An Associated Press article this afternoon indicates that the lessons learned during the Katrina aftermath will be put into practice, if not by governments, then certainly by the process industries themselves. Valero and Marathon have already ordered the RVs and trailers, emergency phone nets (a lot like prayer chains) are being formed. Employees are being instructed in text … [Read more...] about Process Industries Plan Better for Rita than Katrina
Walt Boyes' Blog
Pinto's Plan to Save ISA Redux
What he said: http://www.automation.com/sitepages/pid2100.php I could not agree more. I don't think any Executive Director, or Society President, could effect the kind of change needed to save the Society and make it valuable once more without 90% of these changes. What do YOU think? Walt … [Read more...] about Pinto's Plan to Save ISA Redux
CERT Hurricane Control System Advice Whitepaper
From Keith Stouffer at NIST: Hurricane Katrina Control Center Assistance US-CERT in collaboration with the Control Systems Security Center (CSSC) has released a Hurricane Katrina Control System Assistance Informational paper to provide owner/operators assistance in securely and safely restarting control systems following a major disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. The document … [Read more...] about CERT Hurricane Control System Advice Whitepaper
Katrina and Rita…
Well, here we are again, awaiting the arrival of another unwelcome visitor to the land of process automation: Hurricane Rita. As of this writing, she is about 200 miles SE of Galveston, moving NE at about 10 mph. That means that she'll make landfall somewhere between Galveston and New Orleans in about 20 hours. Levees and dikes have already broken in New Orleans, and … [Read more...] about Katrina and Rita…
Talkback on my wireless standards article in September's CONTROL
Walt, I just finished your article and want to raise a couple of points: 1) You said "The other piece of good news is that there is a standard: IEEE 802.15.4 or Zigbee, which uses the mesh network topology." Sort of. IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee are NOT the same thing. All ZigBee uses 15.4 but to use 15.4 you do not have to use ZigBee. Companies like Millennial Net, Sensicast, and … [Read more...] about Talkback on my wireless standards article in September's CONTROL
