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The Evolution of Smart Manufacturing

Industry professionals have been trying to achieve safe, smart, responsible, sustainable manufacturing for at least the past 20 years, but why have they failed?...

E-Business Will Change Manufacturing Strategies

Initially E-Business was surrounded by much hype, but, eventually, E-Business will enable new business models in manufacturing. Collaboration processes, touted in...

How New Technologies Can Improve Compliance In Pharmaceutical and Biotech Manufacturing

In today’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing environments, compliance has taken on new meaning. It once implied a system of warnings that required...

Senators Urge Creation of National Manufacturing Policy

A bipartisan group of ten U.S. Senators sent a letter today to President Barack Obama urging the adoption of a national manufacturing policy. "The loss of...

What Manufacturing Chief Financial Officers Have to Say

On March 22 Thorugh April 5, 2010, Grant Thornton LLP Conducted a Survey Among Chief Financial Officers. 496 U.S. CFOs and Senior Comptrollers were Surveyed. Among...

Designing Batch Systems for e-Manufacturing

In today’s global environment, a true competitive advantage can be attained for companies by designing their batch systems to integrate with technologies for...

The Global Competition for Advanced Manufacturing Jobs

Learn How Advanced or "Smart" Manufacturing Technology Contributes to the Future of Manufacturing Competitiveness

Jan. Manufacturing Technology Consumption 26 Percent Ahead of Last Year

January U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $130.96 million, according to AMTDA, the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, and AMT - The...

Consumers Set U.S. Manufacturing Priorities

Survey Shows Consumers Want Safe, Clean, Economic and Automated Manufacturing

Convergence Connects the Manufacturing Dots

Manufacturers Achieve Higher Levels of Business Performance

There's A New Sheriff in Town. Should Manufacturers Be Scared?

The Obama administration has begun a number of new initiatives around energy sustainability that seem aimed directly at manufacturers. Walt Boyes talks with John...

Batch Manufacturing Guide

We’ve been covering batch manufacturing at Control for years now, and a pretty complete archive of our material is available here. See our online batch manufacturing...

Future Workforce Gives Thumbs Down to Manufacturing Careers

National Poll Shows 52% of Teens Have Little or No Interest in a Manufacturing Career

Process Manufacturers Overcome Business Challenges

This podcast discusses the top business issues process manufacturers are facing today and how an integrated main automation contractor approach can help overcome...

Trends in Manufacturing: Operations for Sales and Marketing Professionals

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

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...

Manufacturers Must Rethink Standards Strategies

Four standards experts discussed the current situation facing global manufacturers and the benefits of the unified standards vision at the 2007 Rockwell Automation's...

21st Century Process Management Using SPC Based Manufacturing Analytics

Time based, comparative analysis and visual presentation unique to the SPC methods, enable manufacturers to better understand their processes and, take immediate action.

Manufacturers Ambivalent About Benefits of Social Media

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

Industrial Applications Networks: Their Growing Importance in Process Manufacturing

"It's about time." Those are the words of the production manager for a Texas power generation facility when asked for his thoughts on wireless applications moving...

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...

Integrating Manufacturing Data from the Plant Floor into SAP

Like many companies, Janssen Pharmaceutical was implementing SAP as their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In order to integrate manufacturing data from...

NMW gets new home, bigger conference for 2006

National Manufacturing Week 2006 will offer its usual four-show format and expanded conference schedule March 20-23 at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center near...

Advanced Process Control: Quick and Easy Energy Savings

In today's manufacturing environment, there is an urgency to increase operating efficiencies, and to do it quickly. One area of improvement that can produce...

June manufacturing technology consumption up 35.8%

June U.S. manufacturing technology consumption totaled $241.47 million, according to AMT - The Association For Manufacturing Technology and AMTDA, the American...

Automation Federation to manage Advanced Manufacturing Industry Cluster

The Piedmont Triad Partnership of North Carolina has selected the Automation Federation to manage the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Cluster.

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

Wireless for process manufacturing to reach $1.1B in 2012

he market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to over $1.1B in 2012, a growth rate of 32% per year, according to a new ARC Advisory...

Rockwell's Nosbusch calls for smart factories to boost U.S. manufacturing

Rockwell Automation Chairman and CEO Keith Nosbusch today called for business and government to invest in smart factories that are flexible, efficient and...

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”

All the World’s a Batch

S88 and S95 Are Converging into a Language and Methodology for All Manufacturing Operations

Development engineer to Keynote AM Expo 2006

Charles Jenckes will deliver his speech, “Quality and Innovation in a NASCAR Nextel Cup Engine Development,” followed by panel discussion on "The Future of Advanced...

There's no business in show business

No matter how the organizers spin it, the decision to move National Manufacturing Week show to the suburbs next year won’t resonate well with exhibitors, according...

The Future and YOU

Manufacturing Isn’t Going Away, Toffler Pointed Out, Any More Than American Agriculture Went Away A Hundred Years Ago

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,...

Monitoring Multi-Recipe Batch Manufacturing Performance

Quality and consistency are key factors in determining business success. Manufacturing products that satisfy product quality and consistency specifications first...

Automating the Manufacture of Highly Energetic Organics using the S88 Model

The manufacture of highly energetic organics consists of three distinct and physically separated process steps. The steps are Reaction, Filtration and...

General Recipes As Contracts With Manufacturing

General recipes are the ANSI/ISA 88’s definition of how to document the way a product is manufactured without specifying the exact production equipment. General...

Implementing A Manufacturing Execution System At Chevron Chemical Oak Point Plant

In the past, manufacturing facilities with extensive automation opportunities, such as those around continuous processes, have been able to achieve a high level of...

Batch Manufacturing in the Biopharmaceutical Environment

The operations and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals is a complex process combining the capabilities of multiple systems that extend the boundaries of batch...

The Zones of Batch Manufacturing and Their Impact Upon Automation

All of the components, and the zones in which they reside, that comprise the scope and magnitude of batch manufacturing have always been a challenge to fully...

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...

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...

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...

Use of wireless in manufacturing expected to grow 26% annually

The worldwide market for wireless technology in manufacturing is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26% over the next five years,...

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.

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.

Best Manufacturers Make the Most of ERP

Learn who was named "best-in-class" by the 2007 ERP in Manufacturing Benchmark Report

Will RFID in manufacturing drive market growth?

While many pilot activities evaluating RFID in manufacturing are underway, pilots that actually result in implementations will determine overall market growth.

Datapaq's SolarPaq Series for Photovaltaic Cell and Module Manufacturers

Datapaq has introduced three new products in its SolarPaq series for photovoltaic cell and module manufacturers,

Benefits of manufacturing control standards: A roadmap for automation

This paper explains the purpose and benefits of ISA’s S88 standard and its role as both an engineering guideline and an often overlooked management tool that can be...

Protecting the plant: Manufacturing IT best practices

This presentation provides a holistic view of both the problems and potential solutions using manufacturing industry best practices and emerging standards to secure...

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...

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...

High Accuracy Batch Formulation and IBC Based Manufacturing Techniques

The application of rigid Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) in batch processing of solids has substantially changed in recent years from simple storage and...

Call for Papers: WBF 2009 North American Conference

Expanding the Horizons of Manufacturing

The first annual Manufacturing IT Forum brings great content, no attendance

Lask week on May 20-21 in Cleveland, I spoke at the first annual Manufacturing IT Forum hosted by ISA. Overall, the content and form was excellent, but the...

The first annual Manufacturing IT Forum brings great content, no attendance

Lask week on May 20-21 in Cleveland, I spoke at the first annual Manufacturing IT Forum hosted by ISA. Overall, the content and form was excellent, but the...

Capitalizing on IT and Manufacturing Convergence

Can’t we all just get along? If you’re talking about plant floor engineers and corporate IT personnel, the answer often is a resounding “no.”

Skills Gap is Reality for Adaptive Manufacturing

These Over-50 Operators and Engineers Are the Human Computers of Operations and the Only Thing Standing Between Profit and Loss

American Manufacturing Can Bail Us Out

Without Enabling the Companies Below $500 Million, the American and Global Economic Recovery Is Simply Not Possible

Rockwell's Nosbusch Uncertain Shape to Manufacturing Recovery

Rockwell Automation chairman and CEO Keith Nosbusch said last year that the market was about to bottom out

A Solution for Small Batch Manufacturing

The right automation solution can meet the goals of specialty chemicals producers by addressing needs for product reliability, quality, agility and efficiency — the...

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...

ISA Manufacturing Standards

...ISA Manufacturing Standards 08/28/2007 To cast your vote, log in or become a member. This quick, one-time registration gives you access to members-only site...

Mantecorp Uses CC-Link to Improve Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Mantecorp upgrades facility with more reliable control system

AMT Asks Congress to Assist Small Manufacturers

Douglas K. Woods, President of AMT, Testifies before the House Small Business Committee

Best Practices in Manufacturing Drive the Adoption of Windows Vista (Webcast)

This informative webcast, presented by experts from Microsoft, Aberdeen and Iconics, will review next–generation software analytics solutions built on the latest...

Improving Temperature Calibration Productivity

Many calibration laboratories and instrument shops face the problem of delivering more accurate calibrations in less time and at lower cost. Although improving...

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

Midland Manufacturing's A-120 check valve

Valve provides safety for transportation of chlorine

Morley sees manufacturing’s future

Dick Morley, creator of the modern PLC, provides wit and accumulated wisdom to how a simple understanding of technology and marketing can supply the core for a...

Batch Manufacturing Methods & Advantages

...Batch Manufacturing Methods & Advantages 09/04/2007 To cast your vote, log in or become a member. This quick, one-time registration gives you access to...

Honeywell's DCS for Small Manufacturers

Experion LS control system

c-Commerce Models for Batch Manufacturings

Batch manufacturing, for specialty products, offers a unique challenge to e-commerce systems. The ability to electronically define unambiguous customer requirements,...

PolyOne Deploys OSIsoft’s PI System and RLINK Interfacing to Integrate Real-Time Plant Production Data with SAP R/3 System

PolyOne Corporation is the world’s largest polymer services company,manufacturing thermoplastic compounds, specialty resins, specialty polymer formulations,...

The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers

...The Lean Advantage for Complex Equipment Manufacturers Sponsored Links

Bringing the Benefits of the Batch Control Standard (S88.01) to the Flat Sheet Industries

During the last several years, the ISA Batch Standard (S88.01) has become a commonly understood way of communicating batch system requirements. Traditional batch...

It's the People, Not the Technology

We Need to Look Closely at the Culture of Manufacturing Now and Restore the Belief That Manufacturing Is an Honorable Profession

Communication Through B2MML – Is That Possible?

Many of you have certainly heard about the ISA S95 standard, and you know that it treats the subject of how Enterprise/business systems should be integrated with...

Control FutureCast: Batch Automation

Where's the batch? ISA88 was the first attempt to create a manufacturing language. Walt Boyes talks about the direction ISA88 and ISA95 are taking and what the...

OSIsoft Helps the Roche Group Employ Real-Time Performance Management and Increase Operational Efficiencies

The Roche Group maintains three types of manufacturing facilities: chemical, biotech and galenical. To sustain growth in an increasingly competitive global business...

The Future of Collaborative Production Management

ABB's New Way to Manage Manufacturing Assets Combines the Input of Suppliers, Universities and End Users

Canon co-locating 22 tradeshows, including NMW

Canon Communications reports it’s implementing a co-location strategy for six of the eight specialty manufacturing tradeshows it acquired from Reed Elsevier in June 2006

Flowmeter Articles

The Flowmeter Knowledge Center is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and researchers...

Flowmeter White Papers

The Flowmeter Knowledge Center is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and researchers...

High Hopes for "Low PAN"

Wireless sensing technology for manufacturing is converging in some areas. At the physical, or radio layer all of the major standards groups have converged on the...

CDC Software launches packaged manufacturing operations system

CDC Software today launched CDC Factory, the first packaged manufacturing operations management solution that integrates finite factory scheduling, manufacturing...

CC-Link Helps T&L Automatics Export Machined Parts to China and Globally

With so many manufacturing facilities moving production offshore to remain competitive, one American company is increasing manufacturing output and exporting...

Longbow Survey Shows Flat Demand

Last Three Months of 2008 Show a Flat or Negative Demand in Manufacturing

OPC is Hard and Gooey

What are the differences between discrete and process type manufacturing?

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...

Operational Excellence in the Process Industries

Read this Aberdeen review of how best-in-class companies provide visibility into manufacturing operations while using real-time interoperability between...

Building MES-applications with S95

In modern manufacturing processes the usage of automated systems is inevitable. Whether for production control, scheduling, or reporting, computers are used. The...

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...

How New Technologies Can Improve Compliance

While U.S. drug products are of high quality, there has been an increasing trend towards manufacturing problems, resulting in recalls, disruption of operations and...

Things Go Better with S88: A New Approach to the Engineering Process

Investments in process control systems will claim a large percentage of capital investments in modern manufacturing facilities. In order to maximize return on these...

If We Have the Will...

We CAN Revitalize American Manufacturing…If We Want To

Can integration keep your processing plant safe?

Contributing Editor Wayne Labs reports that the best way to reduce the risks of dealing with dangerous chemicals and equipment that can fail in manufacturing is to...

Best-practices gulf is poised to widen

As best-in-class, global manufacturing companies strive toward standardizing systems and improving business processes, the gulf between top-performers and technology...

How to survive the oncoming train of technology

Be warned: the light at the end of the tunnel is a train! Control engineers are being dragged back into the world of manufacturing with new technologies that will...

Enclosure Options Grow

Manufacturers Never Have Too Many Enclosure Options

Rockwell Automation Eyes Converging Trends

Rockwell Automation Is Uniquely Positioned to Capitalize on the Global Shifts Underway in the Manufacturing and Technology Sectors

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...

The light at the end of the tunnel

More training is needed in manufacturing.

The ‘IT’ Factor

Process Manufacturing Wireless Networks May Encroach on Your IT Department’s Standards Space. Here’s How to Make Sure It All Works Together

Your chance to participate in an important standards review

Automation leaders from around the world are leading the way in defining consensus approaches to securing manufacturing and control systems. You are invited to...

Global DCS market to grow 6% annually through 2009

Increasing manufacturing capacity utilization in North America and Japan is contributing to overall growth, while developing economies in China and India also are...

Aberdeen and MESA explain it all

At the ARC Forum earlier in 2006, it was noted that only about 18% of North American manufacturing concerns are doing any sort of real-time performance management,...

Advantech and University of Cincinnati to create Advantech e-Manufacturing Lab

The Industrial Automation Group of Advantech and the University of Cincinnati have partnered to create the Advantech e-Manufacturing Lab to promote research,...

QNI Uses the OSIsoft PI System to Control Refinery Operations and Gain 41 Percent IRR in 3.5 Years

Until a few years ago, QNI’s cobalt/nickel refinery in Yabulu, Australia, used manual process-recording methods. Process engineers found it difficult to determine...

One billion bottles a year on the wall

A glass manufacturer's new monitoring and control system has increased both the number and quality of bottles the company makes, while at the same time shattering...

