Last week I highlighted an updated book for process control engineers, Tuning and Control Loop Performance, by Greg McMillan. It's amazing how prolific Greg is, even in his "retirement" over these past several years. I can only aspire to be so active when my golden...
Smart field devices based on HART, Foundation fieldbus, and Profibus had standards-based files to integrate them with control and asset management systems. The file types, EDD and DTM were not compatible with one another causing process manufacturers and automation...
ISA Automation Week is happening this week in Orlando, Florida. If you're there, you may want to see Emerson's Nikki Bishop's presentation, Essential Asset Monitoring: The Gateway to Improved Process Reliability. She'll be presenting on Wednesday at 3:15 to 4:45pm in...
If you ask many of the people around Emerson whose service with the company is measured in decades, the most likely response you'll hear is that "it's the people". I'm based in Austin, Texas and am surrounded by many of the DeltaV technologists, industry experts, and...
If you're going to ISA Automation Week September 24-27, 2012 in Orlando, Florida, make sure to say hi to one of ISA's newest Fellows, Emerson's Jeffery Williams. Jeff is being honored for his contributions in the development of embedded advanced control for use on...
Congratulations to Emerson's Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon for winning the Raymond D. Molloy Award for the best-selling International Society of Automation (ISA) book of 2011. In a post, Hot Off the Press – New Control Loop Foundation Book, I described the book and...
'Tis the season of process automation-related events. Next week, the International Society of Automation (ISA) holds their ISA Automation Week in Mobile Alabama USA. You can follow the conversations and happenings online on their community page. The following week,...
There is much talk about process automation experience being lost as the wave of baby boomers retire. One man of action, ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan, has moved beyond talk into action. A few weeks ago, he announced on the ISA Automation Week website in a...
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