919 Operator Workstations

VisuNet KM915 and KM919 operator workstations are suitable for Class I, Div. 2 hazardous locations.

What’s It Going to Take?

The ASM Consortium, and the Center for Chemical Process Safety, ISA, the IEC and other organizations have been out beating the drum for increased operator training...

MYNAH Technologies' MiMiC v3.1 simulation software

Simulation software provides multi-user support to a single MiMiC application based on Microsoft' Server 2003 Remote Terminal Services

Keeping on the Level

Measuring the Level of Solids Can Be Tricky. Ultrasonic and Laser Measurement May Be the Answer

Hoffman's ATEX-certified ZONEX enclosures

Enclosures for potentially hazardous locations

Pulling Together on Asset Management?

Users Are Implementing New Preventive Maintenance, Condition-Based and Optimization Tools in More Settings. Here’s How They Make Asset Management Pay Off—If They Can...

The Media Latches on to a Stuxnet Conspiracy Theory

Reports on the Stuxnet malware have now attracted the world's media, with industrial control viruses even reported on the front page of the Financial Times in the U.K.

Anheuser-Busch gets Emerson’s 500,000th Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeter

Micro Motion Coriolis flowmeters are a key component that powers Emerson Process Management’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture.

Understanding Ratings for Surge Protection Devices

Selecting the appropriate Surge Protective Devices (SPD) can seem like a daunting task with all of the different types on the market today. The surge rating or kA...

Sapco's Level Measurement Website

Level Measurement Website

From Telemetry to the Enterprise: the Evolution of the 21st Century SCADA System

The SCADA system of the early 21st century is vastly different than its earliest beginnings, just fifty or so years ago. Yet all of the needs and requirements, as...

Podcast: Jerry Bernstein on Pricing for End Users

Jerry Bernstein is one of the gurus of pricing. Bernstein served as Director of Pricing Improvement for Emerson Inc., reporting to the Vice Chairman of the...

Benefits of FF HSE With System 800xA

Foundation Fieldbus High-Speed Ethernet (FF HSE) has been a technology available to automation system suppliers since 1999, but very few of these suppliers have...

Process Analyzer System Safety and Ergonomics II

The job’s not done until safety, ergonomics and constructability are taken into account.

Book Rags' PLC Basics

This is a wiki-based general introduction to PLCs

Honeywell Users' Group 2010

HUG Americas 2010. With ControlGloba.com You Won't Miss a Thing! We Are Covering This Event LIVE

Umetrics' SIMCA Batch-On-Line Version 3.3 process monitoring software

On-line multivariable analysis software performs batch processing and MSPC

Pepperl+Fuchs' VisuNet Series LCD monitors

VisuNet Series industrial flat-panel LCD monitors have Class II Division 2 certification for use in dusty environments.

Meggitt Sensing Systems Endevco Transducer

The Endevco model 8510C is designed for a wide variety of aerospace, automotive and industrial measurements which require a combination of small size, high...

Temperature instrumentation gets fancy

Process Automation: Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt notes that temperature sensors, recorders and controllers are warming up to new technology in this Product...

The case for valves: Not just open and shut

Actionable Items columnist Steve Kuehn notes that precision flow control is ensured with well-specified, precisely controlled valves, but for the sake of your...

High-End Features at Low-End Prices

Inexpensive PACs and PLCs Provide the Features and Performance of High-End PACs, PLCs and Even DCSs at Low-End Prices

Prevent 24VDC Overloads from Stopping Production

Advanced technologies require more intelligent protection. For today’s preferred switched mode power supplies, it means that circuit breakers and fuses are...

Matrikon's Alarm Manager V4.2 software

V4.2 alarm software adds Alarm Manager Enforcer, Alarm Manager Custodian and Alarm Manager Operation Analysis Pack

Safety Manager Edges Towards Integrated Camp

Safety, control systems

Convergence-or Not. That's the Question

The People in Control Here Are the End Users, but Convergence Isn't Going to Happen Unless They Require It

How Good is OPC-UA, Really?

Even after consulting the experts, it’s hard to tell if OPC-UA will live up to its promise.

How can we save ISA?

Process Automation: The resignation of ISA’s third Executive Director in less than six years makes CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes wonder what ISA has that still...

Wireless-enabled Embedded Systems Agreement

Green Hills Software and Clarinox Sign Agreement to Jointly Support Wireless-enabled Embedded Systems

Stealth's LPC-100M Mobile PC

The Stealth model LPC-100M is an energy efficient, small form factor computer that measures a little larger then a deck of playing cards

SOUND OFF! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog!

Process Automation: Sound off! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog! CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the North American process automation market with a...

Plantville Surpasses Expectations by Bringing In Thousands of Online Unique Visitors and Players

Plantville Reaches More Than 57,000 Unique Visitors and Nearly 12,000 Players in First Eight Weeks

ExxonMobil, Invensys Team Up on Hurricane Ike Recovery

Ken Anderson Talks About the Heroic Effort to Restore Operations at ExxonMobil's Multi-Unit Chemical Facility in Beaumont, Texas

Siemens Energy & Automation's IP30-Rated Wireless LAN Access Points

Scalance W784 offers data security, deterministic control to prioritize client traffic

Timeless Resources

A User’s Guide to Pressure Measurement A Complete Precision Pressure Measurement Handbook Covering the Fundamentals of Pressure Measurement, Deadweight...

Installing Fieldbus

Many automation engineers are coming face-to-face with fieldbus applications for the first time. Fieldbus (the use of digital communications for distributed...

Bray Controls' line of butterfly valves

Line of 22 in to 96 in. butterfly valves are designed for highly abrasive and corrosive applications

Control Room Information for Batch Processes

The way information is displayed in control rooms in the process industry has developed a long way from the original gauges, chart recorders and lamps to the...

Value, Safety and Security of State–Based Control

Walt Boyes talks with ABB's Dave Huffman about the value, safety and security of state-based control. Don't know what state-based control is? Then you should listen...

Saelig's Warrior56 Universal USB Controller

Warrior56 is a universal USB controller that allows easy access to input or output functions via a USB bus.

System Configuration Management and Version Control in an FDA Regulated Environment

Managing the genealogy of database configuration and its life cycle is critical to following 21 CFR Part 11. In addition to recipes and equipment model...

Contech's QMJ Series DC/DC Converter

20-Watt 1 in. by 1 in. DC/DC Converter with a 4:1 Input

Accurate Infrared Temperature Sensing

OPC: The Ins and Outs to What It's About (The Every Man's Guide to OPC)

In today's world, automation is used prominently in every major industry. While different industries often use different specialized devices, control systems and...

Mantecorp Uses CC-Link to Improve Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Mantecorp upgrades facility with more reliable control system

Which Way Wireless?

ISA100.11a and WirelessHART – Your Future Wireless

OPC – A decade of success by any standard

OPC specialist Eric Murphy brings the latest in OPC technology and specifications, and his thoughts on where the technology is headed, to OPC Connection, our new...

Measurement Computing’s USB-5200 Series

The USB-5200 Series feature a 8-channel thermocouple input temperature logger (CompactFlash) with high/low alarms, 8 digital I/O lines

Emerson Exchange 2009

Visit Emerson Exchange 2009 Microsite at ControlGlobal.com and Stay On Top of All Daily Events

Bundled Benefits Are iICEing on the Cake

Benefits of Bundling Instrumentation, Control and Electrical Systems

Smart–Trak 2 Mass Flow Controllers Put Users in Control

Next Generation of High-Performance Digital Gas Mass Flow Meters

Why Track Actual Costs and Resource Usage on Projects?

Why is tracking actual costs and resource usage on a project ever worth the effort required to accomplish it?

Temperature Measurement and Calibration: What Every Instrument Technician Should Know

How do I measure temperature? How accurate is my measurement? What temperature range is required? What type of device best measures temperature? Does my instrument...

Having A Career in Process Automation

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks with the 2008 inductees into the Process Automation Hall of Fame Vernon Trevathan, William M. Hawkins and Dale E Seborg. They talk...

Dwyer Instruments' AQH-20 Indoor Air Quality Meter

The Model AQH-20 Indoor Air Quality Meter reduces the number of instruments a contractor has to carry

Is There a One Size Fits All SPD?

Frequently, our customers will ask for a "one size fits all" Surge Protective Device (SPD), eliminating the need to stock several different part numbers to meet...

Invensys Gets Virtually Real

Invensys Reveals Its New EYESim Virtual Reality Immersive Training Solution

OPC UA: An End-User’s Perspective

OPC UA (Unified Architecture) represents the OPC Foundation’s most recent set of specifications for Process Control and Automation system interconnectivity. This...

NI Adds IEC 61131-3-Based Function Blocks to LabView

New LabView Function Blocks for Familiar Functions Based on IEC 61131-3

Automation Fair 2006 to offer tech sessions, labs and workshops

Automation Fair is the premier industry event focusing on advanced automation products, integrated control and information architecture, valued-add services and...

A Perspective on Standards

This whitepaper by Rockwell Automation, explores how companies can gain competitive advantage by increasing their standards and regulations involvement.

The power of external-reset feedback

Preventing windup requires reconfiguration of the controller, according to process control consultant, F. Greg Shinskey, and external-reset feedback is the most...

Cloud Instrumentation, the Instrument Is In the Cloud

A short bit of history helps to understand why the cloud instrumentation development is so significant.</PThe first created instruments, let us call them...

Opportunity Out of Crisis

What Would Happen if ISA's Leadership Began to Creatively Restructure and Reorganize the Organization?

Vintner Saves with Distributed Architecture

Automation In Wine Making. Winemakers Are Given the Necessary Tools to Properly Manage the End Product Flow. From Grape Growing to Bottling

Carving Up Security...More Online Resources

Executive editor Jim Montague Gathers for You Additional Online Security Resources. Check Them Out

AD Products' stainless steel enclosures

Stainless steel enclosures are suitable for environments where severe corrosion exists

Food and Beverages Industries Go Wire Free

An increasing population and growing consumer demand for packaged foods has forced food and beverages industry to look at new technologies that provide flexibility,...

Rep James R Langevin, (D, Rhode Island) on Cybersecurity

Rhode Island Congressman James Langevin Keynotes the ACS Cybersecurity Conference and Demands Cooperation to Improve Cybersecurity and Better Protect the Country

Intelligence Does Heavy (Crude) Lifting

Read about the “Innovations for Artificial Lift” forum, presented on the first day of Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair 2007.

Dwyer

New Dwyer sanitary ball valves

Successful Retrofit and Automation Projects

Discussing Control System Design and Implementation for Retrofit and Automation Projects. What Are the Challenges in Meeting Plant and Corporate Requirements?

Longwatch's Low-Power Video Surveillance System

Video system for pipelines, well sites, pumping stations and other remote applications hibernates until it's needed, then wakes up instantly to record video.

OptoEMU Sensor by Opto 22

The Opto 22 Energy Monitoring Appliance Helps Customers Track and Reduce Energy Consumption

Online Resources for Asset Management

Users Are Implementing New Preventive Maintenance, Condition-Based and Optimization Tools in More Settings. Here Are Additional Asset Management Online Resources

Dad, Did You Get My IM? Sincerely—Your Hardware

Could There Be a DeviceSpace That Could Use Next-Generation Internet and Enterprise-Based Technologies?

Process Plants Accidents - Careful. We Don't Want to Learn from This

2010 Brought Dozens of Deaths and Injuries to Process Operators and Maintenance Personnel. What Do You Suppose 2011 Will Bring?

Automation Direct's Productivity3000 PAC

The Productivity3000 PAC combines features and capabilities of a PC-based control system with that of a typical PLC.

Integrating alarm management to boost plant production

Process Automation: This article outlines five practical steps you can take to reduce nuisance alarms and improve alarm quality for control room operators. This...

Andrew Bond Scopes Out the European User Conferences

Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a Monthly Newsletter Covering the Important Industrial Automation News and Issues as Seen from the U.K.

Technically Speaking Podcast: Calibration

Listen to This Podcast. Are the Gains of Moving from Paper-Based Procedures to an Automated Electronic Calibration System Worth the Effort?

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Red Valve's Series 5200 control pinch valve

Series 5200 control pinch valve controls abrasive and slurries

Staying on Top of Temperature

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

OPC security – better safe than sorry

OPC specialist Eric Murphy brings the latest in OPC technology to OPC Connection. This month, he presents important aspects to consider when addressing security in...

Ready for Control in the Field?

When The Loop’s Valve Positioner Loses Power, the Loop Will Experience an Upset No Matter Where the PID Is Solved

Guided Wave Radar at Genentech

A Novel Technique for Non-invasive Volume Measurement in Disposable Bioprocess Bags

K-TEK's Pressure Switches

AIR RELAY PRESSURE SWITCHES

New study reveals OPC usage may be putting major industries at risk

Survey results show companies are using OPC for mission critical applications, are allowing access from potentially insecure networks, and don’t understand how to...

What’s Keeping Process Analyzer Engineers Up at Night?

NeSSI, Alarms, Wireless, Security and Safety—for a Start

Save on I/O with Your Next Capital Project

Emerson's Savings Calculator

How to rescue your plant from alarm overload

Everyone who has a distributed control system has encountered alarm management issues. The reason is simple: A DCS makes over-alarming all too easy. Find out ways...

PCSF group moves to detect control system attacks

The Process Control Systems Forum (PCSF) Interim Governing Board (IGB) has voted to transition the Control System Security Event Monitoring (SEM) Interest Group to...

Interference and security considerations for industrial wireless

From traditional narrow-band to more complex spread-spectrum technologies, a variety of RF communication techniques are available for deployment in industrial...

Distributed I/O

Phoenix Contact's RAD-SYS-NEMA4X-900 radio-ready enclosure

Radio-ready enclosure provides turnkey solution for industrial wireless installations

Benchmarking survey on Process Control: Earn a chance to win $100

ControlGlobal.com and its sister site, PharmaManufacturing.com, are co-hosting a benchmarking survey on process control in the pharmaceutical industry. Participate...

Experience Shows Users Need FDT and EDDL Support

Vendors argue about the advantages and disadvantages of FDT and EDDL technology, but users reckon that they need both if they're not to be compromised in their...

Using Structural Integrity Meter Verification to Verify Coriolis Flowmeters

The purpose of this document is to describe the underlying technology of structural integrity meter verification and answer some frequently asked questions.

FasTest's FasCal transmitter calibration kit

Transmitter calibration kit allows faster turnaround times without sealants, wrenchs or thread damage

Advantech, Industrial Automation Group's TPC-870H 8" touch panel computer

Touch panel computer uses an Intel Celeron M 1 GHz fanless processor with low power consumption

DocuLex's Archive Studio software component

Content control and compliance capability with WebSearch content management software

AutomationDirect's NITRA Pneumatics Product Line

The NITRA line includes several series of products to help meet a broad range of pneumatic air supply pressure regulation and filtration applications.

D/P Measurement Made Easy

DCS Disasters

This Month We Join an End User Who’d Like Her Off-Hours to Be Less Subject to Distress Messages from Her Place of Employment. Dang! Cletus Been in My DCS!

AutomationDirect's remote access feature for C-more operator interfaces

C-more operator interfaces now have a remote access and control feature

First Field Device Verified via HART 7

HART 7 Technology Provides an Upgrade and Migration Path to WirelessHART Communication

ABB wins $15-million contract with TVA

ABB recently signed a multi-year agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) worth $15 million to supply 670 Series protection and control relays over the...

Cyber vulnerabilities in control systems

As steps are being taken to ensure the cybersecurity of control systems in the automation industries, securing and maintaining these systems will require employees...

Machine Automation

* LED Die Bonding * Automatic Winding Machine * Auto-Feeding Cutting Plotter Machine * 3D CNC Tube Bending Machine * Vulcanization & Curing Process...

Load Cell Junction Box Smartens Up

A Digital Junction Box Should Do Much More Than Just Sum and Trim

Public Service Electric and Gas Deploys PI System as Foundation for CMMS System

Public Service Electric and Gas implemented the SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) system in 2000 to enhance the efficiency of its transmission and distribution equipment...

Automation Project Management - Org Chart Omissions

Project Management Is as Much of an Art as It Is a Science. It Is the Art and Science of Getting Things Done

Green Hills Software Joins GENIVI Alliance

Cross-industry Leading Expert Adds Proficiency and Software for Developing Safe and Secure Vehicle Electronics

Real-time expert system a real gold mine

Process Automation: Mine revenues jumped $7 million per year at Kemess Mines in British Columbia after installation of an expert system controlling the gold and...

Ifm Efector's PG Series

Pressure transmitters combine the best features of a gauge, a switch and a transmitter.

StatoilHydro Plant is HART Plant of the Year

Orman Lange Natural Gas Facility in Norway Leverages HART Technology for Remote Valve Monitoring and Maintenance

Asish Ghosh on Process Safety

In This Edition of the Monthly Control/ARC Podcast Series, Walt Boyes and ARC's Asish Ghosh Talk About Process Safety and Why It Seems So Hard to Accomplish,...

The Top 10 Worst Performing Alarm Systems in Industry

Since 1994, PAS has benchmarked hundreds of alarm systems in various industrial markets around the world. From our project databases, this paper presents examples of...

Yokogawa's Two-Wire Magnetic Flowmeter

The AXR is the world's first two-wire magnetic flow meter employing the advanced "Dual Frequency Excitation" method

Replacement Batch Control System for a Multipurpose Contract Manufacturing Plant

Successful Contract Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in a GMP regulated environment is heavily dependent on the flexibility and utilisation of the available processing...

Weidmuller's Miniature Power Relay

Weidmuller's new generation of pluggable relays meet a wide range of industrial switching requirements.

ERP Integration Gateway

General to Master Recipe Transformation, Capturing Best Engineering Practices in Recipe Generation

This paper discusses various strategies and methods that may be used to convert equipment independent general and site recipes, as defined in the ISA-88 Part 3 draft...

Honeywell signs agreement with Linde for UniSim Design Suite

Honeywell has signed an agreement with Linde AG, Linde Engineering Division, for its UniSim Design Suite.

Advantech Industrial Automation Group's TPC-66T-E2BE

Touch panel computer comes with 64 colors, 320 x 240 resolution and an Intel low-power consuming CPU and heat sink to achieve a unique fanless design.

The FAT is the problem

End users need to revisit their expectations of the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and accept that not every loop needs to be tested in order to implement a...

TT electronics' OPI1268S Series

TT electronics OPTEK Technology Develops IP65-rated High Voltage UL-Certified Optoisolator for ATEX/ICEex Applications

Readers Discuss Safety Issues

Our Readers Follow Our Automation Safety Articles and Write Us Telling Us Their Thoughts

Rethink Mass Notification

Rethink Mass Notification -- Properly dealing with emergencies demands integration of plant systems.

Ensuring an Accurate Result in an Analytical Instrumentation System Part 3: Maintaining a Representative Sample

The objective of an analytical instrumentation (AI) system is to provide a timely analytical result that is representative of the fluid in the process line at the...

Muxes and Field-Sourced Power

If You're Doing Real Process Control Through the Mux, the Effort to Design and Install Geographically Separate Paths Might Be Worth It

Advantech's Ethernet I/O Modules

ADVANCED ETHERNET I/O MODULES

Extending the Sensor Network

How Many Pressure and Temperature Gauges (2-1/2", 4," 6" Round, Magnehelics, etc.) Are There In Your Plant?

PACs for Communications and Data Handling, Podcast

Listen to Dan Herbert's January 2008 Column, "PACs for Communications and Data Handling"

Learn How an AC VFD Works to Better Understand Its Efficiencies

This white paper will describe how and why an AC variable–frequency drive must simultaneously control output frequency and voltage to efficiently control the speed...

IOM Rebuilds Northern Europe Sales Operations

IOM Europe seeking to establish its own European identity

Developments with UPS Systems at Chloride

Last summer, ABB and Emerson had a bidding battle when both tried to buy the Chloride Group, based in the UK.

Diamond Protection

IEC 61508 Product Approvals – Veering Off Course

Upon Close Examination It Appears That the Product Approval Process of IEC 61508 (1) Has Veered Seriously Off Course, Possibly Rendering Many Safety Instrumented...

Market Intelligence Report: Field Instruments

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes presents the results of Control's latest survey on field instruments. Control presented its readers with five different field instrument...

Top ten signs you're an endangered species

Process Automation: Why is the instrument engineer such a rare find? The answers may be in the standard dialog on the causes of endangerment. Here are the Top Ten...

Automation Federation joins security project

Joining end-user companies such as Shell and ExxonMobil and automation vendors like Emerson and Honeywell, and Control magazine, ISA's new "Automation Federation"...

More tech, more tech, more better tech!

Process automation: The well known problems with sensor and control loop performance are not related to how suppliers define accuracy, nor will they be solved by...

Application of PHMSA Rule Control Room Management/Human Factors

Effective Feb. 2, 2010, the PHMSA rule: 49 CFR Parts 192, 195 Pipeline Safety: Control Room Management/Human Factors imposes control room management requirements for...

