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    What's needed to inspire, educate, recruit, train/retrain and retain process control engineers and operators these days? If you don't know, you'd better find out because there are some epic obstacles in the way. Even highly experienced engineers and operators have found themselves with new job descriptions that require them to perform new tasks, and typically learn and apply entirely new skills.

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