Walt Boyes' Blog

On the same day that "everybody but Emerson" announced they were going to play nice in the SP100 sandbox (Emerson has already said that, several times, over the last few months) ProSoft sent out a press release on HART Wireless: ProSoft Technology Introduces Wireless HART Multidrop Communication Gateways Connect HART smart field instrumentation devices wirelessly with ProSoft … [Read more...] about Back to the wild and wooly world of wireless…

One of the most interesting discussions I've had today was with Roland Heersink, CEO of PAS. He handed me a prepublication copy of a new book, The Alarm Management Handbook by Bill Hollifield and the famous Eddie Habibi, the founder of PAS. With a foreword by Ian Nimmo, this looks to be an extremely useful book. Bedtime reading for the next few days. Roland tells me they'll be … [Read more...] about More from OSI

Well, today I got to meet (somehow for the very first time) one of my automation industry heroes. Pat Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft and I spent a half hour together talking about information, data, coding, why OSIsoft is still a startup company at $100 million a year in revenue, and lots of other stuff. I hope to get Pat to sit still for a podcast in the next few weeks. The first … [Read more...] about Oh, my, OSI!

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…

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!