Vaisala's HUMICAP humidity and temperature transmitter

Transmitters now have LAN/WLAN Ethernet connectivity

Flexibility for the Future

End Users With Remote, Difficult-to-Reach Systems and Instrumentation Rely on ABB's Service Environment to Help Optimize Production and Maintain Safe Operating Condition

Advantech Industrial Automation Group's TPC-30T Touch Panel Computer

Computer has a 320 x 240 resolution

Lumps, Clumps and Ratholes, Oh My!

Measuring the Level of Powders and Bulk Solids Can Be Entertaining but It Is NOT Easy

FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology's LCF400 pancake load cell

Pancake load cell has a USB interface and a measurement range from 500 to 5000 lb

Cutting Energy Consumption in the Tropics with NI LabVIEW and Compact FieldPoint

For two decades, Thirumalaichelvam “Thiru” Subramaniam, chief technical officer of Chiller Energy Management System (CEMS) Engineering in Malaysia, has been pursuing...

AF and ISA Plan to Collaborate With the IET

Signing Formal Agreement to Collaborate to Advance and Grow the Automation Profession

Yokogawa Corp. of America's ProSafe-RS R2.01.00 Version Safety Instrumented Software

Software integrates with CENTUM VP production control system

Worry Wart

A Flood Around Your Ankles Is a Lot Different Than One Around Your Neck. So Pick Up Your Canoe and Get Moving

Portable Diagnostic Tools – Who’s the Best?

So what do I grab when heading out the door to troubleshoot a suspect segment? More often than not, it’s the FBT-6.

iDTM Builds a Bridge Between FDT and EDDL Device Integration Technologies

End Users, Engineering Firms and System Integrators Had a Tough Time Deciding Whether to Standardize on EDDL or FDT. The Don't Anymore. Here's Why

Control editor wins ISA Award

CONTROL’s Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, has won a Distinguished Society Service Award from ISA.

Getting into Discrete

Process Meets Packaging

Flow-Measuring Control Valves

Is There an Intelligent Control Valve That Can Measure Its Own Flow on the Basis of Its Own Pressure Drop and Opening?

Control/ARC Process Automation Podcast Series

Here You Will Find Interviews Done by Control Editors with Different Experts and Personalities Across the Industry

Energy Management Solutions Star at Automation Fair

Rockwell Automation's Industrial 'GreenPrint' Road Map Gives Users Insight into Energy Costs

FDT Group, PACTware Consortium formalize collaboration

FDT Group and PACTware Consortium have signed a cooperation agreement that will allow PACTware Consortium to jointly develop software solutions with the FDT Group...

c3controls IEC Terminal Blocks

This expanded line of IEC terminal blocks features a screw-clamp, 80-amp power distribution block

Using RtPortal iViews to Reduce Energy Management Costs and Meet Conservation Goals

The Kodak Park, located in Rochester, N.Y., is over 100 years old. The site has 1300 acres, two utility power plants, two company-owned water and waste water...

How End-Users Have Reduced Cost and Increased Efficiency with Wireless Technology

Learn how to increase your plant asset uptime and how to reduce plant maintenance costs with wireless technology.

The Valve is King

Predictive Maintenance Keeps Valves Humming

Tips For Air/Gas Flow Measurement In High Temperature Environments

For those who work in or are suppliers to many of the process industries, the "heat" is always on plant equipment even during the cold of winter and the search to...

Asset Management Software

Version 7.0 Intelligent Device Manager expands the reach of predictive technology by enabling AMS Device Manager to support smart remote automation technology, and...

TiPS on Alarm Management

Alarm management seems to be harder than it looks. Steve Apple, from TiPS, provides some simple, yet effective guidance to alarm management in this podcast interview...

Calibration Practices

Watch This Video and Find Out What Control Learned After Surveying Its Readership About Their Calibration Practices

Do Not Be Afraid

We Don't Fear Technology Taking Over Our Jobs, We Fear Having to Use New Technology at the Workplace

More Extraordinary PID Innovations

The Creative Use of PID Controllers for Process Improvement

Quality Assurance of FDT Technology with Testing and Certification

Costs and Resources Associated with Familiarization, Training and Re-Training of Engineers or Maintenance Personnel Has Risen Disproportionately Higher Compared to...

The need for secure OPC communications

This paper presents a new technology that increases the security of data and the overall usability of the solution. It facilitates integration between and with...

The Business Value Proposition for Automation

The purpose of this white paper is to show the bottom line economic impact and improved business performance that can be obtained through implementation of...

52 Years of GC Solutions Help Create a New Process GC

Introducing a Significant New Process Gas Chromatograph (GC), the GC8000

BrazilAutomation ISA 2011

BrazilAutomation ISA 2011, São Paulo, Nov. 8-10, 2011

Emerson Process Management's Safety Management System

The scalable DeltaV SIS safety management system system architecture

BP, Emerson wireless projects acknowledged

Working collaboratively, the BP/Emerson team developed the first intrinsically safe, mote-based system to capture measurements in BP’s challenging refinery environments.

PLCs, PACs and DCSs Can Do Windows

The Capability of Today's PC-Based Industrial Computers Are Overcoming Engineers' Resistance to "the Wal-Mart of Operating Systems"

European Oil Refineries All Face Fall in Demand

During 2010 it was reported that several European oil and chemical firms have been looking to sell domestic refineries, as demand for fuels and petrochemical...

Online Classes for Automation Professionals

This site provides training in multiple subjects

Data Communications Industrial Networking TCP/IP and Fiber Optics

Studying Issues to Consider in Data Communications

Pumping Station Optimization - Part 2

Bela Liptak Talks About the Phenomenon of Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH) and Multiple Pump Stations

Building the Perfect Beast Batch

The ISA S88.01 Standard for Batch Control, Part 1: Models and Terminology has had a significant impact on the implementation of industrial control systems since its...

|Control and ACS Sponsor Cybersecurity Conference

Cybersecurity Conference Focuses on System Reliability

Kobold's Product Summary

Manufacturer of Innovative Instrumentation

I Am Robot and I Am Home

Jeff Harrow Talks Robots, Synthetic Biology, Nano-things and Other Developments You’ll Miss If You Blink

How to Be a "Readers’ Choice" Company

Control’s Keith Larson and ARC's Larry O'Brien and Wil Chin discuss the ways companies can improve their rankings in our annual Readers’ Choice poll and what...

Hima-Sella Partners with HIMA to 2013

Elobau Sensor Technology's Online configurator for level indicators

Online configurator allows users to build level indicators from more than 1,500,000 possible combinations of product features

Wireless Devices Deliver Great Benefits for Temperature Monitoring

Temperature is certainly among the most commonly measured parameters in industry, science, and academia. Recently, the growth of wireless instrumentation technology,...

System security: Protect your intellectual assets

Process Automation: Manufacturing automation system security is more than using anti-virus software. It's an essential business strategy to protect your intellectual...

Water works

To get higher billing and receivables cycle speeds, Greater Vancouver Regional District upgraded its data historian, resulting in savings, efficiency, and improved...

Murrelektronik's Modlink MSDD front panel interfaces

Modlink MSDD front panel interfaces offer data access with IP65 protection

Chevron Sings Praises of MAC Approach

It Has Always Been a Challenge to Standardize Control Systems.

Phoenix Contact's PFT Terminal Blocks

Phoenix Contact's high-current panel feed-through terminal blocks feature multiple mounting and connection options

Automation Alliance formed to advance technology innovation

The Alliance will provide technical management, administration, and integrated services such as seminars, web conferences, training, and conference services to be...

Designing a Reliable Industrial Ethernet Network Podcast

Listen in as Bill Rowan, the vice president of marketing and new product development for industrial Ethernet hardware supplier N-Tron, shows you how to design a more...

More Water Savings through Automation

Systems Integrator Helps Desert Districts Conserve Precious Resource

Emerson's EMachinery Health Transmitters

The CSI 9210 Machinery Health Transmitter now delivers predictive machinery health diagnostics for all types of rotating machinery

SpectraSensors’ TDL-Based Moisture Analyzer

Analyzer samples feedstock, recycle streams and fuel gases an isolated cell

Yokogawa's GC8000 Gas Chromatograph

GC8000 is a next-generation gas chromatograph with a 12-in. color touchscreen suitable for Class I, Zone 1 installation.

Acromag's Industrial-Grade USB Isolator Shields

Acromag's Industrial-Grade USB Isolator Shields Host PC and Connected Devices from Surges and Noise

Shed the Wires for Configuration

Field Xpert SFX100 Is the Process Industry’s First Wireless Configuration Tool

A Hybrid 18-Pulse Rectification Scheme for Diode Front End Variable Frequency Drives

Diode rectifier with large DC bus capacitors, used in the front ends of Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs), draw discontinuous current from the power system resulting...

DataForth 8B isoLynx DAQ

The 8B isoLynx is a compact, low-cost DAQ solution for rugged industrial applications.

Data Collection Solutions

See this month's data collection solution tools

Finding Data Diamonds in Process Application Rough

Entergy Uses SmartSignal's EPI*Center Software Finds Crack in Generator Turbine

Homac Encapsulated Multi-Tap Connector Blocks and Splices

The Homac Encapsulated Multi-Tap Connector Blocks and Splices were developed to ensure safe and proper connections.

Midwest Plastic Fabricators' Modular Cabinets

Midwest Plastic Fabricators' modular cabinets are perfect for corrosion resistant applications

The Latest I/O Technology is Here

All You Need to Make Your Systems the Best They Can Be

Invensys Releases Wonderware System Platform 4.0

Wonderware System Platform 4.0 software delivers new device connectivity functions

Rick’s Picks of the Web: This month on ControlGlobal.com

CONTROL’s Rick Pedraza offers his picks of what’s best on the web. Here’s what's happening this month on ControlGlobal.com, the online resource of CONTROL magazine.

Invensys awarded automation contract for refinery in Qatar

Engineering Procurement Contractor, GSEC of Seoul, Korea, has awarded Invensys Process Systems a multimillion dollar automation contract to provide an integrated...

Implementing a manufacturing execution system

This paper describes how the Chevron Chemical Oak Point plant used production and batch management software and the S88 methodology to implement a manufacturing...

Making Permanent Savings Through Active Energy Efficiency

This white paper argues strongly that meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets set within the Kyoto Protocol will fail unless Active Energy Efficiency becomes...

Training covers Foundation fieldbus installation and testing

The Fieldbus Center at Lee College is offering a Foundation fieldbus training course for power and wire installers.

A model-based approach for viscosity control

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out how you can develop a model-based...

The Insider's Guide to Applying Miniature Solenoid Valves

Equipment designers frequently must incorporate miniature solenoid valves into their pneumatic designs. These valves are important components of medical devices and...

PLCopen seeks comments on TC3 TF PLC benchmarking standard

The organization is seeking feedback form a broader community about the specification’s usability for their environments before developing the applicable test software.

CombustionONE: Improving and Sustaining the Combustion Asset Driven by the New Standards

CombustionONE -- Improving and Sustaining the Fired Heater Asset

Flowmeters: Discussion of Flowmeter Accuracy Specifications

Understanding the accuracy of a given flowmeter is an important field but it can also be misleading as different specifications are used to explain how accurate a...

News Briefs

Considerations When Choosing a Wireless Network

The decision to implement wireless technology in your industrial facility is a strategic choice, enabling an infrastructure that will provide significant benefits...

Avery Weigh-Tronix's MI Payload Weighing Software

Stores and presents photographic images

English, the Lingua Franca of control

In his monthly Control Report, Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt surmises that just as English is the language of international business and air traffic...

Greg Shinskey in a Box?

ExperTune captures the knowledge of process control guru F. Greg Shinskey

You Get the Security You're Willing to Pay For

Since the Stuxnet Worm Hit, Vendors and End Users Alike Are Thinking and Talking About Their Security Policies

Sierra Instruments' Cal=Trak XL primary standard gas flow calibrator

Gas flow calibrator handles high flows up to 500 slpm for higher flow gas meters and controllers in the field

Productos

Presentando lo Ultimo en la Tecnología de Procesos de Control

Honeywell to install Experion at world’s largest paraxylene plant

The project is expected to be completed by December 2008, and production at the Aromatics Oman LLC-owned facility in Sohar, Oman, is slated to begin in 2009.

First-Principle Versus Data-Driven Models

Cost and the Time and Skill Required to Develop an Application-Specific Model have Been Barriers to Using First-Principle Modeling Tools

BP's Safety Record

Readers Chime In on BP's Safety Procedures and Its Consequences

Yokogawa Corporation of America's CENTUM VP for batch control

CENTUM VP for batch control is an enhancement to this company's integrated production control system

Final Control Elements: Smarter, More Efficient

Smarter Valves Are Poised to Take On More Tasks, Even as the Energy Savings of Variable-Speed Drives Edge Them Out in Some Applications

Evolution of Backlights in Human Machine Interface (HMI) Panels

Flat panel displays have become very popular in the automation industry with applications such as Industrial computers and Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) connecting...

Advantech, Industrial Automation Group's standardized OPC server

Standardized OPC server provides devices such as I/O devices to communicate with a range of HMI/SCADA software packages residing on a host

Tuning the Forgotten Loop

We can tune PID controllers, but what about tuning the operator?The purpose of tuning loops is to reduce errors and thus provide more efficient operation that...

PLC Open and OPC Work to Combine UA with 61131

A combined working group from the OPC Foundation and PLC Open has been examining how to simplify the engineering and enhance the reusability of communications...

Control Microsystems' expansion line of SCADARange wireless process instruments

Al10 and AV10 multi-input field units are suited for applications requiring wireless connectivity for analog and digital signals

Hardy Instruments Acquired by Roper Industries

Roper Industries acquires Hardy Instruments

Diagnostic Motor Problems

Keep Your Motors Humming. Diagnostics Can tell You When a Motor Is Having Problems, but You May Still Need to Keep Your Meters and Meggers Available

Phoenix Contact's Nanonavigator

The new nanoNavigator 2.0

Personnel Functional Safety Certification: Not All Programs Are Created Equal

As production runs ever closer to equipment and facility operating limits and new plants come on line in expanding and developing economies, the pressure to design...

Sustainability Footprint Making Big Impression

Customers Demand Sustainable Production Solutions

Hazardous Locations A Primer

This white paper serves to provide some information and guidance regarding area classifications and required approvals for electrical instrumentation.

BS&B Pressure Safety Management's Type IVE's isolatiion valve

Valve prevents explosion propagation from one interconnected vessel to another

Omegadyne's Micro-Machined Silicon Pressure Transducers

MMA500V Series micro-machined silicon pressure transducers

Brewery in a Box?

Bringing the Benefits of Distributed Control to Non-Traditional Industries Can Be Both Tricky and Lucrative

Chinese Demand for Industrial Valves Balloons

Rapid Growth in Process Manufacturing, Public Utilities Construction and General Construction Activity in China, Increase Demand for Industrial Valves

Security could put process control under IT

With new technology and strategies being developed to protect industrial systems from current and future threats, process control needs to figure out where it's...

Emerson First with WirelessHART

WirelessHART-enabled measurement and communications products and maintenance suite now part of Smart Wireless portfolio.

Pepperl+Fuchs' Three-Switch Amplifiers

These three-switch amplifiers with line fault fransparency (LFT) reduce the amount of wiring required in hazardous area applications

Control E in C to Keynote at WBF 2007

Dr. Paul McKenzie, Vice President and General Manager - LSCC at Bristol Myers Squibb, and Walter Boyes, Editor-in-Chief at CONTROL Magazine, will be the featured...

Three decades of DCS technology

Distributed control system technology and its pioneers have had a profound effect on our profession and should be recognized, according to Around the Loop columnist...

Not So Fast on Single-Loop Control

Predicting That Single-Loop Control Will (or Should) Go the Way of the Dinosaur

Wireless security on the plant floor

This paper takes a comprehensive look at wireless security for both corporate and industrial automation networks, placing an emphasis on the industrial automation...

I/O for Fieldbus Applications

Able Designs IS Portable Clamp-on Flowmeter

Able Instruments and Controls Announces The Able Manufactured Fully ATEX-Approved, Battery-Powered Portable Ultrasonic Flowmeter

Sequence-of-Events Recorder

Security Appliances Can Be Your Best Option

A Security Appliance Combines Modern Switch Technology With Cybersecurity Software for Security and Firewall Protection

Plant-Floor Data Sharing on Parade

Access the right data at the right time at any level of operations.

InFusion Release Consolidates IOM Integration

New InFusion Release Consolidates IOM Integration; Shifts Focus from Enterprise to Real-Time Business Management

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY-178B Operating System Gets High Robustness Certification by NSA

Green Hills Software Announces Second EAL6+/SKPP, High Robustness Certification by NSA for INTEGRITY-178B Operating System

Two New MTL Isolators with “One Core”

The 4500 is a Direct Plug-In Replacement for Existing 4000 Series Isolators, and the 5500 Replaces the Existing 5000 Series Units.

FDT Group's Schulz Believes FDI Cooperation Will Drive Further Standards Harmonization

EDDL Cooperation Team (ECT) Renamed the FDI Cooperation

Risk Control Hierarchy Clarifies Electrical Safety

A clear and realistic set of objectives goes a long way in driving continuous improvements in electrical safety. Resources can be allocated and priorities can be...

Thermo Fisher Scientific's Atlas CDS Software Control for Shimadzu Prominence HPLC

Delivers Integrated Instrument Control with Multi-vendor Compatibility

The next generation of smarter valves

Process automation: In the next decade, much improvement and change is expected in the design of smart and self-diagnosing control valves, with potential advantages...

Defining Coexistence, Interoperability and Compatibility

A Guide for Users to Determine Which of the Several Wireless Sensor Systems Is Best Suited to Use In Their Plants

Show-Piece U.K. Dairy Processing Installation

New Facilities Include a Automated Raw Milk Offloading, Storage and Distribution System, Low Throughput Milk Separation Plant and Other Features

Listen to the Kids

The Latest Social Media and Networking Tools. Are They Being Used by Process Control and Automation Engineers?

Ground-up Strategies for Asset Performance Management

This Aberdeen Group benchmarking report investigates the ways top-performing companies develop corporate cultures of reliability and leverage investments in advanced...

Sorting Out ATEX

You Need to Know Where ATEX-Certified Products Must Be Used in Your Plants

FasTest's Refrigeration Quick Disconnect

Refrigeration Quick Disconnect (RQD) offers reliable connections to refrigerant lines for charging or evacuating cooling appliances and applications under high pressure.

Wyeth streamlines batch management with S88

Wyeth-Ayerst Lederle used ISA's S88 batch automation standard to improve process batch control and plant operations at its pharmaceutical plant in Carolina, Puerto Rico.

Applying Wireless to EtherNet/IP Automation Systems

Ethernet for industrial communications is growing rapidly in factory automation, process control and SCADA systems. The ODVA EtherNet/IP network standard is gaining...

Industrial Ethernet… more than just another fieldbus system

This whitepaper talks about how today Ethernet-based fieldbus systems perform basic task and so much more

Into the lion's den: Tata's interest in the U.S process automation market

Krishnakumar Nagarajan, head of plant automation solutions for the Engineering and Industrial Services practice of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), explains his...

Free Download of Technical Reference Book on Measurement and Control

Process automation: ControlGlobal.com has partnered with Omega Engineering to make the Transactions in Measurement and Control technical reference series available...

The light at the end of the tunnel

More training is needed in manufacturing.

The Business Value Proposition for Automation

The purpose of this white paper is to show the bottom line economic impact and improved business performance that can be obtained through implementation of...

Human error in instrumentation systems

Mistakes are inevitable, but understanding how and where they occur can minimize their frequency and impact.

Electro-Chemical Devices' Model 61 boiler blowdown system

Model 61 intelligent plug-and-play automated blowdown system improves boiler operation performance

BetaGauge 330 Pressure Calibrator

The first hand-held pressure calibrator with integral battery operated powered pump for vacuumm to 150 PSIG.

Power Supply Online

Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Talk About Power Supplies

Rittal's AE Slope Top enclosure

Enclosure withstands frequent washdowns

Invensys increases footprint in Western Canada

An expanded regional presence for the automation supplier includes a brand new 15,500 square foot facility in Calgary.

Gems Sensors & Controls' UCL-520 ultrasonic level sensors

Ultrasonic level sensors perform non-contact level measurement up to 26.2 ft.

Phosphate Analysis Added to Navigator Lineup

Maintenance Is A Leading End-User Concern with Analyzers

Monthly Web Highlights

What's new this month on ControlGlobal.com

Brooks Instrument's Digital Communication

The 4800 Series mass flowmeters and mass flow controllers now offer Profibus or RS485

Effective Procedure Practices: A Review of the ASM Consortium Guidelines and Related Studies

The webinar will focus on the related research about the content across the guideline categories - procedure development, content and format, deployment, maintenance...

