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    End-users and integrators are partnering with community colleges and other organizations to recruit, nurture and retain new employees—and get everyone the skills they need
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    Essential strategies for attracting, developing and keeping new and existing employees
    Source: MxD
    Figure 1: Steady streams of students and other visitors take in the digital and cybersecurity demonstrations at Manufacturing times Digital (MxD) institute, which provides participants with programs in digitalized tools, cybersecurity and workforce expertise.
    Chicago-based MxD familiarizes participants with digitalized tools, cybersecurity and workforce expertise
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    Community college builds labs and collaborates with local schools and companies
    Source: Endress+Hauser
    Endress+Hauser’s local and regional outreach efforts include collaborating with k-12 schools, colleges and universities, and its larger communities, via its Community Career+Education Forum (CCEF) that’s been held annually since 2014. These events were joined in 2022 by its Design & Innovation Studio program for coding, 3D modeling, robotics and automation.
    Nexus interest-matching program and Community Career+Education Forum each reach a decade of service
    Source: CPET and San Jacinto College
    Figure 1: The 32-ft, propylene glycol distillation and recycling unit at LyondellBasell’s Center for Petrochemical Energy & Technology (CPET) at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas, includes an eight tray column, DeltaV DCS, cooling water, boiler and reverse osmosis utilities, and 72 I/O with smart Rosemount transmitters. CPET’s glass pilot plant has two tank farms, feeding four process units, and all-glass and -acrylic components for easier observation.
    Nine labs at LyondellBasell’s Center for Petrochemical Energy & Technology allow hands-on instruction
    Honeywell and ExxonMobil leaders discuss how much things have changed since the first TDC2000 beta test at Exxon’s Sarnia, Ontario, refinery
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    Distributed control systems are well-established and continue to advance, with open systems and other developments
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    Understand different AI technologies in this detailed comparison.
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    Security manual for VTScada software helps users harden their systems against evolving cyber-threats. It provides guidance necessary to install, commission, verify and maintain...
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    Genesis, Version 11, SCADA automation and digitalization software has unlimited licensing and scalability to handle any system size, and advanced visualization, comprehensive ...