Bruce Brandt
Articles
Why team communications fail
Communications issues between team members or customers delay projects and increase frustration levels. See tips on how to address popular miscommunications and avoid them in the future.
Migration projects: Incorporating the ‘old’ into the ‘new’
Most distributed control systems migration projects revolve around ensuring that the new system can meet production targets of the old system immediately, but this isn’t always the case.
Project delays: Identify the issue and keep the customer happy
Every person working on a project should be able to answer these five questions: Who? What? When? Where? and Why?
Growing recent graduates into controls engineers
Too many recent engineering graduates have never set foot inside a process plant before, or they have very little experience with process control systems.
DCS migration: Batch or S88 style application?
Deciding between a dedicated batch application and building an S88 style application really comes down to the level of sophistication required to make the system user-friendly and supportable by the plant.
‘Best practices,’ according to who?
While many best practices are based off of decades of experience there are many who don’t follow them for their own reasons.
Configuring control systems through wireless devices, remote I/O: With great power comes great responsibility
In the new world of wireless devices and remote I/O we have the power to create control configurations that use I/O and that are not physically connected to the controller running the control loops.
Penny wise and pound foolish
A few appropriate costs early in a project can create major savings down the road and avoid a whole lot of aggravation in the process.
Science, it just works
Some operational myths seem to live on even in the face of evidence to the contrary. How many of them are changing the way you work?
Managing chaos
When too many alarms turn our control rooms chaotic, the problem is often of our own making, but so is the solution. Here are practical tips on launching an alarm management program.