Process Automation Media Network
By ControlGlobal.com
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Podcast Description
ControlGlobal.com's Podcast Library contains a wealth of audio interviews conducted with some of the biggest names in process automation and instrumentation fields. Listen to or save mp3 file interviews of various subject-matter experts from the industrial controls industries.
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Best Practices in Industrial Networking Part 2 | Walt Boyes and Paul Wacker of Advantech discuss the do's and don'ts of industrial networking and what the differences are between industrial and enterprise networks. | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Best Practices in Industrial Networking Part 1 | Walt Boyes and Paul Wacker of Advantech discuss the do's and don'ts of industrial networking and what the differences are between industrial and enterprise networks. | 4/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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User Centered Design | WARC Senior Analyst Tom Fiske and Control's Walt Boyes share a deep interest in User Centered Design. This month's Control/ARC podcast lets them discuss it with insight. | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Value, Safety and Security of StateâBased Control Part 3 | Walt Boyes talks with ABB's Dave Huffman about the value, safety and security of state-based control. Don't know what state-based control is? Then you should listen to this three part podcast and find out... | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More Than the Old Standby | Walt Boyes talks point level with Mike Bayda of Brooks Instruments. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Control/ARC Process Automation Hall of Fame and Brain Drain | Control's Walt Boyes talks with ARC's Larry O'Brien and Tom Fiske about the top automation professionals. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Effects of Web 2.0 on Collaborative Engineering | Walt Boyes and ARC analyst Dick Slansky discuss the effects of Web 2.0 on collaborative engineering and product lifecycle management-- a fascinating discussion, especially for everyone over 30! | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rockwellâs Pavilion and the Economic MeltâDown | Walt Boyes talks to Rockwell Automation Pavilionâs marketing vice president, Don Hart about the economic melt-down, sustainable manufacturing, advanced process control, and how Pavilion is fitting into Rockwell Software. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wireless Gets Easier Podcast | Most folks now believe wireless can work in their process applications, and veteran users are proving it. This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series examines wireless in the plant. The podcast includes commentary and insights by Harry Forbes, ARC's senior automation analyst, and Wil Chin, ARC's research director for automation. They are interviewed by Jim Montague, Control's executive editor. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Predictive Maintenance, Wireless Sensing and Machine Connectivity Advances | Control's managing editor, Nancy Bartels, and ARC Advisory Group's research director, Ralph Rio, discuss how the advances in predictive maintenance, wireless sensing and machine connectivity are affecting EAM and the way companies now do maintenance. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There's A New Sheriff in Town. Should Manufacturers Be Scared? | The Obama administration has begun a number of new initiatives around energy sustainability that seem aimed directly at manufacturers. Walt Boyes talks with John Nesi and Angel Sustaeta of Rockwell Automation about the implication of these initiatives for process manufacturing operations. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Practical Process Safety Podcast | Boom! Factories have been going boom and managers have lied to the CSB. Walt Boyes and ARCâs Larry OâBrien discuss what appears to be a crisis in process functional safety in this monthâs Control/ARC Podcast edition. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Acquisitions Happen | Norm Gilsdorf, President of Honeywell Process Solutions talks to Walt Boyes about the strategic value and synergies he hopes will happen due to the acquisition of Regel Messtechnik by HPS. This podcast gives end users a unique "insider's look" at why acquisitions happen. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Enterprise Integration Podcast | Walt Boyes and ARCâs Bob Mick discuss enterprise integration: how to do it, why to do it, and what the future will be for it. Mick provides insight into standards-based integration, and what the effect of the schism in the OPC ranks will be. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Measurement's New Ultrasonic Flowmeter Transducer | Walt Boyes and Dan Hackett of Emerson's Daniel Measurement & Control Division talk about the new Daniel ultrasonic flowmeter transducer firmware/software design, which will debut at the Emerson Exchange meeting the last week of September. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Variable-Speed Drives Save Energy | Variable-speed drives aren't new technology, but are getting attention now in the process industries because of their potential to save energy. In this podcast, Control ME Nancy Bartels talks with Ivan Spronk of Schneider Electric about VSDs, how they work and how they can save energy in process operations. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Is RISI and Why Is It Good for Industrial Security? | Walt Boyes, John Cusimano of Exida and Eric Cosman of Dow Chemical talk about the newly formed Security Incidents Organization and its database of cybersecurity incidents, the Repository of Industrial Security Incidents or RISI. Find out what this organization is and how it can help secure your operations. