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    If there's a common theme among this year's inductees into Control's Process Automation Hall of Fame, it's that they've witnessed and been integral in the evolution of the use of computer power in process control. As this data processing technology grew, new ideas were more easily explored. Each says the rise of computer power aided their work immensely and their ability to advance their unique ideas.
    10 Resources For Making Intrinsic Safety Inherent
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    10 resources for making intrinsic safety (IS) inherent

    Jim Montague
    April 19, 2023
    Control’s monthly resources guide
    Don't Lean On Labels
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    Control Report from Jim Montague: Don't lean on labels

    Jim Montague
    April 18, 2023
    Specifics and accurate definitions enable clearer thinking
    The training center at VEGA Americas’ new headquarters in Mason, Ohio, has three tanks and devices for level and flow testing, so everyone from customers and professional engineers to grade school STEM and college students can learn about through-air radar, guided-wave radar (GWR), vibration switching, capacitance, pressure and other level-measurement technologies.
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    Ease-of-use is on the level

    April 13, 2023
    Level measurements using radar and guided-wave radar (GWR), along with other process control components, have added microprocessors, software and Ethernet networking over recent...
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    2023 Process Automation Hall of Fame: Carlos Enrique Garcia

    Len Vermillion
    April 12, 2023
    Carlos Enrique Garcia culminated a 36-year career as global discipline head for process control at Shell before he retired.
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    2023 Process Automation Hall of Fame: W. Harmon Ray

    Len Vermillion
    April 11, 2023
    W. Harmon Ray is a chemical engineer, control theorist and applied mathematician, who served as a Vilas Research professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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    2023 Process Automation Hall of Fame: Tariq Samad

    Len Vermillion
    April 10, 2023
    Tariq Samad is senior fellow and Honeywell/W.R. Sweatt chair at the Technological Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota. He’s retired from a long career at Honeywell...
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    Make it count

    Len Vermillion
    April 7, 2023
    Longevity matters, but you do with it means more
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    Industry Perspectives (sponsored)

    Is your hot backup hot enough?

    April 4, 2023
    As the bar for resiliency continues to get higher for small and large systems, are traditional models of server failover good enough?
    Shell’s Prelude FPSO, located offshore Australia, is the world’s largest floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel and an example of successful “templating” of field devices. Source: Shutterstock
    Industrial Networks

    Serve the vision or the victim?

    John Rezabek
    March 31, 2023
    Why it’s necessary to consider the end-user’s pain when deploying future control system projects
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    The unrecognized challenges of process control

    Greg McMillan
    March 30, 2023
    Some challenges of the past are possibly even more problematic today
    Wireless systems are well suited for a plethora of industrial monitoring applications that can keep operations up and running and safe. Source: Shutterstock
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    Environmental monitoring: a wireless ‘sweet spot’

    Ian Verhappen
    March 29, 2023
    Understand the impact of your activities and how they affect long-term operations
    Ate Main
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    Vortex flowmeters and low-pressure steam applications

    March 28, 2023
    Ask the Experts: Is a vortex flowmeter is the best selection for a low-pressure steam application? Also, keeping lines open with purging systems
    Translating Automation Techniques To Managerial Decisions
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    Translating automation techniques to managerial decisions

    R. Russell Rhinehart
    March 27, 2023
    Control engineers could help managers improve their method
    Figure 1: Most companies ride three distinct waves on the cloud migration journey: supporting IT workloads, optimizing mission-critical systems and creating business value.
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    Achieving manufacturing business value through the cloud

    Megan Buntain
    March 20, 2023
    Companies typically go through three distinct waves of cloud-computing adoption