What is a supervisory system?

Future of Supervisory Systems in Process Industries: Lessons for Discrete Manufacturing

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...

PAT Expanded Coverage

Expanded Coverage, Videos About Broadley-James, Audio Interviews, and PAT Stories and Other Resources from Control’s Sister Publication, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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...

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

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 ...

A spoonful of industrial computers

CONTROL's contributing editor Wayne Labs notes that while that well-known spoonful of sugar may work for sick kids, manufacturers may need a dose of industrial...

Standards for better not worse!

ISA, WBF, MIMOSA OAGi and OPC have set up the Manufacturing Interoperability Guideline (MIG) working group to bring harmony to two of the automation industry’s most...

Chevron’s Recurring Dream of Technology

Using Mature Service-Oriented Architectures Increases Level of Manufacturing Agility.

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.

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...

Weidmuller's Easy Entry System

Easy entry system for pre-manufactured cables

Highlights from Automation Fair 2006

Highlights from the five-day event include the keynote address by Keith Nosbusch, Rockwell's chairman and CEO, who reported on his company's efforts in the...

Chicago’s Navy Pier Welcomes Siemens exiderdome

Unique Technology Exhibit Gives Manufacturers a New Look at the World of Automation

Security Standards Stewpot Simmering

Process Controls Engineers, IT Technicians, Manufacturers and End Users Have Been Left Hungry as Government Departments, Trade Organizations and Corporations...

Batch to the Future

Pigment Dispersions Manufacturer Plasticolors Uses Predictive-Adaptive Material Transfer Control to Continuously Tighten the Accuracy of Its Filling Batches on the Fly

Cisco and Rockwell Automation to integrate manufacturing and IT for seamless connectivity

Rockwell Automationand Cisco say they are working together to develop optimized network integration across the factory floor and throughout the enterprise using...

WBF announces plans for 2007 North American "Meeting of the Minds" conference

This annual event showcases the automation profession's leading experts addressing manufacturing system control, from batch to continuous, discrete, and hybrid...

Wonderware celebrates its 20th Birthday

Since its founding in 1987, the company has been a leader in developing technology to advance manufacturing and industrial processes.

10 Analytical Process Challenges

Spend 10 minutes with Tom Griffiths, global product marketing manager for analytical sensors and instruments, for answers to questions such as, what are some of the...

Getting Data from Manual Processes in the Enterprise

In part three of the PC Automation white paper series, we discuss getting data from manual processes. Download this white paper to learn more about how hidden data...

Isolation and Safety Standards for Electronic Instruments

This white paper covers the electrical safety issues that manufacturers must keep in mind to make their products compliant with the standards of the Low Voltage...

Unique Data Acquisition Techniques

In this PC Automation white paper, we discuss getting data from manual processes. Download this white paper to learn more about how hidden data is becoming more...

Delivering the Power of DCS in a Small System

Many manufacturing plants are driven to lower product costs and increase quality and flexibility while maintaining focus on compliance and safety. While automation...

Get Better Bottom Line Results with Effective Batch Management

Waste and rework in batch manufacturing cost serious money and impact time to market. Standards-based recipe management can improve quality, reduce cost and improve...

Video Invitation to Rockwell’s Process Solutions User Group Meeting

Rockwell Automation Invites You to The Process Solutions User Group Meeting. This Event Features Presentations on Topics Ranging from Advanced Process Control to...

EAM - Is there a "there" there?

Managing editor Nancy Bartels talks about process manufacturers who are integrating EAM with SCADA or other control systems. They are taking advantage of factory...

Operational and Business Readiness

Matt Willmott discusses the top business issues process manufacturers are facing today and how an integrated main automation contractor approach can help overcome...

Rockwell’s Pavilion and the Economic Melt–Down

Walt Boyes talks to Rockwell Automation Pavilion’s marketing vice president, Don Hart about the economic melt-down, sustainable manufacturing, advanced process...

The value proposition of Profibus in the process industries

This paper takes a look at the wide range of application profiles for Profibus that address specific manufacturing needs, and the fieldbus applications of four...

Building the digital foundation for enterprise O&M solutions

With the advent of FDT/DTM technology, process manufacturers’ options for monitoring and managing field devices over digital and wireless networks are wide open.

Moving toward IT and controls engineering convergence

This paper provides a current snapshot of the IT/controls dynamic based on interviews with more than 20 professionals in IT and manufacturing. Their feedback was the...

Retrofit of an Existing Process Cell with S88

Retrofitting a working process cell that must manufacture medicine using the S88 standard presents unique challenges. Engineering solutions are not simply driven by...

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...

Operations Excellence

Our premise is that functional organizations, namely Production, Quality and Information Technology, have traditionally solved problems by rapid problem definition,...

Bhattacharya sees shift from supply chain to plant

Supply Chains Are Leaner. There Is a Need to Connect Directly into the Plant

Getting into Discrete

Process Meets Packaging

Batch to Continuous

Converting from Batch to Continuous Brings Great Benefits, but Also Creates Automation Challenges

MES: When Preparation Meets Opportunity

An Innovative Implementation of MES Is How Bristol-Myers Squibb Ensured That Activities Performed at FAT Became Useful in Meeting Regulatory Requirements

It’s All About the Information, See?

Moving Convergence Off the Plant Floor

"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

ISA releases new book on electronic security for manufacturing and control systems

This resource serves as a tool for self-study and in obtaining familiarity with electronic security systems as applied in an industrial setting.

MCAA Job Survey #pauto #mfg #automation #manufacturing

A Review of the 2010 MCAA Compensation ReportFrom 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog' A Review of the 2010 MCAA Compensation Report

MCAA Job Survey #pauto #mfg #automation #manufacturing

A Review of the 2010 MCAA Compensation ReportFrom 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog' A Review of the 2010 MCAA Compensation Report

Making Accurate Batches

Weighing Out Material Isn't as Easy as It Looks

Custom Process Evaluation Report

Looking to lower your batch application costs?

OEE improves factory floor manufacturing productivity and profitability

This White Paper maintains that by understanding the nature and causes for wasted time due to OEE (overall equipment effectiveness), decisive corrective action plans...

Your August isse of Control is ready online... #pauto #mfg #manufacturing #wireless #NeSSI #BP

digital issueControl's August issue is now online and ready for viewing. In the August Issue of Control, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes outlines where we are now with...

Your August isse of Control is ready online... #pauto #mfg #manufacturing #wireless #NeSSI #BP

digital issueControl's August issue is now online and ready for viewing. In the August Issue of Control, Editor in Chief Walt Boyes outlines where we are now with...

Automate 2005 show to be held in Sydney

Australia's hi-tech exhibition for the automation and process industries will be held Sept. 13-15, 2005, and will demonstrate the latest in manufacturing technology,...

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...

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...

Performix demos integrated batch MES for chemical industry

Performix is demonstrating a fully integrated batch manufacturing execution solution for chemical industry customers. This solution is being demonstrated at the...

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...

Activplant gets patent for Throughput Analyzer

Activplant Corporation announced today that it has been granted a patent on its latest manufacturing software innovation the Throughput Analyzer. Since its release...

Perfomix and Dow work on new MES interface

Performix Inc., a provider of manufacturing execution, recipe management, and batch solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, has announced the...

Spring 2006

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to...

Process Automation Technologies | Industrial Networking | Control Global

Industrial Networking is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to device...

Activplant/Patni partnership to take performance management solution global

Activplant Corporation and Patni Computer Systems Ltd., have announced a strategic partnership aimed at providing manufacturers a powerful performance management...

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.

Kepware links to Oracle

Kepware Technologies, a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, announced today that its KEPServerEX Product will provide manufacturing plant floor execution data to...

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...

Performix joins SAP’s Industry Value Network Group for chemicals

Performix, a developer of composite applications for streamlining recipe management, manufacturing execution and electronic batch recording (EBR), announced it has...

Incuity to become OSIsoft ISV partner

Incuity Software, developer of real-time business intelligence (BI) software for manufacturing enterprises, today announced the company has signed a partner...

Control Global Online Guides

ControlGlobal works hard to get you the best informative resources in the process automation technologies. Wireless, Automation, plant service, Batch Manufacturing,...

Performix xMES achieves SAP xApp certification

Performix, a developer of composite applications for streamlining recipe management, manufacturing execution and electronic batch recording (EBR), today announced...

Convergence Bringing Mash–ups to Manufacturing

You Have to Optimize to Save and Invest to Innovate

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....

Danieli India picks Dresser Masoneilan valves for steel plant

Dresser Masoneilan, an international leader in the design, manufacture, and support of process control valves and solutions, was recently chosen by steel plant and...

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Siemens join forces in PAT technology

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has combined the Thermo Scientific Antaris family of FT-NIR analyzers and SIEMENS SIPATT software platform to provide a comprehensive...

Siemens acquires French MES vendor Elan

Siemens is expanding its industrial portfolio by acquiring Elan Software Systems SA, based in Toulouse, France, an international software supplier for Manufacturing...

Illinois groups launch Illinois Coalition for Chemical Safety

Today, Illinois businesses, unions, consumer groups, and other organizations, including the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and...

Honeywell's New Experion LS Brings the Power of a Distributed Control System to Smaller Manufacturing Sites

Control System Provides Reliability and Agility in Smaller System, Helps Plants Lower Lifecycle Costs

Millipore completes Phase 1 of modernization at Kankakee facility

Millipore Corporation, a lrovider of products and services that improve productivity and results in biopharmaceutical manufacturing and in clinical, analytical and...

Emerson and Cisco offer open-standard wireless solutions for process industries

Emerson Process Management, announced that it is collaborating with Cisco ( to offer open-standard solutions for wireless process and plant management applications...

Iconics and Kepware announce OPC-UA partnership

Iconics, a provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced an...

AeA global environmental regulation compliance road show

For the last several years, AeA has hosted an annual “roadshow” to give member companies and high-tech industry representatives first-hand insight into current...

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms will support MTConnect standard

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced its support of MTConnect, a new communication protocol to link machine tools from...

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...

Iconics offers seminars on real-time performance management

ICONICS, a provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced its...

Middleware Melds Manufacturing Info

Integration Projects Use Some Type of Middleware

Cisco and Rockwell Automation to integrate manufacturing and IT

The two companies are working together to optimize network integration across the factory floor and throughout the enterprise, using standard Ethernet technology.

Integrated Architecture Is Platform for Manufacturing Convergence

The Convergence of Control and Information

Rockwell Automation integrating real-time data between manufacturing and business systems

...manufacturing and business systems ControlGlobal.com 11/15/2005 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION will expand its plant-wide information software by extending its...

Emerson acquires Decision Management International

Emerson has acquired Decision Management International, Inc. (DMI) of Bradenton, FL. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Keep your wireless business secure

Increasing computer and information security is a top technology priority in 2005 for CEOs, CFOs and CIOs, according to Gartner research. Another high priority is...

Center for Industrial Automation & Manufacture (CIAM)

Academic staff at the University of Durham (UK) whose research interests include development of techniques for the advancement of industrial automation and ...

Sensicast Systems, Inc.

Remotely monitor temperature, energy and moisture over the Internet

Energy Monitoring: A Foundation for Effective Energy Management

Energy Monitoring: Modern manufacturing processes run on energy. Electricity and natural gas are common inputs to all manufacturing. Other fossil fuels such as oil...

Batch Manufacturing: Status and Future Challenges

This paper discusses the current status and developments in integrated batch automation. The idea of today’s batch automation is the integrated automation of the...

Definition and Format of Recipes for the Packaging of Consumer Packaged Goods

The S88 standard has delivered significant cost savings benefits to the batch industry worldwide. This has been achieved through standard terminology and models as...

"Collaborate-Breakthrough-Profit:" A Myth, Minefield or Treasure Chest?

The objective of this paper is to provide an outlook on emerging Collaborative Production Management (CPM) tools. It will discuss these CPM tools in relation to...

Use of Web Technologies in Batch Management

Genentech Inc.’s bulk manufacturing facility in Vacaville, CA has been in production for the past two years. Application of S88 design concepts has provided the...

Convergence and the Programmable Automation Controller

Ensuring your PAC-based control system is an integrated, robust and flexible information producer helps improve business performance, lower costs and uncover unique...

Integrating Shop-Floor Systems with SAP R/3 PP and PP-PI Modules – Some Recent Project Experience

Business drivers to improve performance, such as supply chain performance and operational effectiveness, require that integration of Enterprise Resource Planning...

Benefit from Using Documenting Calibrators

Why calibrate? For process manufacturers, regular calibration of instruments across a manufacturing plant is common practice. In plant areas where instrument...

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...

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...

Real-Time Energy Measurement and Empowerment

Business leaders in today’s manufacturing industries are facing a key issue, lack of visibility into plant business performance in real-time. Thus, real-time...

Six Sigma: What? Why? How?

This whitepaper provides the history of the Six Sigma Symbol and explanations on the Six Sigma concept, the Six Sigma implementation, the Six Sigma calculation and...

Why buy industrial computers?

This White Paper provides a report for OEMs and manufacturers who use computers in their manufacturing equipment and processes.

Process Control Network Security Using OPC Tunneling

Manufacturing companies have invested billions of dollars in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their investment...

Managing Batch Processes in 2020

Senior Pharmaceutical Executives Agree, the Motif of Batch Manufacturing Will Change Dramatically In the Next Dozen Years

FactoryTalk Editions Reach Out and Coordinate Data Treasure

Rockwell Automation Describes Two New FactoryTalk Applications: Historian ME (Machine Edition) and VantagePoint EMI (Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence).

Theater Showcases Benefits of Plant-Wide Optimization

Plant-Wide Optimization Presentation Shows What Is Possible in Manufacturing Today

Open Industrial Wireless Solutions: Realizing the Full Potential of Wireless

In the current global economic climate, manufacturing facilities are being continually pushed to grow the efficiency and profitability of their processes. The...

Open Industrial Wireless Solutions: Realizing the Full Potential of Wireless

In the current global economic climate, manufacturing facilities are being pushed continually to grow the efficiency and profitability of their processes. The...

Designing a Reliable Industrial Ethernet Network

Most of the major manufacturing automation end users and suppliers are using or considering Ethernet as an industrial control option for field devices, drives, power...

Workforce Development: Paul Mailhot of Autodesk

On April 18, Paul Mailhot of Autodesk, a company which is a huge supporter of automation and manufacturing workforce development, and an early supporter of FIRST...

Podcast: Maximize Operation Performance

TheOptimizedPlant.com is a process solutions resource that is aimed at helping industrial manufacturers succeed in this tough economic environment. It gives...

Siliken Solar Power Case Study

Siliken Renewable Energy Optimizes Solar Panel Production by Standardizing on NI Hardware and Software The Challenge: Optimizing the production...

Applying S88 – The Human Factor

Automating manufacturing using S88 concepts across all of the operational manufacturing boundaries has become the “standard” way of doing business. The current...

Multiple Products in a Monoclonal Antibody S88.01 Batch Plant

The most successful biotech companies have multiple products approved for market and must make the use of existing manufacturing capacity to produce them. Often...

