Today was the deadline to announce the intention of submitting a response to the Call for Proposals sent out by SP100 for the SP100.11 and SP100.14 committees. Note the response from China!! Note also the response from Siemens, which has been sitting on the sidelines being vewwwy vewwwy qwiet for all this time...and also note the significant absence of ABB from the … [Read more...] about Now the knives come out…
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Different days…Honeywell instruments first Vietnam refinery
Those of us of a certain age (I am 54) have sometimes quite conflicted views about the country of Vietnam. Some of us spent our formative years there. I didn't. In what could very likely be a one-time-use of all the good luck I possess, my draft lottery number was 356. I lost some friends there, and spent the 60s and 70s growing up during the tumult. It is therefore with some … [Read more...] about Different days…Honeywell instruments first Vietnam refinery
This time, I think Rockwell means it…
I met with an interesting group of people at Rockwell Automation in Cleveland today. Rockwell, the group said, was committed to rapidly increasing their process automation business. Kevin Zaba and Ken Deken (vice president and general manager of the logix-netlinx-kinetix business) began the briefing by stating that the reason Ken was there was to assure me that Rockwell is … [Read more...] about This time, I think Rockwell means it…
Just exactly what does Keith Nosbusch and company have to do?
Rockwell Automation today posted terrific results for third quarter. They raised their outlook for the rest of 2006. The company said net income rose to $149 million, or 83 cents a share, in the three months ended June 30, up from $127.3 million, or 68 cents, earned in the year-earlier third quarter. The company's quarterly sales rose 13%, reaching $1.43 billion from $1.26 … [Read more...] about Just exactly what does Keith Nosbusch and company have to do?
ISA makes two new good moves…
ISA has, in the past few days, made two really important moves. The first was the selection of a Managing Director for the new Automation Federation. The new guy is Bruno Kisala, new to ISA, that is. In fact, he was one of new Executive Director and CEO Pat Gouhin's troops at AIAA. Both Andy McDonald, of OMAC, and Maurice Wilkins, of WBF, are very high on Kisala. In talking … [Read more...] about ISA makes two new good moves…