Use PLCs to Measure Natural Gas Flow

The American Gas Association (AGA) Releases a Series of Reports, or Standards, That Define the Measurement Equations for the Flow of Natural Gas

Calibration Shifting from Periodic to Predictive

More Stable Instruments and Onboard Diagnostics May Spell the End of Periodic Calibrations

Think Things Are Small Now?

signaling, sensors, process control, Jeffrey R. Harrow, radio components, instruments, converters

FCI's Mass Flowmeter for CO2 Apps

ST75 flowmeter is ideal for demanding process industry plant environments

Semaphore's 1-Wire interface to SCADA RTU product line

Half duplex communications network uses a single wire to provide data transmission and power for energy management and environmental monitoring applications

Building a 21st-Century Renaissance Engineer

By Creating a College from Scratch, We Can Approach Education in a Whole New Way That Will Best Serve the Engineers of the New Millennium

Blood and guts

Executive Editor Jim Montague notes that taking a closer look at biological processes can help adapt or improve existing process controls and systems. Read why in...

Shaft Grounding – Fulfilling the Promise of Variable Frequency Drives

With the rising cost of energy, the use of variable frequency drives (VFDs) is growing at an increasing rate. By optimizing the frequency of a three-phase...

Just Because They Haven’t, Doesn’t Mean They Won’t, Podcast

Listen to Walt Boyes's March 2008 column, Just Because They Haven’t, Doesn’t Mean They Won’t

Are Thermistors the Right Choice for Your Temperature Measurement Application?

This white paper shows you how to tell if you can benefit from using thermistors.

Emerging Trends In The Petrochemical Industry

Changing market conditions are forcing batch-manufacturing facilities to modify the way they conduct business. The demand for software and hardware vendors to...

Precise Control-Valve Actuators

Short on Specifics

Control Strives to Give Readers Specific Content They Can Use to Make Their Processes and Applications More Efficient and Make Their Stressful Jobs a Little...

More Than the Old Standby

Walt Boyes talks point level with Mike Bayda of Brooks Instrument

Industrial PCs are all grown up

Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert, PE, notes that industrial PCs have matured from similar-looking, pre-packaged desktop PCs to products specifically designed for...

OPC Helps Keep the Lights On

Implementing OPC Security Is Key to Ensuring That Only the Right People Have the Access They Need to Ensure the Lights Stay On for Everyone

ControlGlobal.com puts Product Roundups at your fingertips

Check out our collection of Product Roundups and find the process automation software, hardware, machine components and devices you need quickly and easily.

Project roadmaps get you there

This article illustrates how correct project engineering documentation deliverables help to eliminate scope changes during concept development and design, and...

How to Predict the Next Deviation

Using CMS to Bring the Maintenance of Calibration Management to Predictive Mode

Batch Application Migration

The ‘migration’ of an existing Batch application, either by replacement or upgrade of the batch ‘engine’, or the entire replacement of the control system, raises...

Hardy Instruments' Advantage Load points and Sensors

Available for compression or tension applications in capacities from 44 lbs to 600,000 lbs, Advantage load points and sensors are designed for optimum performance...

Red Lion Controls’ Modular Controller Series PID Modules

Red Lion Controls’ Modular Controller series PID modules now support ramp/soak control, enabling users to integrate multi-segment temperature profiling for complex...

MES-DCS Integration Case Study

This paper addresses the design and implementation of a real time, batch scheduling and material reporting interface between MES and DCS applications in a good...

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.

Up-to-the-Minute Coverage of HUG 2011!

ControlGlobal's Editorial Team Is On the Ground in Phoenix Covering the 2011 Honeywell User Group Meeting

Matrikon's Downtime Reporter version 7.0 software

Downtime Reporter version 7.0 production management software leverages Microsoft SharePoint to improve flexibility and scalabilty to suit your enterprise needs

World of Automation

World of Automation Handbook

Automation Federation names Managing Director

The Automation Federation has named Bruno L. Kisala as its Managing Director.

Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices that use sensors to monitor physical or environmental...

The iceberg and the storm

Putting change into a process because we want to try out the latest computer is not progress, says Control contributor Dick Morley. We seem only to watch as process...

SCADA Alarm Management Video

Using push communications, T-BOX efficiently transmits alarms to multiple recipients

Electromagnetic Flowmeters: Lining Material for Water Applications

This paper gives an overview of some basic criteria for choosing lining material for the water / wastewater industry and furthermore provides a short description...

OPC UA Eases Software Integration Tasks

The OPC-UA Standard Holds the Potential to Finally Allow Automation Software Applications to Readily Plug-and-Play Together

Omega Engineering's OM-CP-TCTEMP2000 TC temperature data logger

Battery-powered TC temperature data logger has an internal temperature sensors and one external input for thermocouple types J, K, T, E, R, S, B and N

Jim Montague Wins ASBPE Silver Editorial Excellence Award

Excecutive Editor Jim Montague Receives ASBPE 2008 Silver Award in Category Regular Column, Staff Written

High bright displays: Get the picture

This white paper will cover display technologies, indicate which is best for industrial applications, discuss market and technology trends, and finally make...

SOUND OFF! on CONTROL's Editor's Blog!

Want to know what's really going on in the industry? CONTROL's Intrepid Roving Editors blog from just about anywhere on almost any process automation topic.

AutomationDirect's Manual Motor Controllers/Disconnects

The Bryant line of manual motor controllers (MMC) now available through AutomationDirect is UL listed as "suitable as motor disconnects."

Predictive Maintenance, Wireless Sensing and Machine Connectivity Advances

Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, and ARC Advisory Group's research director, Ralph Rio, discuss how the advances in predictive maintenance, wireless sensing...

Power Supplies & Circuit Protection

An Overload on Any Circuit That Increases the Total Current to More Than 11A Will Cause the Power Supply to Go into Its Shutdown or Hiccup Mode

The Components of FDT Technology: A Basic Introduction to DTMs and the FDT Frame

DTMs and the FDT Frame, How Do They Work?

Controlling a Chemical-Free Water Treatment System with NI LabVIEW

NI creates an environmentally friendly advanced contaminant and filtration treatment system

Compact Signal Converters

Communication for Legacy Systems

T-BOX Features

Dr. T-BOX summarizes the five core capabilities of the T-BOX RTU

Five Critical Factors for Selecting Fieldbus Valve Manifolds

In today's highly automated machines, fieldbus valve manifolds are replacing conventional hardwired solutions. They more easily perform vital functions by...

Pepperl+Fuchs Engineer’s Guide to Interface Technology

The Engineer’s Guide to Interface Technology, version 3.1, is a 700+ page guide to Pepperl+Fuchs’ family of intrinsic safety, surge protection, HART interface and...

King Engineering's ES2 Slimline Level Transmitter

ES2 Slimline level transmitter boasts robust design to protect against environmental conditions

Best Practices in Securing Process Automation Networks

Maturing Practice of Evaluating and Managing Control System Risks.

Process Automation Comics

Ted Williams, Control's Resident Cartoonist, Sketches the Light Side of the Trials and Tribulations of Life as a Process Engineer

WirelessHART Enables New Levels of Asset Performance

This webinar will cover the benefits of using wireless to improve asset monitoring and how the diagnostics can be used by asset condition-based monitoring...

Real-Time Profit Optimization

Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been successfully utilized to help control manufacturing and production processes since the late 1970s. The primary function...

Back to Basics: Sampling Systems

The problem with at-line and on-line analyzers is that the analyzer is only as good as its sample. Walt Boyes gets back to the basics of sampling.

Managing Change to Follow OSHA-PSM Standard

Management of Change Is Not a Form. It's a Process

Advantech's USB-Based Multifunctional I/O Module

USB-BASED MULTI-FUNCTIONAL I/O

Looking Forward

Industrial Computer Vendors Give You a Glimpse into the Future.

Calibration Information

Controls’s Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Take a Look at Calibration

When Is It Time to Retire Your PAT System?

The Answer’s Not as Simple as It Might Appear

Asset Planning vs Activity Planning

Dick Morley Becomes Resigned to Air travel, Messes Up a PowerPoint Presentation and Remembers a Valuable Lesson

Green Engineering Resource Kit

Download this resource kit to learn more about green engineering and sustainable design practices that are being developed and deployed with products and...

GE Sensing selects Dust Networks as technology partner for wireless sensing solutions

GE Sensing and Dust Networks have announced a technology partnership to build dynamic, flexible wireless sensing solutions for a range of monitoring applications.

Integrating Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) Within An S88 Structure

An S88.01-aware automation system covers the control & management of activities carried out within plant equipment directly connected to it via hardwired, serial or...

Fluid Components International's Model ST51 mass flowmeter

Flowmeter optimizes for wastewater treatment digester gases

To Fix System Bugs, Wurldtech Gets Fuzzy Wid It

Anything Can Be Hacked.

Is Switching Worth the Effort?

Are the Gains of Moving from Paper-Based Procedures to an Automated Electronic Calibration System Worth the Effort?

AMETEK Calibration Instruments' JOFRA ITC Series dry block temperature calibrators

Calibrator has dual-zone heating block and MVI circuitry

What's New in Flow Technology

Here Are Some of the Latest Products for Your Flow Applications

Six Sigma Alarm Management

Six Sigma Methods Bring Order to Alarm Chaos at Monsanto’s Soda Springs, Id., Phosphorus Plant

Burkert's Element Type 8036 Flow Transmitter

Element Type 8036 flow transmitter measures flow rate in solid-free liquids.

The DCS spirit lives on everywhere

Classic distributed control systems typically remain only in high-availability refining and power applications, but their strategies and capabilities persist in...

Sierra Smart-Trak 50 Series Medium Flow Controller

Smart-Trak 50 Series medium flow controller increases the maximum flow range of the award-winning Smart-Trak 50 Series from 50 slpm to 200 slpm.

GAMP4 guidelines concerning the use of process simulation software

This paper discusses GAMP4 guidelines concerning the use of process simulation software, the impact of system testing and qualification of the software on project...

Get 'em While They're Young

We need to attract new star talent to the automation profession.

Web-based DAQs spread access, information

Modern data acquisition devices use networks, the Internet, and wireless to deliver intelligence. Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt provides a Product Roundup of...

ISA's widely used batch control standards to undergo revision

ISA's SP88 Batch Control standards development committee has formed a working group to update the first two standards in the widely used ISA-88 series.

IDEC's MicroSmart Pentra

MicroSmart Pentra is the only micro PLC that allows control systems to seamlessly communicate with up to seven serial devices

National Instruments' White Paper on PACs vs PLCs

This white paper describes the benefits and basic differences between programmable automation controllers (PAC) and the more traditional programmable logic...

Honeywell Process Controller Earns New Security Certification

Honeywell’s Experion PKS C300 Process Controller has achieved the new Mu Security Industrial Control Certification (MUSIC)

"Going Green" Isn't Easy, but MES Can Help

MES Can Help Achieve All Sorts of Good Things, Including Helping Companies Reach Their Sustainability Goals

Our Toilets Are Not for Customers!

End users now have much more power to improve or hurt a brand image, and many automation vendors are slow to realize what this means.

Common control system vulnerabilities

This report describes the generalized trends in vulnerabilities observed from control and automation IT systems used in critical infrastructures, as well as typical...

Factory Intelligence Network Data Collection System

Software gathers critical data from legacy as well as newer equipment

Transient Surges and Surge Suppressor Technologies: Comparing Apples to Oranges

The suppressor to protect a specific point upon an electrical distribution system must be selected accordingly to its physical location.

Advanced Control of Batch Reactor Temperature

This paper describes the application of an advanced model predictive adaptive controller to the problem of batch reactor temperature control. Although a great deal...

Leaving a Higher Stack of Wood

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks about industry ethics. He reflects on how companies used to assign a mentor to train new young employees, but now this is not a...

Podcast: Open I/O Systems

The once proprietary links between controllers and I/O are becoming ever more open - much to the benefit of process automation pros. Opto 22 was and is one of the...

Training and Keeping Your Employees

How to Get and Keep the Best Techies

Meet Fluke's 376 Clamp Meter

Fluke's 376 Clamp Meter is coming. Part clamp meter. Part clamp marvel.

AutomationDirect's RHINO PSP line of AC-to-DC Converters

Four AC-to-DC converters can be operated with all popular DC supply voltage systems.

Identifying Benefits for S-88 and S-95 Based Systems

System Architectures using S-88 and S-95 standards are being used in system implementations across the plant floor. These systems include batch management, MES,...

Process Control Network Security

Here, Invensys describes the reference architecture of best practices for a process control system network and its interfaces to a corporate network.

Redesigned for How You Work

Both S-Series and M-Series I/O Hardware Can Coexist in the Same DeltaV System with No Trade-Offs or Incompatibilities

Yikes! Look out for that Chasm!

The best practice by far is to choose a main instrument vendor who is accountable for the integration of all field devices.

Ethernet Direct's PROFIBUS to RS-232/422/485 Converter

Ethernet Direct offers Panda series products which are specifically designed for PROFINET and PROFIBUS solutions.

Connect to Any PLC using NI LabVIEW

Learn how to create tags in OPC servers and utilize OPC client connectivity to communicate between NI LabVIEW and PLCs

Ethernet Direct's Metro Station IP Surveillance Application

Video over Ethernet is a trend to the surveillance market and Ethernet Direct offers turnkey solution

Moyno, Inc.'s Metering Pump with VFD

Moyno metering pump has new pumping elements and new, integral VFD/motor controls.

National Instruments' LEGO podcast

National Instruments' Ray Almgren and John Field speak with CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes on the partnership between NI and LEGO that has culminated in an...

Technology Finds the Fountain of Youth

Computers Found the Fountain of Youth. Learn How They've Done It and How You can Remain Youthful Too

How Can the NERC CIP Standards Be Improved?

The Requirements in the CIP Standards Are Pretty Good, but They Do Not Address Common Methods of Attacking a Protected Network

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

Tech Fair to be held during User Group Conference

The 2006 Yokogawa Technology Innovations Fair & User Conference will be held November 29 - December 1, 2006 at the Hilton Americas in Houston, Texas.

Dust Networks' wireless sensor network technology speeds time-to-market for Novazone's fresh produce shipping solution

Network-ready SmartMesh products cut a year off PurFresh product development time.

Break Through: Fieldbus Protocols

Fieldbus Protocols Continue Pushing into Mainstream Process Applications, and Innovative Users Are Forcing Their Network Infrastructures to Evolve Along with Them

Fieldbus Wars continue: EDDL vs. FDT/DTM

Process Automation: Fieldbus technology expert Dick Caro predicts that as Ethernet-based control networks converge into the domain of fieldbus, there will eventually...

The Elephant in the Room

There’s an Elephant in the Wireless Room

Show Me the Money – Part 1

The Best Way to Keep Your Job, Save our Profession, and Do Wonderful Things Is to Quantify the Benefits of Process Control Improvements. Money Talks

Back to Basics: Flow Measurement

Editor in chief Walt Boyes talks about flow measurement in the automation field. Watch this video to learn more about turbine flowmeters and electromagnetic flowmeters.

AutomationDirect's Compact Fusible Switches

Gladiator compact fusible switches have been added to AutomationDirect's product offering of circuit protection devices.

Reflections on the 2005 WBF conference

In this "special to the web" article for ControlGlobal.com, World Batch Forum Chairman Maurice Wilkins offers his thoughts on the 2005 WBF conference held last month...

FDT Technology – Delivers a Hole In One!

Implementing Best-in-Class Devices for Control and Monitoring Applications

Know Your Flow Part 3

Application savvy is worth more than only products. In this third installment of Control's special report on mass flow and density measurement sponsored by Micro...

It Pays to Give Energy Management a Thought!

This paper comments on possible ways to manage energy in a processing plant. More specifically it concentrates on better energy measurements and how to increase...

The Need for Secure OPC Communications – Overcoming DCOM Challenges

This paper presents a new technology that increases the security of data and the overall usability of the solution. It facilitates integration between and with...

On the Level

CONTROL’s Monthly Resource Guide

Advantech's Universal PCI Card

PCI-1220U is a two-axis motion control card for stepping and pulse-type servo motors with hardware-controlled linear and circular axis interpolation.

ControlAir's Type 330 air filter regulator

Type 330 compact instrument air filter regulator provides instrument quality air to valves, pneumatic controllers and more

Applying Multivariable Control to the Offshore Oil Production Process

Although multivariable control is now a well–established technology, new applications are still being found on which to apply it.In this paper, details will be...

Genie in a Bottle: Distilling Greg Shinskey into Software

ProcessApex Effectively Adds Context to the Flood of DCS Data, so Users Can Focus on One or Two Critical Issues

ProComSol's Support for HART 7 and WirelessHART Devices

ProComSol released the Rev 4.0 revision to their DevCom2000 Smart Device Communicator Software

Livin’ is Easy with Level-Headed Liquid-Level Transmitters

MTS Sensors Develops Its Level Plus liquid Level Transmitters

Access Control

Fences, Barriers, Sensors and Video Cameras Can Help Keep Bad Guys from Getting into Your Plant

Security: A Practical Approach to Plant Protection

Just thinking about the possible threats out there today can give you sleepless nights, but take heart -- yours is not the only plant struggling with a new security...

Control Software and Renewable Energy, Part 3

Bela Liptak Discusses the Control of the Renewable Energy Processes That Use Energy Sources Such as the Sun, the Moon, the Rotation of Earth and Its Coriolis Effect...

Tyco Electronics' touch monitors

Touch monitors are compliant with NEMA 1, 2, 4, 4X, 5, 12, 12K and 13, as well as IP66 standards

Development of Integrated Flexi-Burn Dual Oxidant CFB Power Plant

Carbon-dioxide capture and storage (CCS) offers the potential for major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions of fossil fuel-based power generation in the fairly...

Paving the Way for Bus Technology

I’ve Had Great Success on Projects, Especially Upgrades and Retrofits, Where I Was Able to Get an Experienced Board Person and/or Front-Line Supervisor Assigned to...

Rapid Implementation: Creating Competitive Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers

Discover how complex equipment manufacturers are using preconfigured ERP software solutions combined with industry best practices, to go live with a core ERP system...

Security Analysis Tool Is Possible IT First

Loadable Security Module (LSM)

Det-Tronics' NTMOS hydrogen sulfide gas sensor

Hydrogen sulfide gas sensor detects low hydrogen sulfide gas concentrations in five seconds or less

A Recipe for Success

Today's manufacturing companies face many pressures, including rising costs for raw materials, labor and distribution, not to mention customer demands for higher...

Automation Products Group's Hazardous Duty Sensors

LPU-2428 loop-powered ultrasonic level sensors from Automation Products Group Inc.

Burkert's Cool FLow Transmitters

Ultrasonic Flow Transmitter Type 8081 is designed for water monitoring applications

Smart Manufacturing; Virus Protection

Our Readers React to Our Article About Smart Manufacturing and Explain Why Stuxnet Happens and Why Everybody Is Vulnerable

Fieldbus Foundation polishes specification

New features focus on device data organization, graphical visualization consistency, and support for persistent data storage.

Automation Standards Are More Like Guidelines

Heads Up, Oysters! The Evolution of IEC 61131-3 and Other Undermined Standards Efforts Are Just Ongoing Misleading and Unhelpful Arguments by Industry Leaders

Technology Review Level Measurement of Bulk Solids in Bins, Silos and Hoppers

Manufacturers of level measurement technologies are often asked to recommend a technology for measuring bulk solids in vessels. Understanding the technologies...

Honeywell Users' Group Americas Symposium

The 2006 Honeywell Users' Group Americas Symposium themed, "Adapting to Change," will be held June 11-15 at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, AZ.

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

Stealth's Ultra Compact Mini PC

Small Enough to Fit in Your Hand Yet Outperforms Most Desktop and Mobile Computers

Emerson completes digital architecture installation for LNG project in Qatar

One of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects is using Emerson’s automation contracting and PlantWeb digital architecture.

AutomationDirect's Safety Light Curtains and Limit Switches

AutomationDirect offers machine safety devices for use in industrial applications.

HMS Industrial Networks' Industrial Communication Goes Wireless

The Anybus Wireless Bridge from HMS

From the Oil Patch through the Refinery: How to Boost Performance with Variable–Frequency Drives

Energy savings is not the only benefit engineers working in oil and gas applications enjoy from using Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs). While this single benefit...

Back to Basics: DP Flow Measurement

Walt Boyes tells it like it is in Flow Measurement: Part One-- Differential Pressure Flow Measurement, another in our Back to Basics series.

Evaluation of an Alternate Soft Charge Circuit for Diode Front End Variable Frequency Drives

Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) with diode rectifier front end are typically equipped with a resistorcontactor arrangement to limit the inrush current into the dc...

Taking the heat for replacing a brush hot

Contributing writer and controls technician Loren Jones proves in this “exclusive to the web” feature that he can’t keep his big mouth shut, and learns that just...

