Every year, we publish the Control Readers' Choice Awards. Every year, I have to defend the fact that Emerson wins many of the categories, and the calls go on for months. "Can you help me understand why [insert name of company and product] didn't win?" "Did Emerson pay you off?" "Can you give me all the raw data so I can figure out how you screwed up?" "If we don't win next … [Read more...] about Why Does Emerson Win?
Walt Boyes' Blog
Where did all the people go?
Gord Freiter at Matrikon sent me a new whitepaper. Written by Michael Currie, asset management director at Matrikon, this paper takes a very important and novel different look at the problem of condition monitoring. Quoting from the paper, entitled Where did all the people go: Not so long ago the main reason companies monitored equipment condition was to reduce direct … [Read more...] about Where did all the people go?
Control is truly Global
Our commitment to global coverage of process automation isn't just renaming our website ControlGlobal.com. Look at the May issue of Control when it comes out in a couple of weeks, and you will see stories about Rompetrol (the Romanian state owned oil company), Omani oil fields, Rashtriya Chemicals in India, BP's Clair facility in the Shetland Islands, and Nestle Phillipines, as … [Read more...] about Control is truly Global
Here's something from the Department of the Nifty…
I received this press release yesterday, from Lou DiSilvio, president of Industrial Telemetry, Inc. in Oklahoma. He's got a very interesting spin on mesh networking. Industrial Telemetry, Inc. Presents The SCADAMESH™ System with REALMESH™ Radios and the SCADAMESH 424 device. Industrial Telemetry Inc. is presenting this product at ISA WEST May 2-3 in Long Beach … [Read more...] about Here's something from the Department of the Nifty…
Touch screens the way things 'sposed to be!
Today, I had a very short meeting with Michael Levin, vice president and general manager of Immersion Corporation. Immersion is the company behind the tactile sensitivity controls in many simulators, the Sidewinder joystick from Microsoft, the BMW I-drive system, and systems in the Mercedes S class, Rolls Royce and some models of VW. Levin showed me a touch screen enhanced with … [Read more...] about Touch screens the way things 'sposed to be!
