A young woman from an "Islamic Republic" has written several times to Bela Liptak. Here is one of her communications: "i am a girl that love to know control and instrument engineering and i understand for learning instrument it is necessary to go site and do application work but unfortunately in my country women can't work practical in plant or site . i study your handbook but … [Read more...] about Begging to learn process automation…
Batch Standard to be extended!
Press release from ISA: ISA Batch Standards Committee to Extend ISA 88 Series Research Triangle Park, NC (2 May 2006) -- The ISA-SP88 committee has announced it is beginning work on Part 5 of the widely used ISA 88 series of standards. The Part 5 standard, to be entitled "Modular Concepts for Automated Control Systems," will define methods for developing a library of automation … [Read more...] about Batch Standard to be extended!
The bandwagon…
Does this mean that all the backchannel backbiting and arguing for competitive advantage is going to go away? Can it be that this many automation vendors (plus Emerson who already has offered ALL its wireless intellectual property to both ISA and HART) might actually produce a consensus wireless standard sometime before the heat death of the universe? Will SP100 actually … [Read more...] about The bandwagon…
OSIsoft celebrates its 25th birthday…
..by holding User Group meetings in San Francisco and Frankfurt. One of the things I found interesting is how international this user group is...there's a big table on the way into the General Session room that has translation headsets in about ten different languages. The morning session yesterday included talks by Pat Kennedy, OSIsoft's CEO and founder, who started a … [Read more...] about OSIsoft celebrates its 25th birthday…
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I am going to be the Incredible Peripatetic Editor for the next couple of months, trying to attend as many User Group and other meetings as I can. If I don't make it to your very own meeting, please do not take it personally. I can't clone myself, yet. Sunday, I leave for OSIsoft's 25th Anniversary User Conference in San Francisco. Wednesday, I am visiting Dust … [Read more...] about (no subject)