Data access from everywhere

Limitations have kept mobile data access on the tradeshow floor and out of most process plants, but things are changing for the better because of a number of...

Training Knowledge Center | Control Global

Plastic Butterfly Valves

McCrometer's Wafer-Cone flowmeter

Flowmeter adjusts to meet changing flow conditions

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

Data transaction efficiency in batch control: Eliminating the middle man

This paper explores methods of moving data directly from the source to the final point of use, whether this is an operator console, a controller, or data archived on...

Cybersecurity Through Real-Time Distributed Control Systems

Critical infrastructure sites and facilities are becoming increasingly dependent on interconnected physical and cyber-based real-time distributed control systems...

Cyber security procurement language for control systems

This document summarizes important security principles that should be considered when designing and procuring control systems products (software, systems and...

Emerson Process Management's DS800 Development Suite software for FloBoss flow computers

Development software for FloBoss flow computers lets users create custom programs in any of five IEC 61131-3 graphical programming languages

Data Logging Software

What Is RISI and Why Is It Good for Industrial Security?

Walt Boyes, John Cusimano of Exida and Eric Cosman of Dow Chemical talk about the newly formed Security Incidents Organization and its database of cybersecurity...

OSIsoft Helps MWRA Improve Real-Time Plant Performance, Aid Boston Harbor Cleanup

A wastewater treatment organization in Massachusetts has been implementing OSIsoft’s PI System (PI) as the core of an enterprise-wide solution. With the help of the...

Control Valve Simulation in the Age of the Black Box

The Black Box: All It Takes to Gain Answers to Complex Questions Is to Push Buttons on a Box, and the Canned Software Will Provide the Answer, Right?

The Ten Truths of Safety Instrumented Systems - Truth 6 & 7

Is your SIS architecture forcing you to choose between separation and integration, or is it able to provide both? Truth 6 says you don't have to choose between SIS...

Why the Architecture of Safety Systems Doesn't Matter

"More" may be "Less" when applied to Safety Systems Architecture. Have the terms DMR, TMR and Quad become irrelevant in your safety system building vocabulary?...

Lenox Instrument's High-Temperature Camera Systems

Lenox Instrument Company announces the addition of an IP net workable model to its line of FireSight high-temperature boiler camera and furnace camera systems.

Walt Boyes interviews Dan North

North Predicts a Recession. What Would the Effects Be on the Economy, and on the Process Industries?

Power Systems Protection Power Quality and Substation Automation

Covering concepts that are important and useful to the engineer, scientist and technician independent of discipline.

Detroit Edison to deploy SmartSignal's EPI Center

EPI Center will enable Detroit Edison to monitor equipment health through the use of existent data and real-time analytics at its new, state-of-the-art Performance...

Computer Aided Solution's paint oven temperature monitor

Data logger system

Optimizing Energy Consumption and Improving Operational Efficiency Through the Use of Smart MCCs in Process Automation Systems

This white paper will help you learn how you can play a vital role in optimizing energy cost and operational efficiency in your plant or factory; understand how...

Not Playing Nice

If You Were Waiting for the ISA Standard to Make Everything Right, You Might as Well Stop. It Isn’t Going to Happen

Actuator/Position Sensor

Effective Communication Is Essential for Safety and Compliance

Whether to enhance productivity, improve employee, contractor, and community safety, or to save lives during an emergency – you need a communication system that...

Ametek 's PATC-1000 Series Connectors

Ametek SCP Offers High-Performance Peek Connectors

Under-reporting Bedevils Estimates of Cyber Threat

Just how few really serious cases have been added to the list of documented incidents over the years?

ANSI/ISA standard affects existing SISs

Process Automation: CONTROL contributor Angela Summers addresses ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 and concludes it is identical to IEC 61511 with one exception: a U.S....

Integrate Control and Safety

Safety Instrumented Systems Are Vital Assets because They Protect Lives, Process and Equipment. With Secure Integration at the Control Data and Operator Levels,...

IEC 61508 and Functional Safety System Selection

This paper provides an introduction to IEC 61508, describes an illustrative application example using the MOST SafetyNet System, and offers parameters that should be...

Pace Yourself, Podcast

Listen to Jim Montague's January 2008 Control Report Column

Pressure Systems' TruBlue 575 Baro Transducer

Pressure Systems' TruBlue 575 Baro transducer measures and logs barometric pressure, as well as temperature, with extreme accuracy.

American farmers: Far a field with automation

You think process engineers are in the forefront of automation? Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt says that when it comes to improving process efficiency, you ain't...

Sustainability in the Process Industries

Control's digital managing Web Editor Katherine Bonfante, talks to ARC's Vice President Greg Gorbach on sustainability. What is sustainability? What factors...

Advantech’s Firewall Internet Security Platform

FWA-3140 1U rackmount internet security platform, designed for the Intel Pentium 4 processor, provides high performance reliability and offers a range of features...

The Benefits of PAC Solutions

Since the introduction and use of the PLC as a relay replacement device, the uses of small, self contained automation controllers have mushroomed and have changed...

The Many Other Ways

Any one of us might be able to turn an insignificant idea into a competitive advantage that puts us on top.

We need a Hannover Fair USA

Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt implores the industry to hold ISA Expo, National Manufacturing Week, Promat, Sensors Expo, IMTS, Pack Expo, AM Expo, and Quality Expo...

Measurement of Drift, Stability, Offset, Bias

Do You Need Help Understanding Some Automation Terms? Ask Our Experts

Commonality Innovations Fuel Uncommon Instrumentation

New ABB Instrumentation Products Are Built on Five Basic Electronics and Interface Platforms that Share Technology

CC-Link Improves Printing Press Control

CC-Link provides the "open" network backbone for the control of 32 Tensor printing press units

AutomationDirect's GX3 Photoelectric Sensor Line Series

AutomationDirect expands photoelectric sensor line

Emerson re-issues pressure gauge manual

Emerson Process Management has published the fifth edition of its Pressure Regulator Application Guides. Previously combined into one volume, known as the Regulator...

Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD)'s SE series steam sterilizable electrodes and SF series fittings

Steam sterilizable sensor reduces cost for sanitary pH measurement

Maximizing Control-Loop Performance

Tune Your Processes to Stop Giving Away Valuable Commodities

Omega's Infrared Thermometer

The new high-performance, handheld OS1327D series of infrared thermometers are non-contact temperature measurement instruments.

Planning and Developing Effective Emergency Mass Notification Strategies for Hazardous Industrial Applications in the Post 9/11 Era.

Emergency mass notification for hazardous industrial processing operations has traditionally focused on audible and visual signaling devices such as sirens, horns,...

You, Your Job and the Economic Crisis–Before and After

Don’t Let the Crisis Get the Best of You. Stop, Analyze the Situation, and Then Take Action

I/O on Demand Savings Calculator

Estimate your project cost savings--and impact on your project schedule--with the I/O on Demand calculator.

Rice Lake's LaserLT

LaserLT offers brighter, bolder, and smarter approach to weight display

ABB's eXtended PAT process analytical technology software

Process analytical software simplifies engineering and streamlines integration with enterprise systems

Internet Access in a Process Control Environment

Industrial automation is no longer limited by the walls of a production facility. More and more automation is being handled via remote communication, whether it’s...

Siemens's Space-Saving I/O Blocks

SPACE-SAVING I/O BLOCKS

Temperature Sensor Calibration Website

Calibration Online Library

Sierra Monitor Intelligent Carbon Monoxide Gas Sensor

The Sierra Monitor Model 5100-04-IT Carbon Monoxide Gas Sensor Module utilizes smart sensor technology to provide the user with more than just another oxygen gas sensor

Fieldbus Architectures

Fieldbuses are maturing, cooperating better, getting easier to use, and are being adopted in new and different applications. In this podcast, Larry O'Brien and Will...

Big-Time Condition Monitoring

Condition Monitoring Is More Than Walking Around the Plant With a Data Logger and a Clipboard. Done Big Time, It Can Save You Millions of Dollars

EAM Online

EAM—is there any “there” there? Check out our additional online resources on EAM.

Medidor de Flujo Másico ST51 de FCI

Medidor de flujo másico ST51 de FCI diseñado para mediciones de gas metano en minas de carbón.

Show Daily Edition from Automation Fair 2006

Automation Fair’s focus on strategic maintenance was described in detail in a presentation by Rockwell Automation's Mike Laszkiewicz on the general state of...

Surfing through Control’s Blogs

If You Haven’t Bookmarked ControlGlobal’s Own Blogs, SoundOff! and Unfettered, You Should

Anti-Stuxnet-and Other Cyber Nasties-Tools

Malware Attacks the Control System, It Can Insert Itself Into the Internal Communications to the PLC, Passing Itself as a PLC Device

The Pressure Instrumentation Shop

Review the Latest Pressure Instrumentation Technology Here and More

Webcast: A Universal Remote I/O Solution

The new universal remote I/O module for Honeywell's Safety Manager platform allows process manufacturers to integrate more safety devices while simplifying...

Arc-Flash Detection Relay From SEL

Minimizing Dangerous Arc-Fault Energy

General Purpose Submersible Level Transmitters

Designed for indefinite submersion in a wide variety of liquid media

Data Analytics in Batch Operations

When Batch Processing Is Critical to Your Operations, Imagine the Worth of Knowing the Predicted Value of Quality Parameters

Bag That Fire

Detector Electronics' IR Methane Gas Detector

Methane gas detector uses an IR light beam to detect and measure methane gas concentrations

Emerson Process Management's Rosemount TankRadar Rex and Pro Tank Gauging System

Rosemount TankRadar Rex and Pro tank gauging system now includes Smart Wireless functionality.

Tough HMI

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech introduces the IPPC-6192A, an Industrial Panel PC with a 19" SXGA TFT LCD and a powerful IntelCore 2 Quad or Core 2 Duo...

Dwyer Instruments' 3ABVH 3-Way Brass Ball Valve

Dwyer Instruments releases its series 3ABVH 3-way brass ball valve

Cardinal Ethanol - Plant Sustainability With a Plant-Wide Optimization Control System

Achieving the Highest Levels of Process Efficiencies, Yields to Successfully Competing in the Industry

Analyse, Design, Develop and Validate-Fast

This paper describes an approach to the production of the process automation systems for large-scale pharmaceutical processes using S88.01. The context is the...

Emerson buys online machine monitoring capability

Emerson has acquired epro GmbH of Gronau, Germany, to enhance the expertise and resources of Emerson Process Management, a global automation and asset management...

New communication devices for legacy systems

N-TRON Corporation, a global leader in Industrial Networking, introduced six new products today designed for legacy serial communications in industrial environments....

Finnish paint manufacturer Teknos chooses IFS for ERP

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Teknos, a leading paint manufacturer, has chosen IFS Applications to increase visibility,...

BP, Shell, Statoil Raided by EC

European Commission investigators raided the offices of oil companies BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil as well as data collector Platts as part of a larger inquiry...

Top 50 Automation Companies for 2011

The Economic Recovery Is Serene. Meet The 2011 Top 50 Leaders, Find Out How the Automation Market Stands And Learn Our Predictions of What's Coming Next

Application Note

...any time. They may also require monthly reporting of site conditions. SOLUTION Global Monitoring’s Messenger Remote Monitoring Unit serves as an integrated...

2002EU From a Corporate Product Specification to a Control Recipe: It's not a Transatlantic Trip...

...Figure 1 An example of a concept supporting the harmonization process GLOBAL Vs. LOCAL PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS Next to improving an enterprise’s capability to...

art_series_mod_squad_pa_dow.pdf

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Emerson Takes Aim at Industrial Energy Use

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Rockwell Automation Streamlines Services Delivery

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ABB buys Baldor

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Rockwell Automation names new leaders

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Microsoft Launches ChemRA

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PAT slaps pharmas with control system aftershave

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GE Fanuc launches Proficy Process Systems

GE Fanuc Automation, a unit of GE Industrial, today announced that it has officially launched its breakthrough process control system Proficy Process Systems.

Beyond the Process Variable

Rosemount President Tom Moser Talks on the New Frontiers of Process Instrumentation

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The Differential Between Labor Cost in India or China and the United States and Europe Is Still There Now, but Soon It Will Be Gone

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Intergraph shipping SmartPlant 3D 5.0

...many enhancements for structural modeling and design, 3D model exportation, global worksharing and system support. Intergraph's current customers, including some...

First Emerson Exchange in Europe on Deck for May 2012

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Citect/Schneider in UK “headcount reduction”

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Honeywell and Yokogawa Make Changes

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ABB Finalizes Thomas & Betts Buy

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Safety Has Different Tactics, But Identical Goals

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Honeywell receives IECEx approval for Micro Switch BX product line

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Control valve market to exceed $6 billion

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Westlock Wireless Monitoring System Website Now Available to Latin American Market

The Westlock wireless monitoring system website is now available in Spanish and Portuguese for customers in Latin America

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Honeywell OneWireless proclaimed universal, simple, efficient

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Invensys Operations Management Acquires Spiral Software

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Process Automation Operator Performance Gets Better

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WorleyParsons to standardize on Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise

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Rockwell acquires Chinese drives business

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Wireless Provides Steelmaker New View of Energy Usage

Monitor How Energy Distributes Through the Steel-Making Process and Discover Where It Is Used, Wasted and Lost

IPS donates automation technology to UMass Lowell

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) announced that it has donated its InFusion enterprise control technology to the UMass Lowell BioManufacturing Center.

Of Family Trees and Brand Patriotism

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BP Speeds Innovation with Wireless

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Spiral Strengthens Invensys' Refining Hand

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RFID: Coming to a plant near you

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Industrial wireless experts meet in Beijing

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Business Case for the Virtual Plant Using MiMiC Simulation Software

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Operator Effectiveness: The Case for Investment

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Rockwell Automation introduces InSite Services managed support

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Siemens acquires Berwanger

Agreement to purchase Berwanger will enhance Siemens' solution offering in oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

Invensys Operations Management acquires Skelta Software.

Invensys Operations Management today announced that it has acquired Skelta Software, a privately held software company headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Economic Controls; Cooling Tower Optimization

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ARC says recovery has begun, but sustainability may be tricky

Automation supplier revenues continued to fall throughout 2009 as compared to 2008. ARC expects that year-on-year comparisons between 2008 and 2009 will experience a...

RTI wins advanced security protection contract from Air Force

Real-Time Innovations announced that U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) has contracted with the company to research and develop a Data Distribution Service...

Under pressure

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Wurldtech gears up to help secure smart grid

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Positive Growth in Temperature Transmitter Market

This recovery in the temperature transmitter market was mainly due to an increase in orders from growing industries such as oil and gas, chemical and electric power.

The Improved ARC Automation Index

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Who Says You Can’t Take it With You?

Plant-Level Wireless Networks Unleash New Era of Worker Productivity, Safety and Security

New Tools Ease Machine Safety Design

Rockwell Automation Releases Safety Automation Builder

Invensys Announces 2011 OPEN Contest Winners

Frito-Lay, Arkema, Campbell's and Eskom Awarded for Operations Excellence

Oil & Gas Producers Innovate to Tap Hard-to-Reach Resources

Stories of Enhanced Recovery from China, Ecuador and Texas

Honeywell Affirms Continuous Evolution Pledge

Lifecycle Services Commitment, New Enabling Technologies Showcased in Istanbul

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Moving Your Historian to the Cloud — Carefully

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Honeywell to acquire RMG Regel + Messtechnik

Honeywell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement valued at approximately $400 million USD to acquire the RMG GROUP (RMG Regel + Messtechnik GmbH and...

Why Nuclear Needs Process Automation

The Key to the Safety of Nuclear Power Plants Is to Maintain the Availability of Coolants, Even if All Electric Power Supplies Fail

Set New Standards in Productivity and Efficiency

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AspenTech introduces aspenONE V7 for process engineering

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Winds of Change Complicate Automation Lifecycle

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MIT and ABB announce energy research partnership

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and ABB have formed a partnership on energy research to help meet the world’s need for clean electricity and energy...

Fieldbus Foundation Unveils Foundation for ROM

The Foundation for ROM Initiative Is Intended to Develop a Unified Digital Infrastructure for Asset Management in Remote Applications

Siemens completes $30-million expansion of Norwood facility

Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. (SE&A), celebrated the dedication of its newly revitalized electric motor manufacturing facility in Norwood, Ohio.

Franek Technologies gets ISO 9001:2000 certification

Franek Technologies, the leader in certified Category III-3 Laboratory Battery Backup Power Protection Systems (LPS/UPS), is proud to announce the receipt of its ISO...

The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match

Industrial Ethernet Is Faster, Can Use Standard Wireless and Has More Topology Options

Wireless I/O

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Two Technologies Takes Legal Action Against Datalogic

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Rockwell Automation undertakes restructuring, including layoffs

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CiDRA sells oil & gas metering business to Expro

CiDRA completed the sale of its oil & gas metering business to the Expro Group of the United Kingdom for $60.5 million.

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Invensys Updates World-Leading HMI Platform

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ABB acquires Mincom

ABB has agreed to acquire Mincom to broaden its software portfolio and establish the Group as a leader in enterprise asset management (EAM) software and services.

Invensys picks Wurldtech for security testing

Wurldtech Security Technologies has announced that Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has selected the award-winning Achilles Satellite to enhance internal robustness...

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DART white paper

...Fieldbus The recent global economic downturn leaves the manufacturing industries with a host of challenges to overcome. As recovery sets in, global competi- tion...

Dynisco restructures company

Dynisco has realigned the company into divisions serving specific market segments. These new segments include plastics, rubber and industrial. The industrial segment...

CEU credits to be offered for National Manufacturing Week Conference sessions

...to achieve a competitive advantage in the global marketplace, drawing on his experience as the head of a $14 billion global company engaged in industrial...

Don't Cut the Cord

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MESA, WBF Merging to Expand Operations, B2MML Focus

WBF and MES support the process automation and operations needs of the technical and management professions in process manufacturing

2012 Automation Technology in Process Manufacturing (ATPM 2012) Conference

ATPM 2012 will be held in The Woodlands, Texas (near Houston) May 21-23, 2012, and is requesting papers and presentations to be submitted soon. Don't miss the...

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Magazine Exclusives We Can Only Fit so Much in Print, but Online We Offer More!

SIs in the Crosshairs

Competition from system vendors and distributors will make life more difficult

Bring That User Group Spirit Home with You

Wouldn't It Be Nice If You Could Visit Emerson Exchange and Confer With Your Fellow Attendees Whenever You Wanted?

Emerson Advertising Supplement

Operate Your Plat To Its Full Potential

Largest Foundation fieldbus complex completed

SECCO’s petrochem process facility goes from bare ground to on line in 27 months using a main instrument vendor to engineer and implement automation and control...

ABB Automation & Power World 2012 - Live Coverage

Control's Editors Are On the Floor, Covering the ABB Automation & Power World 2012 Show. Don't Miss Any Details. Read Them Here!

IPS gets China nuclear power plant contract

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has announced it has been chosen to develop and implement four large-scale, fully digitized nuclear control rooms, equipped with the...

Intelligent Motor Control Expands Its Reach

Latest Rockwell Automation Drives, Starters and Motor Control Centers Are Smarter, Safer and More Flexible

Rockwell Automation Acquires SoftSwitching Technologies

Rockwell Automation purchased the assets of SoftSwitching Technologies, a provider of industrial power quality detection and protection systems, located in...

U.S. NRC Certifies Invensys' Triconex Controller Version 10 for Use in Nuclear Power Plants

Invensys' version 10 of its Triconex Tricon controller has been approved for use in safety-related nuclear power plant instrument and control applications by the...

NeSSI taxis for takeoff

Though acceptance and networking hurdles remain, the New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI) is starting to emerge in real-world, standardized, modular process...

Cyber Attack, But Wait–We're the Good Guys!

Does Being the "Good Guys" Mean We Can Do Things We Would Find Objectionable If Others Did Them to Us?

Afternoon Industry Forums Provide Deep Vertical Dive

Seven Industry Forums For You to Explore. Don't Miss Out!

The ladies of the club

The few. The proud. The women on your engineering team. CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartels interviews successful women engineers working as CEOs, entrepreneurs,...

RTP Company establishes ultra-clean compounding center

Custom-engineered thermoplastic compounder RTP Company has established a controlled manufacturing environment dedicated to the production of clean compounds for...

Technically speaking: Will standards mesh?

Reliability, scalability and mobility are the trump cards of wireless mesh networks and should result in triumph over other wireless topologies, according to Senior...

Fieldbus Foundation announces SIF final spec and development tools

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced new device development solutions for its Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) technology. The latest SIF...

Wireless Guide

Our Wireless Guide sorts through the confusing maze of technologies, standards and issues that is the current wireless landscape. With the help of Control's Editor...

