The Principles of Batch Automation Are Being Used in Continuous Process to Improve Process Safety and Quality, and to Compensate for Losing Older, Highly Experienced Operators from: ControlGlobal.com by: Walt Noye The ISA S88 Standard Committee, whose work resulted in the ISA-88 Batch Standard, may never have foreseen that the principles and best practices it […]
Ever feel like there are mixed messages coming from Experts who supposedly know which way the wind is blowing economically? Seems like during this political season, we can get the most upbeat message or the most dour depending on the party of your choice. But politics aside, the economic guru organizations should pretty much sing […]
C’mon Honeywell, really? A 360 page manual to migrate from R310 to R400.2?
From: MaverickIdeas, a blog by the people at Maverick Technologies By Chad Harper A perfect storm is brewing in the automation world, and it has nothing to do with hardware or software. It’s about resources, which are fast becoming a bottleneck in the industry. Why? Well, there are several factors at play. I’ll address some […]
BioNetwork’s Doug Drabble says there are jobs throughout the state, though workers won’t always relocate to take them. from: PharmaManufacturing.com By Paul Thomas, Senior Editor Like in many areas of the U.S., the Life Sciences job market in North Carolina is looking up. There has been a notable increase in new people joining the […]
From: Recruiter.com By: Marie Larse There has been a lot of talk lately about Recruiting; recruiting as a business, recruiters as professionals and what we do in general. There have been articles about candidates and clients both hating the Recruiters that they work with. There have been discussions on how to pick and choose a […]
Society Has Devoted the Last 40 Years to Passing the Message That Manufacturing Is Dirty, Dangerous and Unrewarding From: ControlGlobal.com With regard to the ControlGlobal.com article on revitalizing manufacturing [“We Get What We Deserve,” Feb. ’12, p.8], it’s easy to see where a society is going by observing what it values most. Several weeks […]
From PlantServices.com According to a new report from Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (www.itif.org), in the 2000s, U.S. manufacturing suffered its worst performance in American history in terms of jobs. The report, titled Worse Than the Great Depression: What the Experts Are Missing About American Manufacturing Decline, explains that not only did America lose nearly […]
March 21, 2012 – Invensys Operations Management announced that Microsoft will help migrate some Invensys applications to the Windows Azure cloud. Microsoft will help Invensys accelerate the development of its Wonderware Historian and Workflow applications to enable them to run on the Windows Azure cloud. Initial development activities will extend existing Invensys solutions with managed history […]
Refinery Status: Units Shut At Motiva, Tx., Refinery Due To Power Failure DOW JONES NEWSWIRES The following table lists unplanned and planned production outages at U.S. refineries as reported by Dow Jones Newswires. The information is compiled from both official and unofficial refining sources and doesn’t purport to be a comprehensive list. A fluid catalytic […]