Most of you know that Nancy Bartels has returned to us as the Managing Editor of Control. She attended the Siemens meeting in Nuremberg, Germany last week, while Keith Larson and I visited with the folks at Yokogawa's User Group and Technical Innovation Fair. Here's her report, slightly delayed: Walt, This is the blog I was going to write while in Germany. As you know, … [Read more...] about Nancy Bartels' Excellent European Adventure
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…and now for something really quite different…
ISA has been frozen out of the User Group business since they duffed the ball at Tech/Expo in the mid-1990s, and they've seen their end users and vendors go on their own having profitable and successful user group meetings the size of some of which rival the ISA show itself, and in one case (Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair) is considerably larger than the ISA Show. So, … [Read more...] about …and now for something really quite different…
Cutler takes on DMC…
Charlie Cutler is widely recognized as one of the earliest developers of advanced process control and model predictive control algorithms and controllers. His DMC and DMCplus are the most widely used multivariable controller technologies in the world. Cutler, a member of the Control Process Automation Hall of Fame, announced at the Invensys Customer Conference a global … [Read more...] about Cutler takes on DMC…
From the department of "Ginny Again…"
Ginny Burrell came back to talk about some of the Main Points Invensys Wants Their Customers to Get: The World's first Enterprise Control SystemPerformance Services including cyber security auditsWireless including wireless auditing and consulting servicesEnterprise asset management-- Avantis integration with YOUR ERP systemKPIs at a glanceA Major commitment to both FDT/DTM and … [Read more...] about From the department of "Ginny Again…"
From the department of some serious handwaving…
"InFusion is REAL!" So says Grant LeSueur, InFusion's Product Marketing Director. Built around Invensys' interesting, although questionably useful "collaboration wall" the platform components actually exist, according to LeSueur. These include: *Production Events Module *Pump Monitor Module *Loop Monitor Module *Enterprise Integration Modules *Refinery Scheduler *Wellhead … [Read more...] about From the department of some serious handwaving…