All Quiet on the Wireless Front

End Users Have Voted With Their Feet, Ignoring Standards Wars and Moving Ahead With Useful Apps

TÜV Rheinland NA acquires Non-Destructive Testing Services

TÜVRheinland has acquired Non-Destructive Testing Services (NDT), a full-service material inspection company based in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Roadmap for Best Practices in Manufacturing

Aberdeen Study Shows Direct Link between Improved Safety and Productivity

The new energy opportunity

The changing energy landscape promises to keep process automation professionals quite busy for many years to come. Now, if we can just get that potential through to...

Metso Buys ExperTune

Metso has acquired U.S. software company ExperTune Inc. ExperTune’s products are widely used as software tools to analyze and monitor the performance of industrial...

Siemens and Honeywell provide relief to tsunami disaster victims

..."A tragedy of this scale requires corporate leadership on a global basis," said Dave Cote, Honeywell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Honeywell will work...

BENTLEY_eB_BestPractInfoModeling.pdf

...Defining Information Reach for Efficiency and Productivity Information can be global, customer specific, or program specific. eB Insight’s scope capabilities allow...

UOP gains ROI with IT integration

At UOP LLC, distibuted control, IT integration and an integrated database management system are all top priorities that translate into increased productivity, ...

Southern States Awarded for PlantWeb Excellence

11 Customers and Their Local Business Partners Selected as Winners of Best in Conference Awards

Find Ways to Curb Data Center Power Usage

With Increasingly Critical Data Centers Consuming a Huge Amount of the World’s Power, There Are New Ideas About Capturing Efficiencies

Distillation, Part 5: Multiple Products

In Part 5 of this series on distillation control and optimization, we find that adding a side-stream component to your process gives an additional degree of freedom,...

PAC-Based Solution Lifts Tide Production

Material Feed Technology Helps Reduce Manufacturing Costs and Improve Batch Cycle Times at Proctor & Gamble Facility

Come together

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Operator Is Focus of Latest System 800xA Enhancements

'Essential Automation' Portfolio Complements Feature Pack 4 Release

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...Energy | Global energy strategy begins with control | Control Global Process control guru and columnist Béla Lipták, PE, provides a powerful vision of our energy...

From Safety Systems to Operational Integrity

Invensys Seeks to Simplify Application, Eliminate Redundant Effort and Provide Integrated Context for Users of its Triconex Safety Systems

MatrikonOPC Achieves ISO 9001:2008 Certification

MatrikonOPC announced today that it has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification by the Quality Management Institute (QMI) of Toronto, Ontario.

Industrial Interoperability Compliance Institute recruits members

The Industrial Interoperability Compliance Institute (IICI), an institute established as the official compliance testing organization for standards such as WBF's...

D/P Impulse Lines; Chinese Solar Tech

How to Keep Impulse Lines Full of Water When the Pump Shuts Down, and Are the Controls, Converters or Collectors for Photovoltaic Designs Better Products?

Create Connections

Plants seize on web technology as a cost-effective way to pump information

Automation Vendors Look to Future

This year a common goal was becoming a partner who will stand by customers as they upgrade and meet the challenges of 21st-century manufacturing

Advances in IT Improve Process Automation

Virtualization, Thin Clients and Other Technologies Borrowed From IT Data Centers Are the Next Big Thing in Process Automation

The Challenge of a Multigenerational Workforce

Commitment, Leadership, Respect Help Generations Find Common Ground, Communicate, Collaborate

WBF postpones 2009 conference, begins repositioning

WBF, the forum for automation and manufacturing professionals, formerly known as World Batch Forum, has announced that due to the economic situation, it has decided...

Automation Fair

...Collaboration Key to Global Standards Harmonization PlantPAx Roadmap Responding to User Needs Smart Manufacturing Will Rise to Global Challenges Users Weigh...

NAM releases stats on manufacturing at NMW in Windy City

...High external costs, the uneven global playing field and the need to develop our 21st Century workforce were explored in depth in a Manufacturing Town Hall Meeting...

Wireless May Make Valve Maintenance Easier

Should You Use Wireless in Managing Your Valve Assets?

Pepperl+Fuchs and Systec & Services in strategic cooperation partnership

Pepperl+Fuchs and Systec & Services GmbH, a system integration provider that offers comprehensive IT integration and production management solutions to the life...

Orifice Rangeability; Non-Renewable Energy Sources

Today's View on Post-Oil Energy Technology. Is the Rangeability Governed by the Orifice Characteristics?

Users Sparked by Search for Unconventional Gas

Interest in Unconventional Natural Gas Is Increasing Rapidly. Which Countries Are Coming Forward as New Sources?

Marsh Bellofram Buys King Engineering

Marsh Bellofram Group Acquired the Product Line Assets of King Engineering Corp. of Ann Arbor, Mich.

Integrated_Operations.pdf

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Honeywell and BTG Instruments optimize fiberline control in pulp mills

Honeywell has announced a collaboration with BTG Instruments, a supplier of high-quality instruments for the pulp and paper industry, to help optimize fiberline...

Fieldbus Is Easy With Portable, Wireless Tools

Why Use Portable Tools? Find Out Its Benefits

Jack Bolick retires from Honeywell

Honeywell today announced the appointment of Norman "Norm" Gilsdorf as president of Honeywell Process Solutions. Gilsdorf was formerly vice president and general...

Bags, Batch Software and Biotech

Find Out How Shire Biopharmaceuticals Accelarated Their Construction Plans for Their Newest Facility to Accomdate the Making of Six Needed Drugs

Fluke announces acquisition of LEM Instruments

European-based test and measurement company provides increased presence in world power quality market.

Wärtsilä acquires International Combustion Engineering A/S

Wärtsilä has acquired the Danish company International Combustion Engineering A/S (I.C.E.). I.C.E. specializes in project engineering and the service and repair of...

Endress+Hauser Partners With Thomas Industrial Network to Build CAD Llibrary

Endress+Hauser, a worldwide supplier of industrial measurement and automation engineering, has selected Thomas Industrial Network, industry's leading product...

Energizer selects Citect for MES solution

Citect to pilot real-time MES solution in Alkaline Battery Division with plans to expand to more plants.

ABB offers to buy Chloride Group PLC

ABB, has announced a recommended offer to acquire UK-based Chloride in order to establish a leading presence in and help to meet the growing demand for...

State of the HART

The compelling case for HART, the most used digital communications protocol in the world

Siemens to Revitalize U.S. Manufacturing With Community College Best Practice Program

Nationwide Program Prepare Students for High-Demand Technology Jobs

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...footprint which can be mounted in any position Meeting your needs worldwide • Global support network Delivers service where you need it • Onsite and factory...

Simplicity = Freedom

Reducing Wiring Doesn't Just Save Labor, Time and Expenses

MatrikonOPC Is Awarded ISO 9001:2008 Certification

MatrikonOPC has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification by the Quality Management Institute (QMI) of Toronto, Ontario.

Safety Pays, and Pays Well

Invensys Operations Management's Holistic View of Safety Excellence

Nidec Hopes to Become Leading Player in Comercial Motors and North American Industrial Automation Markets

Nidec to Acquire Kinetek and Avtron Industrial Automation to Become Leading Player in Comercial Motors and North American Industrial Automation Markets

Rockwell Automation to acquire CEDES’ Safety and Automation

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire the Safety and Automation business of CEDES AG. CEDES’ Safety and Automation business is a...

PLTW and National Engineers Week Foundation partner to support STEM education

Project Lead The Way (PLTW) and National Engineers Week Foundation announced a partnership that will not only raise awareness for the importance of STEM education,...

All the best brains go to the Hall of Fame

Each year, the top three vote getters are inducted by their peers into the Process Automation Hall of Fame. The careers of this year’s class run the gamut from the...

How Process Leaders Use HART

Leading Process Plants use HART Communication to Get Their Best Performance

Siemens to Expand RFID Offering to Include UHF

...The RFID systems’ functionality corresponds to EPC Global and ISO/IEC 18000-6 standards. Readers will communicate via TCP/IP with PC or SIMATIC controllers as...

PLCs Taking Some Excellent Adventures

Engineers Are Deploying More Capable Programmable Logic Controllers in Some New and Unusual Applications. Here's How They're Doing It

FCI assists customers in meeting EPA greenhouse-gas reporting mandate

Fluid Components International (FCI), a supplier of thermal mass gas flow meters, today announces its Customer GHG Reporting Fast Track Initiative in response to the...

Rockwell Automation to acquire Pavilion Technologies

Rockwell Automation, Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Pavilion Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that is a...

exida purchases AIM SILSuiteT software

exida.com, LLC (privately held) today announced the purchase of a license to merge the Asset Integrity Management (AIM) SILSuite product line into the exSILentia Suite.

EDDL enhancements reportedly available to industry users by January 2006

Implementation of recently completed enhancements to the Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL, IEC 61804-2) by system and device suppliers is expected to...

Users driving the bus

Contributing Editor John Rezabek provides commentary on end-user participation in councils and committees, formulating directions and priorities as a valuable...

Tales From the Front

...Executive Director for The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology—a threat to the global economy and stability. Self-assembly could change the international balance...

ABB System 800xA registered as Foundation fieldbus host

ABB announced today that its Extended Automation System 800xA was recently registered as an initial Foundation fieldbus host system after it passed the Fieldbus...

Wireless IP Networks Don't Have to Be Vulnerable

As IP Networks Grow Beyond the Enterprise and Into the Field, That Should Not Mean They're More Susceptible to Cyber Attack

035048 Project Report Flåsjö eng.indd

...the beginning of 2009, it was natural to create a common system based on the new global standard IEC 61850. ABB’s ability to provide a solution that corre- sponded...

ISA Expo Technical Conference track focuses on enterprise integration

ISA EXPO 2008 will feature enterprise integration as one of six technology exchanges, offering technical conference sessions and open-to-all briefings by industry...

035033 Project Report Chr. Hansen 2.indd

...over the entire course of the project. Danish efficiency with a global horizon When a global business like Chr. Hansen establishes a new production facility, there...

Freaky Fast-- Emerson gets first Syncade project

Having only announced it last week at the ARC Forum, I'd have to borrow a tagline from Jimmy John's Sandwiches-- Emerson is "freaky fast." Today they've announced...

Marine Forum Takes Control to Sea

Shipboard Power Systems Benefit from Rockwell Automation Technology

GE Fanuc

HMI/SCADA infrastructure gets an update

Living control systems?

Self-reconfiguring and assembling devices may have some surprising unintended consequences. We’re talking the potential for almost unlimited versatility that could...

Emerson Building Trust, Investing in Technology

Emerson Invests in Its People Around the Globe. Help Build That Trust

Take Charge

Your Career Is Your Biggest Investment, so Plan It!

Honeywell enters flow meter market

Honeywell announced today that it is launching a new line of high-performance flow meters.

Smart Wireless Marks One Billion Operating Hours

Emerson Smart Wireless technology is helping to improve worker and plant safety, optimize operations, and reduce emissions and other environmental impacts.

Emerson brings savings to Turkish biofuel plant

Emerson Process Management has announced start-up and operational gains following completion of the second year of operation of its PlantWeb digital automation...

Yon on wireless

In this podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, Dr. Gene Yon, president of Adaptive Instruments at Accutech, provides his perspective on industrial...

August 2004

...Global Warming and Junk Science Revisited Control Report: Quick! Put Control Engineers in Charge of Global Warming Before it's Too Late Now showing on an HMI...

January 2005

...column on the country's Global Energy Policy and makes the case for dealing with the issue much differently. Yokogawa rolls out plan for global leadership...

Rising levels of process level measurement devices

Worldwide and regional shipments of process level measurement, solids process, and inventory tank gauging devices are projected to increase steadily through 2009,...

Wireless HART on accelerated path to completion

The HART Communication Foundation has announced significant progress in the development of a new HART standard for wireless communication.

Interoperability, Interchangeability Keys to HART Communication

Achieving Interoperability and Interchangeability in HART 7 Is the Goal of the HART Device Registration Process

Intermec temporarily suspends RFID IP licensing policy to facilitate adoption of EPCglobal Generation 2 RFID Standard

...Intermec provides global supply chain management solutions with the development, manufacture and integration of wired and wireless automated data collection, radio...

Imagine the World of SCADA Without Wires

...In the near future, smartphones will have a host of built-in features including global positioning, RFID tags, video recording, digital imaging, web access via...

The end of the affair

RoHS-type initiatives in the EU adhere to regulations that say control vendors must design products for environmentally safe end-of-life disposal. But who is jumping...

HCF extends deadline for 2005 HART Plant of the Year Award

...The HART Field Communications Protocol is the global standard for smart process instrumentation. Seventy percent of all smart process measurement and control...

WirelessHART Takes Off

Interoperable, Backward-Compatible, Future-Proofed, WirelessHART Is a Powerful and Flexible Industrial Wireless Standard

Siemens Plans New Wind Service Training Center in U.S.

Siemens plans to build a new wind service training facility in Orlando to provide skills and safety training to its service technicians and engineers worldwide.

IPS brings immersive virtual reality process to life

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) today unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation human machine interface (HMI) solution that will...

Industrial Defender and RuggedCom partner for cyber security

Industrial Defender, Inc. and RuggedCom, a g provider of rugged communications networking solutions designed for mission-critical applications in harsh environments,...

Omron goes public with online automation courses

Omron Industrial Automation is expanding its eLearning education portal (www.omron247.com/elearning) to include 10 introductory courses in eight different...

Group Network Health

Industrial Network Components Merit the Same Awareness and Maintenance as the Controls Whose Data They Convey

130128-Essentials-eBook.pdf

...Guide by the editors of control next Articles ExEcutivE Summary t hroughout the global process and energy industries, the safety instrumented system (SIS) plays an...

Busting Myths About Foundation Fieldbus

Mythperceptions About Fieldbus Can Be Changed

IACET Awards MESA International Authorized Provider Accreditation

MESA International Becomes Authorized Provider of IACET CEUs

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

Pepperl + Fuchs opens second U.S. office

Twenty-five years after opening its U.S. headquarters in Twinsburg, Ohio, Pepperl+Fuchs announced the opening of a second U.S.-based office.

Illinois Tool Works acquires GSE Scale Systems

Illinois Tool Works Inc. today announced it has acquired GSE Scale Systems product line from SPX Corporation.

Virtually Simulating the Next Generation of Clean Energy Technologies

NETL's AVESTAR Center Is Dedicated to the Safe, Reliable and Efficient Operation of Advanced Energy Plants With Carbon Capture

Shell chooses Parker Hannifin as instrumentation supplier

Parker Hannifin Corporation has signed an enterprise framework agreement (EFA) with Shell as a single-source supplier for the provision of instrumentation valves,...

ABB System 800xA registered as Foundation fieldbus host

ABB announced today that its Extended Automation System 800xA was recently registered as an initial Foundation fieldbus host system after it passed the Fieldbus...

Natural Gas in the Frozen North

Statoil and ABB Go Deeper and Colder for Liquified Natural Gas

Honeywell's Simulation Technology to Improve Operator Skills and Enhance Plant Performance

Honeywell has signed ten new simulation projects worth a combined $20 million, driving growth for its process simulation business.

Solving the Process Safety Puzzle

Integrated Safety Systems Offer One Solution, but No One-Size-Fits-All Fix Exists

ABB realigns automation divisions

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, is reorganizing its automation divisions to align their activities more closely with those of its customers....

WINA elects new board

The Wireless Industrial Networking alliance, WINA, today announced the 2008 strategic leadership team elected to the Board of Directors. Serving as WINA President,...

On the cutting edge

The wheels of commerce demand that you adapt to new technologies in order to do things better. Here are eight tech trends that are changing the face of process control...

Microsoft PowerPoint - ISA-Edmonton-2012-Effective-Use-of-Measurements-Valves-PID-Controllers-Rev1.pptx

...has started a Control Talk Blog. Greg’s expertise is available on the Control Global and Emerson modeling and control web sites: htt...

Omron Offers Online Automation Courses

Omron Industrial Automation has expanded its eLearning education portal

Complacent with compliance?

OPC Certification creates a solid quality baseline for interoperability that separates the wheat from the chaff, according to OPC specialist Eric Murphy, and serious...

Free process automation e-newsletters | Control

Stay ahead of the curve with ControlGlobal.com's free e-newsletters and alerts. They are delivered to your inbox on a regular basis and you may unsubscribe from them...

Son of PlantScape renews Honeywell’s PLC challenge

Such systems have in the past been characterized by attempts to reduce the engineering and configuration effort required of the user and, hence, the overall cost of...

Electronic Marshalling Slashes Costs for Sulfuric Acid Maker

See How A Chemical Plant Saved about 50% on Wiring and Instrumentation Installation Labor by Using Electronic Marshalling

I/O & Terminal Blocks (Part 1 of 3)

Compatibility counts

ABB controls world's first zero-emissions 'natural cooling' data center

An ABB solution is controlling what is thought to be the world’s first zero-emissions data center. Located in Iceland and powered by renewable hydropower and...

Arch Rock turns wireless sensors into Internet devices with Primer Pack/IP

Arch Rock Corporation has introduced the first commercial implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 6LoWPAN proposed standard for IPv6...

2013 Process Automation Hall of Fame Inductees

The Kings of Control. Four Automation Leaders as Varied as the Suits in a Deck of Cards

No Title

...be guests of the Air Force, given tours of Peterson AFB, Falcon AFB where the Global Positioning Satellites are controlled, NORAD, and the Air Force Academy. The...

ISA100 prepares for initial ballot of ISA100.11a draft standard

The ISA100.11a working group, following a very successful meeting in February, is planning anearly April committee meeting in Chongqing, China.

Valves

...MESA Global Education Program MESA 01/19/2011 Control Valve Actuators: Their Impact on Control and Variability Rotork Process Controls 11/09/2010...

Lenze High-Efficiency Gear Motors and AC Drives Receive BNP Approval and Listing

Lenze's high-efficiency gear motors and AC drives achieved approval and listing with BNP Associates

Happy Anniversary, EISA

Five-year-old law drives growth in motor efficiency.

Around the Loop: Chemical Industry Honors its Past in Philly

The City of Brotherly Love Hosts Chemical Heritage Foundation's Heritage Day

Micro Switch line earns safety certification

Honeywell announced today that its MICRO SWITCH EX Series Hazardous Location line of switch products has received the International Electrotechnical Commission's...

Temperature and Pressure Resources You Can Use

Check Out The Latest Online Resources We Have Gathered for You on Temperature and Pressure Measuring Devices

Collaborative_Production_Automation_Systems.pdf

...and FDT/EDDL should be used wherever they make sense. Only few vendors can offer global data access (GDA), which allows access to any information from anywhere to...

Beware straight-line projections

Market analyst research reports often predict growth rates or adoption curves in a straight-line extrapolation of the recent past, but in the real world, things are...

ILS Technology’s deviceWISE certified for Oracle

ILS Technology today announced that its deviceWISE platform has been certified for Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center, which improves manufacturing efficiency...

Automation Experts: It's About Being Your Authority

The Authorities Writing for Us Have More Than 375 Man-Years of Experience in Process Automation Between Them

PlantPAx Capabilities Quickly Maturing

Process Automation System Features Improved Performance and Scalability

Phoenix Contact Inc. Acquires Control Software Supplier Entivity, Inc.

...Pa. and world headquarters in Blomberg, Germany, Phoenix Contact is a global supplier of industrial automation, interconnection, and interface solutions and serves...

Yokogawa top brass take 40% pay cuts

North American and European industrial automation vendors and commentators are in danger of becoming so obsessed with their own problems that they fail to notice...

Search for the Asset Management, Part II

GlaxoSmithKline, Beamex and Emerson Process Management team up to streamline calibration and asset software - and use far less paper-at GSK's plant in Cork, Ireland.

Motors & Drives

...Rapidly increasing energy cost and strong global interest in reducing carbon dioxide emissions are encouraging industry to pay more attention to high-efficiency...

Rockwell Automation reports third quarter 2010 results

Rockwell Automation, Inc. reported fiscal 2010 third quarter revenue of $1,268.1 million, up 25 percent compared to $1,010.8 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2009.

Harry Sim's Wireless No Brainer

Innovative Ways of Exploiting Existing Technologies and Intellectual Property

Sistemas Instrumentados de Seguridad y Analisis SIL

Este libro es la respuesta que muchos profesionales de habla hispana han buscado sobre el tema de seguridad en sistemas instrumentados de la industria.

INSIDER briefs

News briefs from the INSIDER

And the Nominees Are–FreeWave!

The TechAmerica Foundation announced finalists for the 2012 American Technology Awards.

Microsoft Word - 3BUS095673 Whitepaper Rocky relationship between Safety and Security.docx

...while maintaining a process productive and in compliance with local and global regulations. The concerns that a targeted cyber attack can disable or affect the...

A Bridge to Fieldbus Upgrades

The Cost and Complexity of Running New Cabling, Especially if Fiber Is Required, Has Prevented Upgrades of Certain Applications

Wilcoxon passes ISO 14001 audit

Wilcoxon Research, a leading supplier of quality vibration sensors and sensor networks, successfully completed an audit to maintain ISO 14001 certification, an...

