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June 1, 2009

Green Sprouts Amid the Crabgrass?

Are there verifiable indications of recovery or are we doomed to another six months of painful recession?
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May 4, 2009

Networked Safety: Mainstream or Marketing?

The rollout of the Fieldbus Foundation’s FF-SIF safety protocol has sparked considerable interest and many questions about the protocol itself and about networked safety in general.
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May 4, 2009

Integrated Safety Systems Winning Out

The push and pull of integrated vs. separate safety and control systems is subsiding. In spite of some concerns, safety is getting integrated into control systems.
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May 1, 2009

Safety Instrumented Systems: Play It Safe

Does your facility have chemical reactors? 
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Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief
May 1, 2009

Safety Systems Meet Automation

Manufacturing can be a dangerous undertaking.
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May 1, 2009

Backup Technologies Expand, Evolve

When is the last time it happened—your computer’s hard drive crashed and you couldn’t remember the last time you backed it up?
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May 1, 2009

Megatrends Channel Water/Wastewater's Future

Andy Richardson, chief executive officer of Chicago-based Greeley and Hansen (www.greely-hansen.com), a multi-state engineering firm specializing in the water and wastewater sector, sees 10 megatren
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Gary Mintchell, Editor in Chief
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 | April 1, 2009

Taking Wi-Fi to Work

Few things are more pathetic than watching road warriors in search of a “hot spot”—that is, a place where we can connect our beloved laptop computers to the Internet wirelessly over what is known popu
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April 1, 2009

Getting Control of Your Documents

If you’re in business, you have documents.
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April 1, 2009

Workflow Mapping Sprouts in Manufacturing

Mike Brooks, technology architect with refining company Chevron Corp.
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Jim Pinto
March 1, 2009

Pinto's Prose: SaaS Solutions Surge

The Network is the Computer.
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March 1, 2009

Chem Industry Looks Beyond Downturn Toward Flexible Future

Given the seriously depressed state of domestic economics and reduced consumer spending, initial chemical industry growth coming out of the downturn will “probably be overseas,”  projects Dr.
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March 1, 2009

Time-Synchronized Ethernet

As Ethernet penetrates the factory floor, at least two issues regarding connectivity and devices are active—and both pertain to time. 
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February 2, 2009

INFRASTRUCTURE: Network Management Struggles At Grassroots Level

Though still in relative infancy, there’s a turf struggle in network management, suggests Ed Nabrotzky, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based group product manager for network-connectors supplier Molex In
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February 1, 2009

Talking Down to Machines

Whether complex or simple, machines are integral to automation. But how integrated are they in factory-wide systems? Here, we explore the ramifications of reaching into machinery with networks.
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February 1, 2009

Integrators Bridge the Gap

If control engineers are from Venus and information technology (IT) professionals are from Mars, the systems integrator is often the therapist who is helping to end the family dysfunction by impro
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Jim Pinto
February 1, 2009

Strategies for a Downturn

The big news these days is the economy.
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Feature Article
 | January 11, 2009

Wireless Applications: Catching the Big (Radio) Wave

More and more, sensors and instruments report without wires. Applications range from one radio, one sensor, to hundreds… even thousands… of radios sending to centralized networks.
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December 1, 2008

What's in Store for 2009

While no one could have predicted the tumultuous ride we had in 2008, the question on everyone’s mind is, “What’s next?”
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Feature Article
 | October 1, 2008

The Wireless Popping Machine

Dale and Thomas Popcorn, based in Englewood, N.J., makes a broad spectrum of retail flavored and wholesale popped corn products, supported by a 100,000 square foot warehouse of materials and ingredien
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