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Automation Comes Alive Podcast

Nov. 14, 2007
Listen to Jim Montague's November 2007 column, Automation Comes Alive

Automation Comes Alive

November 2007
By Jim Montague, executive editor
Cyber Automation - you can find additional online resources on automation here.

Words and pictures are fine, but they don’t move. Whether they appear in the oldest print or the newest website, text and illustrations are basically frozen.

These physical limits of traditional communication media are unfortunate for process automation professionals because they manage applications, systems and end products that are often in constant motion. To learn about and convey helpful techniques and solutions, engineers naturally rely on text and graphics to describe related processes, but many add that it’s better to see systems and components in action. Now, you can...

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About the Author

Jim Montague | Executive Editor

Jim Montague is executive editor of Control. 

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