CSIA Launches New Website

New Website Designed to Serve as a Resource for Clients of Control System Integrators

Honeywell completes acquisition of Matrikon

Honeywell today announced it has completed the acquisition of Matrikon for approximately $139 million USD (approximately $144 million CAD). Matrikon will be...

With Version 2.0, PlantPAx Comes Into Its Own

A Compelling Package for Process Manufacturers and OEMs, New Release Combines Scalability, Integration and Services

Bringing Advanced Process Control Home

McMilland and Weiner Talk With Arnold Martin About Model-Predictive Control. Read the Column and Learn About Martin's Accomplishments and Perspective

SIXNET acquires BlueTree Wireless Data

SIXNET Holdings, LLC announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of BlueTree Wireless Data, a supplier of machine-to-machine...

Honeywell introduces wireless gauge reader

– The OneWireless Gauge Reader is the newest addition to Honeywell’s (NYSE:HON) family of wireless solutions for industrial manufacturers. The product wirelessly...

Industrial Computers, Part 2. Data Processing Escapes the Enclosure

Whether It Happens on a Cloud-Based Service, Virtualized Server or Plain Old Wireless, Internet or Ethernet, It's Clear That Industrial Computing for Process Control...

Food & Beverage Companies Doing Less With More

Pepsi Bottler Boosts OEE; Wonderware MES Suite Adds Quality Management.

Selecting an automation network

With many projects requiring more than one network application, finding the network that best fits your needs is no easy task. This perspective will help get you ...

Designing and Specifying a HART-Based Project

How to Use the New Features of HART 7 and WirelessHART in Your Project

Watlow Grows Presence in Mexico

Watlow, a designer and manufacturer of complete thermal systems with locations around the world, has moved its Mexican manufacturing operation in Queretaro to a...

Balluff Breaks Ground on New Sales, Customer Support and Training Center in Kentucky

Balluff Inc. broke ground on its new building in Florence, Kentucky on Thursday, April 11.

Ametek Drexelbrook’s New Universal IV Level Transmitter

...Control Global Staff Read more about • Pressure Related Reading For more reading on the topics from this article, check out these related pieces. Articles...

NOMAC choses Meridium for asset management solution

Meridium Inc., vendor of asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, has announced that First National Operation and Maintenance Company...

Valves, Actuators and Positioners, Oh My!

Valves and Accessory Products Are on Parade Here

Foundation fieldbus in hazardous areas

Implementing Foundation fieldbus can seem like a daunting task, and when coupled with hazardous-area considerations, may approach information overload; however, it...

PBM Valve's Ball Certified for Functional Safety

exida Has Certified PBM Valve and IM Ball Valves for Functional Safety

DAQ Is Everywhere

From Traditional I/O to Smart Apps That Bring Info to Your Phone, All the Latest in DAQ

Roper Industries acquires Hardy Instruments

Hardy Instruments, a San Diego-based manufacturer of process weighing, vibration monitoring and tension control solutions, announces its acquisition by Roper...

TiPS and UReason Partner for Better Operator Awareness

TiPS and UReason have formed a partnership to more closely align their respective alarm management and operator advisory technologies to deliver better plant...

Be Sustainable or Be Doomed

We Have Made Major Contributions to the Death of Planet Earth. We Need to Change Our Way of Living and Be a Lot More Sustainable

Wireless for industry

Around The Loop columnist Terrence K. McMahon reports on wireless sensor technology and how it holds great promise for the networking capability of industrial...

Ethernet on your mind?

With Ethernet’s proliferation to the plant floor, this is a good time to summarize some of the important considerations when installing this technology in an...

Arena Immerses Attendees in 800xA Experience

Dramatization Drives Home Benefits of ABB Automation Platform and Control Room Technology

It’s U.S. against the world! When do we attack?

...practices for U.S. manufacturers, in the face of increasing competition from global competitors who are not only lower cost, but increasingly sophisticated. New...

Company Profiles

...from manufacturing a single product line of thermocouples to an established global leader in the technical marketplace, offering more than 100,000 state-of-the-art...

FF, ARC Conducting Fieldbus Selection Survey

Survey on process fieldbus selection criteria, installation and challenges associated with implementation and operations

Software Horizons' InstantHMI PDA Clipboard

Where in the world is carmen operator? The PDA knows

TIA and M2M--More than Acronyms

The TR-50.1 Architecture Navigates Through Many Protocols Without the Use of Gateways or Other Intervention by the End User

End users revert to traditional partners in RFID's second phase

...turn to the partners traditionally able to meet their needs, who can provide a global service. Many RFID companies can't do that." That will be the case even if...

ABB CEO Fred Kindle leaves company

ABB Chief Executive Officer Fred Kindle is leaving the company due to irreconcilable differences about how to lead the company. The Board of Directors named Chief...

Programmable Controllers

...improving yield, increasing functionality and becoming more competitive in the global marketplace. Manufacturing convergence helps companies meet these business...

Linking Asset and Maintenance Management Systems

When It is Time to Link a CMMS to an Asset Management Application, There are a Wealth of Options

Invensys Completes Cimnet Buy

Invensys has completed the acquisition of Cimnet. This acquisition is now being fully integrated into the Wonderware software business unit of Invensys.

Low-key launch for ABB’s SIL 3 integrated SIS

Four years after the original launch, the long awaited SIL 3 version has arrived, heralded not with fanfares and separate North American and European press launches...

Is Ethernet ready to take on fieldbuses?

Ethernet's lack of determinism is a problem rapidly being solved by new advances, but it's going to be awhile before the technology supercedes fieldbus solutions.

Wonderware certified for service performance standards

ARC CONFERENCE, ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 2, 2009 -- Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced that its customer support and services group has achieved the...

Ask The Experts

"Ask the Experts" is moderated on ControlGlobal.com by noted process control authority and CONTROL Columnist Béla Lipták. Lipták either answers the questions...

Industrial Networks: Priorities and Pigeon Holes

Nebulous Networks and Virtualized Computing Can Be Better Understood by Organizing Them into Approachable, Function-Based Segments

Copenhagen--Theater for Engineers

Would you handle a moral dilemma as Bohr and Heisenberg did?

Emerson announces 2011 ASCO Numatics industrial automation engineering scholarships

Emerson Industrial Automation, a business of Emerson, today announced the beginning of the application period for its 2011/2012 ASCO Numatics engineering scholarship...

ControlGlobal.com Norminated for Neal Award

We Are Competing in the "Best Website" Category. We Are Proud to Be Recognized by the Neal Award Jury, Whether We Win or Not

Outsourcing to the Rescue?

Farming out parts of your operation can save time and money and fill necessary skills gaps, but it's not a cure-all.

BB Solves 100-Year-Old Electrical Puzzle

Development of a DC breaker for high-voltage transmission will help shape the grid of the future.

American public supports investment in automation

Rockwell is hoping that the results of research it has sponsored into the attitudes of the American public toward modernizing industrial processes will encourage the...

Pictures Beat Words

The Industry Needs Rebranding. Young People Today Think That Working in Power or Petrochemical Plants Involve Shoveling Coal, But A Graphical Presentation Can Easily...

Aitik_Mine_Installation_Story.pdf

...of engineering, maintenance and opera- tions. Furthermore, the adoption of a global standard based on the latest technology enables lower installation and...

Out of the barn

This easy-to-read compilation of a series of articles by PLC inventor Dick Morley covers eight entertaining topical sections, including floor level control systems and...

Flow Everywhere

Executive Editor Jim Montague Talks About Unusual Flow Applications. Flow Configuration and Conditioning Are Not Only Necessary in Machines, but Also in the Human Body

First annual MatrikonOPC Conference draws worldwide users

...They represented a variety of companies, including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Shell Global Solutions, and the OPC Foundation. "The MatrikonOPC Conference represented...

Genentech Wireless Network Monitors Critical Assets

Campus-wide Network Keeps Tabs on Mobile Refrigeration Equipment

Industrial network security

The emerging field of Industrial Network Security came to the forefront after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Whether you talk about process control systems...

Empowerment at the Edge

Delivering Actionable Information to Front-Line Employees Is Key to Realizing the Real-Time Enterprise

Invensys to install mobile wireless solution for Dutch chemical company

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) today announced that it has been selected by The Arkema Group, a leading multi-national chemical manufacturer, to provide a wireless...

May 2003

...Global Cooling is Coming. Quick! Buy SUVs A growing pool of fresh water in the North Atlantic could divert the Gulf Stream Pittcon Reflects Among conferences...

FDA's Analytical Initiative Gathers Steam

FDA's PAT Initiative Promises to Be a Long-Running Show. Stay tuned

Phoenix Contact Scoops Up Awards

Phoenix Contact Received Deutsche Messe AG's 2012 Hermes Award for Its Lightning Monitoring System

Ametek acquires Newage Testing Instruments

Ametek, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Newage Testing Instruments, a privately held manufacturer of hardness testing equipment used in a broad range of...

OPC is on the rise in process control

In this Automation Minute videocast, CONTROL Executive Editor Jim Montague comments on a recent survey about the impact of object linking and embedding for process...

New Energy Object Defined in ODVA Specifications

ODVA Has Announced New Editions to Its Specifications, in Which Is Included a Defined Energy Object That Will Help Manufacturers Aggregate and View Energy Usage at...

WirelessHART specification approved by IEC

The WirelessHART Communication Specification (HART 7.1) was approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a Publicly Available Specification...

Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief

...subject matter expertise and business experience, he is uniquely qualified as a global automation industry analyst. He serves as Principal of Spitzer and Boyes...

Caldon ultrasonic flowmeters for Keystone pipeline project

Cameron has been awarded a $5.4M order from Keystone Pipeline Partnerships, a subsidiary of TransCanada Corporation and ConocoPhillips, to provide 20” Caldon LEFM...

Leading biotech company to host fieldbus seminar

Upcoming event will focus on end user applications in the pharmaceutical and chemical processing industries.

Live Coverage from Automation Fair 2011

Don't Miss One Detail of This Year's Rockwell Automation Automation Fair

HART Supplement 2009

WirelssHART for Today. For the Future

Have You Seen This Engineer?

Brain drain is happening all over the world. In Europe and Asia, they lament that their best and brightest are moving to the U.S. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., we...

Users get an early look at WirelessHART

At the May 2007 SP100 meeting, Executive Director Ron Helson and Chief Engineer Wally Pratt of the HART Communication Foundation gave a detailed presentation to the...

PI_DART_GB.indd

...Human-Machine Interfaces and hazardous location protection equipment on a global scale, meeting the most demanding needs of industry. Resulting from our world-wide...

Bolick outlines vision for Honeywell faithful

Amid sound, lights and patter from a semi-virtual emcee, Honeywell Process Systems President Jack Bolick opened the 32nd annual U.S. User Group meeting in Phoenix by...

Programmable logic Controllers: How Should We Manage PLC Programs to Meet FDA Requirements?

Readers help a reader solve this control problem. Next month: Can We Use Control Valves for Safety Shutdown?

NSBA announces top 10 priority issues for 2009

NSBA unveiled the top 10 small-business priorities for 2009 with health care reform taking top billing. Following the biennial Small Business Congress which featured...

Linde AG chooses Proficy for 350 sites worldwide

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that Linde AG of Munich, Germany, has chosen Proficy® Historian and Proficy Plant...

Cox Instruments builds ISO/TS-16949-compliant flowmeter production line

Cox Instruments, a supplier of precision flow measurement instrumentation, has established a flowmeter production line compliant with the ISO/TS-16949 automotive...

ISA Charters New Standards Committee on Intelligent Device Management

Group Will Work on Templates of Best Practices and Work Processes for the Effective Use of Smart Devices in the Process Industries

Best-in-Class Organizations Integrate Safety and Control

When It Comes to Safety, You Need a Contingency Plan

DCS vendors queue up for security validation

Vancouver-based Wurldtech Security Technologies is fast becoming the de facto official determinant of all matters cybersecurity related

ARC bows to inevitable and revises forecasts

The new forecasts will be made available to ARC’s clients via its on-line Market Intelligence Service (MIS) which provides subscribers with the most up-to-date data...

Software for Renewable Energy Processes - 4

Talking About Software Needs for Control and Optimization of Solar Energy Storage and Transportation Systems

August 2007 Safety Resources

Check out August's resources on Safety.

Invensys Signs Safety and Control System Technology Agreement with CNPE

Invensys has signed a third long-term agreement to provide safety and distributed control systems and solutions for two nuclear power plants being constructed by...

Secure your wireless information channel

Among the obstacles that process control pioneer Dick Caro sees affecting the advance of wireless technology are the security of the information channel and powering...

Siemens U.S. sales up 12% and orders intake up 8% in fiscal 2011

Siemens AG today announced that it has ended fiscal 2011 with record operating results, achieving its outlook for the full year. For fiscal 2012, Siemens expects...

Klabin-Metso Partnership Continues With Process Optimization Business Solution Contract

Metso signs contacts to provide process optimization services for Klabin, a leading Brazilian packaging paper and board producer

Software & Integration

...Yokogawa User Group: Integrated Solutions for a Sustainable Future Control Global Staff 12/10/2012 Augment Your Staff: Gain Agility and Expertise Through...

Plan Ahead for Wireless Success

To Know Where You Want to Go, You've Got to Know What You Already Have Before You Can Figure Out What Else You Need

Profession development kit?

For the automation profession to be successful and recognized as one of the most important disciplines in the world, ISA has to reinvent itself as the banner carrier...

ICONICS' Productivity Analytics Tool

ICONICS Productivity Analytics offers flexible OEE calculations to gain insight into performance, availability and quality of production assets

A work/life balancing act

The few. The proud. The women on your engineering team. CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartels interviews successful women engineers working as CEOs, entrepreneurs,...

December 2005

Control magazine's December 2005 issue

Alliances and Acquisitions

...SSA Global, Chicago, acquired Marcam, Newton, Mass., from Invensys, London. Marcam provides industrial ERP software for process manufacturers. Colfax,...

How to Justify Predictive Maintenance Investments

Reducing Routine Maintenance Costs Is Often Not Enough to Justify Reliability Investments

Shut Your Trap: Wireless Sensor IDs Steam Leaks

Murphy Is at Large in Your Facility. There Is a Downfall to Human Inspection of Steam Traps

Free E-Newsletter Examples

...by you and your peers. We are the only website exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market. Published every Friday except on the monthly Friday...

ARC Talks About Cybersecurity and the Cloud

Automation Professionals Gathered to Discuss Cybersecurity Issues When Managaing and Sharing Data on the Cloud

Rockwell Automation reports fourth quarter 2010 results

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) today reported fiscal 2010 fourth quarter revenue of $1,356.9 million, up 26 percent compared to $1,074.4 million in the fourth...

YOKOGAWA_CombustionOneBulletin.pdf

...Processing Corp. Built in procedure automation software Procedural Automation Global, proven combustion technology Built in Reliability 53% 38% 6% 3% Tunable Diode...

Valve Actuators and Positioners Go Digital

Digital Fieldbus Technologies Catch Up to Valve Actuators and Positioners

LOGIIC Consortium aims to improve oil & gas infrastructure security

The LOGIIC Consortium today announced its formal inception under the auspices of the Automation Federation, Research Triangle Park, NC. The LOGIIC (Linking the Oil...

Ineos ChlorVinyls wins plaudits for digital automation

...by Ineos ChlorVinyls employees,” commented Marien van den Hoek, Emerson’s global account director for Ineos. “While many of our customers use PlantWeb digital...

Independent protection layer issues offer second front

Excerpts from the April 2007 issue of Industrial Automation Insider newsletter, Andrew Bond, editor. For more information, go to www.iainsider.co.uk. Reused with...

Fresh Starts on Greener Grass

We Can Help You Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions. Find Out How

Productivity Through a Healthy Technology Infrastructure

Cheap Labor is Not the Only Measure of Competitiveness

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

Shootout at the Wireless Corral

In this audio podcast for the Process Automation Media Network, Dave Kaufman of Honeywell and Jose Guittierez of Emerson put their guns on the table to talk wireless...

Siemens to offer RFID in UHF range

...the end of pilot testing a stationary reader device that complies with EPC Global and ISO/IEC 18000-6 standards. The stationary reader is suitable for the 865 to...

HMIs: Industry Must Do Better

We Must Give Operators the Tools They Need to Proactively Manage their Processes

CSIA reports record membership growth

CSIA, the Control System Integrators Association, which set a series of increased membership marks in 2007, continued to expand its base during this year’s first...

Elecsys acquires Sensorcast

Elecsys Corporation a provider of innovative machine to machine (M2M) communication technology solutions, integrated displays and custom electronics for critical...

Securing Your OPC Classic Control System

Independent Techniques for Ensuring Strong Security in Your System

RFID patent dispute spills over into barcodes and WiFi

...Explaining his company's stand, Todd Hewlin, Symbol's senior vice-president of global products, says: "We have a responsibility to industry and our customers to...

Siemens to Buy Invensys Rail for €2.2 Billion

Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Invensys Rail, the rail automation business of Invensys for approximately €2.2 billion ($2.8 billion).

Lenze Americas Presents Manufacturing/Packaging Track Session at Automation Conference

The session will deliver practical application advice and visionary insights for automation professionals

New trends and old friends in network choices

Wireless and Ethernet technologies are taking over today's trendy solutions, but don’t count out the classics like the fieldbuses, which remain old favorites that...

Optimization

...Author: Control Global Staff Posted: 12/10/2012 Halloween in New Orleans this year saw more than the usual array of costumed revelers on Bourbon Street. Indeed,...

MTS sensors go green at the race track

MTS Systems Corp., Sensors Division, after decades of providing magnetostrictive sensors to the racing industry, is supplying liquid level transmitters for the...

Dow helps EU importers with REACH compliance

Shifting its focus from REACH pre-registration to registration, The Dow Chemical Company announced that it has established the Dow Only Representative Trustee (ORT)...

Innovate for the Future...or Else

Mega Cities Dominate, Privacy Is Gone: Mega Trends Point to a Very Different World in 2025

Company Profile: Phoenix Contact

Phoenix Contact develops and manufactures industrial electrical and electronic technology products that power, protect, connect and automate systems and equipment.

Shared Documents Aid Valve Repairs

Using New File-Sharing and Procedural Tools in Complex Projects Can Save You Time and Headaches

Argonne Labs, Turkish ministry partner for clean energy development

he U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey’s Ministry of...

Getting employee training right

In our April cover story, Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, talks about the state of the art in training for the automation profession and how it is evolving to fit...

Optimized Automation Knowledge Center | National Instruments | ControlGlobal.com

This Knowledge Center will increase your knowledge of Green engineering and applications that are being developed and deployed with the NI graphical system design.

Siemens' WinCC SCADA Software Now a Plant-Wide System

WinCC Version 7.2 offers new information server options and simplifies complex production operations

Automation Foundations Form Joint Company

The five major automation foundations have developed a single common solution for field device integration (FDI).

Fieldbus in hazardous areas

Digital fieldbus networks have created new options for installing devices in hazardous areas by simplifying implementation of IS systems and avoiding explosion-proof...

ABB invests in smart grid communications company Trilliant

ABB announced today that it has invested $20 million in California-based Trilliant, a leading provider of smart grid communications infrastructure that enables major...

Wireless winning wider acceptance in automation

A recent survey shows the undeniable appeal of wireless sensor networking is apparently convincing more end-users and system integrators to plan on implementing...

Fieldbus Foundation releases new device description (DD) enhancements

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced the latest updates to its Foundation fieldbus Device Description (DD) tools and specifications.

What vendors say about control system security

Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt provides detailed, unedited responses from process control vendors, software companies and security consultants on questions ...

Control offshore plants from here

Automation technology just might keep process control from going overseas as long as engineers, operators and techs can tune the plant, watch over day-to-day...

HART to the future!

HCF turbocharges plant communications with Enhanced Device Description Language (EDDL) and wireless HART to improve the ability to establish full-time digital...

Hot and Cold Running Temperature Technology

Sensors, Transmitters, Calibrators, Controllers -- All Your Temperature Measurement Needs

List of Companies

ABB ABB Process Automation ABB Process Automation (much of AAI was sold to Siemens) ACCO Bristol AEG Automation Systems AEG Schneider Automation AGEMA Infrared...

Protecting ICSs from Electronic Threats, Part 3

IT Security Certification Exams Don't Address ICS Issues, and Professional Engineering Exams Don't Address Cybersecurity

Emerson picks Achilles for security testing

Wurldtech Security Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity testing and certification solutions for industrial automation industries, today announced that Emerson...

Linde North America's Texas Plant Receives Responsible Care Certification

Linde North America has received certification of its Clear Lake, Texas, HyCO (hydrogen/carbon monoxide) plant under the American Chemistry Council's ("ACC")...

