Thank you, Emerson, for posting a link to the SP100 survey very prominently on your home page!! Maybe now that you've broken the ice, the other supplier members of SP100 will do the same thing... This is your survey, committee. The more input we get, the better we can define what the end users want. … [Read more...] about more on the SP100 Survey
more from the department of "words of wisdom"
Why Traditional Marketing Needs to Change Bruce Sterling, who writes brilliantly, but unfortunately is personally not a very nice man, said in 1994, "From now on, the struggle will not be over mechanical control of the means of information, but over spin-control of the zeitgeist." Yeah, well. Even not nice guys can be right sometimes. And Sterling certainly is right here. Look … [Read more...] about more from the department of "words of wisdom"
from the department of "breaking my arm patting myself on the back…"
Last night when I got home, a box was waiting for me from McGraw-Hill. I was pleased, when I opened it, to find a brand new copy of the 90th Anniversary Edition of the Mark's Mechanical Engineers Handbook. Sure enough, Chapter 16, Instrumentation, by Walter H. Boyes Jr. That's me. I'm quite proud to be asked to contribute to such a famous volume, used by more engineers than any … [Read more...] about from the department of "breaking my arm patting myself on the back…"
ISA SP100 USER SURVEY
For the past few months, Paul Sereiko and I have been working, with the help of several others, on a more detailed user survey than that currently on the ISA SP100 Web page. We've finally finished it. I am hosting the survey at Control's survey instrument, but the UNEDITED results will be available to every member of the SP100 Committee. The SP100 Committee would appreciate it … [Read more...] about ISA SP100 USER SURVEY
final, final words from Bologna…
Emerson's very genteel PR counsel in Britain, Charles Lewis, was able to find me the URL of the wonderful restaurant Emerson took us to on Wednesday evening: Ca'Vecchia. It is a conference center, with hotel facilities, meeting facilities and that wonderful restaurant. Thanks, Charles! … [Read more...] about final, final words from Bologna…