Batch XML Interfacing

The ability to share information between batch control systems and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems has become a...

Protecting Process Control Systems and Networks From Cyber Attack

Business information systems and process automation systems that support the manufacturing enterprise have evolved from individual isolated applications utilizing...

S88 and Material: What is Going on Beyond the Process Cell?

The S88.01 Batch Control standard focused almost exclusively on the process cell and the activities and functions associated with it that convert raw material inputs...

Batch Distillation: Practical Aspects of Design and Control

Distillation, both batch and continuous, is the most often used separation technique in the Specialty Chemical Industry. While continuous distillation has...

Product Life Cycle Management and the General Recipe a Case Study

To adapt to today's shifting market and customer requirements, an enterprise must be increasingly agile to redefine its products. Organizational barriers introduce...

Maximizing the Potential of Batch Process Control

In the recent years, batch process optimization has made significant advances. The efforts that went into the development of ISA-S88/IEC 61512 batch control standard...

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...

Integrating Batch Automation with New Product Development: Meeting the Challenge

A major cosmetics manufacturer had just finished the first production run of a brand new skin cleanser, when the error was discovered – an ingredient in the cleanser...

Establishing Compliance of Batch SCADA Systems with FDA cGMP 21 CFR Part 11

FDA enforcement of a 1997 cGMP regulation, 21 CFR Part 11, for electronic records and signatures, is imminent. Compliance policy Guidelines were issued May 1999 to...

Process Analytics Finds Process Problems

Process Analytics and Intelligence—sometimes called Manufacturing Intelligence—has transformed the way companies produce goods, understand their manufacturing...

Low Voltage MCC Technology Helps Reduce Arc-Flash Hazards and Minimize Risks

Selecting the right MCC equipment leads to improved plant safety, helping protect people and capital investments. Measures to increase equipment and personnel...

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...

Advances in Low Voltage Motor Control Center (MCC) Technology Help Reduce Arc-Flash Hazards and Minimize Risks

Selecting the right MCC equipment leads to improved plant safety, helping protect people and capital investments. Measures to increase equipment and personnel...

PAT Looms over Pharma

Many Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Have Been Dragging Their Heels on Adopting Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Techniques for Years, but Now the Pressure Is On

The World's Largest Economy

In China, Manufacturing is Still an Honorable Profession

Fieldbus technology's next biggest hurdle

If you’re a skid or modular assembly manufacturer and want to differentiate yourself from the crowd, offering digital communications and fieldbus technology could be...

System integrators are today's new users

CONTROL contributor and WBF Chairman, Maurice Wilkins, offers his thoughts on where all the end users from manufacturing companies who attend events have gone in...

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...

Motor drives "hunt" for success

MalAsia strikes drive manufacturers, but motion control is stepping up, according to CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt's Product Roundup of motor drives...

Fieldbus in biopharma applications, Part 1

This article highlights issues associated with the installation of a multiple-fieldbus control system at a pharma processing facility and talks about its...

Automakers Seek to Simplify, Standardize

Automotive manufacturers strive to reduce new product development cycles to maximize sales opportunities.

Delivering on the Promise of Plant-wide Optimization

Rockwell Automation's Unified Platform for Communication and for Multiple Control Disciplines, Helps Manufacturers Realize the Benefits of Plant-Wide Optimization

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.

Global Machine Builder Issues Get Special Focus

The Global Machine Builders Industry Forum covered critical performance and global market issues impacting manufacturing success abroad.

Legislative Uncertainties and New Sustainability Opportunities

Owens Corning Canada and Other Panelists Talk About the Potential for Improving the Sustainability of Manufacturing Processes

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...

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...

Fieldbus in biopharma applications, Part 2

This article highlights issues associated with the installation of a multiple-fieldbus control system at a pharma processing facility and talks about its...

Integrated Architecture Shelters Users in Magnificent Edifice

Rockwell Automation’s Integrated Architecture approach helps lower integration costs, improves manufacturing agility, and helps end users make faster, better...

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...

Creating a Safety and Security Culture

The Process Manufacturing Industries Are Inherently Dangerous. Accident Still Happen, Plants Blow Up, and People Get Injured

Power supplies from China cut costs considerably

Competitive pricing from Asian manufacturers has prompted market growth of power supplies and considerable cost cuts. CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt...

PLC and HMI platforms

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out which PLCs and HMIs they recommend...

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...

The skinny on PC-based control systems

In this column, Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert, PE, takes a look at why a process skid manufacturer thinks PC-based control makes sense for its—and other—process...

Food & Beverage Forum Attendees Learn from Examples

Building machines for agile and flexible manufacturing is one key considerations among many for the Food & Beverage industry.

Well–Planned Support Lets Open Systems Soar

Process Manufacturers Can Best Manage the Downside of Open Systems

Information Management’s New Frontier

ABB’s Jim Kline Discussed the Role of Information Management in Addressing Manufacturers’ Need to Manage Plant Economics and Energy

Process Automation Key to Obama’s ‘New Era’

President Obama's Initiatives to Resolve the Economic Crisis Call on the Skills of America’s Engineering, Manufacturing and Process Automation Professionals

Lower Energy Costs and Sustainability Go Hand in Hand

But legislative uncertainties complicate strategies for manufacturers.

Painting the world brighter

PPG Industries is a chemical batch manufacturing plant that creates finishes for automotive OEMs. Each order is custom-mixed to the customers’ specifications,...

Adalet Offers Atex Control Panel Assembly Certification

Adalet, a manufacturer of explosion-proof enclosure systems and cable accessories, has completed a new ATEX Control Panel Assembly Certification.

Outsourcing

Learn what is driving process manufacturers to take a look at outsourcing.

Multi-Channel Transmitter Handles Up to 32 Measurements

Manufacturing Companies Are Looking to Reduce Costs

Boiler Efficiencies Optimized at Arkema

Robert Horton of ABB Optimization Services Explained How Chemical Manufacturer Arkema Made His Team’s Services Pay Off in Less Than Six Months

Infrared Solutions to be acquired by Fluke Electronics

Infrared Solutions to be acquired by electronics manufacturer Fluke Electronics. The transaction is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2005, following...

Process safety system market to see double-digit growth

A greater awareness, understanding, and adoption of safety system standards along with increasing demands from manufacturing expansion into China and India are...

Potent mix at World Batch Forum conference

The conference agenda included more than 30 technical presentations that facilitated exchange of information related to management, operations and automation of...

Applications from Around the Globe

CC-Link is a high speed, high performance industrial network technology that enables devices from numerous manufacturers to communicate

Longwatch's Video Historian for Video Surveillance System

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

Confronting digital espionage

Industrial Security: Where does defending against digital espionage fall on your priority list? See what cybercrime experts recommend as the best steps you can take...

Improved performance for accredited thermal processes

The move to a greater degree of furnace compliance for thermal treatments is building confidence between thermal processing equipment manufacturers and customers....

Is automation in your future?

Is automation really a profession? As HMIs and historians fade into the fabric of manufacturing, what has automation done for us lately? Executive Editor Jim...

Show Daily Edition from Automation Fair

Highlights from yesterday's activities include the keynote address by Keith Nosbusch, Rockwell's chairman and CEO, who reported on his company's efforts in the...

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...

How to diffuse a demographic bomb

CONTROL Managing Editor Nancy Bartles tackles one of the biggest challenges the engineering field will face over the next few decades. The demographic bomb the...

ISA Wireless Summit Blog

Walt Boyes blogged from last week's ISA Wireless Summit, formally titled Wireless Solutions for Manufacturing Automation.

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...

The Bullet WirelessHART Adapter Ships with New Features

The MACTek Bullet, a WirelessHART Adapter and Universal Communication Device, Will Ship with New Features to Help Process Manufacturers Get the Most Out of Their...

AutomationDirect, AVG clash over restraining order, lawsuit

A legal dispute between two operator interface panel manufacturers that’s been simmering in federal court for the past six months finally boiled over this week in a...

MatrikonOPC User Group 2006 to focus on driving connectivity

The MatrikonOPC user group will attract industry experts, integrators, and process/discrete manufacturers from around the world. This user group is geared towards...

TUV Rheinland to host international safety symposium

Manufacturers, engineers, systems integrators, and safety testing authorities will convene at TÜV Rheinland’s 2nd International Safety Symposium in Galveston, Texas...

Fieldbus Foundation includes end users in SIF demo

These field demonstrations will promote adoption of the FF’s SIF technology in the process industries. The project also includes development of SIF best practices...

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...

Iconics Claims to Be First with Windows 7

Iconics's Genesis64 HMI/SCADA package is the first manufacturer software certified on Windows 7

Podcast from ISA 2008: Wireless Enable Your Old Gauges

Harry Sim left Honeywell for Cypress Envirosystems (a subsidiary of Cypress Semicon) two years ago because he had an idea that needed Silicon Valley innovation and...

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,...

Ultrasonic System Measures the Level of PVC Resin and Reclaim

PVC for the Manufacturing Process

Do We Really Understand What We are Doing? Does anyone else?

This paper focuses on the difficulty of adequately understanding and clearly describing the functionality a manufacturing process is to have before hard...

Experion R400 simplifies management of open systems

Honeywell has added several major enhancements to its flagship Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) to help process manufacturers more easily and cost-effectively...

High-performance pressure measurement at competitive prices

Endress+Hauser�s M Class Deltabar M PMD55 transmitter and its Cerabar line of pressure transmitters have ATEX, FM, CSA, NEPSI and IEC Ex certifications for use in...

Guided Wave Radar vs. Differential Pressure Transmitters for Liquid Level Measurement

Differential pressure transmitters were first implemented in the 1950s but are still one of the most commonly used technologies for measuring liquid level in process...

Automation Asset and Performance Management

To correct business performance of process manufacturers, leading companies are adopting performance supervisory and automation asset management solutions that...

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...

Best Practices to Support and Maintain Advanced Solutions

There are potential challenges and pitfalls of supporting advanced solutions across the areas of process optimization, blending, alarm management, asset management,...

High Availability for Non-Traditional Discrete and Process Applications

With the significant threat that system interruptions pose to business performance and profitability, businesses are increasingly seeking to gain a competitive...

Ethernet in Harsh Environments

Ethernet has steadily migrated from the office environment onto the factory floor for automation and industrial control, in industries as wide ranging as food...

DirectIndustry – The Virtual Industrial Exhibition

With over 6.000 manufacturers, DirectIndustry ensures comprehensive product updates in categories such as electricity, mechanical transmission, hydraulics, robotics,...

New simulation software drives renewable fuel development

Invensys Process Systems has won a major contract to supply a new version of its PRO/II simulation software to a German synthetic biofuel manufacturer.

QSI graphical operator interface used in RAI wind farm project

QSI Corp., manufacturer of operator interface and mobile data terminals, has been selected by Relay Application Innovation (RAI), provider of electric power system...

Invensys, Apprion install managed wireless at chemical complex

Invensys and Apprion report they’ve jointly completed the first phase of a managed wireless infrastructure deployment at PPG Industries’ chlor-alkali chemical...

Survey sez, suppliers still lag on Internet response

Seventy-eight percent of engineers prefer to contact suppliers and manufacturers via the Web or email, according to the fifth annual Engineering Trends Survey...

MCAA has customer wireless needs for breakfast

Honeywell Industrial Measurement & Control’s general manager, Revathi Advaithi, and its business director, Dave Kaufman, discussed results of a customer input study...

Emerson acquires Damcos Holding A/S

The acquisition includes all Damcos’ technologies, manufacturing facilities, and employees.

ISA to present new alarm management standard at Matrikon Summit 2007

The standard is intended to provide a methodology that will result in the improved safety of industrial and manufacturing facilities.

Fieldbus-Based Safety Is a Reality―but Not Until 2011

Foundation Fieldbus Technology Provides a Comprehensive Solution for SIFs and Enables Manufacturers to Build Foundation Fieldbus Devices in Compliance with IEC 61508

How Chemical Facilities’ Anti–Terrorism Standards Impact Your Plant

The chemical facilities' anti-terrorism standards establish risk-based performance requirements and compel any facility manufacturing, housing or distributing...

How Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards Impact Your Plant

The Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards establish risk-based performance requirements and compel any facility manufacturing, housing or distributing...

Operational and Business Readiness

Matt Willmott discusses the top business issues process manufacturers are facing today and how an integrated main automation contractor approach can help overcome...

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...

Shift your focus from analysis to optimization with AMCT

This White Paper shows how the application of Active Model Capture Technology (AMCT) by a manufacturing plant’s problem-solving personnel reduces time wasted, and...

Fieldbus and remote I/O system comparison

Nine manufacturers participated in the FuRIOS study, which was conduced under the lead of an end user company that compared its use of fieldbus and remote I/O in...

Improved performance for accredited thermal processes

The move to a greater degree of furnace compliance for thermal treatments is building confidence between thermal processing equipment manufacturers and customers....

Securing process control network external communications

In the real world, sharing PCN data with external systems and accessing PCN systems from external sources is fast becoming a manufacturing necessity. This paper...

Shift your focus from analysis to optimization with AMCT

This White Paper shows how the application of Active Model Capture Technology (AMCT) by a manufacturing plant’s problem-solving personnel reduces time wasted, and...

Improving agility, performance, and profitability with MPC – A decade of success

The benefits of Advanced Process Control (APC) technology are deemed so significant that many manufacturing experts consider the use of APC a necessary requirement...

Security incidents and trends in the SCADA and process industries

This report presents evidence in support of a business case for improving security of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), process control networks...

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...

ISA 95 Integration Between SAP R/3 And Batch In Pharmaceutical Applications

The ISA 95 Enterprise to Manufacturing integration model is used to structure the integration processes between business systems and the plant floor. Through the use...

Tight Integration of Process Control with ERP

For a new built multi purpose batch plant the DCS with batch control was linked to the ERP-system of the company to ensure consistent and up-to-date data in all...

Functions Need to be Considered for Batch Material Transfer Controls

Batch processes depend heavily on the speed and repeatability with which each material transfer is completed for every recipe executed. Each and every transfer...

Applying MPC to a Batch Process

The application of Model Predictive Control (MPC) is often considered for multi-variable continuous processes. However, the benefit of applying MPC to a batch...

How to Establish a Batch Best Practice

All over the world, small and medium sized plants in the chemical, foods and beverage industries operate in manual or "manumatic" mode. For a small batch process...

Real Time Batch Control and Materials Management in Perfume Production

This paper discusses the automation of the batch process and raw materials warehouse functions at a large perfume manufacturing facility. Many items no longer met...

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...

My Plant is Manual, Why do I need S88?

Many manufacturers do not feel confident in designing new facilities incorporating full automation and want to retain manual control of the process. For these users,...

Throughput Improvement at Henkel Surface Technologies

Henkel Surface Technologies has significantly increased plant throughput and capacity utilization - resulting in substantial savings in terms of infrastructure...

Batch Processing in a Wider Perspective

With the “new economy” comes new requirements on all manufacturing and processing activities, including batch processing. The entire chain of activities – from order...