Head off Downtime and Shorten Turnarounds

A Potent Mix of Prevention, Diagnosis and Cure for Your Asset Utilization Ills

Flowmeters Phone Home

Dart Oil and Gas Leverages Open Automation Software Technology to Access Real-Time Meter Data Directly From an iPhone

FDT Connections

...FDT Technology Achieves IEC Global Standard Approval 07/09/2009 FDT Technology Gains International Standard Approval FDT Frame Applications Standardize Smart...

Migrating to I/A Series Connects Users to the Enterprise

Careful Planning Needed to Bring Aging Control System Infrastructure into the Future

ABB and Phoenix Contact to collaborate on PROFINET development

ABB and Phoenix Contact recently signed an agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation to further develop and promote PROFINET- and Ethernet-Technology.

Process Analyzer Information Online

Online Resources: Our Editors Search the Web to Bring You the Latest Information on Process Analyzers

Huntsman goes live with huge wireless application

Apprion, Industrial Mobility and the Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. today announced they have completed work at Huntsman Corporation's...

System_800xA_at_Petrobras_REPAR.pdf

...Solution Petrobras adopted IEC 61850 technology. It is an Ethernet- based global standard for communications and system architecture in Substation Automation and...

Selling SCADA’s one thing; MES needs some marketing

“Independent” industrial automation software vendors may still exist

How to Tell a Life Science Leader from a Laggard

Aberdeen Analyst Shares What Differentiates Leaders from Followers—and Those Bringing Up the Rear

Nice Bike: Scharenbroich Encourages New Connections

Making Meaningful Connections Requires Acknowledgement and Honor, Asking Questions and Listening to the Answers

Yokogawa acquires Analytical Specialties

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the acquisition of Analytical Specialties, Inc. (ASI), a company with a unique gas analyzer technology. Yokogawa Corporation...

Honeywell offers TÜV Rheinland security training for process industries

Honeywell has partnered with compliance testing and certification provider TÜV Rheinland, to offer specialized certification courses for plant security professionals.

Advanced Process Control Ain't Easy

End Users and Suppliers Agree: Advanced Process Control Is a Powerful and Effective Tool, but Implementation and Maintenance Need to Be Simplified

OPC UA enables Business Intelligence (BI)

In a special-to-the-web article for OPC Connection, OPC specialist Eric Murphy presents his thoughts on OPC UA and how it offers the promise of unifying individual...

PlantPAx Is Mining Ready

Pre-Packaged Mining Solutions Help Streamline Engineering and Optimize Production

Lift Station Control

Internet Messenger MS2 by Blue Ribbon

ISA100.11a - Fieldbus Wars Round 2 Begins

To Directly Influence the Outcome of This Dispute, End Users Should Vote With Their Time by Participating in the Appropriate Standards Committees

Improved Visibility Sheds Light on the Bottom Line

Rockwell Automation Unifies Information Flows in the Manufacturing Enterprise

Yokogawa User Group: Integrated Solutions for a Sustainable Future

Halloween in New Orleans this year saw more than the usual array of costumed revelers on Bourbon Street. Indeed, hundreds of process automation professionals...

Fieldbus Equipment Donations Needed for New India Training Site

UL Group Brings Certified Training to Fast Growing Region for FOUNDATION Adoption

Yokogawa sponsors Control Automation Hall of Fame dinner at WBF 2008

WBF, Control magazine and Yokogawa are pleased to announce that Yokogawa will sponsor the 2008 Process Automation Hall of Fame Dinner on Monday, March 24 during the...

2004's Heavy Hitters

This Year's Inductees Embody the Leadership, Knowledge and True Spirit of the Process Control Profession

Latest nanodac Stores and Forwards

Fault-tolerant Integration with Wonderware Historian Ensures that No Data Falls Through the Cracks

Can Foundation fieldbus (FF) stay hungry?

FF may be facing unexpected challenges in its task to remain useful as it integrates ever more closely with EDDL, COTS Ethernet, and Internet-bsed and/or wireless...

Metso wins Polish containerboard project

Metso has received an important automation order for Stora Enso Narew Sp.zo.o new containerboard production line at Ostroleka in Poland. The production line will...

Rockwell Automation Reports First Quarter 2011 Results

Rockwell Automation, Inc. today reported fiscal 2011 first quarter revenue of $1,365.8 million, up 28 percent compared to $1,067.5 million in the first quarter of...

Oil & Gas SCADA Market to Reach $1 Billion Plus

Over the next five years, the worldwide market for SCADA systems for the oil & gas industry is expected to grow at a growth rate (CAGR) of 8.9%.

OSHA endorses ISA-84 standards

The three-part ISA series of standards may be used in process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals

Process Security is a Never-Ending Journey

Users and Suppliers Must Collaborate to Patch Control System Vulnerabilities

Honeywell acquires RMG Group

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced it has completed the acquisition of the RMG GROUP (RMG Regel + Messtechnik GmbH and all of its subsidiaries, together RMG) for...

The house that function blocks built

Ian Verhappen, Chair of the Foundation Fieldbus User Group and Vice President of Standards for ISA, offers his perspective and experience on what’s happening in the...

Yokogawa and McAfee Partner for Industrial Control System Security

Yokogawa Electric Corporation and McAfee have announced the signing of a partnership agreement to offer holistic and value-added IT security solutions for the...

Wireless industrial standard begins to take shape

CONTROL contributor Dick Caro, a member of the ISA committee developing a set of wireless industrial networking standards, reports to us the latest progress on SP100...

BASF Selects AspenTech's Integrated Engineering Solution

..."As the world's largest chemical company, BASF needs efficient global standards and work practices," said Dr. Thomas Bott, Senior Vice President of Corporate...

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

ABB joins North American PTO

ABB Inc. announced today that it has joined PTO North America. The PTO is one of 25 regional associations that develop and promote the use of PROFIBUS fieldbus and...

Economist Alan Beaulieu is keynote speaker at CSIA conference

Economist Alan Beaulieu will be the keynote speaker at the CSIA conference April 25 – 28 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Norgren

Herion 33D pressure switches are available in ranges from vacuum to 10,000 psi and are fully programmable for NO-, NC- or window-mode operation.

IN Q3 2009

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Emerson's APC boosts profits for Dutch plastics maker

Emerson Process Management’s advanced process control specialists have developed an Adaptive Model Predictive Controller (AMPC) that is optimizing production and...

ISA releases new book on improving automation system performance

The author explains a strategy for measuring and improving automation system performance for the ultimate goal—the bottom line, and provides case studies of how such...

CiDRA and Siemens enter agreement to apply SONARtrac to process monitoring systems

..."CiDRA is building a global distribution strategy which will include best-in-class process automation and instrumentation companies," said Kevin Didden, President...

Batch executives speed up accurate feeds

Despite great strides to the increased computing power of PC-based controls and software, many batch applications have been stuck with the same measurement and...

Creative thinking streamlines cut-over at Frontier refinery

Here at the annual gathering of the Honeywell User Group Americas, Leland Borgett, Jeff Strecker and Tom Clark explain how their five-person team successfully...

Using a DTM to Simplify Joining a BULLET WirelessHART Adapter to a Wireless Network

This Article Outlines the Steps Required to Add an Adapter and to Configure It to Join the Wireless Networking Using a Device Type Manager (DTM)

Use RFID to improve your automation systems

Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert, PE, addresses RFID technology and explains how RFID systems are being lnked to process automation systems to deliver process...

ISA100 ISA forms subcommittee to study convergence of ISA100 and WirelessHART standards

The ISA100 standards committee on wireless systems for automation has created a new subcommittee to address options for convergence of the ISA100.11a and...

Choosing a Fieldbus Host

Selecting a Fieldbus Host Is Not an Easy Decision. It Might Be as Life-Changing as Getting Married

Virtual training story re-engages with reality

So what was that “revolutionary technology” that Invensys Process Systems (IPS) unveiled at a press conference during its 2009 Process Engineering Forum in Paris at...

Boyes talks turkey with User Group leadership

In this 11-minute video update, recorded during the 2007 Honeywell User Group Americas Symposium in Phoenix, CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes discusses the...

Brodosplit Shipyard Company Selects Honeywell To Install Tank Gauging and Monitoring Solution

Honeywell To Deliver Tank Gauging and Monitoring Solutions for Heavy Lifting Ships, and Provide Accurate Real-Time Data Onboard Two New Vessels

Users Want More Accurate Calibrators

Calibrator Users Report They Want Greater Accuracy and More Documenting Capabilities

Emerson acquires Innovative Control Systems Inc.

Emerson Process Management has acquired Clifton Park, N.Y.-based Innovative Control Systems Inc. (ICS), a leader in turbine control upgrades for power generation...

2009 Control System Cyber Security Conference - Mark Your Calendar

BREAKING NEWS: VISIT WWW.REALTIMEACS.COM FOR INFO ON THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE. From 'Unfettered Blog' BREAKING NEWS: VISIT WWW.REALTIMEACS.COM FOR INFO ON THE 10TH...

FCI ST100 Series Delivers Gas Flow Measurement over FOUNDATION Fieldbus

The ST100 Series thermal mass gas flow meters are rugged, high accuracy instruments

Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks

Linear Technology Corporation has announced the acquisition of Dust Networks, Inc., a provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology.

Just Drive: Let Emerson Worry About the DCS

If You Design and Build the Perfect Car, Where Do You Go for Maintenance?

Collaboration Portal Helps Speed SIS Valve Turnaround for BP

Texas City Turnaround: BP's Story of Supersized Scope and Real Results

Metso cuts jobs as paper industry demand falls

Metso is starting negotiations to reduce the workforce in its units in Finland which serve the paper and pulp industry.

Contents Under Pressure

Pressure Sensing and Measurement Products on Parade

Online Guides to Loop Control

Control's Monthly Resource Guide. This Month We Tackle Loop Control

DOE Provides Funding for Industrial Equipment Monitoring

...GE Global Research has been selected to lead a project to develop low cost wireless sensor networks for industrial equipment monitoring. Collaborating with GE on the...

Is advanced control ready for Prime Time?

Fuzzy logic can minimize false alerts without compromising detection and notification of actual events, but there is always a tradeoff between sensitivity and ...

Who Had the Nicest Ice in This Year's Readers' Choice Awards?

Readers Pick the Gems Among Automation Products and Suppliers

The Ethernet Bandwagon

Ethernet capability, smaller footprints localized processing power on deck for I/O products.

ITT Barton

ITT Barton From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  ITT Barton was a manufacturer of pressure measuring...

ABB agrees to purchase K-TEK

ABB has agreed to acquire Prairieville, Louisiana, company K-TEK, which will join the Measurement Products business unit within ABB's Process Automation division.

Current Issue

...CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Siemens to acquire U.S. company Vistagy, Inc.

Siemens expands its industrial software portfolio with the acquisition of Vistagy, Inc., Waltham, Mass., a supplier of specialized engineering software and services...

Software-Designed Instrument Sets New Benchmarks at NIWeek

National Instruments' RF Vector Signal Transceiver (VST) Represents a New Class of Software-Designed Instrumentation That Allows Engineers and Scientists to Tailor...

National Manufacturing Week 2007 Preview

Canon Communications, the new owner of the National Manufacturing Week event, joins four main shows of NMW 2007 with four of its other events.

Advanced Alarm Notification Improves Hydro Operations

Learn How Exele Helped Implement an Advanced Warning System to Provide Notification of Potential Alarm Conditions at Brookfield Renewable Energy's Hydro Operations...

No Title

...“Machine failure,” says Marc Hunter, of Invensys global alliance marketing, “is a process, not an event.” He described the process using the unfolding of a car...

Rockwell Automation to acquire Incuity Software

Rockwell Automation, Inc. announced today that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Incuity Software, Inc., a privately held company that is a leading...

Wyeth to close West Chester pharma manufacturing plant

...Wyeth locations. Wyeth operates two other sites in Pennsylvania. The company's global pharmaceutical headquarters in Collegeville and a research & development...

How to improve network security

There's no such thing as a 100% secure control system, but learning and understanding the risks associated with security standards, and how to mitigate them are a...

ARC says HART is still smart

...Foundation, Austin, Tex., recently investigated communication protocol plans of global users working in knowledgeable positions across the automation industry....

The Energy Future—Process Control’s Role

Find out about the “zero energy home of the future” and the hydrogen economy. What are the potentials of process control in wind, ocean wave, and geothermal energy...

Honeywell adds security to TÜV certified program

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) is claiming to be the first manufacturer to offer both security and safety certification courses for the process industries under...

3BUS095139_en_Petrobras_REPAR_Success_Story.pdf

...Solution Petrobras adopted IEC 61850 technology. It is an Ethernet- based global standard for communications and system architecture in Substation Automation and...

OPC Foundation in SPE Workshop

The Workshop is "Well Construction Automation--Preparing for the Big Jump Forward"

Your Calibration Information Headquarters

The Editors Of Control Review Online Resources About Calibration That Are Available to You at No Cost

DALSA now a Rockwell Automation Encompass Partner

DALSA today announced that its IPD Vision Appliance products have been approved for participation in the Rockwell Automation Encompass Program.

Automation Alliance Group names new business unit

Automation Alliance Group (AAG) announces the addition of Omnicon as our newest business unit. Omnicon is based in Colombia, South America with offices in Cali,...

Phoenix Contact's New Digs

Phoenix Contact Opens New Customer and Technology Center in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Control, ABB Collaborate on Operator Effectiveness Research

25% of respondents say board operator responsibilities are increasing in the plants where they work

Invensys' Triconex Controller Is Approved for Use in Nuclear Power Plants

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified Invensys Operations Management's Triconex Tricon version 10 controller as safe to use in nuclear power...

Expanding our coverage on print and online

Katherine Bonfante, digital editor of Control Magazine, talks about how Control's online resources have expanded the depth coverage of the print magazine.

Finally playing nice

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes congratulates the members of the SP100 Industrial Wireless Standard committee for their willingness to compromise in the name of service...

Drives and Motor Controls

The Editors of Control Search the World Wide Web to Bring You the Latest on Drives and Motors Controls

CIDX, ISA to share information, benefits

The Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) and ISA, announced today at the CIDX General Meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., an agreement that will formalize the sharing...

Krohne provides instrumentation for Chobani plant

Krohne, Inc. announces that it supplied a variety of process measurement equipment for a state-of-the-art Chobani yogurt plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, including level...

Chicago-area engineer earns `Inventor of the Year' honor from Siemens

...In recognition of his work, Ahmed will travel to the Siemens global headquarters in Munich to take part in an awards presentation. He will receive 40 shares of...

Honeywell Recognized at 2012 China Automation Service Products Summit

Honeywell won the Gold Medal in Automation Service Products, Excellence in Lifecycle Service Brands, and Excellent Case Study in Automation Services

MatrikonOPC Expande Presencia Local en Mexico y Americal Central

La Apertura de la Nueva Oficina Deja que MatrikonOPC Sirva a Sus Clientes de Habla Hispana Mucho Mejor

Honeywell

EHM detectors monitor industrial machienry

Square D

Square D From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  Today known as Schneider Automation Square D From Directory of Lost...

80% of manufacturers dissatified with packaging operations

According to ARC’s recent best practice research in packing operations, over 80 percent of survey respondents say they are less than satisfied with their packaging...

Cyber-Living. Are We Safe Enough?

We Think That the Security Settings We Put In Place Online Are Safe Enough, But the Reality Is That We All Are Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

Learn How to Implement Comprehensive Safety Solutions at Safety Automatin Forum

Automation Fair to Feature Perspectives on Machinery, Process and Electrical Safety

Emerson gets metering systems contract for Indian refinery

Emerson Process Management announced today that it has received a contract of US$ 19M to supply metering systems to Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL), a new refinery...

Videocast: OneWireless solutions

This brief video shows how companies such as Nucor Steel already are using OneWireless architecture to satisfy application needs in the most demanding of process...

Beckhoff to Unveil Energy Efficient PC- and Ethernet-Based Control Technology

Beckhoff will show its PC- and Ethernet-based control technology for building services applications at ISH in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on March 12-16, 2013.

Emerson takes Rosemount solutions on the road

In an effort to bring product demonstrations to customers’ doorsteps, Emerson Process Management will be presenting Rosemount Analytical gas chromatograph, liquid,...

GE to purchase Ionics in $1.1B deal

...expertise will accelerate the development of technology solutions for the global water purification segment." The transaction is expected to close in the first...

One bus for all?

When it comes to applications that allow our basic controls to function, system lock-ups are intolerable, so it pays to examine the heritage of fieldbus and...

LabVantage to acquire Life Technologies’ SQL*LIMS business

LabVantage Solutions, Inc. will acquire Life Technologies Corporation’s SQL*LIMS business.

Process Automation Innovation in Orlando

We Try to Pursue Innovation in Our World, but We've Learned That Each of Us Can Make a Difference in Everyone's World

We're Leveling With You

See Some of the Latest in Level Instrumentation Here

Podcast Library

...Pillai and Martin Warman, join the company’s director of process and technology global sourcing, Jeff Miller, in a discussion on PAT with our editors. Finesse...

Exchange Heads West-and East-in 2012

Mark Your Calendars for the 2012 Main Event, Anaheim, California, October 8-12

Indian low-power AC drive market explodes

India’s economic expansion, propelled by the country’s growing manufacturing sector, is fuelling the low-power AC drive market in India. The market for low power AC...

Death of the Loop Drawing

Loop Drawings Have Become Mere "Wiring" Diagrams. Are They Needed for Fieldbus Projects?

U.S. Lagging Behind in Control and Instrumentation Purchases

...NRX Global, Toronto, completed the installation of asset management software at the ChevronTexaco refinery in Pascagoula, Miss. The project involved 9,000 pieces...

Square D

Square D From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  Today known as Schneider Automation Square D From Directory of Lost...

PLCs Change Names and Applications (Part 2)

Whatever You Want to Call Them, Programmable Logic Controllers Are Here to Stay (Part 2 of 2).

MESA launches sustainability survey

MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Assoc.) has announced the launch of Eco-efficiency in Manufacturing, a major study of the strategies and approaches being...

Foxboro to Help Users Modernize, Virtualize Automation Infrastructure

Foxboro User Group Meeting Features New Invensys Execs. First meeting in five years explores Foxboro plans to help users modernize, virtualize automation infrastructure

New ISA committee meshes goals for wireless in automation

...ISA's announcement explains that global short-, medium-, and long-term technology needs will be incorporated on a non-exclusive technology basis with no bias...

Process automation majors lose two CEOs in a week as Eberhart, Bolick depart; Henriksson, Gilsdorf step in

For an industry to lose one CEO in a week may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.

Save the WBF

If You Care About 21st-Century Manufacturing, Go to the Website and Join WBF. We Need the “How” as Much or More Than We Need the “Why”

Ethernet "Switches" to Industrial

...• Process Automation Technologies | Industrial Networking | Control Global Subscribe to E-Newsletters » Subscribe to Control » Get the Article RSS Feed »...

Nuclear vs Solar and Wind. Which Is Better? Should We Pursue Both?

The following email exchange has been zipping through the electrons here at Control. The commenter and the responders all raise good points. I thought I'd open the...

TE Connectivity Receives Siemens Supplier Award

TE Connectivity Wins 2012 Siemens Supplier Award in the Sustainability Category

Instrument Asset Management Drives Profit

How an Enterprise Control System Can Simplify Creating Value from Maintenance

Less Bang for the Buck

Intrinsic Safety Makes Protecting Field Devices Easier and Cheaper

AirSprite Technologies makes its debut at ISA Expo

...“Globally, wireless technology has had a significant impact on the way business works, but it is still fighting to make inroads into the industrial world,” said...

Siemens acquires innotec

Siemens has expanded its portfolio of industrial software with an agreement to acquire innotec GmbH of Schwelm, Germany, an international vendor of digital...

Badger Meter to buy Racine Federated

Badger Meter has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Racine Federated, Inc. of Racine, Wis., and its subsidiary located in Thetford, England,...

Invensys completes Cimnet buy

Invensys® today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Cimnet, Inc (OTC BB: CIMK), a Manufacturing Execution System ("MES") software company based in...

Optimation plans merger with Total Systems Design

Optimation has signed a letter of intent to merge with Total Systems Design (TSD) of Coatesville, Pa.

ABB's Industrial IT System

HMI gets downright personal

Firewall Needed Between AT and IT?

Should the Business IT Group or the Controls Group Load the DeltaV Machines?

Automation Federation collaborates with MEP

The Automation Federation announced today an agreement with the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to begin formal collaboration discussions focused on the...

Brooks acquires Key Instruments

Brooks Instrument announced that it has acquired Key Instruments, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

CDC Software launches first packaged MOM solution for SAP

CDC Software, a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that CDC Factory, the first packaged...

Is Your Control Valve an Imposter?

