This entry is crossposted from The Big Yellow Book, with additional commentary: I've been a fan of Levenger for years. One of the nice things about moving to Chicago is that the Marshall Field's State Street store (sadly, soon to become J.A.M. {just another Macy's}) has a Levenger shop inside. Last year, Laura Patrick of ABB made my day at the ABB Automation World, by handing … [Read more...] about Levenger Strikes A Blow for Service!
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R.I.P. Ron Khol
Machine Design's Ron Khol now into celestial mechanics From the Machine Design blog: On Saturday, December 10, Ron Khol, Machine Design chief editor for over 20 years, passed away. Below is his obituary, written partially by Ron himself. ********************************************** Ronald Khol Made technical magazines readable Having an engineering degree in the 1950s was … [Read more...] about R.I.P. Ron Khol
A Wee Brag on the CONTROL/CONTROL DESIGN/INDUSTRIAL NETWORKING Team
If success in this business is judged by advertising space, we've made it. For 2005, the Control/Control Design/Industrial Networking team produced over 54% more advertising space (pages) than our nearest competitor. The reason I lump all three magazines together is that we took the path of covering process automation, discrete automation and machine builders, and industrial … [Read more...] about A Wee Brag on the CONTROL/CONTROL DESIGN/INDUSTRIAL NETWORKING Team
From the crystal ball gazers at Harbor Research…can it be they're right AGAIN??? Yup!
Honeywell Acquires Tridium The major news this month in the Pervasive Internet/M2M arena was the completion of Honeywell’s acquisition of Tridium, a leading software development company based in Richmond, Va., with subsidiaries in London and Singapore. We have been asking for a few years now, “Where are the large, diversified automation and control players in the Pervasive … [Read more...] about From the crystal ball gazers at Harbor Research…can it be they're right AGAIN??? Yup!
Rich Merritt and More from Emerson at PowerGen
Rich Merritt, unfortunately, suffered a serious accident to one of his hands with the able assistance of his snowblower, and is hors de combat for at least a few days. We expect he will have a full recovery, but in the meantime he can't type...what an awful fate for an editor...it's like being struck dumb! I know I rather abruptly stopped posting from the Emerson Press … [Read more...] about Rich Merritt and More from Emerson at PowerGen