Delivering Process Information to the Desktop Using Next-Generation Microsoft Office Products

Optimizing production starts with collecting and analyzing a wide variety of data, including continuous process data, batch event data, and other event data, such as...

Repeated S88 Success Yields Cost Reductions at Large Consumer Products Company

A large consumer products company was faced with implementing multiple new product lines to meet product demands. Using S88 models for batch process control across...

Six Sigma and S88 Unite for Batch Automation Productivity Improvement

Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology applied to improving any type of process. It is a methodology endorsed by and heavily integrated into several major...

Integration of Package Units

One of the current problems of batch automation specialists, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, is the integration of PLC-controlled units (package units,...

Integrated Batch Solution for Pharmaceutical Rubber Production: The IPS Approach

Talk integration to a vendor and a customer and you’re likely to get two very different points of view, despite the emergence of standards designed to reconcile...

Mesh Topology in ISA100.11a

Analysis of the Mesh Topology in ISA100.11a D2. Before a network can be used it must be formed. As part of this formation, devices must be provisioned with a...

Information on High-Purity Water

As a manufacturer of measuring systems (transmitter/controllers and sensors) for resistance/conductivity and pH measurement, we are confronted almost every day with...

Integrated Automation of Filling Line for Parenteral Products

Integration of batch process and pharmaceutical production equipment (OEM) towards MES and Business System in a sterile manufacturing About 40 Filling, Inspection...

Open Architectures to Improve Plant Visibility and Performances

Manufacturing companies have invested large amounts of money in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their...

Accelerate Six Sigma Success

Manufacturers are under extreme pressure to increase operational efficiency as a means to increase reliability and maintain margins. Six Sigma is providing a...

Dynamic Energy Response

Energy and information are a significant and growing fraction of manufacturing costs and require lifecycle cost management. New facilities will have to be built and...

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...

Using Appliance Transaction Modules to Enable Tracking and Tracing

This white paper discusses how appliance transaction modules enable the sharing of data for tracking and tracing applications. Automated tracking and tracing...

Process Safety in Specialty Chemicals: Turning Industry Challenges Into Opportunities

The need: Lower life cycle costs and better information flow. The solution: New standards offer more choices for integrating safety and process control...

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...

Using Analysis Framework to Improve Decision Making and Optimize Production

IPLOM, a privately held company, manufactures environmentally compatible fuel products. As a small player in a competitive market, IPLOM needed to manage and...

Conformal Coated Industrial Ethernet Switch Protects Mission Critical Applications

What is Conformal Coating and why is it important in Industrial Ethernet switches? In mission critical and harsh environments like where most Industrial hardened...

Ethernet: Convergence, Choices, Complexities

Ethernet is penetrating ever deeper into distributed control systems to provide real-time control with direct connectivity to a wider range of devices while the...

Wireless Monitoring of Valves

The Need for Wireless Monitoring – An Overview There is a real on-going need for monitoring of valve positions (actuated or manual) in the process line....

Achieving Energy Optimization and Operational Excellence in Cement Production

Lehigh Cement Company's complete modernization of its cement manufacturing facility in Union Bridge, Maryland has helped them conserve energy and improve production...

TIA-1005 Industrial Ethernet Cabling Standard

The Effect on the 10/100 Industrial Ethernet Switch Performance. The Anixter Infrastructure Solutions Lab wanted to determine what effect the new TIA-1005...

Online Development's Enterprise Appliance Transaction Modules, the Next Generation

The paper provides an overview of the controller types and enterprise computer systems that can be connected with these appliances. It also provides an overview of...

An IT Perspective of Control Systems Security

Enterprises with industrial operations typically utilize at least two types of computer networks – Information Technology (IT) - a network that supports enterprise...

Compliance Testing and Certification

Moore Industries believes it is of vital importance to have third-party SIS evaluation for plant safety provided by a company with global coverage and reputation....

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...

Product Safety Case Study Compliance Testing and Certification

Moore Industries believes it is of vital importance to have third-party SIS evaluation for plant safety provided by a company with global coverage and reputation....

Understanding the Concepts Behind Short Circuit Current Ratings (SCCR)

The date of January 1, 2005 sits vividly in the minds of manufacturers within the industrial control panel field. That's because that's the day when the National...

Dual-Flow Dispensing Valve

Parker Fluid Control Division, manufacturer of the Skinner and Gold Ring lines of solenoid valves and the Sinclair Collins line of process control valves, announces...

RTD Temperature Sensing I/O Module

Opto 22, developer and manufacturer of the SNAP PAC System family of programmable automation controllers, I/O and accessories, has released the SNAP-AIRTD-10, a...

Flowmeter Technology Library

The Flowmeter Technology Library is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and...

Shift your focus from analysis to optimization with AMCT

This White Paper shows how the application of Active Model Capture Technology (AMCT) by a manufacturing plant’s problem-solving personnel reduces time wasted, and...

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...

Automation Asset and Performance Management

To correct business performance of process manufacturers, leading companies are adopting performance supervisory and automation asset management solutions that...

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Activplant gets patent for Throughput Analyzer

...Activplant Corporation has been granted a patent on its latest manufacturing software innovation, the Throughput Analyzer. Since its release in 2007, the...

Domino Theory

Can ISA88 and ISA95 Knock Down the Barriers Between Batch and Continuous Processing?

CEU credits to be offered for National Manufacturing Week Conference sessions

...National Manufacturing Week Conference sessions 01/19/2005 I thought you might be interested in taking a look at what s new with National Manufacturing Week...

NAM releases stats on manufacturing at NMW in Windy City

...NAM releases stats on manufacturing at NMW in Windy City 03/12/2005 National survey: Manufacturers less optimistic about the U.S. economy; refocus on branding...

Invest in Your Own Backyard

Lean Times May Be the Best Time to Spend on Enterprise Integration

Time for Plant and Corporate IT to Grow Up

Both The Plant and Business Sides of the Enterprise Must Grow Up and Work Together, Because the Role of the 21st-Century Plant Has Changed

SAP’s Move on Visiprise Confirms MES Ambitions

Colonizing the MES Space

Minnesota Manufacturing Coalition Will Deal with Politicians

...Minnesota Manufacturing Coalition Will Deal with Politicians 05/07/2004 Minnesota is fighting back against outsourcing, health care costs, tax code revisions, and...

Summit Spawns Manufacturing Coalition With Clout

...Summit Spawns Manufacturing Coalition With Clout 06/09/2004 Minnesota is fighting back against outsourcing, health care costs, tax code revisions, and other...

Roundtable meetings on pharmaceutical manufacturing technology

Around The Loop columnist Terrence K. McMahon provides ControlGlobal.com with this "special to the web" report on last month's Pharmaceuticals Process ...

Wyeth to close West Chester pharma manufacturing plant

...Chester pharma manufacturing plant 11/30/2004 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of Madison, New Jersey, has announced that it will discontinue all manufacturing...

Knights of the pharma industry roundtable

The PAT Initiative is much more than using process analyzers in pharmaceuticals processes. It is about gaining true understanding of the mechanisms that drive the...

Business Benefits Driving Sustainability Movement

Always Green and Always Lean

Batch Breaking Boundaries at Bayer and in Biotech

...of data into a plant historian.” Bayer’s Noël Jans on the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s push to aggregate and convert its reams of under-utilized data into...

America's secret automation think tank

CONTROL Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt has found a way to solve global warming, our dependence on foreign oil, and the loss of our jobs: Turn the problems over to...

Cookin' Up a Fine Elixir

End-users, system integrators and suppliers are implementing ISA-88-based solutions in many new and unexpected applications

Rockwell Automation CEO Affirms Continued Industry Leadership

Rockwell Has the Technology Leadership

ARC Forum to focus on driving enterprise performance

ARC's 14th Annual Forum will focus on driving enterprise performance through next-generation manufacuturing concepts.

What’s new this Month on ControlGlobal.com

Read the latest on ControlGlobal.com for October 2007

Blending Process and Discrete Applications

Rockwell Automation is focused on closing the gap between discrete and process control applications.

Control Global Online Guides

ControlGlobal works hard to get you the best informative resources in the process automation technologies. Check out the online guides we have put together for you...

PAT System Reliability

Site-Wide Analyzer System Reliability Requirements

China: Still High Risk, High Reward

Still an economic power house, but one with a complex future.

ISA95 “Levels” for Enterprise Integration

Purdue Reference Model, “95” Provides a Model that End Users, Integrators and Vendors Can Share in Integrating Applications at Key Layers in the Enterprise

ARC to host European process management academy

ARC Advisory Group will host their fourth annual Process Management Academy (PMA), on January 28-30 in Düsseldorf, Germany at the MARITIM Airport Hotel. PMA is a...

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...

Iconics releases three new products

Iconics has released three new products: a Windows Vista-certified HMI/SCADA suite, Genesis64; the Hyper Historian 64-bit data historian; and BizViz v9.1...

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...

It's a great time to be an end-user!

Editor in Chief Walt Boyes says the Big Boys are prepared to buy your loyalty with all sorts of goodies, so keep your price high. It's a buyer’s market out there for...

On ‘Strange’ Loops and Plant Intelligence

Douglas Hofstadter asks in his recently published book, "I Am a Strange Loop," how anything as amorphous and mysterious as the “I” within each of our brains can...

Nosbusch Growing Rockwell Automation's ‘Control Footprint’

"The convergence of discrete and process, information and control is a game-changing opportunity.”

Users Learn to Unify Data with One-Stop Simatic IT XHQ

The Benefits and Value of Operations Intelligence Are Only Realized When Users Take Action Based on Better Information

Smart Grid on Verge of Impacting Industry

Most Noted for Its Home/Residential Applications, the Smart Grid Is Poised for Industrial Use

Emerson helps upgrade Solutia's chem plant in South Wales

Phased migration to digital automation system brings increased reliability and a standard control system across all of the company’s sites.

Millipore offers mixing solutions evaluation service

Millipore Corporation announced the introduction of a new service designed as a flexible toolbox to help customers find the most efficient solution for their...

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...

Yaskawa Quality...More Than a Measurement

The Yaskawa Quality Experience

Expanded FactoryTalk batch capabilities

Rockwell Automation has expanded the application development capabilities of its FactoryTalk Batch software to help users more rapidly design and run batch applications.

MOBIFORM Software's Status Vision Designer

Status is a powerful data visualization software package

Partnership to Develop Bioreactor Models

Walt Boyes, editor-in-chief of Control, discusses with Scott Broadley and Terry Blevins the partnership to test bioreactor modeling techniques and tools for the...

Design Guide Complements Company Standards

DuPont Uses Its Design Guide to Assess Feasibility Early.

ControlLogix Boosts Agility for 3M, Frito–Lay

One 'Plug-and Play’ Solution Fits All

Mechatronics Key to Better Machine Performance

Key Mechatronic Terms and Definitions

ISA-88 Works for Continuous Processes Too

Using ISA88 Principles to Address Procedural Operations in Industries Outside the Traditional Batch Realm

Optimized Plant Makes Tea in Moscow

Pepsi Brews Up Batches of Lipton Tea with a State-of-the-Art Plant

Metering Pump Manufacturer Focuses on Employees after Hurricane

...Metering Pump Manufacturer Focuses on Employees after Hurricane 08/18/2004 We were pretty much at ground zero of the hurricane, says Bob Manion, president of...

Sensicast announces green wireless sensor solution

At the 2007 Solar Power Conference and Expo, North America’s largest solar energy event, Sensicast Systems, provider of turnkey wireless sensor network systems,...

Profibus Growth

Profibus Nodes Numbers Exceeded 25 Million

Ineos ChlorVinyls wins plaudits for digital automation

...have achieved a broad range of improvements to their liquid chlorine manufacturing processes and operations at the site by implementing PlantWeb digital plant...

Professional Development with Dick Hill

We Have Candidates for the Hall of Fame, but for How Long?

Using RFID in manufacturing? Absolutely!

...Using RFID in manufacturing? Absolutely! Download Now Print page Overview: Find more white papers on Control Platforms, Advanced Control View all white...

Security technologies for manufacturing and control systems

...Security technologies for manufacturing and control systems Download Now Print page Overview: Find more white papers on Software Integration, SCADA View all...

ITT Barton

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Mopeds

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IMTS 2008 to host NIMS Student Summit

The NIMS Student Summit at IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2008 will combine an interactive Career Development Center with a dynamic...

Mr. Kumar Bugs Washington

Just got off the phone from an interview with Shalli Kumar, chairman and CEO of AVG, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of electronic parts, with...

Chromalox Mexican operation wins ISO 9001:2000 certification

Chromalox, a manufacturer of electric heat and control products, has been awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification for its Mexico manufacturing facility located in...

The Kobold Group Aquires Heinrichs-MT

The Kobold Group has acquired instrument manufacturer Heinrichs Messtechnik GmbH of Cologne, Germany. Heinhrichs Messtechnik is known for manufacturing high-...

Distributed engineering

WITH TODAY'S abbreviated staffs, where can manufacturers turn when they need a new plant, a new control system, an upgrade, or help in fine tuning a process,...

Winter 2007

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Spring 2007

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Fall 2007

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to...

Summer 2007

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IN Q2 2010

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Contrec

Contrec From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  Contrec, Australian manufacturer of tanker loading systems and...

Custom Valve Concepts

Custom Valve Concepts has been manufacturing flow rate controllers for every type of application. From air to zinc hydrosulfate, Kates Controllers provide a simple...

Calibron

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Contrec

Contrec From Directory of Lost Companies Wiki Jump to: navigation, search  Contrec, Australian manufacturer of tanker loading systems and...

Custom Valve Concepts

Custom Valve Concepts has been manufacturing flow rate controllers for every type of application. From air to zinc hydrosulfate, Kates Controllers provide a simple...

Stay out of trouble with process analyzers

Process Automation: Modern process analyzers help manufacturers meet federal regulations, whether to meet EPA emission control requirements for power plants and...

IN Q4 2008

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

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...

Cree announces corporate conversion to LED lighting

Cree, Inc., manufacturer of LED solid-state lighting components, announced plans to convert all lighting at its Durham headquarters and manufacturing facility to LED...

Wonderware acquires SAT Corporation

Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys, today announced that it has acquired Houston-based SAT Corporation to offer mobile solutions that will help drive...

Brooks Instrument 's Quantim flow controllers heading for space

Transporting medical fluids that are manufactured on Earth into space is expensive and logistically challenging. NASA Johnson Space Center knew there had to be a way...

Fieldbus Foundation in copyright deal with Prolist International

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced it has signed a copyright agreement with Prolist International. The agreement allows Prolist to publish Foundation fieldbus...

Fall 2006

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to...

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...

Q1, 2008

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wirless Ethernet to process buses to...

Q2, 2008

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Q3, 2008

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Q1, 2009

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

Q2 2009

Industrial Networking magazine is all about the design and implementation of networked systems in industrial environments. From wireless Ethernet to process buses to...

IN Q3 2009

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Honeywell shows off new products at user group meeting

Honeywell Process Solutions used its annual user group meeting this week in Phoenix to show off new products, including a line of wirelss valve positioners, a...

