Walt Boyes

From the "beware the wise little man in the sharp suit department..." this just in... OSISOFT AND YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC SIGN MAJOR PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT Yokogawa Electric Adopts RtPM Platform as Basis of Total ETS Solutions for the Asian markets San Leandro, CA (September 6, 2006) — Yokogawa Electric Corporation and OSIsoft, Inc. announced today they have entered into a major … [Read more...] about Yokogawa strikes again…

I've received a couple of new books recently, by W. Bolton, who is a long-time academic and author in Great Britain. The books are Engineering Science, 5th Edition and Programmable Logic Controllers, 4th Edition. Engineering Science is a terrific "physics for engineers" deskbook. It is clearly meant as an introductory textbook, but practicing automation professionals will find … [Read more...] about From the bookshelf…

Andrea Ebersbach was in today to visit us. She is Sales Manager for Indukey North America. She had lots of interesting product literature in tow and some really neat products for us to look at. Remember that Dell wins the Readers' Choice Award for Industrial PC every year. Now think about the keyboards that are supplied with Dell PCs. Made in China or elsewhere where labor is … [Read more...] about Consider the lowly keyboard…NOT

Why, you ask, am I writing a eulogy for Steve Irwin, an Australian I never met, who had absolutely nothing at all to do with automation? It is because Steve Irwin epitomized enthusiasm, infectious enthusiasm...and that's what we need to attract new blood to process automation jobs. After 30-plus years in process automation, I am just as jazzed about what we do as when I first … [Read more...] about RIP Steve Irwin

"Ross Anderson, author of 'Security Engineering', notifies in a message to comp.risks that he just got permission from Wiley to let anyone download the full content of his book for free " … [Read more...] about Thanks to Tom Phinney and slashdot for this…