Beware the Disguised Positioner

Nail a Speech, Launch a Career

The Secret Formula for an Effective Presentation

INQ3 2010

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

The_Effective_Operator.pdf

...PEI BREIvolD, MARTIn olAuSSon, SuSAnnE TIMSjö, MAgnuS lARSSon, Roy TAnnER – global process industry losses are estimated at around $20 billion annually,...

Emerson ‘Charms’ Hazardous Areas

IS CHARMs Provides Significant Savings in the System Design, Installation Cost and Ease of Maintenance

Control Station and Yokogawa offer integrated tuning solution

Control Station simultaneously announced completion of a cooperative reseller agreement with Yokogawa Corporation of America and general availability of a PID tuning...

Want Open Standards? Work at It

End Users Have to Insist Their Favorite Suppliers Support Open, Interoperable Solutions, or We'll Remain Saddled With the Closed, Proprietary Ones

IPSO Alliance adds new members

The IPSO Alliance, an international non-profit group advancing greater awareness for Internet Protocol-connected smart objects, has added 12 new companies to its...

Honeywell Integrates and Certifies FMC722 Subsea Automation Protocol

The integration and certification of these solutions will boost the productivity of oil and gas field operators and engineers

PI North America Meeting Touts Profibus Gains

The Profibus Market Expected to Grow in 2012 to Reach 44 million

Q3 2011

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Dow’s MABS Technology Selected by LiaoNing HuaJin Chemical

Dow Technology Licensing, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that LiaoNing HuaJin Chemical has selected Dow’s MABS Technology for its new...

Hardy Instruments partners with Schneider Electric

Hardy Instruments has announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric as a member of its Collaborative Automation Partner Program...

Fieldbus Flavor of the Month

We May Be Missing Real Innovation in Our Field. Lets Adopt the Latest Controls or Instrument or Network Technology Flavor

Far From Quiet on the Wireless Front

From Power-Gen to Petrochem, Fiber Production to Gas Distribution, Wireless Field Networks Continue to Prove Their Process Automation Mettle

Getting into Enclosures

Housing for control and automation devices and networks is evolving right along with the devices they contain, so it's even more important now to choose the...

Siemens wins contract to modernize Bayer facility

Siemens Energy & Automation has announced that it has been awarded a project valued at more than $1 million to modernize the automation system at the Bayer...

Real-Time PIG Data Transmission?

How Can We Improve the Safety of the Pipelining Industry? See What Our Experts Say

Rumble in the Fieldbus Jungle

No Technology Is Going to Take Over the Process Industry

ISA joins Manufacturing Skills Certification System with CCST and CAP certifications

The International Society of Automation (ISA) announced that it is partnering with the Manufacturing Institute to bring automation and control systems certifications...

Nuclear v Solar & Wind. Which Is Better? Should We Pursue Both?

The following email exchange has been zipping through the electrons here at Control. The commenter and the responders all raise good points. I thought I'd open the...

Integrators Win Awards at CSIA Conference

Ed Diehl, Craig Eidson, Keith Harris and Software Toolbox received awards during CSIA's 2012 Executive Conference

ASCO Numatics Awards Scholarships

The ASCO Numatics Engineering Scholarships are awarded annually based on the candidates' potential for leadership and for making a significant contribution to the...

Relations Between Operations and IT Get More Complicated

Survey Respondents Predicted That Industrial Endpoints Will Increase by 50% Over the Next Five Years

APLU Supports STEM Students

The $100,000 Grant Will Develop a Student Peer-Mentor Network, Provide Research and Project Opportunities for Students

All Roads Lead to HART- Get Connected Now!

Why? HART Is the World's Number One and Most Often Selected Communication Technology

Rockwell exec appointed to U.S. Manufacturing Council

Among the 24 manufacturing leaders appointed to the Council, was Michael Laszkiewicz, Rockwell Automation’s vice president and general manager of the company's Power...

New local facilities for Emerson, GE and Cameron

Saudi FAL and Emerson Process Management have opened a new 9000 sq.m manufacturing facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Quality Being Redefined in Bifurcated Chemical Industry

The Chemical Industry Is Divided in 2 Parts, Low-Cost Commodity Providers and Providers of "Capability"

Weed Instrument acquired by Ultra Electronics Holdings

Weed Instrument Co., Inc has been acquired by Ultra Electronics Holdings plc, a publicly quoted company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Cybersecurity Takes Cultural Commitment

Panelist Stress Need for Policies, Work Processes that Affirm Security

March 2007

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the North American process automation market with a readership of 70,000 plus engineering, operations and...

Automation Process Knowledge Management

Tribal Knowledge - New Tools Are Putting Process Know-How into Online Pools, Letting Newbies Access More Useful Knowledge, and Even Awakening Some On-the-Job...

Advantech, Invensys to offer Wonderware Windows CE HMI

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech and Invensys Operations Management announced their partnership in developing the Wonderware InTouch HMI software in a...

Edge protection a first layer of defense-in-depth security

Control system security expert Eric Byres presents defense-in-depth strategies for process control systems to some 150 attendees at the Honeywell Users' Group...

OPC Portfolio: Everything to Fit Your Needs

What Exactly Differentiates the Various Technologies, and How Do they All Fit Together to Meet End-User Needs?

OPC maximizes object-oriented systems

Control devices for passing data from one OPC DA server to another have gotten smarter and have more to say, making it easier for vendors, OEMs, machine builders and...

I/O & Terminal Blocks (Part 2 of 3)

A quiet product category--as long as the parts work together

Endress+Hauser Goes Gamma

Gamma Nuclear Process Instrumentation

Is HART Fact or Fiction?

HART is Here to Stay, but End Users Still Need to Be Educated to Get Its Full Value

Court rejects asbestos liability cap for ABB

...and that it could go forward with the sale of Combustion Engineering and Lummus Global, the two divisions with the most asbestos liability. Fred Kindle, ABB's...

Trunk Testing Tribulation

It's Challenging to Power Down Segments While the Plant is Down, Let Alone While a Process Is Up. Powering Down Is Not an Attractive Option

How Instrumentation Can Help Boost Plant Performance

Learn How Today's High Performance Instrumentation Enabled by Wireless Technology Can Help Boost Plant Performance Across a Range of Important Metrics

Exida certifies Asco Numatics solenoid valves for IEC 61508

exida, a supplier of functional safety products, services, and certifications, has certified the design and engineering processes for ASCO Numatics 551/552/553...

ISA-SP100 Committee tackles sensors and alarm rationalization

Recently formed standards committee addresses vertical integration of wireless manufacturing and control systems for monitoring, control, alarm, and shutdown.

Belden releases new Tofino line of industrial security products

Belden‘s Hirschmann Automation division will be releasing the new Hirschmann Eagle 20 Tofino product line at the SPS/IPC/Drives Electric Automation Exhibitions and...

Beijer Electronics to supply Wonderware with operator panels

Wonderware signed a strategic agreement with Beijer Electronics in which Wonderware gains access to a range of high-end CE-based touch panels. Wonderware recently...

HUG Dazzled by Wireless Unification

OneWireless designed to support multiple applications in one environment

2007 Readers' Choice Awards

Once again, the end users have spoken. Process control professionals assess the best technologies and vote on who best meets their needs in the 15th annual CONTROL...

Using Modular Procedural Automation to Improve Operations

Standard Automation Methodology Improves Operations and Prevents Incidents by Enabling the Sharing of Best Practices Among Operators

Optimized, Small-Footprint Coriolis Flowmeter

ABB Introduces Their Latest Design to their Coriolis Mass Flowmeters, the CoriolisMaster

Emerson and GE Healthcare collaborate to provide integrated purification systems for biotech industry

...Emerson Process Management and GE Healthcare have announced a global sales and marketing collaboration agreement to provide solutions for protein purification in...

Smart Actuator Provides Complete Diagnostics

Emersons FieldQ

“Don’t mention the products” says Invensys Process Systems as it promotes its integrated solutions strategy

IPS has been playing catch-up in trying to explain the strategic changes that it is intended to embody

ICS Triplex Buyout Confounds Private Equity Critics

Rockwell Automation’s acquires ICS Triplex, a process that started back in August of 2000.

Millenial Net's Wireless Mesh Network

Wireless mesh network provides standards support

... and merges with Byres Research, but not Security

Hardly was the ink dry on the exida-Wurldtech agreement when the arguably even more significant news reached us of the merger of exida with Byres Research.

Winter 2008

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to...

PlantPAx Users Reaping Virtualization Benefits

Rockwell Automation Users Prevent Downtime While Saving Money, Energy and Effort

ITT Barton

ITT Barton From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  ITT Barton was a manufacturer of pressure measuring...

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Yokogawa, Sensorex Earn Lloyds and ISO Certifications

Two Process Automation Product and Systems Providers Have Been Tapped by Certification Organizations in Recognition of Their Product and Production Quality

Emerson delivers 750,000th Fisher Fieldvue controller

Emerson Process Management has announced its delivery of the 750,000th Fisher Fielvue digital valve controller.

Bus War III: Process meets motion

If you work in a process plant, you likely have a few motion applications. In this article, Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, provides a general overview of the...

ABB acquires APS Technology Group Improving Safety, Productivity and Efficiency of Port Operations

Acquiring APS Technology Group (APS) will help ABB add Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Gate Automation to help overtaxed terminals do more with less

Just Another Variable in the Process Automation Industry

Jim Montague Recaps Automation Tools Talked About During Automation Fair 2012. These Tools Help Industry Professionals Save Power and Compete Sustainably

NeSSI Progresses From Vision to Reality

Hard work by end users, academics, and vendors is lowering the cost of process analysis via standardized, modular sampling systems and sensors

Honeywell Opens Office in Northern China

Honeywell invests in China to help their customers improve the safety, reliability and sustainability of their operations

Smart Wireless Solving More Problems for More Users

Wireless Optimizes Systems and Gives Customers the Tools to Solve Key Challenges

Lock down your wireless Ethernet

If hackers realize you have unsecured Wi-Fi, they'll go after it. This article from Industrial Networking magazine suggests a few important steps that can ...

ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute Conducts Successful Interoperability Trial

The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) has announced the completion of another successful interoperability trial in which it verified its new Generic Client...

EAM-FSM Market to Reach $3 Billion

EAM and FSM Market Achieve Strong Growth in Service Field Despite Difficult Economic Environments

ABB expands offering for oil and gas sector

ABB has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Ber-Mac Electrical and Instrumentation Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, in order to expand its presence and...

Progress Being Made for Iraqi Power Generation

...facts and the predominately trading nature of lifestyle supply with familiar global names on the appliance boxes. The progress of power service delivery at schools...

Gas Turbine Remote Monitoring

Having the Tools to Successfully Monitor Abnormal Gas Turbine Conditions, Notify the Appropriate Personnel, and Empower Them to Respond Accordingly, Can Save a...

ABB to Acquire Powercorp

ABB, the Power and Automation Technology Group, Has Agreed to Acquire Powercorp, an Australian Renewable Power Automation Company. This Acquisition Strengthens ABB's...

WEG's Hybrid Designs Set New Benchmarks for Efficiency

WEG develops 'post-standards' approach to energy saving

Smart Pipe--One Bus to Rule Them All

What Revolutionary Technology Is Coming Along That Will Kill Fieldbus?

Daelim Industrial selects Pavilion8 for process improvement

To help improve production rates, quality and transition consistency in its operations, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd, a leading polymer manufacturer, has selected the...

Fieldbus is Dead! Long Live Fieldbus!

The Competing Communications Technology That Presumably Will Replace All These Buses, Including Process Fieldbuses, Is Ethernet

ABB, IBM create IT security consulting services for industrial automation

...ABB's Consult Group and IBM Global Services will develop cooperative service offerings to provide consultation for mutual customers. Both groups will act as one...

Wireless Trialed to Reduce Overflow Risk

Chevron Demonstrates Use of Wireless Level Switches as an Independent Protection Layer

Ametek Buys Micro-Poise Measurement Systems

Ametek, Inc. Acquired Micro-Poise Measurement Systems for $170 Million

Social Media: SCADA for Your Career

Engineers Can Strengthen the Practices and Habits Needed to Advance Their Careers Using Social Media

Invensys First to Support Virtualization Technologies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Invensys expands certification for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms

Security Focus

...and Production speaks about the company’s drive to ensure security of its global assets at the Honeywell User Group Americas 2007 Symposium in Phoenix. Edge...

Rockwell Automation Tells Suppliers "No More Lead!"

...2004. The mandate for Rockwell Automation suppliers comes in advance of pending global environmental regulations. Rockwell Automation's supplier mandate means...

Wonderware integrates Echelon i.LON SmartServer with System Platform 3.0

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced the integration of i.LON SmartServer from Echelon Corp. of San Jose, Calif. with Wonderware System Platform...

CAN solutions drive onto plant floor

Semiconductor technologies and strategies are helping implement the Controller Area Network protocol in industrial applications, fueling the demand for integrated...

Change Is in the Wind for SCADA

Are SCADA Systems Showing Us the Future of Control System Architecture?

2009 Control System Cyber Security Conference - Mark Your Calendar

BREAKING NEWS: VISIT WWW.REALTIMEACS.COM FOR INFO ON THE 10TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE. From 'Unfettered Blog' BREAKING NEWS: VISIT WWW.REALTIMEACS.COM FOR INFO ON THE 10TH...

Honeywell joins CSIA

Honeywell today announced it has joined the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA), North America’s largest organization for independent control systems...

Honeywell to deliver process automation to BASF

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) has been awarded a contract to provide its Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to BASF, the world's leading chemical company.

Optimization

...Yokogawa User Group: Integrated Solutions for a Sustainable Future Control Global Staff 12/10/2012 Six Best Practices for Wind Farm Operation Red Lion...

Emerson digitally automates $2.7B Shanghai petrochemical complex

Company’s PlantWeb architecture and project management expertise help beat schedule for start-up of 10-plant complex, world’s largest Foundation fieldbus installation.

Wavecom announces world’s first ATEX-approved GSM/GPRS wireless microprocessor

The Wavecom Group today announced the availability of the WMP120 Wireless Microprocessor, the world’s first ATEX-approved GSM/GPRS solution for wireless...

O2Micro Gets Patent for Battery Charging Methodology

Under United States patent number 8,222,869, O2Micro was issued 20 claims for its Battery Pre-Charging System and Method.

Phoenix Contact's UPS-IQ

Quint UPS-IQ is now available for 120 VAC/240 VAC applications

SAP to acquire Syclo

SAP AG has announced plans to acquire Syclo, a leading provider of enterprise mobile applications and technologies.

IntelaTrac: Moving Beyond Asset Reliability

Integration with Other Plant Information Management Systems Can Streamline New Range of Business Practices

Calibration

...Paper is part of our everyday lives - whether in the workplace or at home. Global consumption of paper has grown 400% in the last 40 years. As manufacturing...

Honeywell to acquire InterCorr International

InterCorr's proprietary SmartCET online technology can reduce corrosion costs to process control customers by up to 20%.

Badger Meter buys Cox Instruments and Flow Dynamics

Badger Meter, Inc. announced it has purchased Cox Instruments, LLC, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and its subsidiary Flow Dynamics, Inc.

Siemens announces 2011 Automation Summit in Orlando

Siemens Industry, Inc. will host its 2011 Automation Summit at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts in Orlando, Fla. from June 27-30.

To Be or Not to Be?

Two steps would bring stature to our profession

Large process automation suppliers committed to ISA100.11a

From Fortune 50 to new start-ups, companies of all sizes are committing to or evaluating ISA100.11a standard-based solutions utilizing Nivis technologies. These...

Hooking Up the Plant and the Enterprise

Do You Know the Benefit From Connecting Process Plant Automation, Information Systems and Higher Level Computing Platforms?

A Deep Dive into the Flow

Our Editors Searched the Web to Get You the Latest Tools and Resources. This Month They Cover Flow Technology

Rockwell Automation Industrial GreenPrint whitepaper

...manufacturers to optimize not only within a single facility but also across a global network of manufacturers and suppliers. Emissions legislation such as...

Oil & Gas Industry Resurgent in the U.S.

Supply and Demand on the Upswing Both Home and Abroad

Breathe New Life into Your Facility

Break the Band-Aid Habit. Fix Your System Right the First Time

Chips Are Up

The Chasm Between the Plant Floor and the Data Processing Center Remains Huge, Wide and Deep

Chips Are Up, Part 2

Find Out How More Powerful CPUs Have Improved Process Controllers

Hebert

...Larry O'Brien, global marketing manager at Fieldbus Foundation, doesn't see Ethernet encroaching on process automation networks at the fieldbus level. "Process...

What’s next for process analyzers?

In this month's installmnet of Product Roundup, we focus on process analyzers and instrumentation that might just help you solve a process problem or two.

Is Field-Based Control More Secure?

If We Hide Our Controls in Field Devices, Are We More Immune From the Infections of the Higher-Level Networks?

Prime Measurement Inc.

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Emerson to automate six combined cycle gas turbines in Europe

Emerson Process Management announced today that it has been awarded the contract by energy company EDF to automate six new Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) units...

HMI software takes on more responsibility

HMI is not just an operator interface any more. In fact, these days OI is probably the least of its functions. CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt provides a ...

Advanced Control Smorgasbord

Processors Now Have A Lot of Tasty Choices When It Comes to Advanced Control Technologies

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

Verano Solves Its Biggest Problem

...Betrusted offers managed security services and 24/7 monitoring services to global enterprises from offices around the world. “Partnering with Verano allows us to...

Free online educational series on HART protocol basics

Mini-courses provide user-friendly learning tool for anyone who uses HART Communication technology.

Big Capabilities for Smaller Controllers

Scaled Solutions Deliver Powerful Capabilities to Small Machine Builders

Rockwell Reports Outstanding Sales Growth; Strong Quarter for Controls Division

Rockwell Automation, Inc. today reported fiscal 2011 fourth quarter sales of $1,654.3 million, up 22% from $1,356.9 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010.

Intertec's Outdoor Cabinet Technology Selected to Protecr Process Analyzers

Intertec has won the contract for the environmental protection cabinets and shelters that will protect the field-based process analyzers at the new Sadara...

Saving Panel Space in Serbia

Djordje Tripkovic Can Save Some Precious Space by Implementing Four of Woehner's New Motus Contactron Control Hybrid Motor Starters

Honeywell teams with Krohne for new flowmeter offering

Ted Dimm explains the scope of Honeywell’s new venture into high-performance Coriolis, ultrasonic, electromagnetic and vortex flowmeters at the 2007 Honeywell Users'...

Emerson to install expert control system at new Chinese thermal power plant

Emerson Process Management has received a contract to install its Ovation expert control system at units 1 and 2 of the new 1,200-MW (2 X 600) super-critical...

Workforce Safety Is Top Priority for Mining Companies

Thirty-one percent of those surveyed said workforce safety was most important

A Modest Proposal for STEM Education

Want to Help the Future Industry Professionals? Offer to Run a Science Club for Young Students

Use the tools you have

Ron Helson, Executive Direxctor of the HART Communication Foundation, contends that HART Communication is one of those tools that might be in your toolbox but needs...

Honeywell wins fieldbus project for Pearl GTL plant in Qatar

Looking Through the Electronic Porthole

Take Your Hands and Put Thumb to Thumb and Forefinger to Forefinger. Look Through Your Hands. Do You See Everything There Is to See?

Industry and Government Support for LonWorld 2004 Expo and Conference in Shanghai

...Dazhang, Professor, Tongji University; Eric B. Kim, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing Operation/Digital Solution Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.;...

Honeywell to acquire Zellweger Analytics

The transaction will allow the company to enter the large and growing gas detection marketplace.

All About Process Safety

Our Editors Tackle Process Safety Resources

Optimizing Process Operations From Afar

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

OSIsoft Announces Expansion with OSIsoft Europe GmbH

OSIsoft, Inc.announced the acquisition of the remainder of shares of OSI Software GmbH from Hans Meder, as of July 1, 2008.

American Industrial Partners buys Brooks Instrument

American Industrial Partners Capital Fund IV, L.P. ("AIP") today announced that its newly formed Brooks Instrument, LLC, has acquired the Brooks Instrument division...

New HPS President Debuts at HUG 12

Adamczyk Shares Vision of Sustainability Through Collaboration

Siemens buys stake in the U.S.-based solar company Semprius

Siemens has acquired a minority share (approximately 16 percent) in U.S. pioneering solar company Semprius. Headquartered in Durham, N.C., Semprius develops...

Desperately Seeking Cybersecurity

ICS-CERT Cyber-Ninja Offers Practical Insights to Industrial Control System Users

Emerson Acquires Net Safety Monitoring, Inc.

Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson), has acquired Net Safety Monitoring, Inc., a developer and manufacture of fixed toxic and combustible gas...

Microsoft Word - Optimized Performance Throughout System Lifecycle with integrated Safety Systems - White Paper Final.doc

...Throughout System Lifecycle With Integrated Safety Systems Kristian Olsson Global Sales – Safety Center of Excellence ABB AS Ole Deviksvei 10, PO box 6359...