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DCS | December 21, 2011

Optimizing and Securing An Industrial DCS with VMware

Summary: This white paper covers why and how to use VMware server virtualization technology to run the distributed control system (DCS) software of a large paper mill facility.
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Training | December 21, 2011

Optimizing and Securing an Industrial DCS with VMware

Global Process Automation deploys a new DCS using VMware to create a secure and robust operating environment for operators and engineers.
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Training | November 30, 2011

Aging Workforce Drives Need for Operator Training Systems

ARC Advisory Group (www.arcweb.com) has been closely following the emerging skills crisis, its impact on industry and potential solutions.
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Operator Performance | November 14, 2011

Automation Applied: Operations Workflow

Using workflow software to director operator actions and confirm that management is aware of those actions.
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August 1, 2011

Centers of Automation: USA and Germany

Editor’s Note: Publishing a print publication globally is cost-prohibitive, but global automation professionals crave global information.
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David Greenfield, Media and Event Director, Automation World
June 6, 2011

B2B Industry Journalist David Greenfield Joins Automation World

Well-known industrial automation and control editor David Greenfield has joined Summit Media Group’s Automation World magazine as Media and Event Director.  
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Training | May 11, 2011

Virus Prevention Requires The Human Touch

The Stuxnet outbreak was spawned predominantly by so-called candy drops, in which an infected thumb drive or Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive was placed in a spot where a plant employee could fi
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Training | March 7, 2011

Web Media Boosts Automation Knowledge

Education is just not keeping up with today’s speed of technology change, causing a growing skills mismatch in the industrial automation arena.  Today, individual skills are bolstered and expanded t
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Training | March 3, 2011

Technically Innovative, Market-Savvy Machine Builders Will Thrive

“Machine tool builders remain the foundation of our manufacturing industry,” says Sal Spada, research director in discrete automation at ARC Advisory Group Inc. (www.arcweb.com), Dedham, Mass.
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Training | February 23, 2011

Training For Industrial Safety

Here's an interesting release I just received. It concerns a study on the value of training.
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Training | February 1, 2011

Training Grant Targets Southern Cal Workers

Southern California has started a three-year, $4.3 million U.S. Department of Labor training grant to upgrade and certify workforce skills in the nation’s largest logistics hub.
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Training | February 1, 2011

DOE Using Simulation to Train Power Plant Operators

For Department of Energy (DOE) operators, a day at work is a day spent playing an intensely intricate 3D video game—and it’s all to help the environment.
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January 12, 2011

Follow the Path of Innovation

Last January, Automation World decided to whet readers’ appetites with features and columns devoted to automation innovations, which included survey results, interviews and good old analysis. 
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Jim Chrzan, Publisher, Automation World
December 1, 2010

Serving Automation Professionals with a Passion

How could a promotion and an exciting career move be so bittersweet?
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November 4, 2010

Readers Rate Service Support

An Automation World survey on user satisfaction levels for both hardware and software support produced results that surprised some automation suppliers.
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