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...

Schneider Electric introduces Industrial Solutions Center

Schneider Electric introduces the Industrial Solutions Center (ISC), a vertically integrated resource that can provide application-specific solutions, engineering...

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...

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...

CC-Link IE extends 1-Gb Industrial Ethernet to field devices

The CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA) announced today the release of CC-Link IE Field Network, an open, 1-gigabit (Gb) Industrial Ethernet field network that,...

Ease of implementation - how important is it ?

Manufacturers spend a lot of time trying ot make their systems easier to implenent with graphical tools. However on large projects most of the implementation is via...

Ease of implementation - how important is it ?

Manufacturers spend a lot of time trying ot make their systems easier to implenent with graphical tools. However on large projects most of the implementation is via...

Accutech/Adaptive Instruments completes license agreement with Honeywell

Adaptive Instruments Corp.extends its Private Label supply relationship with Honeywell Field Solutions by entering into a manufacturing license agreement with Honeywell.

Rockwell Automation introduces InSite Services managed support

Rockwell Automation today announced the availability of its InSite Services, a suite of managed services that helps manufacturers reduce costs, improve...

Maintaining a competitive edge

WBF gives a leg up to manufacturers looking to take advantage of the automation/information nexus.

PAC-Based Solution Lifts Tide Production

Material Feed Technology Helps Reduce Manufacturing Costs and Improve Batch Cycle Times at Proctor & Gamble Facility

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,...

ICONICS and IQity Solutions announce strategic partnership

ICONICS. provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA Visualization and Manufacturing Intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced the...

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...

New report: better performing plants mean better performing businesses

The Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International and research firm Cambashi today released both a new report, "Correlating Plant Performance...

Now showing on an HMI screen near you

New HMI technology is putting a whole new (inter) face on control information, allowing plant management to view manufacturing processes from their offices or on the ...

Business Mag's New Darling: Process Analyzers

In the May 3, 2004 issue, Business Week seized on the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Initiative as key to the Pharmaceutical Industry's drive toward upgraded...

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...

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...

Siemens and RIT announce research partnership

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Siemens Energy & Automation announced a new research and education partnership, which seeks to enhance real-world...

NIMS launches employee-training certificate program

The National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) has launched what it terms a major breakthrough in the entire field of employee training. After two years of...

OMAC has new name and mission

The Open Modular Architecture Control Users' Group (OMAC) is now the Organization for Manufacturing Automation and Control (OMAC). This name change reflects the...

ABB sponsors North Carolina biotech worker training

As part of its ongoing mission to educate the next generation of biotech workers, the North Carolina Community College System’s BioNetwork Validation Academy...

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...

Research shows benefits of adopting energy management practices

PLANO, TEXAS – Recent research from the Aberdeen Group reveals that industry-leading manufacturers are much more likely than other companies to view energy...

MeadWestvaco does more than cut down trees

Process Automation: Formed by the union of paper companies Mead and Westvaco in 2002, MeadWestvaco is a formidable $6 billion paperboard, specialty paper, office...

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...

OPC Foundation releases Unified Architecture

OPC Foundation formally launched its long-awaited OPC Unified Architecture (UA) standard and the organization’s manufacturer and members are lining up to support it.

ABB acquires Raffin Electric Company Ltd.

ABB has acquired the assets of the manufacturing and industrial contracting units of Raffin Electric Company Ltd. in Calgary, Canada.

Two Technologies Takes Legal Action Against Datalogic

Two Technologies, Inc., a l manufacturer of customizable, rugged handheld computer & terminal products, filed a complaint on August 10, 2007 against Datalogic...

Fieldbus Foundation, HART and PROFIBUS cooperate on wireless

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced it has joined the HART Communication Foundation and Profibus Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO) in launching a cooperative...

Honeywell to provide quality control system for Mexican papermaker

Honeywell today announced a $2.7 million agreement to provide its Da Vinci Quality Control System (QCS), Quality OptiMiser and Web Inspection System for Mexico’s top...

Kepware’s KEPServerEX certified for SAP link

Kepware Technologies has announced that its KEPServerEX product has been tested and approved by Junot Systems, a provider of embedded SAP integration solutions for...

Honeywell wins Finnish steel contract

Honeywell today announced a $2 million contract to implement its ExperionProcess Knowledge System with a Process, Machine and Drives (PMD) Controller at a Tornio,...

Emerson to provide integration services to Finesse customers

Emerson Process Management has entered an agreement with Finesse Solutions, Irvine, Calif., a manufacturer of measurement and control solutions for life sciences...

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...

Fieldbus Foundation releases final device coupler test specification

he Fieldbus Foundation today announced the release of the final Foundation Device Coupler Test Specification (FF-846 FS 1.0). This specification is designed for...

Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Christensen Display Products

Pepperl+Fuchs announces the acquisition of Christensen Display Products. Headquartered in Preston, WA, Christensen Display Products designs and manufactures...

Iconics releases GENESIS32 V9, V8 upgrades

Today, Iconics, provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows, has released GENESIS32...

Omron STI offer safety courses in SE Asia

The Omron Scientific Technologies, Inc. comprehensive suite of machine and process safety services is now available to manufacturers in Southeast Asia. Safety...

IV Produkt AB implements IFS Eco-footprint Management

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, today announces the first customer deployment of its recently launched Eco-footprint Management tool. IV Produkt, a...

TÜV Rheinland accredited for Indonesian certification

North American manufacturers looking to export to Indonesia may now tap into local TÜV Rheinland knowledge and expertise for a full spectrum of Indonesian...

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, HTRI collaborate on simulation enhancement

Honeywell and Heat Transfer Research Inc. (HTRI) are collaborating to help industrial manufacturers more easily design heat exchanger equipment in their plants. By...

Pepperl + Fuchs acquires Walsall Limited

TWINSBURG, OH – Pepperl+Fuchs has acquired Walsall Ltd., a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. With this acquisition, the company expands its Process...

Opto22

Opto 22, a developer and manufacturer of hardware and software for industrial automation, remote monitoring, data acquisition, and machine-to-machine (M2M)...

Scalable remote terminal unit

The RC500 Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) is a modular and scalable controller that easily integrates with SCADA technology to give industrial manufacturers tighter...

Digi International

The Digi Connect Wi-ME and Wi-EM 32-bit 802.11b wireless embedded modules are compatible with the company's wired network modules, so a manufacturer can convert from...

Pinpoint Laser Systems' Microgage alignment kit

Alignment kit allows for quick and precise measurements of production machinery straightness, parallelism, surface flatness squareness, bore and shaft alignment so...

Alarm Management Technology Library

Alarm Management Technology Library is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and...

The Search for Automation's Holy Grail

For the past 50 years, the process control industry has been working to improve productivity in manufacturing by extending automation into every aspect of the...

ARC Benchmarking Consortium at Age 1

Gary E. Lipson, Manufacturing Excellence Leader for Automation and Energy at Hercules, gives a frank and candid look at what his company expects to get out of its...

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...

Iconics reinforces OPC-UA commitment at ISA Expo

ICONICS, provider of web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems, announced its...

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...

MTL acquires RTK Instruments

The MTL Instruments Group plc (MTL) announced that it had acquired a 90% stake in RTK, experts in the design and manufacture of process alarm equipment, displays and...

Opto 22 announces first OptoGreen grant

Opto 22, a developer and manufacturer of hardware and software for industrial automation, remote monitoring and data acquisition projects, has announced Makila Hydro...

Flow Technology launches new website

Flow Technology, Inc. (FTI), a manufacturer of precision flow measurement instruments, systems and calibrators, today announced the launch of a new website providing...

Advantech’s eManufacturing Laboratory gives UC students hands-on experience

In October 2004, Professor Jay Lee joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) as the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Manufacturing. But, he didn’t come alone – he...

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...

State University of New York gets OptoGreen grant

Opto 22, a developer and manufacturer of hardware and software for industrial automation, remote monitoring and data acquisition projects, has awarded an "OptoGreen...

Watlow controllers now RoHS-compliant

Watlow, a designer and manufacturer of heaters, controllers and temperature sensors, today announced that Watlow’s on-off temperature and limit controllers are now...

Mettler Toledo offers RoHS/WEEE-compliant electrodes

Mett;er Toledo is proud to be the first manufacturer to bring to market RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment) and WEEE...

ITT, PEI promise 48-hour delivery of multi-pin connectors

ITT Interconnect Solutions, manufacturer and supplier of connectors, interconnects and cable assemblies, and PEI-Genesis, a distributor of interconnect solutions,...

Fisher control valves first to be SIL3-certified to IEC 61508

Emerson Process Management has received SIL 3 certification of several ranges of its Fisher valves to IEC 61508 standards. Emerson is the first control valve...

ABB to acquire Kuhlman Electric Corporation

ABB has signed an agreement to acquire U.S. transformer company Kuhlman Electric Corporation for an undisclosed amount from global private equity firm The Carlyle...

WIKA cuts water usage by 70%

educed water consumption at its Lawrenceville pressure and temperature gauge manufacturing facility by almost 70 percent from its April/May 2007 peak usage of 60,300...

Chromalox introduces Etirex Brand in Canada

Chromalox, Inc. - USA, a manufacturer of electric heat and control products, announced today that its products will now be sold in Canada under the Etirex brand.

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...

ICONICS and OPCTI collaborate on OPC training

Today, Iconics a provider of Web-enabled, OPC-based, HMI/SCADA visualization and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems...

Adept Technology achieves ISO 9001:2000 certification

Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), a provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, today announced it has achieved ISO 9001:2000...

Watlow offers SpecView HMI user interface for Watlow controllers

Watlow, a designer and manufacturer of heaters, controllers and temperature sensors, has partnered with SpecView Corporation, a supplier of human machine interface...

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...

Air Products uses GE's wireless monitoring water solution

Air Products, a global manufacturer of industrial gases and specialty chemicals, has recently completed installation of a new wireless remote monitoring solution...

Emerson expands partial discharge testing and monitoring

Emerson announces that it is increasing the scope of its Electrical Reliability Services partial discharge (PD) testing for electrical cables to include switchgear...

WAGO celebrates 30th anniversary in U.S.

WAGO Corporation is marking 30 years of innovation in North America this September. Established 1979 in a small suburban Milwaukee office by one employee, WAGO...

Emerson sells over one million Fisher digital valve controllers

Emerson Process Management has sold over one million Fisher FIELDVUE digital valve controllers worldwide. First introduced in 1994, the product and its digital...

Innovative program to smooth boiler system start-ups

The Clark-Reliance Corporation has announced a new program designed to greatly improve the efficiency of its customers’ boiler start-ups. The SureStart Operator...

Emerson opens $30-million Global Innovation Center

Emerson Process Managementy announced the opening of the state-of-the-art Emerson Innovation Center, Fisher Technology in Marshalltown, Iowa. This $30-million...

EZ-Automation Catalog

Over 400 new products from the manufacturers of the EZTouch operator interface.

Process Control Environmentalism Prevents Fires

Integrated Control Platform Helps "Shake" Up Manufacturing and Boost Production by 300%

The next President: On the record

This Special Report from Industry Week poses manufacturing questions to presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry. Here are their responses.

Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)

International organization for electronics, electrical, manufacturing and IT professionals, with specifically tailored products, services and qualifications to meet ...

HART Communications Foundation

Technology owner and standards-setting body for the HART Protocol, supported by major instrumentation manufacturers and users around the world.

Harsh Environments

Directory providing information about companies and institutions manufacturing, designing, testing, servicing, distributing and implementing products for harsh ...

Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC)

Users group for companies with interests in developing and implementing open control technologies for manufacturing applications.

ARC Advisory Group (ARC)

Automation research group offering manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain solutions, plus industry news, market analysis and comment.

AS-Interface

User group for manufacturers and users of the AS-Interface system.

Automation.com

Online resource for industrial automation, process control and instrumentation and manufacturing professionals.

Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA)

Educational organization connecting people and ideas for the advancement in theory, design, manufacture, and use of sensors, instruments, computers, and systems in ...

Emerson's Plantweb to automate Chinese drug plant

Emerson Process Management has been chosen to design and install its advanced PlantWeb® digital plant architecture to digitally automate Shanghai CP Guojian...

How to select a successful MES solution pilot

While it has been shown that adding automation tools to continuous improvement plans often exponentially increases results, it is important to apply a methodology to...

DCS or PLC? Seven Questions to Help You Select the Best Solution

This paper outlines the seven key questions that will lead you to making the best technology application decision. Should you choose DCS or PLC?

A Passion for the Game

The key to survival in these times, it seems to me, is to be doing what you really want and thoroughly enjoy doing. That's why I'm the editor of Control.

Some Things Do Exactly What They're Supposed To

Replacing one field transmitter technology with that of another, newer technology is usually described as easy. You pop out the old one, plumb in the new one, and...

Control software opens up, prices come down

Statistical Process Control: Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt showcases the latest software offerings that are becoming more open to the web, networks and...

We can’t believe our vortex shedding flowmeter

Process Automation & Engineering: We can't believe our vortex shedding flowmeter used in NH3 service when compared to a mass flowmeter. The shedder has been...

Life's a batch!

Process automation: Efficient batch control can be both an art and science, writes CONTROL contributor Gregory K. McMillan, so act accordingly for best results, and...

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...

Walt Boyes blogs live from WBF 2008 North American Conference

ISA88, ISA95, Battling Batch Diseases Worldwide and it ain't easy being Green...

Managing the Digital Oilfield of the Future

Halliburton Landmark Uses FactoryTalk VantagePoint and Pavilion8 Software to Effectively Manage Oilfield Data

Bad Names

The Price of Lying Isn't Just in the Deception Itself, but in How It Damages Relationships and Destroys Potential Opportunities

Renewable Energy Processes, Part 2

The Control System Must Be able to Detect the Loss of the Grid and Respond by Isolating Itself from the Grid or by Tripping Offline

Emerson's wireless technology improves productivity at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel

Emerson Process Management today announced several highly successful applications of its Smart Wireless solution at the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation,...

Siemens is main automation vendor for BASF plant

Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. has been selected as the main automation vendor for the new BASF JONCRYL Polymer Plant in Wyandotte, Mich.

Honeywell to train Kuwaiti chemical workers

Honeywell announced it has been selected to design, configure and install its UniSim Operations suite for Kuwait Paraxylene Production Company’s aromatics plant in...

CyboSoft wins DOE grant for intelligent actuation control

CyboSoft has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant entitled,"Intelligent Actuation Control Using Model-Free Adaptive Control Technology."

Veeda Clinical Research gets Thermo Fisher Scientific LIMS

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced that Veeda Clinical Research has selected its Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS to automate its laboratory processes in its...

IPS gets projects in Czech Republic and Ohio

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology, software and consulting firm, today announced that it has signed a five-year, more-than-$20 million contract to...

Emerson wins Mitsubishi Chemical China contract

Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific has been awarded a contract by MCC Advanced Polymers (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. to digitally automate a new advanced polymers plant...

