5 Articles for the Automation Pro - Labor Day Edition

Aug. 30, 2012
Doing some train reading on the way to work, enjoy these articles during the rest of the week and over the weekend!


1. Skilled Work, Without the Worker
More sophisticated robots are looking to make bigger inroads, but a service component (humans) is always going to be needed....at least for the next 50 years. 
Source: New York Times

2. Tip #56 - Learn New Skills and Explore Technological Advances
Greg talks about how you need to bring something "extra" to the workplace table and career advancement may be secondary.
Source: ISA Interchange

3. iPad Use in Manufacturing
This is guest post from Tim Sharpe on what happens when Silo 42's valve needs to be knocked off.
Source: Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward Blog

At the end of the day, we're going to have a government that hands out credits and subsidies...might as well be wind. Trends point to the building of combined Natural gas and Wind Power Generation plants in the U.S. 
 
This type of item always gets a lot of traction on the site...advanced control technology
 
A very important point about possible security solutions for your control system. 
Source: InfoSecIsland

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