August 2015 Issue
Control is the only magazine exclusively dedicated to the global process automation market with a readership of 65,000 plus engineering, operations and management professionals. The publication reports on developing trends, illustrates successful applications, and updates the basic skills and knowledge base that provide the profession's foundation.
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Articles
When will we see more four-year U.S. degrees in automation engineering?
If Americans want to strengthen our manufacturing base, we need more engineering graduates who are focused on automation.
Technology trends in process energy efficiency
Today's monitoring and control systems are making it easier to relentlessly reduce energy cost per unit production.
How to do wireless for safety systems
ISA TR 84.00.08 offers some important guidelines for making it work
Why automation isn't process control
Products shaped by the needs of expedient automation may get us bitten by the wild process beast
Process control challenges and opportunities in mineral processing
Variations in feedstock hardness, grade and rock size lead to fast and frequent unmeasured disturbances, calling for the best of technologies and techniques.
How to accomplish total tank management
Managing the vapor space - System integrator Novaspect's Jeff Wolendowski shows how to accomplish total tank management.
A lasting plan for managing alarms
A well-written alarm philosophy defines procedures that allow your team to get alarms under control now and for the long haul.
Wellheads and Christmas trees: Is there a difference?
Both are vital to oil production, but they're not the same, and the 45-second valve close rule is there for a reason.
Help with your I/O and terminal blocks
A collection of sites to answer some of your serious I/O and terminal block questions
Progress in Process Safety
A holistic perspective of process safety requires more comprehensive hazard and risk assessment methods such as process hazards analysis, mechanical integrity, safety integrity systems and emerging technologies.
Prioritize the IoT tsunami
How can you stem the IoT tidal wave, or at least find the few useful nuggets in it? Employ the traditional engineering skills of organization, prioritization and project management.
Product RoundUp: Controllers get loopy
Here’s a look at the hardworking controllers that closely monitor and manage all the single, multiple, closed and open loops crucial to maintaining their process applications.
News
Recent Expansions and Contractions - August 2015
Keep up with what automation leaders are up to. Here's a summary of the latest expansions and contractions in the process automation world.
Honeywell to Acquire Elster for $5.1 billion
Honeywell reported July 28 that it's agreed to buy the Elster division of Melrose Industries plc for about $5.1 billion in first quarter 2016.
CSIA working with MESA on smart manufacturing
To help bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to the automation industry, CSIA reports it's collaborating with MESA
ABB to provide power and automation for offshore UAE oilfields
ABB reported July 15 that it's received orders for $100 million worth of electrical and telecommunication systems, which will enable Hyundai Heavy Industries complete EPC work at Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co.'s Nasr Full Field Development Project.
IoT devices to triple to 38 billion by 2020
The report projects that industrial and public-service sectors, such as retail, agriculture, smart buildings and smart grid applications, will be the majority of the IoT device base.
Public cloud computing to reach nearly $70 billion in 2015
The report, "Cloud Computing: The Essential Foundation of Industry Digital Transformation—Worldwide and U.S. Cloud Forecast by Vertical, 2015–2019," predicts the number of new cloud-based solutions will triple in the next four to five years.
Bedrock joins ISA Security Compliance Institute
Bedrock Automation joins the ISA Security Compliance Institute to help support the ISASecure Cybers Security Conformance Scheme.
Global SCADA market to reach $32.7 billion by 2020
The worldwide supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) market is projected to grow at a 5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and increase from $23.2 billion in 2013 to $32.70 billion by 2020