Dave Gehman. Contributing Editor

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Eye Tracking to Measure the Immeasurable

After gathering user needs and wants and incorporating those findings in new software design, interface designers face a final challenge: evaluating the design.

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Level Sensing: Keeping a Level Head

Level sensing is everywhere in industry—a workaday tool that literally keeps things flowing. The ins and outs, no pun intended, reveal a richly varied field, and equally varied engineering.

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FDI: The Next Nirvana for Process Engineers

FDI, or field device interface, is barreling along—once here, it promises to make automation networks easy to configure and devices easy to diagnose.

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Industrial Wireless Mainstream Mostly

After a short but action-packed adolescence, wireless sensing and instrumentation seems to be entering a calm middle age.

More from Dave Gehman. Contributing Editor

Converting Manufacturing Logsheets to Wireless Pays Dividends

Cytec Industries Fortier Complex has put its daily logsheets on the radio in a smoothly-orchestrated, staged rollout.

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Using Mobile Wireless Technology in Manufacturing

In the wireless world, are there “mobile workers” or is there simply “wireless work?” Whatever the right term, radios are opening new vistas, but still take tried-and-true implementation skills—including the key one, involve everyone.

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Industrial Automation Standard: Dot Eleven A

The official name is ISA100.11a, “Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation: Process Control and Related Applications,” but what is it, really?

WirelessHart Moves Forward

The recent, relatively dramatic surge forward on the ISA100.11a front need not eclipse WirelessHart, especially in light of the ongoing effort to bring the two to convergence as ISA100.12.

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Behind the Transmitters: How ISA100.11a Nears Its Journey's End

Here’s an inside look from some of the participants on the making of the first in an expected family of industrial wireless standards to be developed through the ISA/ANSI standards-making process.

Factory Applications: Turn Up the Wi-Fi

Wireless Fidelity, or Wi-Fi, technology is proliferating in the factory, but it’s not the best answer for everything. Will Wi-Fi take over the industrial world?