5 Articles for the Automation Pro - Friday Edition

    July 27, 2012
    Interesting reads for Friday and the rest of the weekend for the automation professional.
    Automation Pros


    1. PC-Based Automation and Control
    Gary Mintchell examines what PC based control should be...
    Source: Gary Mintchell's Feed Forward Blog

    ...Plant experience suggests that the diminutive piston o-ring design can be a very good indicator of how well a particular actuator will hold up in service.
    800 permanent jobs created from Wind Power, but do we decide energy sources on how many jobs they produce? 
    Gartner can be a bit dodgy with their reports but this seems like a modest forecast.
    Grid scale power storage, will there be enough resourced devoted toward it? 

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