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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?

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

ISA Automation Week wraps up in Nashville

PINA General Assembly looks ahead to growing industrial Ethernet deployments

Cyber security experiment reveals threats to industrial systems

Resistive screens can be small enough to use with handheld devices, and a stylus makes it practical to use tight graphics. Courtesy: Control Engineering

Touchscreen HMIs

This heater is on full blast, but it can’t put out enough for the process to reach its setpoint. It levels out at some point.

Mechatronics and Motion Control

Saturated control elements: When you hit the end of the scale

Workforce Development

Building a new generation of engineers drawn from educationally underserved communities

Traditional IT is moving more onto the plant floor. OT will have to accept a greater level of integration. Is that a problem or an opportunity? Courtesy: CFE Media

IT vs. OT: Bridging the divide

Your orthodontic appliance may have been 3D printed

ISA100 platform handles complex data packages from specialized devices via wireless

Explaining an IP67 rating to civilians

Cyber security webcast available online

Workforce Development

Basic cost accounting for process manufacturing