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News, product information and insightful discussion covering all industrial information control technologies, from plant-floor systems to executive-level dashboards and analytic tools, which help industrial organizations to transform raw production data into actionable information.

Cyber security: Firewall device creates its own rules
5/7/2008
Security appliance is smart enough to create rules based on its own observations. The new module from MTL Instruments and Byres Security is said to provide a safe and secure means of locating what is on control system networks. It is designed for industrial control operations in critical industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing, utilities and power generation, and it can.... More

Protect intellectual property: Encrypt firmware, control programs
05/09/2008
Original equipment manufacturers and machine builders benefit from automation software suite's control program encryption, user authentication features, says Opto 22. More
Portable computing: Operators can be mobile with rugged HMI
05/08/2008
Rexroth includes dedicated Shift key for one-handed data input, more. More
Whitepaper: Small form factor HMIs evolve
05/08/2008
Embedded computers are fueling advances in these useful devices. More
PLM: Web-based operations management

05/08/2008
Intercim links 3D modeling, MOM, and more to patented predictive analysis to… More
Remote control: Get behind firewalls—securely
05/08/2008
Virtual IP infrastructure technology provides OEM access. More
Report asks: Will DIN-rail PCs with I/O revolutionize industrial PCs?
05/08/2008
What region of the world is showing the interest in this technology? Answers revealed…. More
Security: Yokogawa partners to add industrial firewall

05/08/2008
Tofino security appliances accepted after rigorous testing More
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Pillar to Post: Peter Welander's Blog
Peter Welander, Process Control Editor,
May 7, 2008
Nuclear power: Cheap but very expensive
During this time of evaluating energy sources and effects, nuclear power is back in t...
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Pillar to Post: Peter Welander's Blog
Peter Welander, Process Control Editor,
May 6, 2008
Remember Sad Socket? More on "perfect power"
A while back I made a posting or two about the Galvin Electricity Initiative. This is...
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Peter Welander, Process Control Editor,
May 1, 2008
Why not save energy?
Earlier this week I attended the ABB user group meeting in Houston. It was a gatherin...
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Charlie Masi, Senior Editor, Control Engineering
April 28, 2008
Is Eclipse similar to LabView?
This question relates to comments I made in an article that appeared in the March iss...
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Very helpful information. Very well explained. Thank you....
Leo Hunerjager - 5/8/2008 11:37:02 AM PT
in response to Loop Tuning Fundamentals

Very useful information that I will use in my lecture. thanks...
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in response to Programmable Logic Controllers

On the other hand, if you were to define your process variable to be the relative "on...
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Follow up: Your clarification helps but still isn't completely correct. Maybe a sp...
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Join this webcast to gain a complete understanding of the technologies, identify which solutions are most appropriate for specific applications and how to tie them in with your existing plant infrastructure.

Machine vision helps take control
Learn from the experts: What machine vision technology can do for control systems, When machine vision is appropriate, How to incorporate machine vision into control systems, And what results others have obtained.

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Standards for software virtualization
Software developers and microprocessor manufacturers are joining forces to create standards for software virtualization that will streamline processes for developing and deploying embedded systems.

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