Walt Boyes' Blog

Complementary technologies support interoperability for automation systems with intelligent field devices Wickliffe, OH, October 21, 2005 — The ongoing debate on the value of FDT/DTM and EDDL for automation industry end users has become more heated. ABB Inc., which has traditionally supported both FDT/DTM and EDDL, has issued the following statement on the relationship between … [Read more...] about ABB comments on role of FDT/DTM and EDDL

Current Mood: aggravated So. What I feared when I went to AVG's press conference last year announcing their formation of EzAutomation.com is actually happening. Two of the leaders in automation catalog marketing are eating their young. AVG for years has been a significant supplier of touch screen panels to AutomationDirect, and AVG honcho Shalli Kumar wanted to get more. And … [Read more...] about AVG v. AutomationDirect; AutomationDirect v. AVG

Pre-meetings for the ISA President's Meeting this weekend in Chicago begin today. After attending a bushel full of them over the years, it is still hard for me not to get ready and go to one. What I'm hearing is that the ISA leadership, at least most of it, has woken up, and is smelling the smoke from the burning edifice. What this does, in the next few years, remains to be … [Read more...] about ISA President's Meeting starts today…

  The playoffs and the fact that the Chicago White Sox (!!!!!!!) are in the World Series for the first time since 1959 leads me to this story. Chairman Isao Uchida of Yokogawa announced in January that they intended to replace Emerson as the number one automation vendor by, if I recall correctly, the end of the decade. Saying that is all well and good, but as Uchida-san … [Read more...] about How to play in the big leagues…

  from SANS NewsBites: SANS NewsBites Vol. 7 Num. 45 http://www.sans.org HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS SECURITY --US House of Representatives Holds Joint Hearing on SCADA System Vulnerabilities (October 18 2005) The Homeland Security Committee of the US House of Representatives is holding a joint hearing (of two Subcommittees) on vulnerabilities in SCADA systems … [Read more...] about US Congress holds hearings on SCADA security…