Walt Boyes' Blog

How many of you still have pneumatics in your plants? Surprisingly, I'd say quite a few. Here's a new piece of timeless content we just received and posted at the ControlGlobal White Paper Library... The Ins and Outs of I/P Transducers by Mark Levine, from ControlAir, Inc. I/P TRANSDUCERS are versatile instruments that use an electrical control signal to proportionally regulate … [Read more...] about Timeless content: remember pneumatics?

Well, I got sick. I got a very bad case of the flu that instantly became bronchitis and (probably) pneumonia. Had to leave ISA on Tuesday and go home and go to bed. This is my first day back in the office. I obviously am not at Automation Fair, too. I owe Rick Dolezal and the other attendees at PSUG (the process user group side of Automation Fair) an apology, because I had said … [Read more...] about Of course you're all wondering what happened to me…

ISA GOES BACK TO PROVIDING STANDARDS AS A MEMBER BENEFIT! Starting about 10 years ago, a group of us volunteers at ISA tried to get standards provided for free to the membership. We were, finally, able to get them supplied for a nominal fee of $25, but even that ended earlier this year, when the last of the three year memberships that included the free standards option … [Read more...] about More from the Nunc Dimittis Domine department…

Here's some engineer humor. This has also been tested and found to be good for physicists, chemists, alchemists, mathematicians and philosophers: Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says: "Sir, can I get you a martini?" Descartes says: "I don't think..." and he disappears. … [Read more...] about Friday afternoon funnies…

Here's some engineer humor. This has also been tested and found to be good for physicists, chemists, alchemists, mathematicians and philosophers: Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says: "Sir, can I get you a martini?" Descartes says: "I don't think..." and he disappears. … [Read more...] about Friday afternoon funnies…