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PR Wall of Shame: I will honor the [bleeping] embargo! #pr #fail

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:35.

Thanks to the ever vigilant Larry O'Brien, I have a new post for the PR Wall of Shame.

From the blog post:

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

The #pauto Parade of iPhone Apps continues: Baldor's BE$T now on iPhone

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:10.

From Baldor comes word that they've joined the iPhone revolution:

BALDOR BE$T ON iPHONE, AN INDUSTRY FIRST

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

Gruhn and Marszal Keynote Safety Conference in Calgary

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 20:10.


SIL Ratings for Fire & Gas Systems – Are We Barking Up The Wrong Tree?

Paul Gruhn – ICS Triplex

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

First WirelessHART sensor powered by energy scavenging #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 18:20.

Industrial Wireless Temperature Transmitter Powered by Heat

ABB and Micropelt Prove Thermal Energy Harvesting to Solve the Battery Issue of Wireless Sensors
 
Freiburg, Germany -- March 10, 2010.  Wireless sensors are rather inexpensive and can be deployed almost anywhere. Deploying more sensors would lead to safer and more efficient process control, and much reduced maintenance cost – if cost and effort of battery maintenance could be obviated.

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

PR Wall of Shame-- another big peeve of editors-- sending the release as a PDF #pauto #fail

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:01.

This isn't tied to any specific release. But if you've done this, you know who you are.

I regularly get press releases from PR firms and from vendors directly, which are in PDF.

Now, Adobe Acrobat is a very nice program, and it looks nice.

But friends, this adds a step to my ability to post or print your release. I have to get it out of PDF and into Word or InCopy or our CMS.

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

More Mobile Computing: Advantech buys in-vehicle company DLoG

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:19.

Advantech Announces Acquisition of DLoG GmbH

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

Automation's Impact

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Submitted by IanVerhappen on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 22:33.

The following figure came courtesy of Larry O’Brien at Automation Research Corporation and demonstrates how an investment in automation and control systems during the capital phase of a project can have a disproportionate impact (at least 5 times greater) on the profitability of a facility during its operating life.

From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

Reflections from the RSA Security Conference - the Blind Leading the Blind

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Submitted by jweiss on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 02:03.

I just returned from 3 days at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.  This is billed as the world’s largest cyber security conference. There were more than 18,000 attendees with more than 200 speakers. I want to personally thank RSA for recognizing the ICS community with 5 sessions on control systems and Smart Grid.  The sessions were:

From 'Unfettered Blog'

In Search of the Holy Grail: ISA Marketing and Sales Summit v5.0 #pauto #manufacturing #mfg

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 20:44.

ISA Marketing and Sales Summit v.5.0

You are invited to submit an abstract for ISA's 5th Annual
Marketing and Sales Summit, In Search of the Holy Grail:
Integrating Marketing and Sales, sponsored by the ISA
Management Division. The Summit will be held 1-3 September
2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Don't miss your opportunity to share your expertise,
solutions, and best practices for how to survive and excel
beyond 2010 with other marketing and sales professionals.

CONTENTS
* How to submit an abstract
* Conference Location

From 'Unfettered Blog'

A Concentration of Minds

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Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 22:27.

It's interesting to watch an idea come of age. I've been covering manufacturing of one sort or another for more years than I'm usually prepared to admit to, and from the beginning, about once a year, someone would come up and say, "You know, you really oughta do a story on the decline of American manufacturing. The kids don't want to do this. The companies are moving everything overseas. What are we going to do when we don't make anything here anymore?"

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

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