April Preview
"¢ In April's CONTROL Magazine:EditorialThe Beauty of Simplicity
Process automation end users are tired of buying stuff they have to be rocket scientists to put together. CONTROL's Walt Boyes explores the building block approach to automation.
Cover Story Training
CONTROL's Dan Hebert talks about the state of the art in training for the automation profession. He's focusing on operator training, both live and simulator based.
Feature: Liptak on Distillation, Part 3
Control's Béla Lipták continues his series on control of distillation processes. The entire series will be presented as a downloadable e-book sponsored by Mynah Technologies. It will be available from ControlGlobal.com in April.
Feature: Weird Flow
Flow expert David W. Spitzer shares some odd and interesting flow measurement applications.
Feature: The Dow Learnings, Part 4
Dow's senior engineering management concludes this series on the Dow heritage in process control, and describes the current state of their automation systems and their relationship with ABB.
Feature: Analyzers, Part 5
Gary Nichols concludes this series on the proper design and project management of process analyzer systems.
Web Feature: Return to Single Loop Integrity
Control's regular contributor Dave Harrold looks at the integrity of the control loop. This article is featured in the magazine, but is found only on ControlGlobal.com.
"¢ Also in April's CONTROL:Rick's Picks What's New at ControlGlobal.com?
CONTROL's Rick Pedraza gives you a clue to all the great stuff we've loaded up the website with for April and beyond.
Other VoicesMorley from the Pulpit
Control's own Dick Morley provides wit and accumulated wisdom.
Technically Speaking Field Calibrators
Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert, PE finds out about the state of the art in calibration systems for the operator.
On the Bus! Rezabek on Fieldbus!
Fieldbus info from the source! Pioneering Foundation Fieldbus User and CONTROL Contributing Editor, John Rezabek provides analysis and commentary.
Control Report Oh Really?!
Control's Jim Montague wonders why the Fieldbus Foundation claims to be the largest fieldbus, when HART keeps growing. Are the end users voting with their feet, or are we missing something?
Windup Bringing It All Back Around.
CONTROL's Keith Larson expounds on a burning issue in process automation.
Ask the Experts! The Very Best Question
CONTROL's Béla Lipták selects the best question and answer from the web exclusive feature to be printed in the magazine. The person whose question is selected wins a prize. So save the consulting fee and go to www.controlglobal.com and ask an expert.
Roundup: Process Analyzers
The Control Staff produces a roundup of analyzers and instrumentation that will help you solve a process problem or two.
Resources: Focus on PLCs and PACs
New, actionable and eminently useful stuff that will help you keep the lights on and motors turning. CONTROL gives you a page of useful resources to work with.
Products: Exclusives! We Got Exclusives!
New, actionable and eminently useful stuff: product exclusives from iKey, Meriam and a big announcement from GE! CONTROL gives you a whole department full of tasty new products and services.
PLUS, LOTS OF UNIQUE, ACTIONABLE CONTENT FOR YOU ON WWW.CONTROLGLOBAL.COM!
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