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Alan Beaulieu, President, Institute for Trend Research
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 | May 22, 2013

Economy Slowing, but Not Like 2009

The rate of growth in the U.S. economy will be slowing later this year until a mild recession takes hold in the second half of 2014.
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 | May 6, 2013

Deploying Fiber Optic Networks

As industrial networks get larger and the equipment on these networks perform more complex tasks at higher speeds, there’s a growing need for more bandwidth.
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 | May 6, 2013

Industrial Ethernet Improves Through Combined Effort

The rapidly expanding use of Ethernet in industrial settings has had a positive impact on the advancement of network technology.
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 | May 2, 2013

HMIs: Beyond the Fixed Panel Interface

Factory automation mobility is not just about iPads. Companies of all sizes need to think about the software needed to push context-sensitive information to operators and managers.
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 | May 1, 2013

Printing Press Upgrade Includes Move to Sercos III

Edda Trykk, the second largest publisher in Norway, has selected Honeywell to upgrade the Printa press control and shaftless drive systems at its newspaper printing facility in Stokke, Norway.
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 | April 30, 2013

Is MPC or Advanced Regulatory Control Right for Me?

The “culture of MPC” might unduly influence some companies to implement MPC, when in some cases, advanced regulatory control implemented right in the DCS control blocks might actually provide the best
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 | April 30, 2013

From Fieldbus to Industrial Ethernet

Compared to traditional, non-Ethernet-based industrial solutions, Ethernet technology delivers substantially higher performance and several other advantages.
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 | April 28, 2013

SPC for the Real World

SPC, or statistical process control, has been around for a long time. While everyone’s heard about it, not many people are doing much with it.
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 | April 26, 2013

Choosing the Right SPC Vendor for Your Company

A company had recently decided to globally deploy an SPC solution independent from the work it was doing in ERP, EQMS, and MES.
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 | April 26, 2013

Cross-Industry Exposure Can Accelerate Learning

Do you have opportunities to engage in open discussions with your peers in other industries, other disciplines, or in completely different types of companies?
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