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What the Invensys/Cognizant Agreement Means | Control ME, Nancy Bartels talks with Steve Young of Invensys and Charlie Kaprelian of Cognizant about what the implications of the new business agreement between these two companies for the companies and their customers. | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Value, Safety and Security of StateâBased Control Part 2 | Walt Boyes talks with ABB's Dave Huffman about the value, safety and security of state-based control. Don't know what state-based control is? Then you should listen to this three part podcast and find out... | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Value, Safety and Security of StateâBased Control Part 1 | Walt Boyes talks with ABB's Dave Huffman about the value, safety and security of state-based control. Don't know what state-based control is? Then you should listen to this three part podcast and find out... | 2/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Disaster Recovery and The Automation Genome | Chris Lyden and Eddie Habibi of PAS discuss their Automation Genome project and their use of the genome to create an effective disaster recovery product with Control Editor in Chief Walt Boyes. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Great Kanduski: FDI Agreement Part 3 | Ian Verhappen and Hartmut Walrath of Invensys talk about the new FDI agreement. FDI defines extended device description for HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus, and is a giant step toward a unified fieldbus structure for automation. | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Great Kanduski: FDI Agreement Part 4 | Ian Verhappen and Hartmut Walrath of Invensys talk about the new FDI agreement. FDI defines extended device description for HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus, and is a giant step toward a unified fieldbus structure for automation. | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Great Kanduski: FDI Agreement Part 1 | Ian Verhappen and Hartmut Walrath of Invensys talk about the new FDI agreement. FDI defines extended device description for HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus, and is a giant step toward a unified fieldbus structure for automation. | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Great Kanduski: FDI Agreement Part 2 | Ian Verhappen and Hartmut Walrath of Invensys talk about the new FDI agreement. FDI defines extended device description for HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus, and is a giant step toward a unified fieldbus structure for automation. | 1/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PODCAST: The Control/ARC Top 50 | ARC's Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick talk with Walt Boyes about vendors, rankings, mergers, acquisitions, technology trends and things end users need to watch for. | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 50 Largest Automation Companies | ARC's Larry O'Brien and Craig Resnick talk with Walt Boyes about vendors, rankings, mergers, acquisitions, technology trends and things end users need to watch for. | 12/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fieldbus Architectures | Fieldbuses are maturing, cooperating better, getting easier to use, and are being adopted in new and different applications. In this podcast, Larry O'Brien and Will Chin, research directors for automation at ARC Advisory Group, explore and analyze some of these trends surrounding the recent evolution of the major fieldbuses and their likely future. | 10/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will IT Security & Plant Security Ever Be Able to Work Together? | Walt Boyes explores this vital question with Bjorn Gudehus, a senior security advisor with Bell Canada, who spoke at the 2nd Annual Critical Infrastructure Conference in Calgary on Sept 28, 2009. Gudehus' paper is titled "Control System Security: Corporate and Control Resources Working Together." | 10/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emerson and Meridium Double Up to Increase Asset Management Strength | Emerson Process Management and Meridium have entered a unique partnership to deliver enhanced asset management capability to their process industry customers. In this podcast, Bonz Hart, Meridium president, and Craig Llewellyn, president of Emerson's Asset Optimization business, discuss this partnership and what users can expect from the new AMS Suite: Asset Portal 4.0 powered by Meridium. | 9/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Batch Operations | This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series examines batch operations. The podcast includes commentary and insights by John Blanchard, ARCâs principal analyst. He is interviewed by Jim Montague, Controlâs executive editor. | 9/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Saved by the Bell: A look at ISA's New Standard on Alarm Management | This podcast reviews the new process industry standard on alarm management (ISA-18.2) focusing on what it will mean to owner/operators and how it can be used to improve safety, decrease unplanned downtime, and increase operator productivity in a process plant. | 7/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PAT Is Not Just for Pharma â Podcast | PAT has shown huge promise yet Pharma has been slow to adopt. ARC's Paula Hollywood talks with Walt Boyes about the value and benefit the process industries have seen with PAT. | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walt Boyes interviews Dan North | Walt Boyes interviews Dan North, chief economist for EulerHermes ACI, a Washington beltway economic think tank and advisory firm. North predicts a significant recession. Hear him discuss its effects on the economy, and on the process industries in particular, and find out what North thinks the outcome will be. Recorded before the Federal Reserve emergency rate reduction on 1/22, North is amazingly prescient. Industry analyst, vendor or end user, you need to listen to this interview to find out what's coming for process automation's next 12 months. | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Control/ARC Podcast: Tom Fiske | Faking It