ISA has decided to offer a reprint of the book that Eddie Habibi and Bill Hollifield of PAS self-published last year. ISA's version is paperback, with a rather nice cover, and will sell for $79, while PAS' version will remain in print, and sell for $69 in hardback. There's something wrong with this picture... PAS competitors have noted that the book, while well written and … [Read more...] about Alarm management book reprinted…
SP100- Playing well with others
The Karlsruhe meeting was a big success for SP100. Congratulations to the people who put the end users ahead of vendor advantage. ISA-SP100.11a Unanimously Approves Scope and Systems Architecture for Release of Draft Standard Research Triangle Park, NC (30 March 2007) -- At a recent ISA-SP100.11a working group meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, 60 attendees unanimously approved … [Read more...] about SP100- Playing well with others
Honeywell Can TOO Do Discrete Automation…
We forget that Honeywell HPS is bigger than its process automation business... NEW HONEYWELL MACHINE INTERFACE ENHANCES DATA-COLLECTION CAPABILITIES LETS Machine Interface Collects Production Data from Any Machine ACTON, Massachusetts, March 26, 2007 – Honeywell Wintriss today introduced the LETS Machine Interface (LMI), an operator terminal that enables information to be … [Read more...] about Honeywell Can TOO Do Discrete Automation…
How to do PR the right way…
Many of you know Linda VandeVrede. Here's an email from one of the finest PR practitioners in the automation industry. Linda was originally scheduled to teach the class I taught at the 2006 ISA Marketing and Sales Summit. Linda had to bow out for personal reasons. So, from Linda: Hi, just a quick note to my friends to let you know that the 2nd edition of my book is now … [Read more...] about How to do PR the right way…
Flawless Project Execution…
Sandy Vasser, ExxonMobil's Facilities Group I&E manager, and Don Allen, from ABB, presented a tutorial on how to do project management flaw-lessly. By that they mean, with fewer flaws... Vasser is perhaps one of the world's few experts on the management of megaprojects. His projects run to over $2 Billion (yes, that's "billion with a b") each, and ExxonMobil is doing about … [Read more...] about Flawless Project Execution…