LabVantage to acquire Life Technologies’ SQL*LIMS business

LabVantage Solutions, Inc. will acquire Life Technologies Corporation’s SQL*LIMS business.

Learning Basic Skills to Become an Automation Professional

How Do You Want to Learn Basic Skill Required to Be an Automation Professional?

Podcast with ARC on "Domino Theory"

Control contributing editor Rich Merritt conducts a wide-ranging interview with ARC Advisory Group principal analyst John Blanchard on a variety batch-related...

IR Automation Guidebook: Temperature Monitoring and Control with IR Cameras

This handbook is intended to help those considering the creation or improvement of production automation or monitoring systems to take advantage of what IR cameras ...

WBF XML Schemas

This paper provides background on, and an overview of, the soon to be released WBF XML batch and enterprise-control system schemas. The schemas consist of two sets,...

Control Valve Technology Library

The Control Valve Technology Library is a one-stop, educational shop for industrial manufacturing professionals, control technicians, engineering students, and...

MES – The Missing Link that Connects the Plant Floor to the Enterprise

A functioning Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is nothing less than the key to survival for manufacturing enterprises in the 21st century. This white paper...

Energizing the enterprise

Asset management will put the zip back in your plants! CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the industry’s stampede toward asset management systems for...

Production Monitoring and Data Mining - No Strip Mining Allowed!

Does your manufacturing or process plant have many sources of production data that is or has become voluminous? There are a variety of ways data can be mined,...

ISA Transactions abstracts on ControlGlobal.com

A collection of articles about measurement and control systems in the process manufacturing industries.

Adaptive Instruments becomes part of SCADAgroup PTY

Adaptive Instruments, the market leader for design and manufacture of tether-free wireless smart-process instrumentation systems has been acquired by SCADAgroup PTY...

Honeywell to Acquire Matrikon

Honeywell today announced it has signed an agreement valued at approximately $142 million USD (approximately $145 million CAD) to acquire Matrikon Inc., a company...

Still Sexy After All These Years

Going Green and Plant Integration Keep HMIs Looking Good.

Plant to enterprise – Putting the pieces together

While improved technology has narrowed the gap, the pressure now is on to complete the plant-floor-to-top-floor link. But the path is a twisty one dogged by complex...

Control News from Europe January 2008

Andrew Bond Reports from Europe

Control News from Europe February 2008

Read Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news and issues as seen from the U.K.

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...

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...info@newportUS.com newportUS.com® NEWPORT instruments are designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. � High Power � NEMA4/IP65 � Temperature � Humidity � Barometric...

Do You Know Who Made Your Valves?

Counterfeiting is a slippery business. Here’s how to minimize the risk and danger of fake process controls.

Stress-Free Retirement Planning

Planning for the Retirement of Process Automation Assets is Akin to Planning for Ones Own Retirement; Do It Right and the Outcome is Highly Rewarding

Interoperability Barrier No. 1: The CIO

According to AMR, 60% of Most IT Budgets Are Spent Attempting to Deliver to 2002 Expectations

Batch Dispatch

...gives a leg up to manufacturers looking to take advantage of the automation/information nexus. ControlGlobal.com By Lynn Craig Is manufacturing dead or...

DCS engineering help is just around the world!

Where can you turn when you need design and engineering services and your local DCS technology providers have run out of ideas? Well, expertise today can be...

Top 50 Automation Companies 2009

The 50 Largest Automation Companies Around the World Keep On Keepin' On Despite the Recession

Who should provide your network support?

Decisions about how to support your factory networks can present hard choices. Is outsourcing that support a better choice than utilizing your own IT group?...

PAT slaps pharmas with control system aftershave

Though users in other process industries have seen it coming for years, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) is now bringing similar improvements and benefits to many...

The world is a batch

ISA 88 gives process automation a native language for batch processes, and much more. Editor in Chief Walt Boyes reports on the state of the batch in the September...

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...

It s U.S. against the world! When do we attack?

...Manufacturing Week 2005 will be in full swing between March 7 and March 10 at Chicago s McCormick Place Complex. Presented by the National Association of...

art_series_mod_squad_pa_dow.pdf

...pioneer, who became Dow’s executive VP, and planted the seeds for its Manufacturing Operating Discipline (MOD) series process automation system. F O R T H E P R O...

Process Automation Media Network

ControlGlobal.com's Podcast Library contains a wealth of audio interviews conducted with some of the biggest names in process automation and instrumentation. Listen...

Is PAT a Silver Bullet?

Ready to Kill Some Werewolves? Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) Are Beginning to Inject Quality-by-Design (QbD), Model-Predictive Control, Risk Management and...

What’s Interoperability and Why Is It Important?

The IICI Develops Industry Consortium Establishing an ISA Interoperability Designation to Identify and Promote Interoperability Standards and Compliant Products and...

The business value of automation

WBF’s Director of Strategic Industry Alliances, Rodger Jeffery, is excited about the new challenges our industry faces and suggests we regroup, reorganize, and...

Alphabet Soup Improves Business visibility

The technical details of using S88, S95 and other tools are well-documented. The reason why using them makes good business sense hasn’t been well known—until now.

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

...between enterprise departments, but also collaboration with suppliers, co-manufacturers and customers. PLM is a new vitally important backbone in the supply chain:...

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The whys and hows of enterprise integration

CONTROL's Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt reports on enterprise integration, who's doing it and how well it is going, and how information is provided from the...

2002EU General Recipe: Multiproduct Facility Design; Techonolgy Transfer

2002 European Conference

Podcast Library

...create a manufacturing language. Walt Boyes talks about the direction ISA88 and ISA95 are taking and what the future holds for batch and hybrid manufacturing....

Plan for Payback

Shake the tree by supporting business performance with a consistent, corporate-wide strategy for improving process automation

TEDS Excellent Adventure

The IEEE P1451.4 Transducer Electronic Datasheet Standard will fundamentally change sensor production and use

In the trenches of Fieldbus War II

Like the 20th Century’s Great Conflict, the first Fieldbus War never really ended. But what will the outcome be this time? CONTROL writer Ian Verhappen takes...

Fifty automation companies worth watching

For this edition of the Top 50, we've rewritten the rules. Check out which companies made the list, as ARC and CONTROL magazine count down the Top 50 automation...

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

Life Sciences Face New Challenges with New Solutions

Bosch Packaging Solutions Discusses Its Implementation of a Track-and-Trace System Developed for Life-Sciences Industry Clients

It's Not Easy Being Clean

Sustainability Will Happen When We All Learn a New Economic Calculus

Optimization

...Smart Manufacturing Author: Walt Boyes Posted: 06/24/2010 Industry professionals have been trying to achieve safe, smart, responsible, sustainable manufacturing...

Where Will You Buy Your Automation Products?

eBay is entering the industrial automation market to make e-commerce sites feasible for a wider market

Patent infringement case remains a tangled web

In the April issue of CONTROL magazine, Managing Editor Steve Kuehn reports on how Solaia may have finally met its match now that it has faced off against Rockwell...

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.

Training and Keeping Your Employees

How to Get and Keep the Best Techies

Control News from Europe May 2008

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Industry Links

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and 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 ...

Andrew Bond Covers Process Automation in Europe

Here are excerpts from the October 2007 issue of Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news...

Integration Operations to Enterprise

Who’s the Best Choice to Help You Get the Job Done?

Control News from Europe March 2008

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Control News from Europe June 2008

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Sustainable Chemistry Can Mean Good Business Too

Sustainability Can Deliver Significant Economic Benefits

Industry Links

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Software & Integration

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Batch Management

...Batch Manufacturing Guide ControlGlobal.com We’ve been covering batch manufacturing at Control for years now, and a pretty complete archive of our material is...

The U.S. chemical industry: R.I.P.

Process Automation: Around the Loop columnist Terrence K. McMahon mourns the demise of the U.S. chemical industry, as national plants are being shuttered in...

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 ...

Process News from Across the Pond

Here are excerpts from the September 2007 issue of Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation...

Future Imperfect

Will automation engineers go the way of buggy-whip makers? Will they become the English majors of technology? Or are they way too important to be dispensed with?...

Control News from Europe December 2007

Andrew Bond reports on process controls

Life on the Edge of the Idea Economy

Automation Professionals Will Be the Agents and Enablers of the Transition to an Economy Based on Ideas and Information

Object Architectures in an Increasingly Services-Oriented World

Standard Services Make the IT Underpinnings Irrelevant, Allowing End Users to Focus on the Business at Hand

Safety Systems for Non-Engineers

What All the Hullabaloo Over Safety Instruments Systems Is About?

Wireless Workers Unchained

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

Migrating Provox DCS to DeltaV

...Noltex LLC is a leading manufacturer of ethylene vinyl alcohol co-polymer. The company's facility in La Porte, Texas recently completed one of the first successful...

RFID: Coming to a plant near you

Is RFID in your process automation future? If you handle multiple-ingredient batches, adhere to record keeping practices, and need a better handle on quality control, ...

Variable-Frequency Drives Drive Energy Costs Down

Fuel and Electricity Prices Are Rising But Energy-Efficient Control Technologies Are Here to Help Offset the Costs

Making automation pay enterprise-wide

From the plant floor to the front office, the means often justify the ends, so if the level of credibility does not exist in your company that allows new automation...

Occupational therapy for the control engineer

Process Automation: Can companies and technologies adapt to change in a positive manner? CONTROL Contributor Dick Morley says yes and believes that with some...

Serving up asset management

The asset management pie is like a pizza that comes in many flavors and styles. It can be cut into several pieces, cooked with ingredients from home, or ordered out....

PPAR-5 convenes in San Diego

Around the Loop columnist Terry K. McMahon reports on the pharma roundtable recently held in California and why process understanding (PU) is the real meaning of the...

Back in CONTROL!

Just when he thought he was out, Group Publisher and VP of Content, Keith Larson, is pulled back in. Check out "Wind-up," his new monthly column positioned as a...

Where does the control system integrator go?

The CSI must be brought into the design phase of the construction process prior to the selection of major equipment and control components in order to review them...

Control News from Europe

Here are excerpts from the November 2007 issue of Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news...

ISA-99 Is THE Big Deal for 21st Century Plants

People Who Never Have Worked in the Plant Are Making Workflow Decisions About Safety and Product, Creating a Golden Opportunity for Cyberattackers

Yokogawa, SAP and the Middleware Space

Adoption Standards Is Key in Business and Control System Integration.

Safety, Security and Complex Systems in Critical Infrastructure Protection

The Global Critical Infrastructure Is Made Up of Complex Systems Which Are, In Turn, Made Up of Complex Systems Made Up of Simpler Systems

Why Does Your Process Sampling System Need a PC?

The Proposed Sensor Actuator Manager (SAM) Controller and Software Applets Could Help the New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI) Succeed

Why Your CFO Loves VFDs

Variable-Frequency Drives, the Right Software and Motor-Control Centers Push Energy Savings to the Bottom Line

Automation Fair 2005 surpasses traditional tradeshows

Rockwell Automation’s private, invitation-only event has become the largest automation trade show in North America.

ISA and OAGi come to an understanding

The groups agree to share projects, information and standards documentation to further the development and adoption of both ISA-95 and OAGIS standards.

Global market for fuel cell, hydrogen energy and related nanotechnology to reach $14 billion by 2014

According to a newly released report from iRAP, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Energy and Related Nanotechnology—A Global Industry and Market Analysis, the fuel cell and...

Operational Excellence Knowledge Center | Honeywell | ControlGlobal.com

The Operational Excellence Knowledge Center helps process automation professionals to understand and apply the solutions available to them with the goal of improving...

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...45 to 60 percent of building energy expenses. Thiru’s Quest: Making an Entire Manufacturing Plant Energy Efficient Thiru is a third-generation Malaysian who...

Advanced Control

...We Need to Look Closely at the Culture of Manufacturing Now and Restore the Belief That Manufacturing Is an Honorable Profession Renewable Energy Processes,...

Batch Techniques Benefit Continuous Processes

ISA 88 standard practices for defining equipment modules and phases prove effective in several continuous processes at Procter & Gamble

The Failure of Nerve?

...became clear from a study that ARC did last summer, that more than 80% of manufacturing companies continue to use traditional accounting practices to understand...

Technocrats take the '318 patent to task

In this DigitalField Insider web exclusive, Managing Editor Steve Kuehn reports on the Solaia patent case and how it continues to weave its costly way through the...

Fermilab: Can cheap flowmeters be good?

CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes takes a look at how an anti-matter factory works at one of the largest high energy physics labs in the world, and why flowmeters...

Would you want your kid to do this job?

Despite a shortage of young engineering professionals, most of us don't want our kids to grow up to work in the automation industry, but what is automation but...

Invensys appointment signals shift of emphasis to services

Here are excerpts from the February 2007 issue of Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news...

Wireless: A Field Guide to Industrial Wireless

No Other Technology Has Been Written About, Trumpeted by Vendors and Snipped by Critics Like the Use of Wireless Communications in the Process Industry

Flat World Drives PLC Market Growth

The worldwide market is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3% over the next five years.

On the Road to Renewable Transportation

The OECD estimates that replacing 10% of the country’s motor fuels with bio-fuels would use one-third of all croplands.

Nutz and Boltz of Wireless HART™

WirelessHART™ Is Real, Dependable, Scalable, and You Can Use It Now

MOM–MDM CRUDS Matter More than Politics of Ownership

The MOM-MDM Paradox

Waste Carpet-to-Energy Project to Power Carpet Production in Georgia

...Siemens Building Technologies have developed a process for converting carpet manufacturing waste into energy. The first of its kind, the facility is expected to...

Honeywell’s wireless considered at 2006 User Group conference

...all-encompassing. It includes field devices, closed-loop regulatory control, manufacturing operations, maintenance, asset management, regulatory compliance, and...

GE Fanuc and SAP ink sales and marketing agreement

GE Fanuc Automation has announced the completion of a sales and marketing agreement with SAP America to jointly market GE Fanuc Production Management solutions and...

Honeywell, Enraf and RMG: Culture Clash or Cultural Melding? #honeywell #pauto

“When Cultures Collide” Great Britain, Canada and the United States all have a saying…that we are separated by a common language. While there is humor in that, there...

Boyes

...Manufacturing Now and Restore the Belief That Manufacturing Is an Honorable Profession If We Have the Will... 07/15/2010 We CAN Revitalize American...

How and Why to Monitor Power

Quantity, quality, and reliability of this expensive raw material can make or break your plant's bottom line

What's So Special About Process Control Projects?

Modern project management approaches are a good start, but these projects require special techniques

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?

FDA's Analytical Initiative Gathers Steam

FDA's PAT Initiative Promises to Be a Long-Running Show. Stay tuned

Create Connections

Plants seize on web technology as a cost-effective way to pump information

The Power Is In Your Hands

Looking for a Digital Field Network? With HART, It's Right in Front of You

What Are You Reading?

When it Comes to Judging the Quality of Technical Information, First Consider its Source

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wire, cable, and connectors are crucial

As the use of wire and connectors increases with added networking functions and interoperability-–and decreases, as networks simplify-–cabling has become forever...

