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Workforce Development

DCS migrations: Opportunity for improvement, or operational disaster

Workforce Development

Migration gone bad

Phil Jerrell, global marketing director of integrated protective solutions for Honeywell Process Solutions, explains how integrating information from safety systems helps provide a higher level of situational awareness across an entire facility, particula

Situational awareness during safety incidents—knowing what state the plant is in

Dr. Peter Fuhr (left) and Herman Storey (center) discussed with Peter Welander (right) discussed wireless technology issues at the ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium in Houston. Courtesy: Peter Welander, CFE Media

How well do users understand wireless networks? Questions asked of experts shed some light

Where should the cloud connection take place?

Pieter Krynauw, vice president, HPS Projects and Automation Solutions, at HUG 2015. Courtesy: Peter Welander, CFE Media

Designing HMIs: For the big screen or a phone?

While smart instrumentation and field devices have highly sophisticated capabilities, configuration is still a mostly manual process. Users want to know why they still have to perform this action (and many others) the hard way. Courtesy: CFE Media

PLM, Control Design

Toward simpler and faster control system implementations

Has your control system moved past the point where you can depend on it? Understand the signs that it’s time to retire your platform before it’s too late. Courtesy: Control Engineering, Peter Welander

Assisted living for your aging DCS

I/O Systems, I/O Modules

Automating automation: Why do smart devices have to be configured manually?

Conventional field wiring requires lots of cabling and support structure. There are now multiple approaches that can avoid this kind of expensive complexity. Courtesy: Control Engineering, CFE Media

Asset Management

Smart I/O systems vs. fieldbus networks

One strategy for the passing of Windows XP

What is a zero-day cyber attack?

Asset Management

Understanding how to apply smart field devices

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Understanding pressure instrumentation

Understanding differential pressure flowmeters

Workforce Development

Building diversity in the engineering profession

New cyber security certification program