This blog has been a bit quite for a few days now and if you think our editors have taken vacation or simply stopped blogging, that is not the case. Our editors have been covering Rockwell Automation Automation Fair® 2010 live from Orlando. If you want to read our news coverage stop by the Automation Fair® portal at http://www.controlglobal.com/automationfair/index.html or follow us on Twitter @ControlGlobal. You can also follow @WaltBoyes and @NancyBartels to get all the latest tweets.
Here are some of Walt's latest Tweets:
- Automation Finds a New 'Sweet Spot' in Pharmaceuticals. http://bit.ly/aclJ7e #autofair
- Oil and Gas Forum Users Manage Turmoil More Easily http://bit.ly/dz57Wz #autofair
- Rockwell Automation Streamlines Plant-Wide Integration http://bit.ly/dlZ0YG #autofair
- Rockwell Automation's Industrial 'GreenPrint' Road Map Gives Users Insight into Energy Costs http://bit.ly/bAngag #autofair
- Connect With Rockwell Automation and Its Partners. http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2010/RAfair12.html #autofair
- Rockwell Automation Touts EtherNet/IP as Key to Enabling Plant-Wide Control and Optimization. http://bit.ly/cixqxV #autofair
- Hot Off the Press! Day One of #AutoFair 2010 Show Daily is ready for you to read. http://bit.ly/c7oys2
- Bringing Social and Computer Networks to Bear on New Classes of Problems http://bit.ly/dgRntD #autofair
- #auto fair show daily coming soon, but check our web portal for the latest news. http://bit.ly/crLSZP
- Rockwell Shows Its Process Know-How. Sustainability+Globalization, Productivity+Innovation=Key Industry Drivers. http://bit.ly/cKW5MX #pauto
- New 2.0 Release Features Help Increase Process Availability and Boost Operational and Design Productivity. http://bit.ly/92Ygvg #autofair
- From Priority to Shared Value, How G-P Is Transforming a Compliance Culture to a Safety One. http://bit.ly/9RGKDV #autofair
- PepsiCo Drives Global Safety Approach. http://bit.ly/aZGflL #autofair
- Rockwell Ramps Up Its Process Offering. http://bit.ly/dbAwCJ #autofair
- Visit our web portal & check #AutomationFair daily news, hourly tweets and catch up on last year's coverage. http://bit.ly/crLSZP #autofair
- RT @BlueLevelTech: PC... PLC.... U say Potato and I say PotAAAto... both work. http://tiny.cc/recex http://myloc.me/dMePK
- RT @InformationWeek: Shuttle Discovery Is 'Go' For Final Launch http://retwt.me/1PtJN and I'm 40 miles away inside a building- rats!!
- #roksaf Pepsico's Jeff Russell: "I didn't want to be a safety guy because 'the safety people are the ones keeping us from doing our jobs'"
- RT @AutomationFair: Rockwell Automation process biz 5-yr growth exceeds 3x market growth rate. #autofair #pauto #mfg
- #autofair #roksaf G-P's Hilton says, "Some of us got with the program--the others aren't with us anymore." http://myloc.me/dM5DO
- #autofair #roksaf "We made some progress-- but it is a journey." http://myloc.me/dM5hg
- #roksaf #autofair G-P employees say: Safety culture- This is how it MUST work! http://myloc.me/dM4Vz
- #roksaf Bill Hilton: it was the employees that got us here to a safer place. http://myloc.me/dM2Y9
- RT @garymintchell: Jim Davis laying out roadmap to smart process manufacturing.#autofair http://myloc.me/dM2rR
- #roksaf Bill Hilton G-P: basis of culture starts with integrity. http://myloc.me/dM02c
- RT @petershankman: Vote yet? --if not why not? If you don't vote don't bitch afterward. http://myloc.me/dLTPR
- @petershankman Two weeks ago http://myloc.me/dLTF2
- #roksaf found out I was using the wrong hashtag #autofair http://myloc.me/dLTca
- #autofair #saf We create our culture by our own behavior and the behavior we tolerate from others. http://myloc.me/dLS6n
- #autofair #saf John McDermott: we see safety as a productivity driver not an insurance policy. http://myloc.me/dLMWK
- While Andrew McAfee spoke about "technomics" at Manuf. Persp. over 300 people were attending the Safety Automation Forum.
- #autofair #psug David Winslow SVP tech svcs Universal Orlando: my first accountability is safety and so are my 2nd and 3rd.
- RT @keithlarson: One advantage of using ROK PlantPAx: easy integration of OEM skids also based on ROK platform. #autofair #psug
- RT @keithlarson: From SIL 3 TMR to machine safety, ROK showing impressive range of safety options for PlantPAx 2. #autofair #psug
- PlantPAx System Release 2.0. http://bit.ly/94nN0s #autofair #psug
- Chakraborty says service offerings will expand greatly. #autofair #psug http://myloc.me/dK6yr
- Chakraborty announces PlantPAx System Release 2.0. #autofair #psug http://myloc.me/dK6nD
- Sequencing is everywhere and not limited to batch: chakraborty #autofair #psug http://myloc.me/dK62I
- #autofair #psug Device integration with E+H nearly complete- and ROK and E+H are involved w/FDT http://myloc.me/dK5T3
- #autofair #psug AADvance tech helps O & G in subsea applications- new app. for Triplex http://myloc.me/dK5Gy
- #autofair #psug In phase 3 growth PlantPAx scales down to OEM and up to larg capex systems: Som Chakraborty. http://myloc.me/dK5o1
- #autofair #psug O'Brien says 42% of SIS failures are measurement devices and final control elements http://myloc.me/dK3l0
- #autofair #psug Larry O'Brien discusses challenges: People, Safety, plantwide optimization,installed base, Operations, COTS
- #psug #autofair Convergence of automation and information systems. http://myloc.me/dK0RX
- #autofair #psug Nesi talks about Plant Wide Optimization--Agile Supply Chain and Sustainable Production...leading to convergence...
- #autofair #psug Nesi talks about Globalization, Sustainability, Optimization, Innovation and introduced new Industrial GreenPrint service.
- John Nesi: 'Sustainabilty is about putting productivity to work in environmentally friendly ways' #autofair #pauto
- #autofair #psug Ralph Carter named VP of Information Software and Process http://bit.ly/dvrQWr
- #autofair #psug John Nesi VP Market Development talks about the global economy and where Rockwell sees themselves going.
- #autofair #psug Ralph Carter named VP of Information Software and Process http://myloc.me/dJWRF
- #psug #autofair Ken Deken announces his retirement effective Dec 31. http://myloc.me/dJWz3
- #autofair #psug Deken says this PSUG is the largest ever "by a pretty wide margin..." http://myloc.me/dJW54
- #psug #autofair Ken Deken tells PSUG attendees there's "very good payback" in attending PSUG and Automation Fair. http://myloc.me/dJVMR