Process simulators aren't just for training

From design to startup and beyond, operator training simulators certainly appear to be worth all the trouble, especially since they can save time and money...

How to pre-test Foundation fieldbus instruments

Process control authority Bela Liptak brings in specialists from his cadre of co-authors to answer a reader's question. Find out if they agree on ways to pre-test...

WBF 2006 North American Conference

This page contains all the available White Papers from the 2006 WBF North American Conference sorted by session topic.

Intrinsically safe Foundation fieldbus H1 networks

This article provides you with the information needed to understand what is required to implement an intrinsically safe (IS) Foundation fieldbus H1 network in a...

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...

Out of the Automation Box

ISA announces the S100 Compliance Institute to test and enforce compliance with new wireless standard. The S100 will be avilable to the publin in late 2008.

Talk to me, Baby

How ISA-95 can lead to, if not world peace and universal love, at least a plant where all the departments can talk the same language.

Control News from Europe April 2008

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Not Your Daddy’s HART Standard

Wired HART and WirelessHART™ Form an Integrated Field

Diffusing Bubble Bombs

Proper Valve Sizing for Severe Service Can Help Lessen Wear and Damage from Cavitation

Novel Approach Enhances Control System Upgrade

Measures to Mock-Up Wiring and Limit Project Scope While Incorporating Operational Improvements Provided Significant Benefits

PLC Programming

The Three Top Reasons Why RLL - Ladder Logic - Remains the Control Language of Choice of PLC Users Worldwide Are - It's Easy to Learn, Robust to Use and Offers...

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

Slowly But Surely

The Market for Miniaturized, Modular Sampling Systems Has Yet to Emerge, but NeSSI Evangelists Remain Confident

WBF, OMAC and ISA work to develop new standard project

...and examples for industrial automation that can be applied to the total manufacturing process. The focus of the workgroup is on batch processes, packaging and...

Energizer selects Citect for MES solution

Citect to pilot real-time MES solution in Alkaline Battery Division with plans to expand to more plants.

Automation Federation joins control systems security certification initiative

Automation Federation has made a commitment to support a new initiative aimed at evaluating the feasibility of creating a set of well-engineered specifications and...

WBF breaks with ISA in bid to regain MES initiative

The decision to separate from ISA is of particular importance at a time when MES and enterprise integration issues dominate the automation industry agenda.

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...

Endress Hauser Opens $18 Million Flow Laboratory in Indiana

Endress Hauser's immense magnetic flowmeter calibration rig is the largest in the U.S. and can measure flow in pipe sizes up to 48 inches.

Is IOM Outsourcing the Crown Jewels?

Invensys Operations Management (IOM) transfer the Invensys Development Centre (IDC) in Hyderabad, India, to an outsourced service provider

September 2007

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Honeywell, Enraf and RMG: Culture Clash or Cultural Melding? #honeywell #pauto

“When Cultures Collide” Great Britain, Canada and the United States all have a saying…that we are separated by a common language. While there is humor in that, there...

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Asset Management

...Pigment Dispersions Manufacturer Plasticolors Uses Predictive-Adaptive Material Transfer Control to Continuously Tighten the Accuracy of Its Filling Batches on the...

A Semi-Sweet Affair

Most control engineers love what they do, but there's trouble in paradise--and some discontent in the ranks

How to Make Your Project Fail

Ten missteps that can spell disaster...and how to avoid them

Four Wishes

Our new column has a little fun with process engineering. What demented the RTD? Greg imagines a perfect 2003, and a New Puzzler: Reluctant Valves

CONTROL Process Automation Hall of Fame:

Our 2003 Hall of Fame inductees exemplify excellence, diligence, and influence in the control profession

Sell Time, Not Tons

...Manufacturing companies have traditionally used dollars per unit, or tons in the case of U.S. Steel, as the common metric to measure profitability. Most plants...

ISA Expo Returns to Houston

Pared down to a three-day event October 21-23

Framework Wars

Vendors are vying for dominance of the control system architecture market

What DAQ System Should We Use?

Readers help a reader solve this control problem. Next month: How can we measure load profiles?

The Analyzer Community's Conclave

For reasons internal and external to the analyzer community, this is shaping up to be a watershed year

Beaming it up to the enterprise

Getting aggregated data from the plant up through the enterprise is the easy part, according to Editor in Chief Walt Boyes, but getting realtime data to the enterprise...

The art of asset management

Will asset management save North America's process plants? This article from the editors of CONTROL provides the 411 on local and remote asset management capabilities ...

Catching the Compliance Wave

New Control System Ensures California Surfboard Composites Processor is S88 Compliant

Don't Cut the Cord

Quick Connectors, Cordsets, and Sensor Modules Contribute to Productivity and Process Versatility (Special from Industrial Networking)

Books for success in the process automation industry

Covering the world of automation, instrumentation and control, these industry books available from ISA are authoritative, thorough, and written and reviewed by...

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...

Applied control theory moves out

Process Automation: Many of your peers share the same advanced process control (APC) problems, and an APC solution applied to one process can often be adapted for...

Justifying HART investments to management

Process Automation: In putting together a case for investing in HART technology, maintenance and operations departments need to stress to management the situations...

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...

Process simulation: Your job is still safe…for now

With mechanical simulation tools, one engineer can do the work of an entire staff. With chemical processes, however, simulation tools aid the staff — but don’t...

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...

What happens at PAR, stays at PAR

CONTROL columnist Terry K. McMahon reports on the 11th Pharmaceuticals Automation Roundtable, including staying focused on simple logic that adds value, and...

Users left with skid marks

Senior Tech Editor Rich Merritt takes an unbiased and detailed look at the way end users and skid builders feel about each other and concludes that what we have here...

Standards bring order to chaos

Implementation of the New Sampling/Sensor Initiative (NeSSI) standards will simplify sample system design, installation and operation, fundamentally changing and...

Innovations in batching, dosing and weighing

Challenges brought on by new regulations and technical problems for batching, dosing and weighing have pushed users to find some innovative and surprising solutions...

The changing face of automation engineering

CONTROL looks at lights-out plants, online as-builts, remote asset management, and all the other things that will be necessary to make up for the lack of trained...

Mission possible: Control and IT integration

Despite what you may have heard, it is possible for plant and enterprise IT departments to play well together. CONTROL's Dave Harrold reports on changes, new...

Ins and outs of remote I/O deployment

This article for Industrial Networking magazine summarizes data from the recently published Remote I/O study that indicates which market segments have the strongest...

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...

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...

Control Valve Market to Exceed $5 Billion by 2011

The Worldwide Control Valve Market Experienced Double-Digit Growth in 2006

Integration

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

Islands in the Stream

Unless You’re Talking Vacation Destinations, Islands Conjure Up Images of Isolation and Communication Difficulties

Process Plant 2025

One-Person-and-a-Dog Operations? Wearable HMIs? At-Home Control Rooms? Or More of the Same Ol’, Same Ol’? Here’s What May Be on the Horizon

Siemens Exiderdome Redefines the Road Show

When All’s Said and Done, Exiderdome Will Have Hosted Some 200,000 Individuals from Around the World

For Dow Chemical, RtPM Translates to Record-Breaking Profits

There’s more than one reason why Dow Chemical Co. had record-breaking earnings in its most recent fiscal quarter. But chief among them is the company’s commitment to...

Mitigating the Inevitable Pain of Obsolescence

The Cost of Using Obsolete Equipment Must Be Balanced Against the Cost of Replacement

Get Your Process Analyzer Info Here!

This Month We Cover Process Analyzers

Align Plant-Level KPIs with Business Objectives

People Will Do What You Measure and Reward Them to Do

Wireless Hype, Technology Breakthroughs and Making it in U.S.A.

Readers Chime In and Give Us Their Opinions on Current Issues and Articles

ARC conducts second annual OPC plant connectivity survey

...was designed to capture the current practices and future direction of the manufacturing community regarding the access and exchange of information originating on...

SME Funds Automation Education at Alexandria Technical College

...The Education Foundation of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has grant-funded $207,536 to Alexandria Technical College s Center for Automation and...

Cisco Systems hikes ODVA support

Cisco will help ODVA develop and manage its industrial network technologies, and serve on its board of directors and technical review board.

Invensys-Wonderware production solution for MES gets SAP endorsement

Invensys Systems, Inc.-Wonderware announced that its Invensys-Wonderware Production Execution 1.0 packaged composite application (PCA) for MES, which has achieved...

Industrial Ethernet infrastructure market to reach nearly $1 billion by 2011

The market for hardened industrial Ethernet switches and other types of industrial Ethernet network infrastructure will grow to nearly a $1 billion market during the...

Schott AG Builds Solar Products Plant in New Mexico

Executives from Schott AG of Mainz, Germany, Governor Bill Richardson (D – NM) and local dignitaries break ground at the Schott Solar facility in New Mexico.

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.

AVG’s Kumar Challenges Big Three

Auto Makers Are Spending Close to $1.2 Billion per Year on Automation Control Products

Now Sudipta Says It's Back to the Knitting...

Information Integration Center | ABB | Control Global

This Knowledge Center from ABB discusses the integration possibilities available today, and demonstrate how information from previously disconnected areas can be...

Chasing Moore's Law - The Truth Behind the OS and CPU Upgrades for Industrial PC Users

The COTS (commercial, off the shelf) revolution has changed commercial computing, created personal computing, impacted telecommunications, and made huge changes in...

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Control Platforms

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Programmable Controllers

...companies seek ways to make their businesses grow for the long-term. Ask any manufacturer today what he/she needs in an increasingly challenging economy. It's...

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...

ERP integration gateway

Rockwell Automation announced that it has extended the capabilities of its Rockwell Software industry solutions with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)...

Sustainable Process Automation

What does sustainability mean for the process industries and how do we achieve it? Is it saving energy? Rethinking the use of raw materials? Optimizing our...

Merritt

...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 all...

Leveling the Field

Risk, danger, and devaluing the dollar

Intrinsically Safe With ATEX

...From a manufacturer's point of view, products sold to EU member states must have a CE mark. For products that fall under the umbrella of ATEX, the CE mark can only...

Lessons From the Past

History Says the Future of U.S. Industrial Competitiveness Is Brighter Than We Think

Mmmm, Mmmm...COTS

End users, systems integrators, and vendors agree that COTS technology-based controllers are almost all good

Jump Start IT

How you can use XML and Web Services to empower business systems with plant information

On the Horizon

This year's top technology trends point the way to more process data, better plant information, and critical decision-making capabilities

More Than a Beauty Contest

How to Select an industrial Control System Integrator Without a Dart Board

Converge on Safety

Special report from Industrial Networking Magazine: End users and machine builders wait for digital safety network standards bodies to make their differences vanish.

Process Control Trends--Part 2

...digital field devices utilize a variety of communication protocols, the manufacturers provide interface cards to the common buses. Such cards are available for...

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, ...

Securing your control system

Protecting your system from hackers can be complicated, so system specifiers should consider deploying other technologies to ensure that wireless access points only ...

Long Ago, In a Control Room Not So Far Away ...

...and established manufacturing plant, I stumbled upon one of the most remarkable discoveries of my career. There was one small manufacturing plant located...

Sensing trouble

Process Automation & Instrumentation: Editor in Chief Walt Boyes issues a cognitive dissonance alert! If you want to play in the big leagues and move into the...

What's in your server?

Security threats to industrial control system networks are a fact of life. Senior Technical Editor Rich Merritt shares tips and techniques he culled from end users...

C’mon, vendors, let’s step up!

ISA has been trying for years to get employers in the process industries to support process automation careers, but it could do a lot more if it had the volunteer...

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...

Do you need a single-source middleware solution?

Process Automation: As integrated middleware solutions vie with best-of-breed products, Senior Tech Editor Dan Hebert wonders if there will ever be a true integrated...

Choosing motor controls and drives

Process Automation: In any industrial control application, using the right drives and motor controls can make or break the project, and also can make a huge...

The MOD Squad: Process automation at Dow

In the first of a six-part series, a team from Dow Chemical shares its perspective and techniques for developing its own process automation and safety systems,...

OPC as the network glue

Industrial Networking columnist, Ian Verhappen, addresses open process connectivity (OPC) and how you can use different flavors of it depending on the application...

Podcast: The ARC Benchmarking Consortium

In this podcast for ControlGlobal.com, Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, interviews ARC's John Wason and Dick Hill on the state of the Benchmarking Consortium after the...

Process automation at Dow: Part 2

Part 2 of this three-part series describes Dow Chemical Co.’s transition from a successful, homegrown company to a commercially developed, highly integrated process...

Posting gains: CONTROL's 2006 Salary Survey

Respondents to the CONTROL 2006 Salary Survey are collectively earning more money, experiencing increased job security, reporting more hiring and fewer layoffs, and...

Collaborative process control: The Dow/ABB story

This article discusses what was involved in building a close working relationship with a vendor and the elements that are essential to starting and sustaining any...

Multiple choices

The many flavors of Ethernet and wireless are trendy, But it’s the underlying acceptance and adoption of fieldbuses that pushes users to find some tasty and...

Control of the solar-hydrogen plant

Columnist Béla Lipták describes equipment and control requirements of the solar-hydrogen demo power plant and says we now are in critical need of them because the...

Come together

Integration of plant-floor, building, physical security, and enterprise network means more changes for unathorized access and more need for intelligent security,...

Emerson/Cisco Do Wireless Together

Emerson and Cisco partner up to enable wirelss and mobile applications in rugged industrial environments

Service Plant Soon?

EAM is different from industry to industry. Just what is enterprise asset management?

Beauty Is as Beauty Does at Consumer Products Forum

Rockwell Automation provides seamless simplicity.

Hall of Fame Extras

Read the Extra Material We Couldn't Fit in our Print Edition of Process Automation Hall of Fame

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...

4 The Situation

Get the Attention of IT and Corporate Management. Hand Them Section 4 of ISA-99 and Ask Them to WAKE UP!

Beach Blanket Control

“PlantBerries” Won’t Control Processes Any Time Soon, but They Do Break the Link Between Many Workers and Their Control Rooms

Biogen Idec’s Excellent Integration Adventure

Unifying and Integrating Automation Practices

Carving Up Security

Many Process Control Engineers and IT Technicians Are Still Learning to Communicate with Each Other, but Some Are Sitting Down to Define Roles and Divvy Up Security...

Living in Uncertain Times

Panic Makes for Bad Long-Term Decisions. Stay Focused on Core Values and Do Not Lose Operating Discipline

Upstairs, Downstairs

Data Going Up, Data Going Down? Engineers and IT Shake Hands in the Middle as OPC Gives Way to XML, Web Services

It Looks Like Up to Me…

The Process Industries Will Be Among the Least Affected of the Industrial Verticals by the Global Economic Meltdown

Wireless Wisdom: What’s Your Strategy? Where’s Your Committee?

A Forum of Wireless Experts at ISA Expo 2008 Turns into a Cautionary Consensus About the Dangers of Falling in Love with Technologies and Applications That May Run...