Can Be A Good Thing. Control Executive Editor Jim Montague and ARC Senior Analyst Tom Fiske talk about the benefits of using sophisticated simulation software for plant design, control system checkout and employee training. The right simulation software can save millions of dollars, ease plant start-ups, improve plant safety and help the next generation of process operators develop their skills. Fiske says that, among other things, simulation software is the teaching tool perfectly in tune with the learning habits of the iPod and Wii generation. | 4/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Podcast with Jim Dillon of Brooks Instrument | Walt Boyes talks with Brooks Instrument product manager Jim Dillon about an industry first-- the first variable area flow meter with Foundation fieldbus technology for networking. | 4/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Boyes Interviews Norm Gilsdorf, CEO of Honeywell Process Solutions | Control's editor in chief Walt Boyes interviews Norm Gilsdorf, CEO of Honeywell Process Solutions. In the interview, Boyes asks Gilsdorf what he saw as his biggest challenges coming into the top job, especially in light of the economic situation, and whether, since Gilsdorf lives in Europe, he'd be bringing a different viewpoint to Honeywell's management. Boyes also asks what Honeywell is doing to weather the economic storm, and what they are doing to help HPS customers. Listen to this podcast and find out everything Gilsdorf told Control in this exclusive interview. | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Designing a Reliable Industrial Ethernet Network Podcast | Listen in as Bill Rowan, the vice president of marketing and new product development for industrial Ethernet hardware supplier N-Tron, shows you how to design a more reliable Ethernet system for your manufacturing facility. Topics covered include copper wire versus fiber optics, redundant power supplies and required switch specifications. | 4/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Discussing the Honeywell Experion LS System | Walt Boyes discusses the new Experion LS system with product manager Tim Sweet and talks about the difference between the new system and Honeywell's full dress Experion system, and how the new system will be marketed and sold. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Early Education | The process control and automation industries are loosing practical knowledge to retirement and outsourcing, and veteran engineers aren't being replaced quickly enough. Why is the U.S. not encouraging, attracting, and training the engineers it will need in the future, and what can be done about it? Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, says the magazine will explore this issue during 2008, and asks users to share their experiences and efforts to inspire junior high and elementary school students to get bitten by the engineering bug. | 3/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our Toilets Are Not for Customers! | End users now have much more power to improve or hurt a brand image, and many automation vendors are slow to realize what this means. | 3/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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EAM - Is there a "there" there? | Managing editor Nancy Bartels talks about process manufacturers who are integrating EAM with SCADA or other control systems. They are taking advantage of factory floor data to optimize maintenance operations and support the transition to preventive and predictive maintenance models. | 2/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Industrial PC | Control's executive editor, Jim Montague, tries to answer some questions about the changing nature of industrial PCs and asks for readers to contribute their thoughts as well. Many industrial PCs no longer need the keyboard and screens of the past and can run in headless configurations on DIN rails, on boards and in chips. So how is it possible to define, write about and use them? Are the enclosure-based PCs of the past still useful? All these questions prompted a variety of answers. | 2/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peter Terwiesch of ABB | Editor in Chief Walt Boyes, asks Peter Terwiesch, chief technology officer for ABB, how the foreseen recession could affect industries serving automation businesses, automation vendors, and automation end-users. | 2/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips for Identifying Counterfeits | To help users identify counterfeit devices, the alliance between U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American Council of Independent Labs (ACIL) has drafted several recommendations. These tips include looking for and inspecting certification marks, checking for inferior packaging and/or missing parts or product information, and only buying from suppliers who are well known to you. | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 10 and The Lost Companies | Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks about the most popular articles of 2007 on ControlGlobal.com, and why we built the Directory of Lost Companies wiki. | 2/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selling the Cool | Control's Managing Editor, Nancy Bartels, suggests we talk to the same folks who sell the kids cereal, skateboards, video games and other cool products. They're the ones who understand how to reach this demographic and convince them that something is "cool" - even a career in automation. | 1/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Back to the Basics: PC Based Control | Back to the Basics: in this episode, Editor-in-Chief Walt Boyes discusses PC-based control. | 1/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Web | Bryan Singer, VP of professional services at Wurldtech Security Technologies and co-chair of the ISA-99 Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security Standard, recently spoke to Controls executive editor Jim Montague about several suggestions he has for building a reliable Ethernet