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2009: Year in Review – Editorials
  • A collection of the year's columns from Automation World's Editor in Chief, Gary Mintchell
  • Insights and analysis into the business of automation.
2009: Year in Review – Automation Team
  • A compilation of primers originally published in Automation World.
  • Gracious Professionalism: Take the Challenge; More Than a Scorecard; Try Out a Lean Lifestyle; Workflow Mapping Sprouts in Manufacturing; Becoming a Must-Have Application; Getting Alarms Right; Breaking Silos; Finding the Real Benefit.
2009: Year in Review – Infrastructure
  • A compilation of primers originally published in Automation World.
  • Safety and Diagnostics Emerge as Temperature Sensor Issues; Network Management Struggles At Grassroots Level; Time-synchronized Ethernet; Regulatory Tug-of-War Rages in Calibration; Prognostics: Manufacturing's Next Frontier; It's Sensible to Use Sensors.
2009: Year in Review – Technologies
  • A compilation of primers originally published in Automation World.
  • Parallel Programming Makes Most of Multicore Processors; Living in a Virtual Machine; Manufacturing in a Small Space; Getting Control of Your Documents; Backup Technologies Expand, Evolve; Serve It Up; An Innovation Engine.