Control Systems Cyber Security—The Current Status of Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures

Testimony of Joseph M. Weiss Control Systems Cyber Security Expert before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation U.S. Senate

Downturn Turndown

Are People Going to Be Put to Work Improving the Rangeability of the Plant or Let Go to Save Short-Term Costs?

Honeywell Brings DCS Power to Smaller Sites

Honeywell Process Solutions Introducing its Experion LS Control System

Job Hunting in a Tough Economy

Are You Ready to Re-Enter the Automation Job Pool and Compete with Other Professionals Just as Qualified as You? Here Are Things You Can Do to Stand Out from the Crowd

Safety Offers Sustainability, Productivity Benefits

GM Explains How the Company's Safety Efforts Are An Integral Part of Its Culture

Response to Control Mode Switching

How to Run Level Control Loop Experiments Successfully, Even After Encountering Controller Performance Issues After Changing Control Mode?

Emerson and GE Healthcare collaborate to provide integrated purification systems for biotech industry

...protein purification in the manufacturing of biotech medicines. Protein purification is the final step of biotech medicine manufacturing, where chromatography and...

National Instruments Achieves Top EMS Standard

...Manufacturing Operations Receives ISO 14001:1996 Certification KEMA-Registered Quality, Inc., an ANSI-RAB accredited registrar, has approved National Instruments (NI)...

Rockwell Automation to work with Intel on industrial processor technology

...manufacturing environments. The IXP465 network processor, designed with input from Rockwell Automation, is part of a line of network processors that help...

Rockwell to embed Intel processor into next generation communication products

...manufacturing environments. The IXP465 network processor, designed with input from Rockwell Automation, is part of a line of network processors that help...

CSIA members eye big buck market

...systems in anticipation of the future model of manufacturing. Biehl says that the direction manufacturing is moving is toward the make to order model. He...

New chemical process turns cotton gin residue into useful feedstocks

...College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "We have been able to develop the manufacturing processes that can extract specific chemicals and make two products –...

Patent for highly efficient nitrate removal process donated to Water Environment Research Foundation

...the amount of nitrate compounds in the discharge from its Freeport, Texas, manufacturing site. Engineers at the site had been looking for ways to modify the...

At Interphex it was all PAT, all day

PAT (Process Analytical Technology) was a big hit at April’s Interphex show at the Jacob Javits center in New York City.

The changing face of MESA

Organization announces new keystone sponsors, analyst involvement, new board members and conference activity.

Leading biotech company to host fieldbus seminar

Upcoming event will focus on end user applications in the pharmaceutical and chemical processing industries.

ISA's cyber security standards initiative gathers support from industry

...SA s SP99 committee, Manufacturing and Control Systems Security, is strengthening its efforts on several fronts with the help of experts from leading companies...

World Batch Forum announces its 2005 award winners

...University. The Thomas G. Fisher Award is presented to Lynn Craig, President, Manufacturing Automation Associates. These distinguished awards will be presented at...

System integrator Optimation acquires Kodak engineering personnel

The deal includes 160 Kodak employees, including 30 design engineers and 46 instrumentation technicians.

Asian DCS market to boom

Strong economic activity and large greenfield projects are paralleling investments in Asia’s chemical, electric power, oil and gas and refining industries.

North Carolina State University opens biotechnology training and education center

Best-in-class commercial-grade technologies and equipment is being used for the first time in a pilot-scale training facility to train students in microbial...

PEI’s recommended practices for overfill prevention now in print

Print copies of the Petroleum Equipment Institute’s Recommended Practices for Overfill Prevention for Shop-Fabricated Aboveground Tanks (PEI/RP600-07) is available...

WBF issues 2008 call for award nominations

BF has issued its call for award nominations for two awards that could be given in 2008. The deadline for nominations for both awards is 17 December 2007.

Automation Leaders Buying Market Position

Automation Vendors Are Spending to Gain Strength in Particular Markets

OMAC and WBF co-locate 2009 events

OMAC and WBF will be co-locating their 2009 conferences, May 4-6, 2009, in Research Triangle Park, N.C., at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Conference Center.

Bailey looks to IntelaTrac and MES for growth

Double Digit Growth

New Delivery Models Drive LIMS Market

The LIMS Market Is Expected to Grow to More Than $400 Million by 2013

Brooks acquires Key Instruments

Brooks Instrument announced that it has acquired Key Instruments, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Honeywell joins CSIA

Honeywell today announced it has joined the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA), North America’s largest organization for independent control systems...

Preactor adds scheduling to Wonderware Operations

Preactor International has received certification from Wonderware under which it will provide the Finite Capacity Scheduling module for the Wonderware Operations...

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...

MES Stands for Most Expensive System

The new feature in the PM-SCADA Production Intelligence product is not SCADA

Ford Mustang Assembly Uses CC-Link

This application article describes the body assembly and paint operations.

Enraf

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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...

Observations about the Siemens PLC vulnerability

Thursday July 15 a disclosure was made about the Siemens SIMATIC PLC WINCC cyber vulnerability. Arguably, it is the first malware in the wild targeted specifically...

Microsoft Word - Process Control Network Security with OPC Tunneling

...OPCNet Broker a Solution to DCOM www.integ-objects.com Page 4 of 12 Summary Manufacturing companies have invested billions of dollars in industrial automation...

Taylor Instruments

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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...

Enraf

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Taylor Instruments

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Field Instrumentation

CONTROL is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management...

Intrinsic Safety

...of more sophisticated guidelines for implementing safety. Unfortunately for manufacturers, compliance with IEC 61508 standards requires enormous documentation. In...

DOD Speaker

One result of the Stuxnet worm is the realization by DOD they have the same issues with the same industrial controllers as the industrial community. Consequently,...

The Value of OPC UA for Integrators, presented by CSIA #pauto #mfg #csia

The Value of OPC UA for Integrators Thursday, September 9 at 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm CT From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog' The Value of OPC UA for IntegratorsThursday,...

Telecommunications Technology Watch

We all know that the line between the technology being used in the office environment and the field or at least the control system infrastructure / backhaul is...

OUT of Control-- Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, via Joe Kaulfersch #pauto

Hi All, This is a great article on marketing lessons from the Greatful Dead. This is from Pragmatic Marketing Magazine. It caught my eye because I was an old rock...

Agenda changes for the September ACS Conference

The Conference agenda (www.realtimeacs.com) was prepared prior to the July 22 disclosure of the Stuxnet worm. As Stuxnet has had such a significant impact on ICS...

ICS Cyber Security Use Case #1 - What would you do about default passwords

I continue to be reminded there has been too much discussion on problems and not enough on solutions (even though we keep finding new problems). What seems obvious...

From the department of

One of the oldest vendor companies in the entire automation space is the venerable Ashcroft Inc. "Over 150 years ago, Edward Ashcroft saw the need for safer, more...

Directory of Lost Companies

Identified in this wiki are more than 200 companies whose name, ownership, or product line has changed significantly over the period from 1990 to 2008. Find the...

Paulett Eberhart leaves Invensys

I began hearing rumors of a major change at Invensys this morning, so I went to the source...here's the reply from Invensys Director of Communications, Tom Clary: I...

If you can't read a P&ID diagram, you need this self-study course

Friends, based on the questions I get, and some of the posts I see on the various automation websites and email discussion lists and web forums, reading a piping and...

Kevin Roach to leave Rockwell Automation

From the press release from Rockwell: Kevin Roach to leave post as VP/GM of Rockwell Software From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog' From the press release from...

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...

Larson

...a long-term reputation in the power industry as the primary innovator and manufacturer of power equipment, and this has opened the door for us to become a pioneer...

Montague

...Process Controls Engineers, IT Technicians, Manufacturers and End Users Have Been Left Hungry as Government Departments, Trade Organizations and Corporations...

Automation Fair ®

...Is Uniquely Positioned to Capitalize on the Global Shifts Underway in the Manufacturing and Technology Sectors Amazing Results Highlighted in Food & Beverage...

Company Profile: Martel Electronics

Martel Electronics' calibrators are used in the installation and maintenance of industrial instrumentation and OEM applications.

McMahon

...Show is a key North American exhibit for building automation and controls manufacturers. AHR 2006 on Jan. 23-25 in Chicago attracted record attendance with almost...

How Much Cooling Is Too Much?

Readers help a reader solve this control problem. Next month's problem: How can we improve combustion control?

Want to Go Back?

...legacy DCS controllers. PLCs and PLC I/O and the ease of networking various manufacturers together has made process control quite simple." Arnold agrees. "Based...

Accrediting Bodies Ease Calibration Compliance

Watchers to watch over the watchers who watch over your calibration lab

Unlock Plant Secrets

Manage engineering and operations knowledge to handle abnormal situations

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

Trends Among the Top 10 Flowmeter Technologies

From the mystery meter to the meter with a face, users' flowmeter options are being expanded by new developments--and some all-new technologies

Center on Reliability

Forget preventive maintenance. Today's uptime requirements call for an entirely different approach

Should valves be integrated?

CONTROL Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert, PE, ponders integrated valves and wonders whether end users would prefer to pay a cost premium for a complete and assembled...

Fine tuning the multivariable way

CONTROL Contributing Editor Wayne Labs takes a look at multivariable pressure transmitters that provide critical process information and meet regulatory specifications.

How secure is your plant?

Is your plant control system safe from cyberwar attack? CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes polls readers on whether their plant control security system is good enough ...

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...

It s more than batch!

Maurice Wilkins, Chairman of the World Batch Forum, focuses on batch management, automation and integration in this new "special to the web" monthly column for ...

Call it what you will, it's still artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is proving it's worth in process and in practice in plants nationwide. Meanwhile the costs, in time and money, of adding AI capability to a...

Control Systems Sales are Booming. But Not Here

Plenty of new process control systems are being installed today. Problem is, they are all overseas

Ultrasonic Flowmeters Move Into the Mainstream

More Than 70 Suppliers Scramble for Users as the Technology Moves Out of its Traditional Niche

Network Integration Saves Costs

End Users, Member Companies, and Technical Team Participants Will Determine the Future Direction of Foundation fieldbus Technology (Special from Industrial Networking

Tales From the Front: Listen Up!

Who Does the Control Consultant Talk To If No One's Listening?

Ethernet "Switches" to Industrial

...A common example is a manufacturing line 200 ft. long with 50 different nodes. This installation might have a control cabinet at one end of the line with the main...

WBF and MCAA Meet In the Chicago Suburbs

Around the Loop: Spring Control Industry Highlights

Jimmy Neutron meets the Woz

Dick Morley, father of the modern PLC, believes a renaissance in industry technology will be the thrust for the next several decades. Will we, the control geeks, be...

Save time and money with field calibrators

Portable, handheld calibrators save time for technicians on site, OEMs, and large industrial engineering and construction companies. Contributing Editor Wayne Labs...

Signal conversion or signal perversion?

The challenge we face, according to contributing writer Ian Verhappen, is to integrate multiple industrial network protocols in a seamless environment, with the...

Process analytics: A U.K. initiative

Process automation: Littlejohn’s third remedy is sure to be much more controversial and fraught with complexity: A new way for instrument vendors to charge for...

HART Communication – Dispelling the Myths: Part II

Process Automation: Digital fieldbus technology is already here, but newer technologies do not always automatically replace those that have been proven, tried and...

SCADA deployment using OPC

Integrators must differentiate between a plant-based OPC mentality and SCADA applications when attempting to apply industrial standards to SCADA-based implementations.

How to identify high-value projects

Industry experts recommend a number of strategies to help users identify the most high-value applications and are nearly unanimous that the greatest ROI lies in the...

Metal legos streamline sampling and control

The new sampling and sensor initiative (NeSSI) delivers savings now, and improved process control soon.

Valve innovations aid nuclear slurry pretreatment

Plug valves, stem extensions, and automation enable remote control and repairs in radioactive waste vessels at the Hanford Waste Treatment Project (WTP) in southeast...

Building automation steps forward

In commercial building automation and control, major technology evolutions generally lag adoption in industry. The transition from costly pneumatics to printed...

All wound up

Feeling a little guilty over neglecting all their motor enthusiasts, McMillan and Weiner present an interesting case of the “now you see it, now you don’t” in terms...

NeSSI tames the communications monster

The new sampling/sensor initiative (NeSSI) is moving steadily to fulfill its original promise of increased efficiencies, costs-savings, and micro-analytic...

The Federation: To boldly go!

CONTROL contributor and WBF Chairman, Maurice Wilkins, says it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to guess which organizations could and should become members of the...

Maintaining connections

There are plenty of issues that cause network headaches, but never assume your electrical subcontractor is familiar with routing and terminating network connector...

The truth will set you free

One part of a well-planned tactical assault on potential customers seems to include making your web site a place for customers to painlessly contribute to, comment...

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...

Still pondering whither fieldbus?

In this month's installment of On the Bus, Contributing Editor John Rezabek predicts HART devices will work so well that your career may be over before you can...

Uncertain safety

Users seeking appropriate process safety systems aren’t getting enough help from unspecific standards and ideal-world certifications. Here’s how to gain useful...

The best of the best, Part 5

Control Talk columnists McMillan and Weiner continue their multipart series of talks with some of the Great Minds in Process Control. This month it’s Sheldon Lloyd,...

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,...

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.

Europe’s Best-Kept Automation Software Secret Marks 20th Birthday

Here are excerpts from the August 2007 issue of Andrew Bond’s Industrial Automation Insider, a monthly newsletter covering the important industrial automation news...

Cisco Partnership Headlines Emerson Wireless News

For a largely invisible networking technology, industrial wireless sure is showing some serious punch lately.

Faking It Isn’t All Bad

Simulate or model your loop tuning, operator training, advanced process control or optimization for savings, safety and skill-building.

Difficult Level Measurements

“Ask the Experts” is moderated by noted process control authority Béla Lipták (liptakbela@aol.com), editor of the Instrument Engineer’s Handbook. In this column, he...

Tech Groups Join to Establish OpenO&M

ISA, MIMOSA, the OPC Foundation, the Open Applications Group and WBF have established OpenO&M,

Product Round-Up: A Fine Line

Paradigm shifts are occurring in the PLC, PAC and industrial computer environment.

Is Latest Green Movement Sustainable?

Green being back in may well be the hook we need to get young people re-engaged in careers in engineering.

China: Still High Risk, High Reward

Economist Cliff Waldman discussed the continuing risks and opportunities for doing business in the world’s fastest growing economy.

Plant-Floor Data Sharing on Parade

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

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

Semiconductor Fab Clears Air with Intelligent Motor Control

Networked Recirculation Air Handlers Save Hardwiring and Programming Costs

Process Automation Hall of Fame

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

Six Sigma Alarm Management

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

Up From the Ashes

This Month’s Column Tells How One Intrepid Fellow Survived a hit From a Reorganization Meteorite and Went on to Find Happiness as Part of a Process Control...

Field Calibration of Magnetic Flowmeters: Case Study

Is Not an Easy Task to Ensure That Flowmeters Function Accurately

Data Analytics in Batch Operations

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

Making It Work: The Dow/ABB Collaboration

Lessons Learned from Years-Long Collaboration Benefit ABB, Dow and the