network. These recommendations include: inventorying all your networks devices, determining its theoretical maximum for traffic capacity, using managed switches, securing suppliers device requirements, and keeping control traffic at home. | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Upgrading Control Systems | Walt Boyes interviews ABB Group Vice President Mark Taft about why people upgrade and what the best ways to do a system migration are. | 1/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Top 50 Process Automation Companies | Listen to Walt Boyes, editor in chief of Control Magazine, and Larry OBrien, Director of Research at ARC Advisory Group, speak on the ARC/Control Top 50 Process Automation Companies. Learn what their projections for the industry are in the upcoming years. | 12/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tell Me the Truth | How end users can get the most value in their dealings with suppliers and sales people is the subject of Walt Boyes' Automation Minute. | 11/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Skinny Dipping | What are we doing today about speed of response in process automation? | 10/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Convergence Zone | Walt Boyes tells you why you can't just hide in the process automation parts of the plant anymore. You are worth more money as an automation professional. | 10/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Outsourcing | Nancy Bartels, managing editor for Control Magazine, talks about how outsourcing is no longer about sending jobs to low-cost countries. Find out whats driving process manufacturers to take a look at outsourcing and learn how outsourcing certain operations is a bit like having your accountant do your income tax. | 10/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cybersecurity in Process Automation Systems | Editor in Chief Walt Boyes talks with Honeywell Fellow and industry expert Kevin Staggs about cybersecurity in process automation systems, and about benchmarking Honeywell products and software against the MU Security MUSIC suite of tests. | 9/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fonterra Dairies of New Zealand | Fonterra Dairies of New Zealand is one of the largest milk and dairy products producers in the world. Cooperatively owned by over 11,000 dairy farmers, they have over 20 processing plants on three continents, with 25 different control systems, and a data collection and processing headache. In this podcast, Walt Boyes interviews Alice Baucke, the advanced process control team lead about how they collect and use this huge amount of disparate data. This podcast is a companion to the article "Outstanding in Their Field" in the September 2007 issue of Control. | 8/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Talk to the Corner Office | Cybersecurity is critical for control systems, but more important, cybersecurity incidents are reportable events under Sarbanes-Oxley, with known damages amounting to the millions already. Do your CEO and CFO understand this? Editor in chief Walt Boyes gives a ringing call to "Talk to the Corner Office" about cybersecurity in a video speech presented at the ACS Cybersecurity Conference in Knoxville, Tenn. | 8/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Foundation fieldbus Working today, preparing for tomorrow | This presentation, offered as an exclusive podcast for the Process Automation Media Network, explains how fieldbus is being used today in process automation applications, how it will be used in the future, and how the unique requirements of different projects are being met. | 2/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yon on wireless -Part 1 | In this podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, Yon provides his perspective on industrial wireless to CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes. Is wireless really gonna be the revolutionary paradigm breaking, chasm crossing technology everybody says it's gonna be? Well, according to Yon, it depends on how fully committed the standards development people are to understanding the technologies involved and the users needs. | 2/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yon on wireless - Part 3 | In this podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, Yon provides his perspective on industrial wireless to CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes. Is wireless really gonna be the revolutionary paradigm breaking, chasm crossing technology everybody says it's gonna be? Well, according to Yon, it depends on how fully committed the standards development people are to understanding the technologies involved and the users needs. | 2/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yon on wireless - Part 2 | In this podcast for the Process Automation Radio Network, Yon provides his perspective on industrial wireless to CONTROL Editor in Chief Walt Boyes. Is wireless really gonna be the revolutionary paradigm breaking, chasm crossing technology everybody says it's gonna be? Well, according to Yon, it depends on how fully committed the standards development people are to understanding the technologies involved and the users needs. | 2/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Open is as open does | Betty Naylor-McDevitt has worked her way up through both the technical and engineering and sales and marketing tracks at Foxboro to become one of the recognized experts on DCS systems, and the Foxboro I/A Series system in particular. As Marketing Director for Foxboro, she shares her view of upgrading, migration, and open systems with Editor in Chief Walt Boyes. | 12/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Into the lion's den | Krishnakumar Nagarajan, head of plant automation solutions for the Engineering and Industrial Services practice of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), explains his companys interest in penetrating the process automation market in the United States. | 10/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 64 Episodes |
