From Emerson's Jerry Moon: Emerson Process Management has joined the SmartPlant® Alliance Program of Intergraph Corporation, a leading global supplier of engineering & information management products. This new agreement expands Emerson’s current use of Intergraph’s lifecycle instrumentation engineering software and enhances interoperability and efficiency between Emerson’s … [Read more...] about Sign of the times: Emerson partners with Intergraph
Walt Boyes' Blog
Happy USA Thanksgiving!
We always have so much to be thankful for, personally and professionally. Thanks for reading this, and for reading Control. Those of you in the United States, please have a happy Thanksgiving. Those everywhere else, please enjoy your next few days, with our thanks. The Staff of Control and ControlGlobal.com … [Read more...] about Happy USA Thanksgiving!
Getting the magazine put to bed…but not me…
Yeah, I know, why am I here... Nancy Bartels, my Managing Editor, is threatening to brain me if I don't go home and sleep...but we have to get the December magazine done. It is the TOP 50 issue, and we're doing it differently this year. It has been very hard to try to break out a process Top 50, so we aren't. We've partnered with ARC this year, and Larry O'Brien and I are … [Read more...] about Getting the magazine put to bed…but not me…
The last of it: The final presentations
Two final presentations were made after my talk, both fascinating looks at upgrades and migrations. The one that was most interesting was by a gentleman named Mr. Rajesh Kapoor, from Alexandria Fiber, in Egypt. The thing that jumped out at me about both presentations was the lack of difficulty reported in both cases. The projects apparently went swimmingly. I wish I could say … [Read more...] about The last of it: The final presentations
Now from the "department of Walt blathers on…"
This morning it is my turn. Yokogawa invited me to this meeting as one of the keynote speakers, and asked me to speak about asset excellence...which is their term, but is as good a way of describing what we want to do with asset management as anything. So, you can read what I said here: The Search for Asset Excellence Enjoy. … [Read more...] about Now from the "department of Walt blathers on…"
