Walt Boyes' Blog

If you want a different take on last week's Honeywell User Group Americas, check out our sister magazine (Pharmaceutical Manufacturing) and their editorial blog, On Pharma with stories like: * Genentech changing the shape of MES (Notes from HUG I) * Abbott dispels MES myths (Notes from HUG II) * Beware those F.A.T. typos; Merck chooses upgrade over overhaul (Notes from … [Read more...] about Our sister blog: On Honeywell User Group

John Halajko, of FMC, wrote me an interesting note. He reminded me that "job-sharing" might be an interesting experience as you get old...."One other thing that I did not mention is what I found in the assignment supporting the Astaris/Agrium PPA I Plant. Here we used licensed electricians to preform software build and maintain. In said project we trained the plant … [Read more...] about More from my speech at Honeywell last week… June 19th, 2006

I have said for years that I thought Bristol-Babcock was insane for being so publicity averse. I tried for years to get them to talk about the neat applications they had in both oil and gas SCADA and in water and wastewater SCADA applications (like controlling the most important salmon fish ladder in North America, for example) and they basically said, "Yeah, well, we'll get … [Read more...] about Emerson wastes no time…

Now I can talk about it. Yesterday it was announced that longtime end user and Control columnist Ian Verhappen will be joining MTL as Director of Industrial Networking Technologies. I am excited and pleased for Ian, who is a very close personal friend, because this is, in large part, recognition for all the hard work and dedication he's put in for the past ten-plus years. Of … [Read more...] about Over to the Dark Side…

Guy Wiles from Dupont still has a catch in his voice when he talks about what happened to his plant last August 29th. Even though Dupont Delisle had prepared, and they thought they'd prepared well, they were wrong. Their 20 foot flood berm was overwhelmed by a 28 foot storm surge from Bay St Louis, and they wound up with 7 feet of water in the plant. Everywhere they'd put … [Read more...] about Rebuilding Delisle…