Walt Boyes' Blog

Last year at WBF in Atlantic City, the WBF awards themselves were stolen...who knew? So as the first order of business this morning, WBF Chairman, Maurice Wilkins, of Lyondell Chemical Co., Flavors and Fragrances Div., presented Lynn with his Thomas Fisher Award. Finally. Well done, Maurice! Walt Boyes BlackBerry service provided by Nextel … [Read more...] about Lynn Craig Finally Gets His Award

The dinner went off without a hitch thanks to the WBF staff and the generosity of Emerson Process Management. Three of the inductees and one past inductee were in the audience: Ed Bristol, who invented multivariable control and worked to convert the original PID algorithms from pneumatic to electronic control; Dick Morley who developed the basic technology for disk drives, … [Read more...] about Process Automation Hall of Fame Dinner

Rockwell Automation Is Number One!   Denny Hamlin, of Joe Gibbs Racing, wins the Busch Series Telcel-Motorola 200 in the Rockwell Automation #20 Chevrolet Denny Hamlin felt confident about his chances in Sunday's Telcel-Motorola 200 -- and backed it up by holding off road-course expert Boris Said for the victory at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.It was the first career Busch … [Read more...] about Rockwell Automation is Number One…….on the Nascar Busch Series Race Course

PODCAST: ARC Benchmarking Consortium at Age 1   Hercules' Gary E. Lipson (pictured) talks to CONTROL Editor in Chief, Walt Boyes, about his participation in ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in this "special to the web" podcast on ControlGlobal.com. IN FEBRUARY 2005, ARC announced the formation of a consortium of end user companies, coordinated by ARC, that would agree to … [Read more...] about ARC's Benchmarking Consortium at Age 1

A senior Emerson executive reports that the new Rosemount 753R with iTraX® solution is available and shipping now within the USA, and as soon as they get licensing issues sorted out, it will ship everywhere. A famous general once pithily remarked that the way to win is to "git thar fustest wit' the mostest." Emerson is clearly following that dictum. There are a dozen other … [Read more...] about More Emerson Wireless